How do you feel about financing a genocide? - eviltoast

I didn’t want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I’m right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

  • masquenox@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 year ago

    Israel doesn’t trust Hamas.

    Then maybe Israel shouldn’t have funded them.

    The blockade, which, mind you, is also enforced by Egypt

    The US-backed dictatorship in Egypt is doing the US’s bidding? You don’t say…

    Any civilian casualties are to be condemned.

    Israel hasn’t made much distinction between combatants and non-combatants since 1949 - can’t blame Hamas for playing by Israel’s rules.

    Yet, you must remember that Hamas likes to base itself under hospitals, schools, mosques.

    Right, because there are vast tracts of unused real estate in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, eh?

    If that is not surgical, I don’t know what is.

    There is no such thng as a “surgical” artillery shell, Clyde. And as for the claim itself… the IDF is no more trustworthy than the Apartheid security forces were.

    Fuck Israel.