• febra@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So Germany is willing to look the other way as Israel is butchering thousands of innocents. The fact that I even voted for this guy’s party…

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      8 months ago

      You should volunteer yourself as a human shield for Hamas then, so a Palestinian doesn’t have to be a human shield for Hamas.

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        Human shield or not, Israel is killing innocent people using this disgusting excuse. If a terrorist would take your family hostage I’m sure you’d be more than happy to have Israel airstrike all of them.

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          Israel is killing innocent people

          Basically describing every war ever. Why also war should be avoided, which is very possible if involved people in power are interested in it, which does not seems to be the case on either side.

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            Sadly that seems to be the truth. I don’t see an end in sight for these hostilities. Neither Israel nor Hamas care about ending the war. Some of the current Israeli politicians leading the current cabinet have even went as far as to claim that Hamas is an asset for them. There’s a great piece on this I read recently. Hamas on the other hand doesn’t care about ending their hostilities due to their antisemitic islamist ideology.

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          Don’t tell us what you DON’T want, tell us what you DO want: How would you personally handle this situation while securing the Israeli AND the Palestinian people. And by securing I mean not only temporary, but permanently.

          But please don’t pretend that you actually could negotiate a peace with Hamas.

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            Hamas is a symptom. They will always be there in one form or another as long as palestinians live under systemic oppression. Sure, you can take out hamas, kill as many civillians as you want in doing so, and you’ll only create more extremists. The west bank is illegally occupied by israeli forces imposing apartheid like laws. You don’t have to take that from me, take it from the UN. Palestinians live in a segregated society, having to drive on segregated roads, go through checkpoints, and so on. The western world just looks the other way but loves to virtue signal and wave fingers at other countries doing what Israel is doing (look at Russia invading Ukraine). Many palestinians feel that they’ve been let down by the world and the democratic world order we love to boast so much about, and thus they turn to extremist ideologies. So, as long as Israel’s stance towards the palestinian question doesn’t change, and as long as they keep ilegally occupying their territories (west bank and until 15 years ago Gaza which they then threw under a blockade that crippled the lives of millions), extremists will keep on breeding. These are very fertile grounds for extremist ideologies.

            Sure, they could genocide all palestinians and that would probably solve the problem, but is that who you want to support?

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              Quit trying to contextualize the murder done by Hamas and quit trying to evade the question.

              That „symptom“ is NOW killing innocent civilians, Palestinians and Israeli alike. And yes, Hamas is responsible for every civilian death in Palestine - because they started this war.

              I want to hear from you, since you claim to know better than anyone else, what can get done NOW, not years from now. What would you personally do different NOW in regards to Hamas.

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                Quit trying to contextualize the murder done by Hamas and quit trying to evade the question.

                Contextualizing complex situations is very important if you are honestly, actually looking for solutions. This wasn’t the first terrorist attack and won’t be the last no matter how much wishful thinking you do on your side. Simplifying this and looking at one event in vacuum is a bastardization of history and the current problem, and does absolutely nothing to help the current situation.

                Hamas is responsible for every civilian death in Palestine

                That is a bastardization of the reality and reads like straight out propaganda to fuel even more innocent deaths. When a military force is butchering innocent civillians from the sky you can’t just deflect the reality with a straight face while also claiming to have the moral high ground.

                Every normal person can agree that the terrorist attack on October 7th was completely unjustified and an atrocity. At the same time, every normal person should also be able to agree that killing innocent civillians under collective punishment and painting them as collateral damage is an atrocity as well.

                because they started this war.

                This war hasn’t started yesterday. Gaza has been under a military blockade for almost two decades now. The west bank has been under an apartheid military occupation for decades now. These hostilities might not amount to a formal declaration of war under your bureaucratic understanding of the world, but they are ineded hostile acts based on ethnicity.

                I want to hear from you, since you claim to know better than anyone else, what can get done NOW, not years from now.

                Well, besides the fact that I have never claimed such a thing, you should remember here that I am not going against “everyone else” on this one. You seem to be under the false impression that your opinion here is the mainstream one. The UN voted in an overwhelming majority for the cessation of the current hostilities in Gaza. They might not be all from the G7 nations that live under the impression that they have the moral high ground, but I’m sure they don’t represent just a loud minority as you seem to believe. Anyway.

                I am no diplomat. I can’t say for sure what needs to be done right now, but I can recognize what is extremely wrong right now: and that is the butchering of innocent civillians under the pretext of collective punishment (which is illegal according to international humanitarian law). What I personally wish for is a two state solution where Israel stops illegally occupying lands and imposing an apartheid regime onto innocent civillians that have a right to live in the lands their ancestors lived in for centuries. That means removing all illegal settlements from said lands, pulling their military occupation out of said territory, and imposing normal borders (and protecting their borders) like every other nation does.

                Hamas is a virus. They won’t stop existing just because you kill the current hamas. They will keep popping up as long as the occupation and oppression continues to exist. If you want to heal a society from this extremism, you need to give them space, time, and the right to self determination. An oppressed people will never have inner peace.

                My great great grandparents were sent to a jewish ghetto in the part of Romania where I’m from. The biggest jewish ghetto out of what is now considered Romania. They were romanian jews. They lived through some horrible times because of genocidal maniacs. They were pushed out of their homes, killed in the streets, treated as foreigners in their own land. My great great grandmother died in the holocaust. My great great grandfather disappeared. My great grandfather grew up as an orphan and never met his parents.

                Gazans have gone through a very similar situation. They’ve been pushed out of their homes, oppressed, treated as lesser, cast aside. 70% of Gazans are refugees that fled their ancestral homes. They live in a ghetto with no rights to self determination. The walls around this enclosure are controlled by a regime that despises them and are the ones that take the decisions of what they get and when they get it. You can’t tell me with a straight face that after decades of living in such dire conditions you are somehow surprised that extremism has found fertile grounds there.

                So again, I ask you to have some sympathy here with the innocents being butchered daily by aistrikes of a regime that has always treated them as lesser individuals. And I do that as a part jew that sympathises with jewish history quite a lot.

                Butchering civillians won’t get you less hamas. It will just breed more extremism.

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                  A lot of words that are obviously meant to disguise the fact, that you still say NOTHING about what you would do differently. This is not how this works.

                  So again, I ask you to have some sympathy here with the innocents being butchered daily by aistrikes of a regime that has always treated them as lesser individuals. And I do that as a part jew that sympathises with jewish history quite a lot.

                  Butchering civillians won’t get you less hamas. It will just breed more extremism.

                  Why are you insinuating that I have no sympathy with the Palestinian civilians? Of course I do. But you have proven by now yourself, that there isn’t an alternative to the way Israel is reacting. Hamas in its current form has to get destroyed.

                  But as you like to talk about the Second World War so much: Was it wrong by the allied Forces to bombard German cities in WW2 and thereby also killing German civilians? Quite lots of them actually?

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                Didn’t Israel start this war by creating an apartheid state and genocide by deporting non jews to a Ghetto and making their live so miserable that people decide to fight against their oppressors?

                Didn’t Israel create Hamas? And propped them up? Israel wanted what happened, now they can go in full force and most idiots even applaud them for manipulating a people into war.

                They learned from the US, maniacs that start wars by lying about the enemy planning to use WMD. No nation can should trust a word coming out of their mouths.

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                  Not a SINGLE word, what you would do differently.

                  ALL words excuses for Hamas murdering civilians.

                  Hamas doesn’t commit their terror attacks „for“ the Palestinians, they commit them, because they hate Israel and the Jews. If they would fight for the Palestinian civilians, they wouldn’t operate in or near civilian infrastructure, they wouldn’t wear civilian clothing and they would share their vast stockpiles with the Palestinian civilians.

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        How is that? I’m a gay, partly jewish guy, that is strongly left leaning and cares a lot about the climate and social issues. I have voted for the green party. I agree with their stance on Ukraine and Russia, which is why I am so confused by their stance on Israel. I never expected them to act in such a way. I agree with their climate policy. I agree with their urbanism policies. But the complete disregard they have shown towards palestinian lives is simply disgusting. But whatever, you tell me who I voted for.

        Downvote all you want. The green voters aren’t a monolithic voice and not all of us stand with the words of Robert Habeck. Antisemitism is horrible, everyone can agree with that. But his statements of full support for Israel… not even a word of real criticism for the way they’re butchering little children and entire families. Disgusting. What the world has become. The left has now gone full circle. Literally finding excuses for the murder of civillians.

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          Yes, this bullshit definitely makes your story and disinformation even more believable. You understand that people can actually check his words for themselves, right?

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            Look. I went and listened to the speech again, because I don’t want people to claim that I’m spreading misinformation here.

            What I gathered from his speech, the main points:

            1. antisemitism is bad. Yes, every single moral human being should agree with that. Hating people based on their ethnicity and other traits they cannot change is absolutely never acceptable.
            2. people should condemn acts of terrorism. Again, yes. I fully agree with that. Killing innocents is absolutely never acceptable, be it terrorism or not. It’s horrible.
            3. the right is holding back from attacking jews. I agree with that, but I don’t think it’s the time and place for these comments. He’s talking about horrific acts of terrorism, he’s talking about the fear some people live with right now and at the same time he’s talking his opposition. It feels like he’s hijacking the situation for political points and feels insensitive
            4. iran is somehow behind this. I don’t think anyone has produced any evidence regarding that yet which just makes it sound like a weird conspiracy theory, and again, it feels out of place for a speech about antisemitism and acts of violence against innocents
            5. he’s doing everything he can along his American partners to protect the lives of civillians in Gaza. This is where it’s getting nasty in my opinion. The US has vetoed a call for a ceasefire in the UN security council. That is definitely not what I’d consider to count as “protecting the lives of civillians”. And the fact taht he associates with the US here is even worse, since they were the only ones to veto any form of intervention on the side of the UN. This is why I left my original comment. I guess it was fairly inflamatory of me to comment that, but it felt extremely insensitive to see him say that while looking at the reality of the situation on the ground in Gaza right now, with so many innocents dying. Just “making sure water and medicine gets to Gaza” won’t save those kids from being blown to pieces. Mind you, the water, food, electricity, and medicine that was cut off from these civillians by Israel in the first place. Not only that, but he goes as far as to say that he is reminding Israel of their commitment to international law, BUT no one expects that from Hamas… I’m sorry? He is literally relativising the deaths of civillians here just because Hamas are a bunch of fucking genocidal maniacs. He is litearlly adding a BUT after saying how Israel should respect human rights. You can’t make this shit up. There should be absolutely no buts after talking about respecting human rights.
            6. all muslims in Germany are expected to publicly denounce Hamas. This one is straight up weird. It’s like asking all jews to publicly denounce Israel for bombing kids. Hamas, a terrorist organization, doesn’t represent all muslims and it’s straight up racist to expect every muslim to talk about whatever Hamas is doing. Which brings me to the next point I gathered from his speech
            7. Germany has to support to Israel. Here he starts equating all jews with Israel somehow. Which is again, straight up weird, and partly antisemitic. Jews aren’t all the property of Israel. Just as not all muslims are the property of Hamas. Treating an entire ethnic group as a monolithic collective is extremely problematic to me. I am partly jewish and german-romanian and do not agree with that. I feel more German and Romanian than I feel Israeli. I’ve never been to Israel and wouldn’t call Israel my home country. Even though I could get an israeli citizenship any day by proof of my ancestors and gain access to live in a land my ancestors didn’t even know to point on a map probably. With that being said, I fully support helping civillians affected by violence everywhere, anywhere, on all sides of this horrible conflict. I fully support the fight against antisemitism and stand by it, and stood by it for ages now. But offering critique of Israel is somehow problematic. One can easily condemn acts of terrorism while also putting them in a historical context. That doesn’t mean you are relativising anything. One can condemn the state of Israel for the shit they’re doing to civillians in Gaza and the West Bank. I know he also says that everyone is allowed to criticize Israel, but for some reason his government falls short of doing so. Sure, individual civillians can, but I’d expect government officials with a spine to actually do it too when they see all the completely unjust suffering in Gaza right now.
            8. the two state solution. He then briefly mentions the two state solution, but falls short of going deeper into that highly complex subject. He throws all the blame on Hamas here while conveniently ignoring that Israel is also straight up refusing the two state solution, just as Hamas does. Not only that, but Israel even has hopes in expanding their illegal settlements (which he of course briefly criticizes, but again, not much substance there). This can be easily found in their government’s policy guidelines where they clearly state that “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria.”. Germany is hereby supporting a full on far-right theocratic regime of ultraorthodox lunatics that are openly calling for the expansion of their lands in the detriment of the innocent civillians living there that happen to be non-jewish.

            I’d rather have a Germany that works towards a humanitarian solution, not a Germany that is straight up supporting some very horrible people and supports the US in blocking any kind of UN intervention. I don’t mind calling out antisemitism, I’ve been doing that my entire life. And I have read more than enough books on jewish history, dug through archives to learn about my great great grandparents that died in the holocaust, and much more. I don’t mind calling out terrorism either, every sane human should. But I very much mind this kind of rhetoric towards unconditional support for a far-right expansionist regime. Especially one represented by a far-right religious zionist coalition, that claims that some biblical lands that currently happen to be under palestinian control should be owned by them because their book says so. Here you can read more about them. Is this really who we want to throw our unconditional support at? A cabinet filled with people like Itamar Ben-Gvir that literally has a poster of a terrorist that killed a bunch of people in his office? The guy that put a billbioard of arab opposition politicians in a town and called for their expulsion? Man I’m so over this. Believe what you want. I voted green for a reason. Now I don’t know who to vote for anymore. I sure as hell don’t want to vote for the putinists further left, and the more right you go than the greens the worse it gets.