Something I think that a lot of leftists and progressives fail to understand, is that the push against normalization with Israel and for the complete dissolution of the state, actively makes the situation worse for Palestinians. It actively makes the conflict worse, and I would argue is one of the direct causes for the war getting as bad as it did.
You are directly harming your own cause.
Refusing to acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel doesn’t materially change the reality that Israel is a sovereign nation with over ten million citizens. When leftists in the west chant “from the river to the sea” and “we don’t want no two states”, regardless of the intention, what do you think Israelis hear? What do you think a people that has faced genocide in living memory, from which our population still has not recovered, gets from that? We don’t hear it and consider your points, we hear it and remember all of the times Israel has been attacked with genocidal intent, and only survived through our own defense.
And what does this ultimately result it? It results in Israelis who no longer believe in the peace process. It results in Israelis who feel a visceral sense of fear which leads to doubling down on national security. It leads to diaspora Jews feeling unsafe in their communities and immigrating to Israel.
It leads to the total dissolution of the peace process, and what happens if there is no chance for peace? If there’s no hope for any type of solution then the only answer is endless war, and this war doesn’t just hurt Israelis, you know that.
I also wanted to add… I think falling into the antisemitic hate wagon that terrorists have been pushing for for decades - billions and billions spent on PR and weapons for Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthis/Taliban instead of education, food, medicine, housing - just enables terrorist to keep doing what they’re doing. Stoking the flames of war and shooting weapons from under civilians’ feet while keeping them impoverished and indoctrinated and expendable. There’s nothing “pro-Palestinian” about that.
And also, there’s a concerningly large number of Palestinian civilians involved in worsening things. Any shadow of support I had for their cause went out the window when I saw them dancing and celebrating en masse with their kids around the corpses of my brothers and sisters in broad daylight. How could you hold such strong standards on Israelis (how dare they smile inside their bomb shelters! How dare they live their lives!) and yet turn a blind eye towards barbarian behavior just because you think it’s okay for an “oppressed” people to behave this way. It also stinks of racism.
So yeah, sorry not sorry that we’re not tripping over our feet to give our indigenous homeland over to people who literally let their kids stomp and spit on our families’ bodies. Especially to go back to a place that slaughtered 1/3rd of our global population.
The Middle East would be at least much closer to a thriving, beautiful place were it not for rampant Jew hatred driving war constantly, and y’all in the West are enabling it.
You are playing with real human lives on all sides just so you can get some online activism points.
