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There's no activism because everybody agrees it's terrible. If your govt is already cutting out Iran and sanctioning them, there's no need to demand action. Th
by tovej 9mo ago
There's no activism because everybody agrees it's terrible. If your govt is already cutting out Iran and sanctioning them, there's no need to demand action.
This is very different from Israel, where our govts are actively supporting a genocide. That requires activism to change course.
Why would people demonstrate if everyone is aligned?
- behnamoh 9mo ago> If your govt is already cutting out Iran and sanctioning them, there's no need to demand action. “Human beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul If one member is afflicted with pain Other members uneasy will remain If you have no sympathy for human pain The name of human you cannot retain” —Saadi, Persian poet
- jryle70 9mo agoProtests were about US's inaction in Gaza as much as its support for Israel. Why no such protests now? Why aren't there thousands of people gathering demanding US doing something to help Iran's people?
- throw310822 9mo agoThe US was not inactive in Gaza. It was actively supporting, funding and and arming a genocide. Currently the Trump administration is actively engaged in a process to clean up the Gaza strip, rebuild it with the money of other countries, and finally hand it over to Israel for free (for who do you think those nice skyscrapers would be built, for the Palestinians? Lol).
- mhb 9mo ago> for who [sic] do you think those nice skyscrapers would be built, for the Palestinians? Lol) Are you under the illusion that the Palestinians funded and built their previous infrastructure? Lol.
- throw310822 9mo agoAre you under the illusion that your comment has any relevance, besides revealing your urge to vilify an entire people?
- mhb 9mo agoTry and follow. The Palestinians weren't the ones who built their original infrastructure and it wasn't "hand[ed] ... over to Israel". Other than your antipathy towards Israel, what makes you think that whatever other countries pay to rebuild for the Palestinians will be handed over to Israel?
- tovej 9mo agoWhat's your point? Palestinians built the first Zionist settlements too. They were hired as workers before Labor-Zionism made ethnicity be a necessary condition for employment in the settlements, later in Israel. Israel has already grabbed a huge amount of Gaza after the genocide and Trumps "peace". And in the west bank they have ramped up the annexation as well. Israel has been swallowing Palestine while driving away Palestinians for more than 75 years now. An apartheid state is not going to give the second class ethnic group any concessions.
- throw310822 9mo agoHis point is to insert in the conversation some disparaging remarks to paint Palestinians as parasites, pretending the occupation, oppression and blockade don't exist. Beyond this there is no consequence at all between his remarks and the point at hand, which is that the "peace" is a ploy to take the heat off Israel, free it from any obligation to pay reparations for the destruction it caused, and eventually hand over to it the Gaza strip.
- mhb 9mo agoDo tell how the fraction of the billions that were given to Gazans that weren't used to build tunnels to attack Israel were "hand[ed] over to Israel for free".