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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by selokichtli@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] SecretPancake@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germany is bound to support them no matter what. I understand why but there should be some conditions. It’s a sensitive subject here.

Beyond that I don’t really understand this conflict enough to have an objective opinion.

[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I fell like most people have very little idea whats going on. The conflict is extremely complicated.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israel is retaliating against civilians for an attack carried out by Hamas. This is what America did in Afghanistan after the attack on the world trade center in 2001. It was dumb and it's dumb now.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

That's my emotional understanding of the current situation. I supported the invasion of Afghanistan whole-heartedly the night it happened, but I was a child then. 9/11 was upsetting and rockets are exciting. Now, with maturity and hindsight, that invasion was a cruel mistake. I believe this current invasion is also a mistake.

[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I see critical about it is that they don't realy give a fuck about civilians. They don't target them, but if there a chance to hurt Hamas they don't realy care that much. Still I realy don't like the people who are just screaming at you everything bad. I don't feel remotely qualified to talk specifics about that topic and most people I hear talking about it, especially in the internet are deffenetly not qualified either.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think most people are qualified to say that killing is bad regardless of the reasons or intent. If the goal of Israel is to put a stop to Hamas attacks then they certainly aren't going to get there by killing random Palestinians regardless. That is only going to create more people who hate Israel in the long run.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The conflict is extremely complicated.

It really isn't. It's just pro-Israeli propaganda pretending it's complicated.

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't listen to what Scholz said. But it's probably easy to show support in a fight against a terror organization.

I don't think it is "no matter what". I think there are quite some conditions. But you don't say that to a nation that is supposed to be a friend. You pledge allegiance to friends. But being a dependable friend doesn't extend to literally everything, no matter what.

And Germany is -in my opinion- more obliged to support people. Not necessarily their nation.

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