@shortemz_1 @_saniii_x The English public were racist to the black English players that missed a penalty a couple years ago and you’ve decided to project your identity crisis ever since. Pathetic
@shortemz_1 That race talking point might work with white Europeans due to their colonial history. It doesn’t work with Moroccans. We come in all shades. Shut tf up if you don’t know anything about a country or its ppl. Spreading negativity for nothing.
I’m losing my mind. It seems so hard to get through to some people. I not talking about crazed Zionists. They are always the same. I’m talking about zombified normies who seem incapable of grasping and responding to what is happening.
Some normie clichés I’ve come to hate:
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The first Palestinian person I ever met was my junior year in Germany. He was a medical student named Nimr living on the floor of my apartment building, and for weeks, he wouldn’t talk to me. At one point I asked him why he wouldn’t talk to me, and he said because I was American.
I've said this as well because it has been so normalized by Western and Israeli propaganda, but it's really grotesque to separate Palestinian women and children from men, as if every male Palestinian beyond 18 is OK to kill. No one would accept that for the West or Ukraine
Every American I know who has spent time in Palestine comes back angry, disgusted and traumatized. I’ve yet to meet someone who says “it’s not that bad. It’s their fault and they deserve it”. I’ve met many who went believing Israel were the good guys and Palestinians screwed themselves over only to come back with an entirely disgusted view of Israel.
I came back in a state of shock. I witnessed in real life things I had only read about in history books. Things I never believed a government could do in modern times. I had a neutral view of Israel prior to my trip. During my trip I was extremely skeptical and even pissed off several Palestinians with my lines of questioning. When I came back to the states and began processing everything… I couldn’t turn on the lights or get myself out of bed for a week. What I saw was unimaginable. It was a cruelty aimed at a group of generous and warm people with a very very clear intent- to get rid of them. And I couldn’t believe the group doing it to these people had it done to them not long ago. They took similar tactics and weaponized them against others. That is what I saw and I can’t unsee it. The children in the schools would stop me and beg me to come home and tell America to stop. They know it’s us allowing this abuse.
Myself and everyone I know comes back disgusted with Israel. And many of us weren’t even in Gaza witnessing war. Everyday normal life for Palestinians is cruel and it’s 100% controlled by Israel. And despite what we’ve been spoon fed our whole lives, it’s not done because the Palestinians are violent and dangerous, it’s done to rid the region of them. To make their lives so miserable they either leave or violently rise up giving Israel an excuse to take more land. And the Israelis are not shy about this when you speak to them. Some might couch it with statements like “well we tried peace but they didn’t accept it”. It doesn’t matter how they phrase it, they still end up in the same place which is “they can’t stay” and “we want them gone”.
Every time the Israeli extermination machine cranks into high gear, US media suddenly fills up with stories of swastikas scrawled on random bathroom stalls and lengthy, painstaking profiles of Jewish students fretting for their safety on leafy campuses that cost $50k a year to attend. The objective is twofold:
1. Change the subject from Israel's industrial level slaughter of besieged ghetto dwellers to the panic of a pampered, pathologically narcissistic "community" that believes it is entitled to a second country at the expense of millions of permanent refugees.
2. Manipulate Americans shocked by Israel's industrial level slaughter of besieged ghetto dwellers into second guessing their outrage, and hesitating to raise their voices for fear of fueling "hate."
The gaslighting has already backfired, which is why the Israel lobby is appealing to authority for the criminalization of its political opponents.
In the end, all it has is force.
António Guterres: "it is important to also recognise the attack by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of occupation.. their people displaced & their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution.. have been vanishing"
If anyone ever had any doubts whether or not the world would sit in silence while a racist nation premised upon the supremacy of its own people committed genocide against those it considers to be subhuman, we now have the answer….
Gaza
Something has changed.
Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2014 was the most destructive in the history of the conflict, but the IDF was able to operate w/near impunity. At one point, Israeli missiles took out a bunch of kids playing on a beach, right in front of a hotel housing many foreign journalists. Starting in 2018, Israeli snipers started shooting non-violent protesters approaching the Gaza border. They shot nearly 10,000 people without taking a single casualty themselves. There is a video of Israeli soldiers laughing and cheering as they shoot unarmed people. They shot and killed a disabled man in a wheelchair. This isn’t underground news; it was all known at the time.
Despite all this, Israel and their overseas boosters never lost control the narrative for even a moment. Most people don’t even know the things I mentioned even happened. But this time around, things have clearly changed. Despite Hamas carrying out their largest and most gruesome terrorist attack ever, Israel has been unable to control the narrative almost from day one. They started taking criticism before they even began to retaliate, while the bodies of Israeli civilians were still warm, and pressure on Israel has only increased since.
What has changed?