I’ve had multiple family members deployed to active warzones.
Whenever we talked about war, it was never about politics. It was always “X’s tour is supposed to finish next month,” or “I heard something happened near [town], wasn’t X deployed near there?”
I know how everyone talks about it on the internet, but what is it like for you at home?
Apologies in advance for the wall of text. We’ve had a lot of conversations…
Spouse is half Israeli with lots of family over there. I’m casually Jewish with AuDHD for context so we tend to see things really differently.
I personally don’t like that religious countries exist in the first place. So I’m not only against Israel, but also most countries in that part of the world. “Just nuke that entire part of the world” has been mentioned quite a few times. So that’s a bit of the conversation.
We tend to focus on the hostages when we talk about the war, and that Israel may be winning the ground war but it’s losing the pr war.
We blame Bibi for keeping the war going and not making more surgical spy-type strikes. I used to say that he had one day to get the world behind him and say “look, this is what I’ve been talking about about!!!” That was all dismissed though when the first cease fire happened. Hamas broke it by sending some small numbers of missiles that got caught by the iron dome and Israel retaliated by sending 100x the number of missiles, killing several people. The news outlets all led with Israel sending the rockets and only briefly mentioned that Hamas struck first.
We blame Hamas for keeping all of their leaders in other countries and all of their weapons and missile silos in civilians backyards. Treating their citizens like shit and saying the only way their family is guaranteed to not go hungry is to join the military…
Just putting this out there … If you’re American and not native American. And native Americans were yelling “from sea to shining sea the native American tribes must be free” and started killing people, started saying how they want their land back and everything … How would that be treated?
Bibi literally admitted that the Israeli government feeds Hamas in order to have excuses for the war. “Hamas struck first”, should always be followed with “Israel is an invading power committing genocide”. You would’ve been the kind of German who would always justify the Nazi occupations, because “the partisans struck first”, Then feel righteous because you think Hitler shouldn’t be the one leading the Reich. Like, even your example is ignoring the fact that the British committed genocide against Native Americans, then the American state continued it.
Link for the “literally admit” claim?
His words have always been to the effect of the reason we’re not letting aid in is because hamas steals it from the people and lets them go hungry
Btw We still blame Bibi for not handling the war properly, only even agreeing to sit at the table for peace talks once he knew that trump would give him unlimited usage of weapons, and many other things.
You cannot seriously be blaming the people in a concentration camp for richting back.
Lovely how Israelis compare themselves to genocidal American colonizers and think they have a point.
No. The native American bit was for the “why don’t Israelis just leave/give back the land?” people… Because after 70+ years people have grown up, worked hard, bought land, raised families, etc.
nobody I know in America would want to say “hey, I worked my whole life to (own my property, build my business, raise my family, etc) … If the native Americans asked really hard I’d give it back” …
But a lot of people are saying that the Israelis should just leave.
Edit. The other bit is that there are Muslims who live in Israel. There are Christians/atheists/etc who live in Israel as well.
Jews aren’t welcome in SA, Iraq, Iran…
Concentration camp is not a good analogy for what’s going on here
The original Palestinian owners of the land are still alive. They are currently in the concentration camp being slaughtered by Israel.
Jews still live in the countries you mentioned and are far less repressed than Palestians in Israel where a full apartheid and genocide against them takes place.