This is a post that I didn’t know how to make as I am a novice when it comes to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, so I feel like it is wrong of me to write this like I know everything. But from what I’ve seen and read, I am disgusted by the genocide of innocent civilians and multiple governments looking at it and being like “Ah Sick! Want more murder weapons?” This includes Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Someone who has lost my vote for the 2024 election. Our US tax dollars are being sent to the State of Israel to commit war crimes, to commit genocide. Joe Biden is a genocide funder, who turns a blind eye to the murder of innocent Palestinian civilians. While he sits at home free from drone strikes, he has food, water, health care, and shelter. What do the people of Palestine have? None of that.
If you read my blog and think that years of Israel bombarding Palestine is justified promptly leave and do some research.
Please tell me, does this look like something that should happen in 2024?
I wholeheartedly agree. The history of Palestine and Israel is much worse than presently shown. I have done some research (a drop into a pool effectively) and perhaps the most interesting thing the Israeli state has done is support extremism. This seems a bit of a cliche I mean how can you go more extreme than bombing children and killing journalists but what’s interesting is that there was a paramilitary group called Lehi (or stern gang) which operated throughout the British mandate of Palestine and was responsible for many assassinations of Palestinian and British targets. This however is not particularly important as colonialism by its very nature is violent (if you want to read something that could help “explain” the amount of violence in these conflicts you should read “The Wretched of the Earth” by Franz Fanton, it will really open your eyes.) anyway lehi decided during their independence war against the Arab population that they would intentionally go to a majority Palestinian village and slaughter 100+ of them. I won’t go into detail to what they did but I will say by their own admission one Lehi member stated he told them (prisoners from the village) all to stand up and then sit down and began spray firing bullets into the crowd, killing literally men women and children who were unarmed and imprisoned and when asked about how many dead he merely said that he did not count but rather ran out of billets. For this they were condemned internationally… yet recently Lehi members are being used in Israeli propaganda, they even received military pension from the state – despite their paramilitary group being denounced by the government in the early days. This is a small part but still it goes to show how barbaric the actions of Israel with its extreme military might against the Palestinians. I am glad that you posted this.
It’s good to learn some more! I purchased the book you recommended, I will give it a good read. Thanks 42!
Great book suggestion! I recommended that one to a lot of people.