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asimplechordThis is an unpopular opinion, and you're welcome to defriend me if you feel the need.
I've been quiet about the situation in Gaza over the last few weeks because my sympathies lie in no way with Israel, and somehow even justified criticism of Israel is forbidden in our Judeo-Christian friendly society, earning the title of anti-Semitism. (I find an incredible amount of irony in how that term has been co-opted. I think most people don't realize that that word originally did not mean "anti-Israel" or "opposition to or hatred of Jews". It actually meant opposition to any member of the Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. Thus, Arabs, Ethiopians, Jews, etc.)
But honestly? Given the years-long blockade, the IDF's invasion, the expulsion of journalists and humanitarian aid via bombing of UN facilities, the use of white phosphorus?
What Israel has done to Gaza is no better than the treatment of Jews and Romani people in the Warsaw Ghetto. I don't understand how a community that has based its entire identity in the persecution of the holocaust (and I'm deliberately not capitalizing it) can't see (or more likely: don't care) that they have, with the complicity of the U. S., become the persecutors.
I've been quiet about the situation in Gaza over the last few weeks because my sympathies lie in no way with Israel, and somehow even justified criticism of Israel is forbidden in our Judeo-Christian friendly society, earning the title of anti-Semitism. (I find an incredible amount of irony in how that term has been co-opted. I think most people don't realize that that word originally did not mean "anti-Israel" or "opposition to or hatred of Jews". It actually meant opposition to any member of the Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. Thus, Arabs, Ethiopians, Jews, etc.)
But honestly? Given the years-long blockade, the IDF's invasion, the expulsion of journalists and humanitarian aid via bombing of UN facilities, the use of white phosphorus?
What Israel has done to Gaza is no better than the treatment of Jews and Romani people in the Warsaw Ghetto. I don't understand how a community that has based its entire identity in the persecution of the holocaust (and I'm deliberately not capitalizing it) can't see (or more likely: don't care) that they have, with the complicity of the U. S., become the persecutors.
