God help them. The slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining

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    If you’re saddened or angered by the deaths of Israeli civilians, you can take those complaints straight to the Israeli government.

    Fine. Am I required to celebrate? Because that’s what I’m seeing some people do here. I do hope they’re not the only real leftists

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          ‘rooting for the underdog in a war’ is a rather inhuman way of putting it. this isn’t a sports game. this is a reaction to a monstrous apartheid regime.

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              Yes, you’re the one acting like with levity towards every murdered palestinian in this decades long american-israeli war of extermination.

              ‘what am i to say to this injured occupier family i’ve seen in every news media around the world?’ ‘oh no the minorities will be really genocided now they shouldn’t have reacted!’ ‘what will they tell that poor occupation soldier’s family?? this will only make them more vengeful!’. gaslight after gaslight. we’ve heard it all before. from ireland to pretoria.

        • I can only come to the same conclusion. Its one thing to attack a military checkpoint directly on the border with your territory, heck it’s even another thing to occupy the territory of your oppressors, but I don’t see how anyone can excuse going out of your way to target random civilians in their homes or to shoot at any moving human you can see.

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            Its one thing to attack a military checkpoint directly on the border with your territory

            The palestinians do not have territory. They do not have borders to defend nor any standing as human beings before the regime in Tel Aviv. They live in open air concentration camps under permanent blockade of water, supplies and electricty. It’s not surprising that you enjoy misrepresenting the conflict given that your only recourse so far has been a knee jerk reaction to anyone who even so much smells as pro palestinian.

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              yeah how about you prove it if you’re going to accuse people here of being bloodthirsty monsters? “c’mon man” isn’t very compelling

          • AmericanCenturyOfHumiliation [they/them]
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            listen bro being happy there had finally been any kind of response to the regular killings of Palestinian civilians is fucked up bro we need to weep for the lost Israeli souls as well bro c’mon bro

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              happy there had finally been any kind of response to the regular killings of Palestinian civilians

              What is there to be happy about? When this is over we’ll return to the regular scheduled sporadic killing of Palestinian civilians, but in the meantime we’re going to be inundated in a wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians, with some Israeli citizens thrown in as well. That’s the material consequences of the current uprising, which are universally bad.

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                natives shouldn’t fight against their oppressors, because their opressors will opress them

                what are do you people want Palestine to do? just slowly get ground down to nothing? wait for westeners to stop their nations maintaing Israels military system? like come on. and this is a genuine question tbh, I would like to know what you want Palestinian militas, or just the resistance in general, to do

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                  natives shouldn’t fight against their oppressors, because their opressors will opress them

                  I didn’t say anything remotely like that. If you care about actually ending the oppresion, nominally your strategic goals should be ending that oppression, not doomed violence for it’s own sake. We even have a word for this on the left: ‘adventurism’. The Viet Minh opposition to the French may have been violent, but it wasn’t a fruitless and doomed affair, and their leadership went to incredible lengths to make sure their attacks where strategically fruitful.

                  what are do you people want Palestine to do?

                  Uhh not this, because it won’t achieve any of their political aims and is just going to get a bunch of civilians killed. I don’t need to posit a better idea to point out how much of a shit-sandwich that this is going to be for the Palestinians and that leftists shouldn’t be treating it like their team scoring a goal in a football match.

                  On the flip side, can you point to why this is a good thing to be happy about from a material perspective, and not a vibes based ‘psychological’ victory?

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                    Honestly, I think that you’re wrong on the possibility of material victory. This offensive has shown the world that Palestinian resistance is not dead and that they can stand up to deal a devastating blow. If they can disrupt Israel’s attempts to re-align various Arab nations, and if the hostages and threat of Hezbollah intervention can pre-empt a ground invasion in Gaza, then the resistance could make significant material concessions/gains. Depending on how the next few days go, then I think there’s a chance of reforging the broader pro-Palestinian coalition amongst the various countries of the Middle East, especially in light of the Saudi-Iran rapprochement. If changing the geopolitical alignment into one that’s much more favorable to the survival of the Palestinian people isn’t a material gain, than I don’t know what is.

                    There was clearly an incredible degree of effort and coordination to pull off an operation of this scale without alerting the Israeli security apparatus. I don’t think this operation is particularly irrational or feckless. It’s a gamble, but the alternative to action is a slow death.

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                  No, only the dead Jews/Communists/Slavs/Roma/Disabled/ are a tragedy, the Germans deserve whatever they get because they aren’t people

                • Staines [they/them]
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                  If I was a civilian benefiting from and supporting an apartheid regime, it would be very tragic for the brutal savages we keep locked up in a city sized cage to escape and kill me.

        • Quick question though, if Israel’s gov’t was gone and replaced, would it be better to name it “Palestine” or “Israel-Palestine” to be more inclusive, like how Rhodesia was once temporarily “Zimbabwe-Rhodesia”… ?