Regarding the Palestinian Genocide
Politics
2023-12-25
It sucks that some people do not have the privilege that I do. They committed a grave sin - being born into a world of conflict. A world so unforgiving, run by maniacs that deny them the opportunity to live. To wonder. To learn. To love. To express joy. Alas, we did not take away their opportunity to sorrow. Instead, we give them lots of it.
That we're a modern civilization unlike the brutes of old is nothing but a facade. We kill innocents with hi-tech weapons instead of swords now. We're the same monsters but with weapons that cause widespread destruction.
We fucking pat ourselves on the back for a job well done after bombing hospitals.
But we're the good people, right? They're the evil ones. We're the good ones because good people kill the bad ones. We're justice. The world is so black and white like that.
This reminds me of a quote:
Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!
—Don Quixote Doflamingo, One Piece
Slightly modified to suit our world better: Whoever has power becomes justice.
October 7 was truly a horrific day. Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis (including civilians and security forces), according to official Israeli sources. I am not going to discuss the motives for the attack - that is not the focus of this post. Whatever Hamas did - it was abhorrent. Civilians cannot be the target for any reason whatsoever.
But the problem with the Western world is this - the people who condemn the October 7 attacks either do not talk about the subsequent genocide of Palestinians by the IDF or worse - do mental gymnastics to justify the killing of tens of thousands of civilians including thousands of children.
The Western world cheered on the genocide. Hospitals bombed. City lines flattened. Twenty thousand dead people. Sorry, twenty thousand murdered people. There is no excuse in this world for this.
When the death toll reached uncomfortable numbers for some of these Western leaders, and when they realized they were losing votes by encouraging genocide, they were quick to call for a ceasefire.
How do we, in our right minds, celebrate mass murderers? Benjamin Netanyahu. Joseph Biden. Rishi Sunak. Justin Trudeau. And many many more. They all have blood on their hands.
They try to wash this off their hands. But they cannot. They should not. The death toll should not just be a mere statistic to them. They should be haunted forever by the ghosts of their past. They should not be able to sleep at night—each living second must feel like hell to them. Even then, it would not be enough.
Nothing would be enough. Nothing would be enough for the innocents slaughtered. For the entire bloodlines being wiped out from the face of the Earth. For the grieving mother who lost her only child after trying to have one for five years. For the child seeing his father's lifeless body in front of him, guts spilling out.
Would you not be radicalized by this? Would you not want to fight this unhinged violence? Rational people would not join groups like Hamas. But we are creating a generation of people traumatized so much that they cannot think rationally. This child who saw his father's guts spilling out becomes the next generation of Hamas. This next generation will conduct a terrorist attack, to which Israel will respond with yet another wildly disproportionate response.
This cycle of violence repeats endlessly until Israel successfully wipes out an entire people off the face of the earth. And their souls finally rest, for they do not have to fight anymore.