Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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We will find out in the coming days or weeks if the hostages were of any value. It is clear that israel did not give a shit about them apart from those inconsequential protests by the taken's kin. Once the hostages are returned, we can gauge israel's actions to see whether keeping the hostages around served a purpose.
This is total bs. They would have done what they did either way.
Yes, but used in the public discourse as an argument
Public discourse was calling Palestinians violent terrorists long before October 7th. There is no value in trying to win the hearts and minds of residents of israel's patron states.
This is true. The pro-Zionist media was always going to find ways to justify the genocide one way or another.
This I don't agree with. Pro-Palestine protests and direct action have played a role in pressuring Western governments.
Sure but don't keep or release hostages for optics for the West. Do it if it is the strategically and morally the right thing to do. I see the anti-war movements as a product of Palestine just being in the right. It was the same in Vietnam where the western anti-war movement was significant but the war came to a halt only when the Vietnamese made continuing the war untenable with their tremendous sacrifice.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.