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‘We can’t confuse Hamas with all Palestinians’: Spain says amid aid review
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Really makes you think about why Hamas is so radicalized, doesn't it? It's not like you can pull a Muslim out of a hat and radicalize them. People in a stable, healthy, and fair socioeconomic position do not see violence as an answer. People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.
And the irony is that Israel allowed Hamas to be funded by Arabic countries 25 years ago when it was a way to weaken Arafat and the PLO. Everything in this area is fucked beyond parody. No authority on either side has any idea about morality.
Netanyahu actually said something very similar, that the best way to destabilise the Palestinian Authority was to finance Hamas.
The same parallels with how the US funded what would later become Al Qaeda to fuck with the Soviets. Then they did 9/11.
Having a religion that claims that you're the greatest people on this planet helps.
edit You guys think that it doesn't help, or that Abrahamic religions aren't saying that? Help me understand.
You're describing roughly half the planet
A remarkably small amount of people on this planet think they should be, no, make that deserve to be living in the area where biblical / quranic time people lived. But yeah, the amount of people who think they're the greatest people is probably much more than just half.
Even I may have been known to make that mistake every now and other second.
Also, about half of Israel's jewish citizens = secular people who want peace
It seems to be the ultra-religious on both sides that are constantly making things worse.
You can't understand not wanting to leave but instead voting via democratic process only to be dissatisfied/alarmed that more authoritarian, right wing demagogues are pushing the Overton Window right and eroding democracy?
Do you live on Mars? This is happening everywhere.
To quote some "very fine people" from a major western nation. "Jews will not replace us".
Lots of places aren't exactly welcoming to them.
Why should the Palestinians pay for German crimes with their blood?
I think this comment is pretty unfair. You're right that there's a historical demonization of Jews that continues to this day, but i don't think it makes sense to suggest that the only solution is for all the Jews to hide out in Israel (or some other Jewish nation/state).
That said i don't think it makes sense to say they have to leave for that reason either, or that it's the smart thing to do or whatever. Why not stay? If only there were more secular Jews in Israel who opposed apartheid.
What makes the problem hard is that there are a lot of dickheads on both sides, not just the governments. You can be an oppressed victim AND a dick. These things are not mutually exclusive, unfortunately.
Plus Israel's dickery gets blind support from America. I'd guess if the Americans demanded actual concessions from Israel this would no longer be a problem, they'd have two states already. As it is, they have every economic and political incentive to just squeeze the Palestinians harder.
You mean the American government surely. Americans can't even get our government to do shit for Americans lmao
Isreali citizens = also victims, although much less abused and arguably somewhat complicit if they immigrated.
This part always makes me feel ambivalent about the Israelites in the conflict. Israeli citizens are complicit victims, and that's a contradiction but it's also true. Civilians are getting hurt and dying and that's not okay. However those same Israeli citizens are also supporting a basically genocidal government. Thousands of guidanceless rockets were fired at Isreal, are they expected not to respond? Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been victimized for their entire lives, are they expected not to respond?
If you're just born in Tel Aviv or Gaza City, I don't think you should be blamed for these military things. Maybe you support Hamas or Otzma Yehudit, but you're kind of a product of your environment, and if tangential support is all you do you're still a bystander. Maybe not a great example of humanity, but a bystander none the less.
I would have to be pretty truly desperate to consider aliyah myself, even before there was a war. I guess I could do it, and then support forces in Israel for peace, but I'm not sure if I'd make any difference, and they're going to be reluctant to let in my never-practiced ass even without me being openly hostile to the whole project.
One of the downsides of having mandatory military service is that civilians aren’t exactly regular civilians. Even if they’re not serving now, most of the adult population in Israel has served in the army.
I don’t think that excuses sexual violence and executing children, but it definitely makes the context of civilians a lot murkier.
Fortunately, no child executions or rapes have been confirmed.
Being born "someplace" is never justification for treating someone different.
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Agreed.
This kind of thinking is what got the troubles as bad as it was
Yeah it did. Unfortunately though once the genie is out of the bottle it's really hard to put it back in. War has it's own momentum and it's that momentum that needs to be resisted or expended before a war will stop. Perhaps I was unclear, I do not support any active combatants to the war and like every other war it's the non-combatants who will suffer the most. As much as I would like to resist the momentum of war, I'm just a dude on the other side of the planet talking about something he barely knows.
Settlers aren't innocent
Looks like some self proclaimed centrists felt triggered by this lmao