Are our government's complicit in a coming genocide?

I really want to be wrong but I fear that I am not.

I started off predicting that tens of thousands would die in Gaza. I really hate to say that but think it will be in the hundreds of thousands. All the signs are that Israel is trying to make Gaza so insufferable that nobody who stays can survive. They want Egypt to open its border and the longer it doesn't, they will try and blame them for the deaths.

The Palestinians have the name 'Nakba' (I believe it means catastrophe in English) for when 700,000 were forced to leave their homes and move to the fringes of Israel in 1948. They are already referring to this as the second Nakba.

The IDF is trying to destroy Hamas but their method for doing so is to eradicate (by death or relocation) all the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Everything points to this. The decision to tell Palestinians to leave the northern half of Gaza, the diplomatic pressure on Egypt, and the dehumanising language that regards all Palestinians as enemy combatants. The cutting off of all power and food. The Zionist project has wanted a Jewish-only state for some time and they are using the attack by Hamas as an excuse to do just that. Unless Western governments stop them, I think that this will happen.

Hamas deserve condemnation for their disgusting attack on Israeli civilians, however, this is not a case of both sides being the same. You can simultaneously condemn the Hamas attack and also stand against a tragedy that is literally two orders of magnitude greater. I can hate Saddam Hussain and also disagree with the invasion of Iraq.

Is violence committed by a Western-backed state more morally acceptable than what Hamas did? Do we really value all lives the same?

I'm going to bed now but I will probably reply tomorrow.

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CrystalSkull · F

I don’t know. There are points that both sides have made that are valid and I can’t say I choose either. I just feel terrible about all the innocent civilians on any side. It also depends on what literature one reads and news channels one watches. There are different narratives. It’s very complicated and I have to ask what’s the big reason behind all this? A world war over a small territory like that? What’s the real back story. I’m not qualified an enough to know anything about the real reasons. It’s frightening and I can’t imagine the suffering for all. I’m sorry for all the innocent civilians.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@CrystalSkull It's not about my media diet (which is varied) but about judging a situation by actions and not words. All Israel's actions point in one direction.

CrystalSkull · F

@Burnley123 I wasn’t specifically pointing at “your” media. I was making a general comment about press. I’m not disagreeing with what you say or agreeing. What I’m asking what is the real reason. For all of this. Doesn’t make sense to me that the entire world should be in uproar over a strip of land that small. Yes the human lives is a travesty, I’m not denying that, but this kind of retaliation does not happen in other parts of the world. Why.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@CrystalSkull We are talking about 2.1 million people in Gaza alone and many more Palestinians throughout Israel.

It's also the world's longest running military occupation. It falls on religious and political fault lines and those between the first and the third world.

For Arabic Muslims, it's analogy for how they feel treated by the west. For Zionist Jews, it's an analogy for something else For the left, it's a striking example of western imperialism. And so on.