So I've kept away from the entire Palestine / Israel conflict all together and I'm very ignorant on the topic.

I'm reading about thousands of people be it students and general public setting up camps and all over Canada and the United States of America to protest what?

Is this not a conflict between two groups over seas? Why are people protesting in the west ?

Why doesn't all these people go there and make a difference?

Why protest in the west? To me, someone who's completely ignorant to all this it seems like these people want the miliaries of the west to engage in combat over something that has nothing to do with them?

Why should we the west be getting involved?

Please only respectful comments and common sense explanations with obvious benefits explained to why we should be getting involved.

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NerdyPotato · M

Most people don't have the means to go there and destroy the missiles. But changing the minds of politicians to stop supplying weapons to brutally murder civilians with is achievable.

And it does affect everyone on earth. Turning a blind eye (or even contributing) to a genocide sets a dangerous precedent. It's not impossible to happen in the USA as well, and if you become the target, you don't want the world to remember it's fine to ignore it if it's far away.

Teggy

@NerdyPotato has this not been going on for an insane amount of time though?

Those two group trying to kill one another? It's literally the one part of the world that spilled more blood for longer then any other conflict in history?

Weapons trades have been happening for ever.

Why don't the protestors then setup camp out front military facilities and whatever leaders who are supplying weapons for genocide specifically?

Maybe the citizens should also setup protests to fight the leaders who don't do anything about the wild drug epidemic in the west. Killing millions of people silently for generations.

All good thoughts but we all know it's never going to stop with protests it's only fueling civil unrest on an already unstable time in the west.

NerdyPotato · M

@Teggy Israel's displacement and oppression of Palestinians has been happening for nearly 80 years indeed, but the scale and severity was unseen until October 7th.

It will be difficult to physically stop weapon factories, but inconveniencing investors who finance the war is a good second option to make a direct impact.

People are fighting against the drug epidemic and other issues too. One doesn't exclude the other. But the instability of the West is all the more reason to not normalize genocide. We may be closer to one here than most people realize.