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I genuinely don't know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don't help if the food isn't getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.
Go to demonstrations, boycott, speak up about Palestine, message your representatives, vote only for politicians that condemns Israels attacks and have a credible policy of supporting Palestinian rights.
As for donations there is organizations that try to get Israeli war criminals prosecuted and challenge governments in court to stop arming Israel. See two examples below.
Pressure your local government to act against Israel's genocide through sanctions and military support for Palestine. Write your representatives, turn out to protests, help your local political party that aligns with your goals.
There's nothing the average citizen can do. "The Powers That Be" will protect Israel at any cost, because Israel is a military beachhead in the Middle East for any potential military action against "The Muzlimz."
This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.
Israel starving people to death is evil. Some day you will be repaid for this.
I really hope so. I just can't believe we (humans) have let these ethno supremacist ideas survive in our world for so long.
I just don't know how you fix societies as broken and sick as Israel has become.
Meanwhile, the historically worst entho supremacist state of Germany uses its own history of genocide as an excuse to support a Jewish Ethnostates genocide. With the rest of the western world nodding it's head and America leading the way.
The western world has lost all moral credibility it ever pretended to uphold.
I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.
Israel still wants to exterminate Palestinians so that they can fully expand into the area.
Hamas wants Israel to fuck off out of Palestine. Depending on how extreme the individual person, they may also want Israel gone entirely, or the same to all Jews. But that's not the position of most Palestinians.
(The genocide is not the position of most Israelis, either, but enough are okay with it happening.)
It's simpler that that: profit.
Israel will cleanse the area to make it safe and profitable for land developers. Casinos, hotels, golf courses, etc.
Trump openly stated it.
This framing kind of sucks, but it's close.
It's still a land grab, and they're actively grabbing land in the west bank, in Lebanon, and in Syria.
They're fascists that have purposefully fomented this violence as the apartheid state. They want the land and some justification they can wave around. This is why Oct 7th exists.
The irony is, the more successful they are in their depraved violence and theft, the more they will become a pariah globally. I can't see the future, but this feels like a fascist death spiral that will end Israel.
I understand.
It's the same human drama that's been played out since the dawn of time. The powerful dominated the weak, and helpless.
We deserve our extinction when our sun goes red giant, but it'll happen much sooner than that.
We're an irredeemable species.
Palestinians want to be left alone, and Israel wants them all dead because Israel decided the land belongs to them.
If Palestinians wanted to be left alone then why did they do the terriorst attack and why do they still have hostages?