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| I desperately don’t want Israeli boots on the ground and I desperately wish so many Palestinian civilians wouldn’t die. And I also wish Hamas would stop bombing Israel. I don’t know how to solve this. |
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I am not confused at all. The Jewish vote is not important to national elections. Evangelical voters do not care about Jews. Israel is of great interest in evangelicals circles but not the reason some Jews support it. AIPAC is about Israel and money that buy’s influence not about Jewish voters. You do not have to look hard to see Israel(as in the state of Israel) active support of AIPAC. |
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All your news sources predate the OFICCIAL STANCE OF THE QATARI GOVERNMENT, made public October 13th with the visit of Sec. Blinken. The US put pressure on Qatar and ultimately came out empty handed. You lack both reading comprehension and critical thinking. |
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You do not need to solve this Meanwhile, in an interview with CNN, Kirby said preparing troops for deployment "is really about sending a signal of deterrence". He added: "There are no plans or intentions to put US boots on the ground in combat in Israel." And Intense diplomacy, including the arrival of US President Joe Biden, on the need to develop a plan to get aid into Gaza and get foreign nationals out, may be staying Israel’s command. There’s also the thorny issue of foreign hostages. Once this war intensifies, Israel’s closest allies want to be sure they’ve done everything possible to protect civilians, and prevent this war from erupting into a much wider conflagration. So, what do you think? |
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Could aipac have more power than the Knesset? |
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You are speaking theoretically. Practically, the iron dome can only handle so many missiles before being overwhelmed. Again, your relatives would rather stay alive. I have friends there as well who already had family members murdered/abducted by Hamas. They are not sitting in their homes, with constant sirens going off, worrying about Hamas propaganda. They already know how Hamas operates and know, sadly, that innocents will die. They wish it didn't have to be that way, but it's not their choice. |
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Israel must hobble Hamas and liberate Palestinians from them. |
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One side was dancing and enjoying life. The other side had terrorists using them as human shields. |
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A message that I hope maybe will give you pause: The moment that news broke of the horrific Hamas attacks, I and many others who have been advocating for Palestinian freedom, knew what would come next. We knew that there would be no recognition of those attacks as part of a cycle of colonial violence. We knew that there would be no acknowledgement of the hundreds of Palestinians killed in the past year, or the thousands killed in recent years. There would be no desire to understand the desperation and rage of people locked in a prison like animals, and what people may do when so desperate and so few options are made available to them.
And it is not just those who were actively grieving their families, loved ones, and community members, who would not see it. Our press and our governments would make sure that no one would see it. I cannot equate the Hamas attacks to what Israel is doing, and has been doing for years, to the Palestinians - no matter how much people have been insisting that I do so. Not because I ever support the killing of anyone, “innocent” or not, I promise you that I do not support such violence. But because to do so would be inaccurate and dangerous. The systemic oppression of a people, the ethnic cleansing of a people, the genocide against a people, is not the same thing as the horrific actions of those acting violently in response to oppression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. But when we decide on a larger socio-political scale that the personal matters as much as, or even more than, the systemic in issues that are clearly systemic in nature, we will always default to prioritizing those who are more valued in society. We will default to humanizing one, and dehumanizing the other. And we will find ourselves signed on to systemic retribution that does not feel that it is responsible for what it does. This is what keeps justifying the violent oppression of millions of people for decades. This is what emboldens people to say that the safety of one people must mean the loss of freedom of another. This is what enables the idea that one population has to prove that they “deserve” their freedom, by insisting on staying meek and silent under violent oppression. This carries the fantasy that healthy, liberal, peace-loving ways of organizing and governing can thrive in a space where people are brutalized every day - and the fantasy that it can exist for their oppressors as well. This idea that an oppressive system is not responsible for the cycles of violence it creates, and not responsible for how it responds to that violence is how a terror attack on September 11, 2001, leads to decades of war and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings. I remember marching and yelling as loud as I could then, and still wishing that I had done more to prevent the death and destruction that we are still seeing today because of our refusal to see and hold ourselves accountable to how our brutal, racist, colonizing systems had created the cycles of violence that so shocked and traumatized us all when the towers fell. |
What's it like being Muslim? Well, it's hard to find a decent halal pizza place and occasionally there is a hashtag calling for your genocide...
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Many Israelis are against the killing of Palestinian children and don’t think it makes them safer. Why do you think you know better than them what makes them safe? Nir Avishai Cohen is going to fight— he’ll be in a lot more danger than you are— and he wrote on Sunday that “As a major in the reserves, it is important to me to make it clear that in this already unstoppable new war, we cannot allow the massacre of innocent Israelis to result in the massacre of innocent Palestinians. Israel must remember that there are more than two million people living in the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of them are innocent. Israel must do everything in its power to avoid killing innocent people and to focus on destroying the militant army of Hamas.” Why do you think you know better? |