It's easy to call the people you don't like "terrorists" after you put them in the world's largest open air prison, allow them no voice in their governance, deny them basic human necessities, and they predicably act out of desperation .

What's hard, and the right thing, is the force holding the bigger gun exercising restraint in their response.

But we're sending two aircraft carriers to back up that already far superior force as they punch down and possibly do a genocide. No amount of conditional soup makes organized religion worth the continuous, murderous madness it brings.

If you're willing to kill real people or die for an imaginary friend, you're the problem.

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Think the carriers are mostly there more to say “nobody else get involved” and help prevent this from becoming a wider conflict.

[+] kfet@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

Maybe when they're no longer perpetual prisoners. When you make hope impossible, you make vengeance an alluring alternative.

The US was founded on revolting against hilariously less tyranny than this. If you were a Palestinian watching your oppressor host lavish concerts for their children as yours starve, would you tell them that peaceful resignation is the only option?

There are no good guys in this conflict, only slightly varying degrees of dehumanization, cruelty, and violence.

If Israel or Palestine wanted peace, either or both of them should become secular states. But neither values peace. They both value believing they're some imaginary god's soldiers in some stupid imaginary soul war. Human life > anyone's stupid ass religion. If they want to pray to Pikachu at 2am hopping on one leg except on Saturday nobody cares, but making your fantasy other people's problem at gunpoint makes you wrong, every time. It is no less insane than shooting a d&d dungeon master in the chest with a gun because you lost your buff roll. It's bonkers that we support any theocracy, let alone one proud theocracy over another.