The Zionism in question is with regards to what goat is defending (really, they’re not defending it outright because it appears they were afraid of getting banned). I made a thread about it separately, https://lemmy.ml/post/41587368?scrollToComments=true
Essentially what goat is saying is that Palestinians are not allowed to resist Israel militarily, only by cultural means. This is particularly heinous because Palestinians have been using peaceful means to resist Israel since the Nakba. That’s what BDS is, that’s what the 2018 March of Return was. Palestinians have made tons of efforts to peacefully assert their human rights because they generally don’t even have much to fight with, anyway. They don’t have a state, they don’t have modern military capabilities beyond the things they’re capable of refurbishing after the IDF drops hardware in Gaza, and they’re cut off from their allies by the Israeli blockade around Gaza. What a lot of Zionists don’t understand is that the Palestinian Resistance is the last resort of Palestine because they are being exterminated.
A lot of goat’s argument centered on claims of sexual violence committed against women during October 7th. This is a false narrative that Hamas ordered mass sexual assault, and Israel never presented serious evidence of this. This is the position of the scholars of this conflict, too, it’s generally regarded that there’s no evidence that any mass rape took place that day. That’s why I was saying this was nothing more than Hasbara (i.e. official Israeli propaganda) and why they got banned so quickly.
Also I think you are assuming a bit much of goat’s intentions and meanings. He doesn’t deny that Palestine has a right to defend itself. He is saying that Hamas killing civilians is not a legitimate form of self-defense. Much like the IDF killing civilians must be condemned. It is rather goat critiquing Hamas’ actions.
Well Goat is specifically saying that Hamas ought to use the internet instead of something, right? I can understand criticizing the murder of civilians during October 7th. However, to this day it’s not known how many civilians Hamas killed in their operation. The figure of 1200 dead Israelis has never been broken down into military and civilian casualties. Israel has also admitted there was massive amounts of friendly fire. So even condemning Hamas for “killing innocent civilians” is questionable; after all, how could Hamas actually carry out a military operation against Israel without killing civilians, when Israel has always made strategic use of the combination of the civilian population as settler colonialists, and the military apparatus that can protect them while maintaining a veneer of legality?
The documentary No Other Land did a very good job of showing that latter point, by the way. In Israel the settlers and the military act hand in hand. If you want to do a military operation against them, it’s never going to be fully possible to be discriminate, even if it’s desirable to have a legitimate resistance movement.
There were at least several hundred civilian casualties. Don’t try to play that game. If there were that many soldiers among the dead, they wouldn’t have gotten that far. Additionally a huge portion of the dead were at the techno festival and at the kibbutzim.
I don’t agree with Israel’s actions against Palestinians and them trying to act like many civilian victims were terrorists. You shouldn’t drop to that level though. We are better than that. Don’t try to justify crimes against humanity, regardless who it is.
Additionally a huge portion of the dead were at the techno festival and at the kibbutzim.
That’s right, but that’s also where the friendly fire took place, according to Asa Winstanley’s article that I linked.
Look, all in all it’s probably true that Hamas murdered several hundred civilians that day regardless. But I also don’t think there’s a viable way for a paramilitary group based in Gaza to do an uprising against Israel that doesn’t end with several hundred civilians dead, as I explained, because Israel is a settler-colony and the use of settlers as the tip of the spear of the Israeli effort to settle Palestine is a central part of the project.
Moral comparisons between the actions Israel and Palestine take are always apples to oranges. You simply can’t equate violence against the oppressed to violence against the oppressor. A future without violence against anyone is what the oppressed are attempting to build by defending themselves against their oppressors, after all, but you can’t defend yourself without violence.
Can you link the removed post? Because in his other posts I can’t recognize said assumed Zionism.
The Zionism in question is with regards to what goat is defending (really, they’re not defending it outright because it appears they were afraid of getting banned). I made a thread about it separately, https://lemmy.ml/post/41587368?scrollToComments=true
Essentially what goat is saying is that Palestinians are not allowed to resist Israel militarily, only by cultural means. This is particularly heinous because Palestinians have been using peaceful means to resist Israel since the Nakba. That’s what BDS is, that’s what the 2018 March of Return was. Palestinians have made tons of efforts to peacefully assert their human rights because they generally don’t even have much to fight with, anyway. They don’t have a state, they don’t have modern military capabilities beyond the things they’re capable of refurbishing after the IDF drops hardware in Gaza, and they’re cut off from their allies by the Israeli blockade around Gaza. What a lot of Zionists don’t understand is that the Palestinian Resistance is the last resort of Palestine because they are being exterminated.
A lot of goat’s argument centered on claims of sexual violence committed against women during October 7th. This is a false narrative that Hamas ordered mass sexual assault, and Israel never presented serious evidence of this. This is the position of the scholars of this conflict, too, it’s generally regarded that there’s no evidence that any mass rape took place that day. That’s why I was saying this was nothing more than Hasbara (i.e. official Israeli propaganda) and why they got banned so quickly.
Also I think you are assuming a bit much of goat’s intentions and meanings. He doesn’t deny that Palestine has a right to defend itself. He is saying that Hamas killing civilians is not a legitimate form of self-defense. Much like the IDF killing civilians must be condemned. It is rather goat critiquing Hamas’ actions.
Well Goat is specifically saying that Hamas ought to use the internet instead of something, right? I can understand criticizing the murder of civilians during October 7th. However, to this day it’s not known how many civilians Hamas killed in their operation. The figure of 1200 dead Israelis has never been broken down into military and civilian casualties. Israel has also admitted there was massive amounts of friendly fire. So even condemning Hamas for “killing innocent civilians” is questionable; after all, how could Hamas actually carry out a military operation against Israel without killing civilians, when Israel has always made strategic use of the combination of the civilian population as settler colonialists, and the military apparatus that can protect them while maintaining a veneer of legality?
The documentary No Other Land did a very good job of showing that latter point, by the way. In Israel the settlers and the military act hand in hand. If you want to do a military operation against them, it’s never going to be fully possible to be discriminate, even if it’s desirable to have a legitimate resistance movement.
There were at least several hundred civilian casualties. Don’t try to play that game. If there were that many soldiers among the dead, they wouldn’t have gotten that far. Additionally a huge portion of the dead were at the techno festival and at the kibbutzim.
I don’t agree with Israel’s actions against Palestinians and them trying to act like many civilian victims were terrorists. You shouldn’t drop to that level though. We are better than that. Don’t try to justify crimes against humanity, regardless who it is.
That’s right, but that’s also where the friendly fire took place, according to Asa Winstanley’s article that I linked.
Look, all in all it’s probably true that Hamas murdered several hundred civilians that day regardless. But I also don’t think there’s a viable way for a paramilitary group based in Gaza to do an uprising against Israel that doesn’t end with several hundred civilians dead, as I explained, because Israel is a settler-colony and the use of settlers as the tip of the spear of the Israeli effort to settle Palestine is a central part of the project.
Moral comparisons between the actions Israel and Palestine take are always apples to oranges. You simply can’t equate violence against the oppressed to violence against the oppressor. A future without violence against anyone is what the oppressed are attempting to build by defending themselves against their oppressors, after all, but you can’t defend yourself without violence.