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“I…HAVE… THE…RIGHT…TO…DEFEND…MYSELF”
The only good guys in this conflict are the innocent uninvolved citizens on all sides. Aside from that, everyone involved, including those on the ground on the conflict, those in the situation rooms, and those both funding and manipulating the situation from outside are all the bad guys.
Anyone who tries to paint this as a simple moral conclusion, and not as one part in one of the most complicated and difficult geopolitical situations on the entire planet, is either an idiot or part of a propaganda campaign, knowingly or not. These trite oversimplifications are insultingly reductive to the situation, do nothing to help any of the actual potential victims, and only serve to foster both misinformed reductive thinking and harmful attitudes towards groups without the full context to reconcile these impressions.
There is an information war being waged by many forces on all sides of this conflict right now; be wary of anyone who encourages reductive thinking on complex issues when lives are on the line.
Hey.
You’re 100% right, and your view aligns very closely with mine. It’s also very well worded; nicely done.
I’m extremely frustrated with the loss of innocent lives. I realize my meme is oversimplifying, but that is inherit to the format of memes themselves. In this case my meme serves to vent my frustrations with an appalling situation and to serve as a jumping off point for deeper conversations.
No matter the frothing at the mouth, anyone not directly involved in the decision making process of this ‘war’ is essentially powerless. We can pressure our governments to not fund a given side, but that’s about the extent of it.
It’s pretty fucking shitty.
I keep asking what these peckerwoods think would happen if the people THEY oppress started using the Zionist Defensive Feint(“right to self defense/right to existence”) to justify dropping chalk outlines of our settlers. I never get a satisfactory answer-- it’s almost like the liberal barbarian’s brain breaks when trying to parse any application of violence from those they oppress.
I thought it was “he’s already dead”?
I’m so happy this is basically the only comment. OP has failed us and deserves to have his internet revoked for at least 3 days.
Tbh, this is the only thing that is true, even if israel and hamas magically stop or are forced to, those children are gonna have some serious PTSD for the rest of their lives
Krusty is Jewish, perfect fitting meme
Lmao! I forgot about that. Perfect.
If only the guy on the ground hadn’t killed, kidnapped and raped the clown’s family and then promised to do it again as soon as the fight stops.
Unfortunately we can’t condense 75years of modern Israeli/Palestinian history into a 2 panel Simpsons meme to explain that, yes Krusty Burglar is evil but Homer had previously committed several atrocities of his own including the rape and murder of The Burglar’s family and is now throwing grenades into the audience because they didn’t do enough to stop the Burglar.
But this is justified by the Simpson’s religious/cultural beliefs, themselves formed in response to violence and trauma committed by others, and funded by the religious fanaticism of the Flanders family who believe the Burgler has to die to usher in the end times.
Yeah bro, those dead Gazan kids agree with you. The Israelis seem pretty indiscriminate. Hamas was too, which is why the whole situation makes me sick.
Should Hamas be hunted down like dogs? Yep.
Should you blow up hospitals to get at them? Nope.
Should you kill 10x the civilians your attackers did? Nope.
you’ve got to be a gymnast to land the mental backflip to suggest that Israel’s response is reasonable. If the tables were turned, I’d be just as outraged.
Ok, so some basic guidelines for the acute scenario. What’s your answer to living right next to your mortal enemies for eternity and one of the teams isn’t even a nation state? Historically many such responses weren’t quite so half assed and were acutely devastating but prevented such future skirmishes by eliminating Nation-states. In the era of organized terrorism, eliminating nations doesn’t necessarily solve problems. It’s Such an ugly mess. If you think rational decisions are going to be made during flare ups with decades of underlying tension, you are not considerding the big picture well enough. I don’t have the answer, but I’ll always come down hard on terrorism as it’s exempt from many of the diplomatic pressures that have been proven to establish contractual civility at least.
Don’t intentionally drive them out of their homes in an ethnic cleansing and steal their fucking land and kill them off every couple of years like ‘mowing the grass’.
Maybe don’t slaughter them when they try non violent protests.
Maybe don’t have an apartheid state that south Africans that suffered under an apartheid state described as being worse than South Africa.
Oh, while we’re on that topic, maybe don’t give weapons to south Africa when the rest of the world is boycotting them for their evil, or test nuclear weapons with them?
Maybe don’t try to ethnically cleanse your neighbors?
Sadly, I know all of those were apparently too much to ask.
Let’s rewind to the part where you look at why they are mortal enemies, and realize that the same problem is still happening in the West Bank at the same time as the mass murder in Gaza.
Isn’t it weird how so many Palestinians hate Israel for absolutely no reason?
What Israel is doing to Gaza is terrorism, and I don’t believe that you always come down hard on terrorism.
A war is won when a nation state is eliminated or surrenders. You can only defeat terrorism by eliminating all the terrorists which is impossible as long as an ideology persists. Not having a nation state status means things like the Geneva convention don’t even apply to you and you have no head of state that can be taken down or map that can be redrawn, there is no feasible endpoint to your wrath and you are only as peaceful as your least peaceful member. This is a cancerous state of affairs. Terrorism and war are fine lines and I’m not arguing sides here as far as who’s actions, present day or historical are More or less just. But yeah, I’ll always come down harsh on terrorist organizations, they take wars that could have discreet endpoints and allow them to last forever.
No, you don’t get it. You know, there’s all these details and context and it’s so much more complicated than that. To put it the way you did is just so simplistic and misses the point. /s
