Archive for October 2023
bad faith
Posted on: October 19, 2023
What do you do when words have lost their meaning? When someone speaks to you in bad faith? When someone abuses the language to such an extent that remaining engaged in a conversation is pointless? If you can, you leave and disengage. If you can’t, you resort to nonverbal forms of communication. One of them is violence. It’s wrong but arguing in bad faith, dishonesty is always one of the main culprits that takes people there. Dishonesty is violence and it breeds more violence.
western values
Posted on: October 18, 2023
To say it’s surreal is an understatement. Pro-Palestinian protests are banned and outlawed across the western world. In France. In Germany. In Austria. In Australia. In the UK they want to criminalize waving a Palestinian flag. What the fuck happened to this world? To its highly regarded western values? The flashback to the moral confusion and the complicity of the German population in the second world war, when they turned a blind eye to those atrocities, in the same way the Western world has been doing for decades with what’s happening to the Palestinians at the hands of Israelis, is unavoidable. I live once again on edge, in shock, tense like a coiled spring, overanxious and getting triggered by all these news that, time and time again, fall in line with the Israeli narrative (Palestine bad – Israel good, Hamas attack bad – Israeli war crime good). I spend half of the time, horror-struck, reading eagerly depictions of war crimes and genocidal rhetoric coming from Israel and its western allies, and half of the time, withdrawn, showing avoidance behaviour, trying to run away from any news coverage and avoid the exposure to that toxicity and insanity. Torn between the need to know and the need to keep myself sane. The framing of what’s happening in Gaza by the western media is horrific. BBC reported the peaceful pro-Palestinian protests in London as … pro-Hamas. Have they lost their mind? Any attempt to criticise the collective punishment of Palestinians, forbidden by the Geneva Convention and by Israel’s own laws, is shrugged off as irrelevant. The criticism of Israeli military actions, in total disregard to the Palestinian civilians, is framed as antisemitic. The killing of more than 724 Palestinian children by the Israeli military’s relentless bombardment is framed as legitimate self-defence. The calls for restraint coming from public figures who are sympathetic to the oppressed are framed in media as controversial. For the love of God can someone explain to me what is controversial, for instance, in what Eric Cantona said? If truth, common sense and call for freedom of an oppressed people is nowadays controversial in the western civilization then we are doomed. Western values my ass.
one-sided outrage
Posted on: October 11, 2023
If you open the TV right now there’s an overwhelming barrage of commentators, journalists, politicians, pundits, officials etc outraged by the appalling attack perpetrated by Hamas, and as a consequence, expressing their support for Israel’s right to defend itself. How is it though that you NEVER hear these people EXTENDING the right of self-defence to Palestinians? Never. Every time violence spirals out of control I have to put up with this nauseating hypocrisy of the West where they defend the right to self-defence of the… OCCUPIER. What the actual fuck? Not even once have I heard them mentioning the right to resist and to self-defence of the occupied.
The same people who feel outraged at the occupation and annexation perpetrated by Russia of Ukrainian territories never express indignation over Israel’s occupation and anexation of the lands that belong to Palestinians. Where is the outrage of the West for the ethnic cleansing, for the evictions and deportations, for uprooting and stealing Palestinians’ homes and lands, for the illegal Jewish settlements on Palestinians’ soil? Turning a blind eye to the apartheid regime and Israelis’ daily atrocities against Palestinians is one of the most shameful and bizarre lapses and derelictions of duty of the West. What Hamas did is appalling and unjustified by any means. Calling them out and calling the Palestinians out for rejoicing at these murders is the right thing to do. But failing to address and recognize that THE ROOT of this never-ending cycle of violence is the OCCUPATION perpetrated by Israel is hypocritical and shameless. Until the West won’t stop giving Israel a pass for their atrocities and put pressure on them to stop the occupation nothing will change.
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