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I think it is very sad that people are still blaming other people than Israel for the Gaza Genocide. Hamas is not doing the Gaza genocide, and yet we regularly

I think it is very sad that people are still blaming other people than Israel for the Gaza Genocide. Hamas is not doing the Gaza genocide, and yet we regularly see Hamas being blamed for it. I will offer an alternative theory from yours: If you remove Hamas it is still quite likely that Israel will find a different justification in a different time for their genocide, and would conduct it anyway with Western aid and complicity.

dragonwriter 1y ago
> I think it is very sad that people are still blaming other people than Israel for the Gaza Genocide. Its very sad that people are calling the genocide of the Palestinian people Israel has been engaged in for generations and which has never been limited to Gaza, “the Gaza Genocide”, and pretending it has a timetable that only reinforces the Israeli propaganda that what is actually being described is not a long-running genocide to which the Hamas Oct 7 attack was an (illegal and worthy of international sanction!) response, but instead a response to the Oct 7 attack.
- runarberg 1y ago
  I do think the Gaza genocide is so atrocious it deserves a name of its own. Otherwise I agree with you. The focus on the Gaza Genocide often overshadows other genocidal atrocities which Israel has been systematically conducting against Palestinians for generations.
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    The current situation in Gaza highlights how Israeli government has historically modulated the Palestinian genocide according to what it thinks domestic and international (the latter being most particularly US government, necessary for both direct aid/active military defense and the shield of the Security Council veto, and which effectively insulates it from most meaningful consequences from other international quarters) support will tolerate based on the available pretexts it can use to provide superficial PR cover even while from the other side of its mouth it is fairly openly spouting eliminationist rhetoric, but its not a separate thing (and, in fact, Israel has used the focus of attention on the situation in Gaza to ramp up attacks in the West Bank with little comment; underlining how its all part of one coordinated, integrated project.)

dragonwriter 1y ago

> I think it is very sad that people are still blaming other people than Israel for the Gaza Genocide. Its very sad that people are calling the genocide of the Palestinian people Israel has been engaged in for generations and which has never been limited to Gaza, “the Gaza Genocide”, and pretending it has a timetable that only reinforces the Israeli propaganda that what is actually being described is not a long-running genocide to which the Hamas Oct 7 attack was an (illegal and worthy of international sanction!) response, but instead a response to the Oct 7 attack.

runarberg 1y ago
I do think the Gaza genocide is so atrocious it deserves a name of its own. Otherwise I agree with you. The focus on the Gaza Genocide often overshadows other genocidal atrocities which Israel has been systematically conducting against Palestinians for generations.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  The current situation in Gaza highlights how Israeli government has historically modulated the Palestinian genocide according to what it thinks domestic and international (the latter being most particularly US government, necessary for both direct aid/active military defense and the shield of the Security Council veto, and which effectively insulates it from most meaningful consequences from other international quarters) support will tolerate based on the available pretexts it can use to provide superficial PR cover even while from the other side of its mouth it is fairly openly spouting eliminationist rhetoric, but its not a separate thing (and, in fact, Israel has used the focus of attention on the situation in Gaza to ramp up attacks in the West Bank with little comment; underlining how its all part of one coordinated, integrated project.)