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Been struggling to find the words to describe what I’m feeling since I saw the horrendous news over the weekend.
I don’t have anything interesting or new or clever to say. I just feel sad. Angry and sad. So I’ll try to write, but I doubt it will be useful, and I’m sure it will make some of you angry.
The attacks by Hamas on innocents are abhorrent. Obviously. Pure terrorism for which there is no excuse. I haven’t been able to tear myself away from the videos of violence. I can’t stop thinking about being massacred at a music festival 😭 would I survive? Would I try to save others? I have no idea. Too privileged to have ever had to confront anything remotely close. I think about my grandparents and their families, and all the crazy shit they had to pull to survive the Holocaust. How close they came to death. How much Israel meant to them. How much it means to me, in turn.
The response by the western left, using hang gliders as a new symbol of resistance, is shocking, but not surprising. Jews have been hunted and condemned for centuries, for merely trying to exist. As if a symbol of their slaughter could become a symbol of liberation. As if those celebrating these heinous acts wouldn’t also be slaughtered, by the same terrorists, for expressing their own culture and liberal ideals. As if the Jews weren’t there for the American left for a century, supporting the struggle for civil rights and an end to America's own legacy of oppression. As if. As if you could just blame Israel and the Jews.
Israel. Within its borders, striving to be a bastion of freedom and liberal ideals and protector of human rights in a sea of middle eastern oppression. A country dedicated to freedom of women and religion and sexuality, smack in the center of some of the most oppressive regimes on the planet, most of whom want to see it wiped off the map, all of its inhabitants murdered. From the river to the sea, as they say.
Israel? That colonial state formed in the wake of an ethnic cleansing? The Israel perpetuating an ongoing oppression, inciting hatred by expanding settlements into the already fragmented and diminishing land of another nation? The Israel bombing one of the most densely populated places on earth and laying siege to 2M people? That Israel?
The very same. A land of profound contradiction. An oasis in the dessert. A land that secures peace within via perennial war without. Is it even possible to both unwaveringly support such a state and what it stands for, but simultaneously condemn its actions? Well, isn’t that what nation states are all about?
Israel is the liberal nation state par excellence. A beacon of freedom, built on a legacy of violence. Necessary violence? Certainly some of it. But who could possibly say what violence is really necessary or fair or justified, and what violence is not? We’re talking about a land that’s been the heart and hymn of violent conquest for millennia. The Jews fought for that land thousands of years ago as they emerged out of slavery, and won. It was theirs for a while. And then it wasn’t. And then it was, again. And then it wasn’t, again. And then Europe killed 6M of us. And so we fought for it, and won, again. And again. And again. And it’s been Jewish land for a few decades, again. But maybe soon it won’t be, again. As we’re known to say, “never again.”
The violent cycles of history repeat. For so many of us, all we can do is pray for peace. But what does peace even look like there? I have no fucking clue. Certainly there can’t be peace so long as Hamas fires off rockets from behind human shields. Certainly there can’t be peace so long as 2M people are walled off in an open air prison. But how can you arrange to free a people whose elected leaders and primary supporters pledge to genocide you? Between the river and the sea, between the genocidal rock and the ethnic cleansing hard place. Oy.
So you see the situation and you try to figure out who to blame. Well Hamas, obviously. Hezbollah, sure. Iran, no doubt. But what about Israel itself? Haven’t they been unabashedly and provocatively expanding settlements, knowing full well the potential consequences?
It’s impossible to try and compress the complexity into a simple blame game. Everyone is to blame. From the ancient Egyptians to the Assyrians to the Romans to the various Sultanates to the Holy Romans to the Italians to the Ottomans to the British to the Americans to the Germans to the Egyptians to the Jordanians to the Lebanese to the Syrians to the Saudi Arabians to the Iranians, to the Palestinians and the Zionists and everyone in between. To the concept of nation states itself.
How helpful is that? Not at all. But maybe it doesn’t need to be. Perhaps the land of Canaan is a mirror onto the complexity of human life, of nationhood, of racial and ethnic identity, of violence and power and slavery and oppression, of war and peace. Perhaps. Perhaps that’s some kind of cop out, a giving up on the problem of peace, the questions of the Middle East. What do I know?
Not much. In this matter, I feel more than I know. The first time I went to Israel was with my family, to celebrate my grandfather. He called the trip his revenge on Hitler. It was beautiful. We went to visit the western wall. I didn’t know touching a material object could have such an effect on me. It shook me to my core, connecting with the history there. I’m still trying to process what it means.
Just like I’m trying to process what this war means, what the nation state means, and what the future means. I want to say I stand with Israel, but the truth is I’m sitting down right now, and the words feel hollow. I want to say I stand with oppressed Palestinians, especially those that condemn Hamas, but I’m aware of the deep contradictions, and I haven’t done anything real in my life to help them. Bitcoin does not fix this. I want to say I stand for peace, because I believe deeply in peace, I yearn for peace, but I don’t even know what it means in a world filled with so much suffering and oppression. So what can I really say? I don’t know. I don’t think words can capture the complexity of feeling, and most of the attempts I’ve witnessed - some beautiful, some filled with truth, some hateful, some filled with lies - all seem incomplete.
So with whom do I stand? It feels like such a stupid question, some kind of purity test. With Israel defending its civilians from terror, obviously. With the Palestinian youngsters just trying to survive in a hell they were born into, no doubt. With anyone approaching the situation with empathy and care and nuance, the few of you there happen to be.
Israel belongs to the Jews at least as much as Canada belongs to the Canadians, as much as America belongs to the Americans. Which is to say both entirely, but not at all, for North America was founded on its own ethnic cleansing. But Israel belongs to the Jews even more so, to the extent you count the events of centuries and millennia ago. And still more so, to the extent it was a solution to the Jewish question, the attempted genocide of Jews that took place not even 100 years ago. But none of that justifies the suffering of anyone else, does it? Certainly not the complete annihilation of the people of the Gaza strip.
I wouldn’t think so. I hope this war ends soon. But I have a feeling it’s just getting started, and all of us are in for a bad decade. May you all find love 💕, even if you can’t find the words.
@NDIDI_GRAM hi @NDIDI_GRAM , I unable to do the transfer (from core dao to bsc), it said insufficient fund. I followed your instruction to got max core 0.25 gas fee, is it need to get few rounds of gas to get transfer done? please advise
We launched Linea Voyage 9 weeks ago with the ambitious goal of stress testing Linea and preparing it for mainnet.
The response and participation from builders worldwide have surpassed all our expectations🧵👇
@abrahamchase happy birthday @abrahamchase , thank you for being helpful and your effort for the airdrop community! wishing you good health and wealth!
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ChatGpt recently added @DefiLlama to their plugins.
It's so powerful that it will blow your mind.🤯
You can get summaries of:
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•Volume
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•Stablecoin inflows
in seconds.⏳
Can it detect potential gems?💎
Few prompt examples🧵