SWLABR

SWLABR , 3 months ago

@pvonhellermannn @academicchatter

This has changed my understanding of your discipline.

If I could somehow have talked to my 16 year old self I might well have studied this. Of course, it's never too late...

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@Miro_Collas @palestine

It's astonishing and somewhat frightening how little control the West has over Israeli actions.

You could almost believe it is they who control us.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

I agree with all of this, maybe with the caveat that we don't have any control at any time, even on election day. More than half of the population can be fooled into thinking they are "making a choice" when actually you couldn't get a fag paper between the policies of the two contenders.

But wanting war in Gaza does carry risk for the west, if it escalates into a more general widespread conflict.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

This stopped being self defence long ago, if it ever was. Self defence happens when you stop attacks on land or from air, crossing borders into your country.

What we have here is wholesale carnage, the slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians in the tens of thousands.

In other words, a war crime.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

Well surgical strikes against people known to be Hamas operatives, AND NOBODY ELSE, would have been one option. Israel's whole approach is wrong

Just after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, Yoav Gallant, Israel's defence minister, announced: "We are putting a complete siege on Gaza… No electricity, no food, no water, no gas - it's all closed."

"We are fighting human animals," he added, "and we are acting accordingly."

I think that should explain what has gone so terribly wrong in Israel's response. Out and out racism and dehumanisation of the Arab population. They seem to have learnt nothing from World War 2.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

Incidentally, for those of us in Britain, we should also remember Keir Starmer supported this genocidal policy of no food and water for Palestine back in October. Then he backtracked when he saw it was losing him support.

Nobody should vote for Starmer. He cannot be trusted.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

No it isn't! In 2024 war needn't involve the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, children gunned down in their thousands. We've seen images of rows of men , naked, bleeding, hands tied. Utterly abhorrent war crimes..

That sort of warfare, outright, pointless slaughter, revenge massacres, should have ended with Dresden.

Nowadays the US can achieve surgical strikes with drones. Why can't Israel?

If you can't wage war without the wholesale killing of innocents, then you shouldn't do so at all.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

Ok, well there we must leave it I guess.

I'll ask one final question...

If Gaza's population had been 50% Jewish, do you think Israel's actions would have been the same? Starving them? Demolishing their homes ?. Rounding then up for torture?

If your answer is "No" , then this is an admission that Israel is a racist state. In my opinion they just don't care about Arab lives. They just think they can be wasted, in the tens of thousands.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @RememberUsAlways @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

I am desperately keen to see the return of the hostages, I value Jewish lives very highly, just as I do Arab ones. Also agree that the mass slaughter of innocent Jews on 7 October was abhorrent and should never have happened.

I cannot understand the Hamas action. It achieved nothing and was highly likely to result in exactly what has now transpired.

I feel it is possible there is more to the events of 7 Oct than is currently apparent. I do feel this is primarily a land grab by people who hold Arab lives as valueless. Netanyahu needed a pretext for what he has done, and this action played into his hands.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

"Remember us always" - whoever they are - has blocked me without ever interacting with me.

The fediverse is not supposed to be like this .

We don't need intolerant people such as this on here.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@nicholas_saunders @ridicol @Miro_Collas @palestine

Ok, they should be returned immediately.

SWLABR , 4 months ago

@Miro_Collas @palestine

It's the Netanyahu version of the #FinalSolution