Oh man, do I dare even wade in on this issue. It has gotten so sticky.
There’s a real chance that this attack was successful because of intelligence passed through former US President Donald Trump.
The attack did not represent the will of everyone who lives in Palestine.
The response from Israel so far has been wildly disproportionate and has labelled everyone in Gaza as an enemy, worth pulling access to important things like water and electricity to the whole area. They are calling them “human animals.”
There are literally zero good guys in this situation.
You have the former President of the US and his party who have fully embraced trying to push an authoritarian dictatorship in the states, so they have firmly placed their bets alongside foreign authoritarian dictators whom they want to make allyship with.
You have Hamas deciding to murder people for going to a concert. Maybe the concert was politically motivated or something, but from the sounds of it, it was just… a music concert and wasn’t necessarily a home to the most racist of racist Israeli’s. Plenty of the people who died there that day could have been moderates or leftists who don’t hate the Palestinian people. There are lots of moderates in Israel, you just don’t hear about them as much, because like the US, our crazed conservatives are so loud they drown out anything else in the news cycle. Like why the fuck else would I have been so familiar with the name “Netanyahu” for the last 20 years of my life, but I could hardly bring up the name of moderate or leftists Israeli politicians to save my fucking life. Because Netanyahu, like Trump is the one out doing crazy shit and causing headlines. So likely innocent people dead for a political attack that is likely going to destroy even more innocent lives in Gaza.
Then finally you have Israel deciding (like usual) to take a total disproportionate and racist response where you’re punishing each and every Palestinian for the crimes of a few. It’s racist because they have decided that “all of them are the same.” If you can’t view a group of people as a disparate group who might not all feel the same way about every little thing, you’ve chosen to stereotype them, especially if your view of them is negative, you’re choosing to be prejudiced instead of accepting that everyone is an individual, and no individual deserves to be punished for the crimes of another.
Fuck this whole shit ass clown show. We’re all just trying to have a decent fucking life here. They’re right to call out Israel, they’re wrong to not call out Hamas and Trump right alongside them.
It’s also starting to have a mild 9/11 feel, where the government was warned repeatedly, and you’re starting to wonder if they sort of just… let it happen because the aftermath would be politically convenient for what they wanted to do politically?
I mean, it’s Netanyahu we’re talking about here, I 100% firmly believe he’s enough of a scumfuck to let it happen on purpose so he could use to his advantage.
Zero good guys. The Bad, the Badder, and the Ugly.