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Originally Posted by jfman
I actually find it comforting that so many of my fellow citizens are out despite the threats of our own authoritarian Government around the flying of the Palestinian flag.
While our politicians and political class are happy to dine at the table of American imperialism it's reassuring that people are looking with their own eyes and making assessments themselves.
If you stood up and condemned Russian activity in Ukraine but are silent over atrocities by the Apartheid state in Gaza then you are nothing but a shill. That applies to UK politicians and EU ones like Ursula von der Leyen. The pretence of an 'international rules based order' is dead. I always expected it to go but I didn't think it'd have been an attack on Israel that would finish it off.
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If you had unequivocally condemned Hamas’ barbarism when it occurred last week instead of indulging in Corbynisms, you might have a shred of the moral authority necessary to say any of the above and to sound convincing. But you didn’t, and you don’t. For you to stand up now and accuse anyone of shilling for anything is comedy of the highest order.
Personally I had no reservations about condemning Hamas’ terrorist outrages in southern Israel last week on their own terms; they were barbaric, and I’d say sub-human but for the fact that it is evident their behaviour is entirely human. It is what humans do when they are inculcated with an ideology that dehumanises those who are ‘other’, which is exactly what Hamas’ extremist ideology does.
And I have no reservations about condemning the cutting off food and fuel to an entire population (given the nature of the Hamas threat there is no military utility in doing so - it is collective punishment and illegal under international law) and the bombing of convoys of fleeing civilians even if Hamas terrorists are hiding in those convoys.