• FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz
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    Blaming individuals for the actions of their country is braindead behavior. If they supported and voted for this, then yes, but people don’t choose where they’re born and expecting people to commit suicide by cop in a one man revolution is equally braindead.

    I don’t expect the few pro-Palestinian Israelis to die fighting the IDF. I just expect them to speak against their actions. That is the only reasonable expectation you can give to one person against a fascist or totalitarian regime.

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      You and I directly benefit from Israeli genocide because the profits from it are allowed to freely circulate in the Western market. Many public finds including those of universities, pensions, and healthcare, are invested into Israeli firms including weapons firms. Western companies operating in or selling to Israel pay taxes to Western governments where the companies are based, which are then used to subsidise our infrastructure and amenities. Same with Israeli companies operating in or selling to the West.

      We are enjoying the spoils of atrocities committed against Palestinians right this second.

      Are you doing anything against it? Like actual things that materially help Palestinians not useless lip service and virtual signalling. No? Then your life has a net effect on the side of Zionism no matter how many #palestine social media posts you make. So yes, all Western citizens are culpable because none (or exceedingly few) of us do anything meaningful about it but we all, willingly or otherwise, consume the spoils of genocide. Not wanting to benefit from genocide does not make us any less to blame for doing so.

      The fact that neither Israel nor the US is getting the Russia treatment of complete economic and political ostracism by other Western countries shows that the West never believed in actual morals or “rule based order” beyond what’s convenient for propaganda.

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      Governments aren’t gods that simply pop out of nowhere and stand on their own, they’re upheld by the people that live under them. Most Israelis and Westerners are not opposed in any form to the doing of their government, most of the West has been bribed into silence while most Israelis aren’t willing to give up the privileges and advantages that come with being a settler in a colonial settler state. Revolution will not come from these populations, it’ll come from those they oppress.

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      There’s no Pro-Palestinian Israeli in Ziohell. All of them are soldiers. Who’s neither fighting nor approving the genocied is a meat shield. Of course Liberals will Liberalize.

      Are you expecting to vote out the genociders? LOL.