You want to go and lecture people suffering colonial genocide how to resist said colonial genocide in a way that doesn’t discomfort you?
Be my guest… hell, if you take a shipment of 7.62x39 with you, they might even have a reason to listen to you.
Way to avoid the question. For anyone that cares about civilians, the answer is, “No, it’s never justified.” That doesn’t mean it’s easy or simple, but it is nonetheless true. However, I do not pretend to be capable of devising a workable solution to the inherent complexities that exist between the two countries.
A bit late for that, don’t you think? Just like it’s a bit late to “stand in opposition” when this particular colonial genocide began all the way back in 1949.
No. It is never too late to decry war crimes, since people in power seem eager to repeat past mistakes and borrowideas from the past. I may not have been alive, but that doesn’t mean I can’t stand against the idea of it.
Wanna know one thing that it’s never too late for? Questioning why you have been drenched in narratives surrounding Hamas’s “crimes” (real, perceived and/or invented) while you have zero context regarding the long, long list of atrocities committed by Israel…
I don’t have to question that, because I don’t see Israel as the good guy either. The media has an interest in generating traffic and ad revenue, and the government has some kind of interest in maintaining an alliance with Israel (the impetus for which I can only guess). That Israel is just as guilty of warcrimes over the course of many years is not lost on me.
It is not easy to solve what’s happening in the middle east right now, but escalation via killing uninvolved civilians isn’t the answer, and it will never be the answer.
I’m not avoiding the question - you are avoiding the entire reality of the situation. The colonized does not require your approval or oversight to wage war against colonizers.
devising a workable solution to the inherent complexities that exist between the two countries.
What complexities? Why are people all of a sudden pretending that western colonialism - and the resistance against it - is suddenly a “new” thing?
(the impetus for which I can only guess)
Again… there is no mystery here - Israel has always been a western-backed colonialist project. No ifs, ands or buts. Where is the mystery?
but escalation via killing uninvolved civilians
If we cared about “civilians,” wouldn’t we be concerned about colonialism in the first place? No? Then I guess we’re only concerned when said “civilians” belonging to the colonizer side start dying, eh?
Way to avoid the question. For anyone that cares about civilians, the answer is, “No, it’s never justified.” That doesn’t mean it’s easy or simple, but it is nonetheless true. However, I do not pretend to be capable of devising a workable solution to the inherent complexities that exist between the two countries.
No. It is never too late to decry war crimes, since people in power seem eager to repeat past mistakes and borrowideas from the past. I may not have been alive, but that doesn’t mean I can’t stand against the idea of it.
I don’t have to question that, because I don’t see Israel as the good guy either. The media has an interest in generating traffic and ad revenue, and the government has some kind of interest in maintaining an alliance with Israel (the impetus for which I can only guess). That Israel is just as guilty of warcrimes over the course of many years is not lost on me.
It is not easy to solve what’s happening in the middle east right now, but escalation via killing uninvolved civilians isn’t the answer, and it will never be the answer.
I’m not avoiding the question - you are avoiding the entire reality of the situation. The colonized does not require your approval or oversight to wage war against colonizers.
What complexities? Why are people all of a sudden pretending that western colonialism - and the resistance against it - is suddenly a “new” thing?
Again… there is no mystery here - Israel has always been a western-backed colonialist project. No ifs, ands or buts. Where is the mystery?
If we cared about “civilians,” wouldn’t we be concerned about colonialism in the first place? No? Then I guess we’re only concerned when said “civilians” belonging to the colonizer side start dying, eh?