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Freed Israeli hostage says she endured ‘psychological warfare’ during 50 days of Hamas captivity | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While undeniably horrible...

It's important to remember that's pretty much how all Palestinians have been forced to live for generations.

At any moment IDF can burst in, and either kill or abduct you and torture you.

Neither side should be doing it, but one side does it constantly for 70 years now. When the little guy manages to get a single punch in on the bully, it doesn't seem rational to excuse the bully for years of aggression and act like there was no reason they got punched.

Especially if the bully beats the crap out of the little guy for getting that punch in.

The little guy can't do anything else except stand there and take it. The bully can stop being a bully whenever they feel like it.

It's asymmetrical, both sides don't have equal power to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I’d dismissive to just Palestine as “the little guy” who tried a punch.

What happened to Palestine was awful, but they’ve been launching rockets into Israel and Israel was formed after Palestinians attacked them.

They were a neglected part of the Ottoman Empire, then the Brits and French promised them a united Arab state if they overthrow the ottomans, so they did, then the Brits and French reneged and strongly favoured Jewish settlement (Jews were being lynched in Europe, so it was kind of an easy solution to support them leaving at the expense of someone else). The British pulled out, the Palestinians attacked the Jews, it started a civil war and Israel won their independence and claimed the land.

There’s no clear right side or clear big guy or little guy. Is just generations of shit for hundreds of years coming to a head.

Hamas is awful and has been lobbing rockets at Israel for years and uses human shields, the Palestinian people deserve better, and it’s wrong for Israel to ignore the collateral damage they’re inflicting in this “ends justify the means war” are all true.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Israel was formed after Palestinians attacked them

You need to read up on the history of the Zionist movement, the map of the proposed state of Israel pre-1948, Haganah/Irgun militias, and the Nakba.

Imagine living under British Imperialism, having another group of people decide that your land is their ancestral homeland, your land is now the useless desert while your coastal home is no longer yours. Imagine not fighting back after this.

This premise is already far-fetched

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#:~:text=From%201897%20to%201948%2C%20the,first%20Zionist%20congress%20was%20organized.

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

The proposed plan was considered to have been pro-Zionist by its detractors, with 56%[9] of the land allocated to the Jewish state despite the Palestinian Arab population numbering twice the Jewish population.

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

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The problem is that many are asking for exactly that now

another group of people decide that your land is their ancestral homeland, your land is now the useless desert while your coastal home is no longer yours. Imagine not fighting back after this.

All of the "from the river to the seas" and insistence that Israel leave is exactly this again. Because the median age in israel as of 2023 is 29.1 years old. Much like most of the people in Gaza didn't even "vote" for Hamas, most of the people in Israel had nothing to do with the bullshit in the 50s.

This is the issue with basically any "I watched a youtube" level comment on colonization and imperialism. Yes, the modern day occupants have a LOT of advantages and benefit a lot from what their ancestors did (even if it is grandpa). But is it "just" to have everything taken away and given to the people who grew up disadvantaged because grandpa was a dick?

And are you at all surprised when there is push back to that?

And that extends to how all of this is being handled. "We" have more or less learned to distinguish between Hamas and Palestine because, outside of the dumbfuck tankies, nobody is stupid enough to think Hamas at all cares about Palestinians. But there is no similar acknowledgement for the IDF/Israeli Government and the people of Israel. Instead, we get disgusting stupidity like this topic chain where "Well... I am not going to say you deserve it but you totally deserve it" is the theme at hand.

It is the exact same idea about being anti-zionist without being anti-semitic and how so much discourse is failing at that. Which... makes it a lot harder to garner the level of support that would allow politicians who are very dependent on "the Jewish vote" to make it clear they are condemning a government and not a people.

Personally? I see no way that even a two state solution can work at this point. Ignoring the issue of land and resources, it will be Hamas and Islamic State assholes who take power in Palestine and that will just be pushing this off. But I also see no way that the Israeli Government will stop at anything short of genocide. But all of this not even veiled "Well, maybe you should have thought to not be born in Israel you colonist prick" level commentary is just making sure that there is no solution other than genocide by the side with the bigger guns.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Since 2000, the ratio of Palestinian deaths to Israeli deaths is 21:1 (NYT). Rockets? The name evokes weapons from Lockheed or Boeing, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad make them in garages and basement tunnels while Israel has the most hitech interceptors available. It's still comparatively slingshots to F-16s.

Hamas was created in 1987, and has benefited from disproportionate treatment from the Israelis, who used Hamas to divide the Palestinian resistance. When Israel blows ckekd the negotiation tactics of the secular Palestinian resistance, what else were Palestinians to do? Palestinians in Gaza tried mass civil disobedience I'm 2018 with the Walk of Return, but Israel used live rounds and nearly 300 were killed and thousands wounded. How else were the Palestinians to seek freedom?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is the same issue of imperialism you can find in many places.

Very exhausting

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yet none of them get nearly as much attention as Israel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Because we expected more and better from people who had already had someone try to exterminate them.

No one expected anything from terrorists other than terror.

I guess they lived to become a villain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does she have anything to say about the rape allegations?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What an article. Even just the ending.

“I can’t comprehend what has happened to my family, and I can’t comprehend the inhumanity of them. People who murder people in their beds. Who does that? That’s not human”

I can’t tell if this is really bad propaganda or someone at CNN just went “listen to this whining lady”, it reads like a high school student writing assessment where the student had to pretend they were held hostage.