This entire conflict has been like a car crash in slow motion, we could've stopped it before but now it feels like we're a bit powerless to stop it. We can stop it in theory, but that stuff ain't happening no matter how many people say #freepalestine on Twitter or TikTok. These people hate each other's guts, and they're both so entrenched in their lands that both of their only win conditions are "kill everyone from the other side" and have been for the last few decades. This sort of generational hate cannot be calmed by fancy words.
There will be no peace until either side is wiped out, or they're both occupied by yet another nation as a "policing action" to try and stop the violence through even more violence.
All that being said, zionists and sharia-adherent muslims both suck. I hope the fighting leaves one dead and the other near death.
this logic comes from israeli projection (not accusing you specifically of projection). one side has actually been oppressing, displacing, evicting, starving, imprisoning children, for 75 years at this point. and the rationale they give is that "if we do not do this, they will do it to us". the oppression they imagine will happen to them if they lift their boot is completely hypothetical. zionists throw histrionic fits about how palestinians want to do pogroms, to justify actually doing pogroms and ethnic cleansing.
jews, christians and muslims lived together in palestine in relative peace up until the 20th century, when zionists began making aliyah to israel and set up a proto-state.
their intent from the beginning was to set up a colonial state and they didn't hide that fact well, though they tried, which is how the conflict started
We can stop it in theory, but that stuff ain't happening no matter how many people say #freepalestine on Twitter or TikTok. These people hate each other's guts, and they're both so entrenched in their lands that both of their only win conditions are "kill everyone from the other side" and have been for the last few decades. This sort of generational hate cannot be calmed by fancy words.
twitter and tiktok have been pretty important actually. obviously just posting really doesnt help anyone, but seeing the death and destruction in HD on social media is why there's been so much mobilization and popular support. the free palestine movement has never been this big in the US.
this sort of argument was made about south africa yet the apartheid regime there ultimately did not last, i think apartheid states like this are more fragile and tenuous than you think.
