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.

firefall · 61-69, M

Do we really value all lives the same?

of course we dont, for any value of 'we' at all. Noone does, en masse, it's a struggle for any individual to really do that (well except for psychopaths where value equals zero).

I think you're right, I hadnt considered the longer term plan by the Israeli government, but this is disturbingly logical. Worse than that, I can't see what will actually stop them.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@firefall I did mean it as a rhetorical question. My main point in asking that was to illustrate that the western media and Israel especially do not value Palestinian lives the same. People who are 'not like us.' It's implied everywhere in this discourse.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@firefall With the speed that they've enacted this plan, it's pretty obvious that they were holding it in their back pocket. Waiting for the day Hamas did something bad enough to give them cover.