If the US were invaded by Australia, we would fight them on the shores of California and the fields of Pennsylvania, but we would also rain down hellfire on Perth and Sydney. I’m not sure why you think the history of the particular place the IOF soldiers were stationed at is relevant. That’s setting aside that the reason the occupation troops were there is to enforce the siege of Gaza that has been in place since 2007.
Occupying Palestine. If you think Israel has a right to exist within the pre-1967 borders, then occupying Gaza and the West Bank.
Don’t compare the oppressors and colonizers to the freedom fighters.
In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists. This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every means, including, of course, violence.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Soldiers of an occupying force are fair game.
It’s outrageous that Europe and the US continue to hang on to their colonies and then feign moral outrage when Russia or China tries to exploit their neighbors.
France claims 13 overseas territories and the UK claims 14 overseas territories. France continues to exploit the its former African colonies.
You may have noticed that Haiti is a shambles these days. Well part of the reason is that after Haiti won it’s independance, France demanded reparations. That’s right, the colonizer demanded reparations from the nation of slaves who won their freedom. And for 122 years, until 1947, Haiti was saddled with this debt.
Avril Benoît, executive director for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA stated on March 8:
"The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege. The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies. This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem. Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.
In the past months, the US has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire—which is the only way to ensure a real scale up in emergency assistance. We reiterate our call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to stop the killing of thousands more civilians and allow for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid."
^^^ Your brain on white supremacy
After France was expelled from Haiti, they forced Haiti to pay for the lost land and slaves for 122 years.
It’s no wonder that nations which have had their natural resources and people exploited for hundreds of years, have had their culture and native intitutions marginalized if not exterminated, have had families decimated by slavery and political repression, and continue to be exploited even after nominal independence struggle to succeed. Of course they are owed reparations. They deserve comprehensive support, a Marshall Plan for independence. You break it, you fix it.
If you don’t think Python is a good scripting language, what is a good scripting language in your opinion? Bourne Shell? VBScript? PHP?
If Israel had responded proportionately to Oct 7, the world would have continued to ignore their cruel apartheid.
I suspect it made the manufacture of consent rather more easy.
Reagan held up arms shipments to Israel on multiple occasions.
Thinking? They’re sleepwalking off a cliff.
My point is that it’s racist to focus on the plight of white people in a country where by any objective statistical standard white people are far better off than the rest of the country and are just a tiny minority. It’s like stepping over people bleeding out to put a bandaid on scraped knee.
The white people in South Africa should have paid huge reparations. They got off easy, and now want us to feel sorry for them because they are experiencing some of the strife and violence that is the direct result of apartheid. They are like a physically abusive parent seeking sympathy when their adult children are openly hostile and struggling with mental health from the childhood abuse.
Hahaha! Oh, yeah those stick-it notes saying “Do better, friend” on the bombs Biden is shipping to Netanyahu really pack a punch. Biden is violating US law by continuing to send Israel weapons. And a recently leaked State Department memo proves he knows it.
Vote genocide, no matter who!
“While the University will not divest from Israel,” it offered to create an expedited timeline for a review of new proposals from students by the school’s Advisory Committee for Socially Responsible Investing, which explores divestment, Shafik said.
“The University also offered to publish a process for students to access a list of Columbia’s direct investment holdings, and to increase the frequency of updates to that list of holdings,” she added.
lol. They didn’t even reveal their investments. They said, “Look over here, we made some new bureaucratic games for you to play.” Only true bureaucrat perverts would think that would appease anyone.
I’d be happy to hear more.
You’re holding on to that strawman so tight your knuckles are turning white.
It was a total coincidence that it happened right after Hamas fired rockets at Tel-Aviv for the first time in months. \s