Isn’t that the point? Gaza attacked Israel and had their hospitals bombed, Israel attacked Iran and now one of their hospitals has been bombed. So when Israel did it to Gaza [they claimed that] it was necessary, but Iran doing the same to Israel is [described by Israel as] a war crime. The Gaza rubble is currently bigger because they’ve been bombed more and for longer. At least that’s how I interpret it.
Edit to add: [] added to clarify I intended to present Israel’s hypocrisy, not facts or my opinion.
Think they started moving over after the fall of the otterman empire fell during ww1. Palestine was sorta its on part of it so it was no longer, or ever, seen as a country. So Israel wanted to move in despite the people already living there.
The founding Zionists were planning their settler-colonial land-grab and the genocide of Palestine before that. Palestine was seen as a nation, but western powers wanted to exert power over the middle east and used “Israel” as a spearhead for that.
Palestine lashed out at “Israel” because “Israel” is a settler-colonial genocidal entity that stole land and culture from Palestinians, murdering them systematically for a century. History did not start on October 7th.
No-one said this comic was trying to represent the entire Arab-Israeli conflict of the last century, just current events.
However, let’s not pretend that when looking historically the palestinians suddenly become hapless victims. They kicked off the violence with the 1929 Hebron massacre and escalated with the 1936 Arab revolt. They went from the possibility of a single nation - if they could accept and somehow integrate the jewish immigrants - to an offer of 80% of the land in 1938 (population 27% jewish), 42% of the land in 1948 (population 33% jewish), to technically 23% of the land today but all of it occupied by Israel (population 50% jewish). Yes, the partition offers weren’t exactly fair, but they could have formed a starting point for negotiations. The Arabs refused to participate in any discussions, so it’s no surprise that no-one defended their interests. They have had multiple opportunities to sit down at the table and negotiate and each time that they refused and responded with violence instead, they lost political power, people, land, and international sympathy, and their next negotiating position was weaker. The palestinian state has become smaller after each attack they initiated. What made them think this time would be any different?
They also didn’t do themselves any favours with their attempted coup in Jordan or their involvement in the Lebanese civil war. Somewhat hypocritical, don’t you think?
I agree that the Brits actions in mass immigrating jews to palestine was wrong (but then, they were colonial assholes who screwed over something like 25% of the world, so… welcome to the club?). Israeli violence and their occupation of palestinian territory is equally wrong, and I find their current genocidal actions in Gaza absolutely abhorrent. However, that doesn’t mean that palestinians are suddenly absolved of all responsibility for their choices.
There are 2 sides to every conflict, and in this one, no-one gets to claim the moral high ground.
This is utterly disgusting rhetoric, erasing a century of genocide and settler-colonialism. The Palestinians were forced off their lands, slaughtered, had their culture stolen and claimed as “Israeli,” and more. It isn’t a “current” genocide, it was genocidal since the inception of Israel a century ago in the form of an apartheid regime. The violence against settlers is retaliation towards being forced out of their homes, murdered, tortured, dehumanized, and culturally erased.
This is not a complex issue, Palestine has a moral high ground over the fascist settler-colonial Entity. No question. Further, the Zionists are anti-Yiddish, and collaborated with the Nazis.
As a response to the genocide of Palestinians and having their land and culture stolen from them for a century. The settler-colonialism of Israel is what begets its own response.
I mean, Hamas was already responsible for launching an innumerable number of rockets into Israel, so
Isn’t that the point? Gaza attacked Israel and had their hospitals bombed, Israel attacked Iran and now one of their hospitals has been bombed. So when Israel did it to Gaza [they claimed that] it was necessary, but Iran doing the same to Israel is [described by Israel as] a war crime. The Gaza rubble is currently bigger because they’ve been bombed more and for longer. At least that’s how I interpret it.
Edit to add: [] added to clarify I intended to present Israel’s hypocrisy, not facts or my opinion.
Israel was bombing Gaza long before October 7th
Think they started moving over after the fall of the otterman empire fell during ww1. Palestine was sorta its on part of it so it was no longer, or ever, seen as a country. So Israel wanted to move in despite the people already living there.
The founding Zionists were planning their settler-colonial land-grab and the genocide of Palestine before that. Palestine was seen as a nation, but western powers wanted to exert power over the middle east and used “Israel” as a spearhead for that.
Palestine lashed out at “Israel” because “Israel” is a settler-colonial genocidal entity that stole land and culture from Palestinians, murdering them systematically for a century. History did not start on October 7th.
No-one said this comic was trying to represent the entire Arab-Israeli conflict of the last century, just current events.
However, let’s not pretend that when looking historically the palestinians suddenly become hapless victims. They kicked off the violence with the 1929 Hebron massacre and escalated with the 1936 Arab revolt. They went from the possibility of a single nation - if they could accept and somehow integrate the jewish immigrants - to an offer of 80% of the land in 1938 (population 27% jewish), 42% of the land in 1948 (population 33% jewish), to technically 23% of the land today but all of it occupied by Israel (population 50% jewish). Yes, the partition offers weren’t exactly fair, but they could have formed a starting point for negotiations. The Arabs refused to participate in any discussions, so it’s no surprise that no-one defended their interests. They have had multiple opportunities to sit down at the table and negotiate and each time that they refused and responded with violence instead, they lost political power, people, land, and international sympathy, and their next negotiating position was weaker. The palestinian state has become smaller after each attack they initiated. What made them think this time would be any different?
They also didn’t do themselves any favours with their attempted coup in Jordan or their involvement in the Lebanese civil war. Somewhat hypocritical, don’t you think?
I agree that the Brits actions in mass immigrating jews to palestine was wrong (but then, they were colonial assholes who screwed over something like 25% of the world, so… welcome to the club?). Israeli violence and their occupation of palestinian territory is equally wrong, and I find their current genocidal actions in Gaza absolutely abhorrent. However, that doesn’t mean that palestinians are suddenly absolved of all responsibility for their choices.
There are 2 sides to every conflict, and in this one, no-one gets to claim the moral high ground.
This is utterly disgusting rhetoric, erasing a century of genocide and settler-colonialism. The Palestinians were forced off their lands, slaughtered, had their culture stolen and claimed as “Israeli,” and more. It isn’t a “current” genocide, it was genocidal since the inception of Israel a century ago in the form of an apartheid regime. The violence against settlers is retaliation towards being forced out of their homes, murdered, tortured, dehumanized, and culturally erased.
This is not a complex issue, Palestine has a moral high ground over the fascist settler-colonial Entity. No question. Further, the Zionists are anti-Yiddish, and collaborated with the Nazis.
As a response to the genocide of Palestinians and having their land and culture stolen from them for a century. The settler-colonialism of Israel is what begets its own response.