I would not recommend or condone that, personally, but I am happy that you are once again welcome in Lithuania. If you did find and reclaim your own family's home through some procedure under Lithuanian law, that would be nice.
My family fled Iran during the revolution. We are not welcome there. We still own property there, in theory. Many Jews are unwelcome in many of the places they spent hundreds or thousands of years. We have frequently been expelled from our various homelands. You can see why we don't want to be expelled from our own. I do hope you understand.
The Jewish people are an ethnic group, not only a religion. Our ancestors lived in Israel. No matter how hard the various colonizers tried to keep us over the millennia, we maintained some Jewish presence there the entire time. Now, we once again control a portion of our ethnic homeland and are not willing to give it up.
The first thing is a lemmy issue, for sure. I was linking to the comment suggesting that it's okay to murder Israeli civilians because they're all "Nazis."
And, ugh, it's most of Khalifa's tweets, but fine:
People oppose North Korea. Nobody revels in the slaughter of North Korean civilians. Nobody celebrates the killing of civilians anywhere except Israel. There's a reason.
By the way, they're constantly using anti-semitic tropes to do it.
not every underdog in the world is morally in the right, you know. There's also a huge imbalance in power between the January 6th rioters and the United States Government—are you suggesting the rioters were in the right?
There are like twelve people here. This person doesn't seem too torn up, but you want support, you want celebration.
Obviously, people in Palestine are celebrating the attacks, but let's forget about them.
Mia Kalifa is not only celebrating the attack, but retweeting a good dozen other people who are doing the same, each of whom seem to be getting plenty of attention: https://nitter.net/miakhalifa
I'm trying not to expose myself to much more, but if you really want me to subject myself to people reveling in the murder of my people, I'll go look.
Hamas does not exist to regain land. Hamas is not trying to help anybody. Hamas is using the conflict to maintain its socio-political and military control over Palestine.
The word "antisemitism" has a long, complex history you can read about on wikipedia. It was largely promoted by antisemites for some time. But now, it's the standard term for racism against Jews, and we largely find debates about the use of the term tedious and pointless. We don't mind calling it Jew-Hate, but people recognize the term antisemitism, and it works.
Yeah, they should have, and to some extent they were. I don't think they "let their guard down," but I'm not in the IDF, I don't know how many people take the day off on shabbat or on simchat torah, I'm just saying that this was very intentional timing. It is, to the day, the 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur war.
nothing in Israel has resembled colonialism since its founding. The British and Ottoman and other colonies were quite awful, but thankfully, those times are over, and the indigenous people of Judea are welcome there once again.
It's an incredibly complex situation, but as a baseline:
Intentionally targeting civilians is unacceptable.
Hamas does this with great pride. It celebrates the slaughter and kidnapping of civilians. It pays the families of terrorists in celebration of their terrorism.
In my opinion, the IDF is remarkably careful not to kill civilians. There have been incidental killings, largely, from my knowledge, when Hamas fires rockets from civilian areas such as homes, mosques, hospitals, and schools. There have been rogue Israeli actors who killed civilians intentionally, and they have mostly been tried and convicted for their crimes. There have been moral failures on behalf of the IDF, but it does generally investigate those failures seriously, rather than celebrating them.
I do sympathize for innocent Palestinians who are doubly oppressed by Hamas and the Israeli occupation, but feel that the occupation is necessary to prevent greater violence against Israeli civilians.
That's about all I can give you without digging into the history.
Israel does nothing "indiscriminately." Israel uses lots of advanced technology to try to make sure the buildings it attacks are clear of civilians: both to check the buildings and to warn any potential civilians they might have missed to evacuate. The "middle ground" approach is exactly what the IDF is doing.
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that was your logic: you support them because the power balance is skewed.
many evil groups are small, and weak, and underdogs. Rooting for them on that basis is stupid.