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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The framing of this is kinda odd. They don't want the war to stop. Or rather, they don't want specifically the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the native indigenous people to stop. They want the war to end because it's destroyed the economy of the occupied territories. They wanna go back to brunch. With a side of stealing land from the natives and the occasional lynching of Palestinians.

They don't like war when they can feel it at home.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It really is incredible that this is what got people in the streets, not the dead and dying children.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A IDF soldier was recently arrested for raping female palestinian prisoners There was an Israeli protest ... in support of the accused.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The type of population you get in a fascist state that's been indoctrinating people for over 60 years. Even nazi germany only lasted for 12.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Generally, yes. This is an anti-war protest from an economic perspective, not a moral one. Their demands will not liberate Palestine, but provide a much-needed temporary reprieve, if met. Still, it is good that the genocidal menace hurts, and is facing internal fracturing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There is a photograph which accompanies the article of one of the protesters holding a placard which reads, “this is fascism”.

I feel like it’s totally wrong to apply such a broad generalisation (“They don’t want the [genocide] to stop”) to such a group of people. The people of Israel are not a monolith, and I know for a fact that there are those in Israel who have been protesting their genocidal policies the whole time. It seems very plausible to me that a good number of the protesters calling for an end to the current violence will be opposed to the whole settler-colonialist project, in the same way that I wholeheartedly despise the state of the country that I was born in.