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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Why bother to continue to contribute in a way that says "I do not understand this side of things and do not wish to." Learn something, think. Try. This is just another bad take and I truly do not understand why someone as smart as yourself never seems bothered to think critically instead of resorting to this nonsense.
There are aggressors and victims. The Israeli government and Hamas are aggressors. The Israeli and Palestinians are the victims. Centrists, "Liberals," and the right sit around and support one of the aggressors en masse while attempting to erase the largest section of victims. The "far left" is standing up for those victims since others don't care to. It's not the enemy of an enemy, it's innocent people that are being ignored and erased.
Palestinian people do not need to be perfect, or even "morally right" by western standards to deserve to be defended.
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The question isn’t why people are upset at the deaths of Palestinians. The question is why the deaths of Palestinians generates way, way, WAY more media attention and political protest in the West than the many thousands of other people around the world who will be killed in asymmetrical conflicts in 2021.
In Ethiopia (1,600 dead in 2020) and Yemen (19,000). Nigeria (7,300) and the Congo (3,300). Columbia (765) and the Maghreb (6,700). More civilians by far will likely be killed in each of those conflicts this year than in Gaza, and yet the amount of media coverage and activism over those six conflicts combined won’t come anywhere close to what we’re seeing over the deaths in Israel this week.
It can’t just be the fact Israel gets foreign aid from the U.S. So do Ethiopia ($922 million annually), Yemen ($809 million), Columbia ($800 million), and Nigeria ($793 million).
So what is it about Israel that makes it so much worse in the eyes of so many activists than any of those other countries?