How do you think the genocide in Palestine (caused by the country of Israel) would stop? Would there be a revolution? Is the genocide because of imperialism running rampant? Does socialism has the tools necessary to stop this genocide (among other things)?

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    It will stop when Western support for Palestine outweighs the power of the Israel lobby. The imperialism take most of the left clings to makes no sense because supporting Israel destroyed the Western reputation and barely gained it anything… Certainly not a good realpolitik move.

    It has nothing to do with imperialism and everything with the Israel lobby controlling almost all US and European middle east policy.

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        8 days ago

        By acknowledging the extreme influence of Israel inside of Western of the governments and fighting against it. And not blaming all Israel support on “Western interests and imperialism”. AIPAC and these other massive lobby groups obviously have a purpose.

        Israel does not control Palestine from Israel. It controls Palestine through America and Europe. Without all the free weapons and money it would fall in a heartbeat.

        The current MAGA infighting against Israel is awesome and should be supported by everyone.

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          7 days ago

          Aipac is fully funded by american zionists not Israel. The usa will always be the major power who control israel not the opposite

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          7 days ago

          Israel is a colony of the US.

          It may launder its reputation by reaching into the US establishment, but its pursuits are fundamentally and undeniably aligned to the interests of US imperialist hegemony.

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                6 days ago

                I would bet the “interests of the US” are actually interests of Zionists elites affiliated with the US. Ordinary citizens stand nothing to gain.

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                  6 days ago

                  Your comment wreaks of antisemitic dog whistles.

                  Every state is controlled by elites, who have interests different from the interests of the population.

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                    6 days ago

                    Not really. I think Israel is a money laundering scheme and am not sure if the beneficiaries are Jewish at all. Sure is convenient that the one gov nobody can criticize just so happens to be for a state full of people who endured the Holocaust. I am saying that it sounds like someone used racism as a crutch to do what they wanted, and used common people’s sympathies to manipulate everyone. I’m not antisemite, and I can’t know for sure either way. It just all seems scammy to me. I don’t care what someone believes as long as they are nice to others.

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                    7 days ago

                    This in no way debunks the beyond obvious evidence. The US has not been acting in its own self interest in the last few years in the Middle East.

                    The bombing of Qatar, a US military base hosting Hamas at US demand was the cherry on top of the cake removing all doubt.

            • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlBannedOP
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              7 days ago

              Is there any way we can rally them to support Palestine (and let them watch Trump squirm over his supporters supporting Palestine?)

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                    4 days ago

                    I’ve seen a mix of them admiring countries enacting reactionary policies or being “orderly” (tends to be connected with religion to an extent) and dissing countries that do the opposite or for holding different religious values, but they seem to think that the US needs to have homogeneous values/demographics “like other countries do”. Israel may fall under the “holding different religious values” category in their book (depends on how MAGA they are), and Palestine does a lot more so.

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                  6 days ago

                  Nobody has to support Palestine to say they are sick of all this crap. I have no interest in supporting them, but I want the nonsense to stop. Genocide is bad no matter who it is.

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                7 days ago

                Simply letting them turn against Israel without too much pushback though do keep in mind their other values still differ immensely. But Palestine does no have the luxuries of choosing its allies.

                For a far broader take on possible actions this great (very long) video recently came out https://youtu.be/bYkfmC6XFvs

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                    5 days ago

                    Tldr organise groups for direct action protests similar to Palestine Action. Try to hit the Israeli supply chain to the West where it hurts. Either by targeting military producers or by being a massive hindrance to companies supply chains to Israel.

                    Also people should stop denouncing Hamas and other violent resistance against colonialism.*