This might seem really cold way to look at all of this, but here goes.
We know that trauma repeats itself in families as victims grow up to become perpetrators of violence. We have some tools to help break that cycle.
Is Israel caught in such a cycle? Will the victims of genocide, given power and stability, reenact the violence done to them in the name of protecting themselves? Is there a cycle of genocide, and if so, how do we break it?
I like to imagine a future where Palestinians are safe, free and self-determining alongside their neighbors, who enjoy the same. Is it even possible?
At the moment, humanity looks pretty irredeemable. But also: beautiful, creative, loving, bright.
I don’t think victims are doomed to perpetrate violence; many of them don’t! similarly, Israel’s actions are the result of a series of (horrible) choices made over many years (and not just by Israel.)
The Holocaust has been used as a justification in a range of ways, but I don’t think it’s really the reason, exactly. Zionism is very similar in ideology and action to a lot of colonial projects, after all.
It's hard to compare anything to the Holocaust, but there isn't an ascendant genocidal military movement in Armenia, or Rwanda. Muslims in the Balkans or Myanmar are not trying to build an apartheid regime. The trauma of genocide and centuries of antitsemitism are big factors in the success of Zionists and imperialists trying to cleanse the Holy Land of their enemies, but a lot of folks in Europe and America wanted to do that before the Holocaust and would probably still be trying to had the Holocaust never happened. There's nothing that makes genocide inevitable. There's no inevitable result of genocide. There's always room to fight against the forces that treat humanity as a resource to be hoarded and siphoned and spilled at will.
I contact the do-as-little-to-nothing democrats often, reminding them that they (Harris Walz) lost to TheracistrapistRUMP because of Genocide Joe and the DNC's continuing support of zIsrael and its attempted Genocide!
This might seem really cold way to look at all of this, but here goes.
We know that trauma repeats itself in families as victims grow up to become perpetrators of violence. We have some tools to help break that cycle.
Is Israel caught in such a cycle? Will the victims of genocide, given power and stability, reenact the violence done to them in the name of protecting themselves? Is there a cycle of genocide, and if so, how do we break it?
I like to imagine a future where Palestinians are safe, free and self-determining alongside their neighbors, who enjoy the same. Is it even possible?
At the moment, humanity looks pretty irredeemable. But also: beautiful, creative, loving, bright.
I don’t think victims are doomed to perpetrate violence; many of them don’t! similarly, Israel’s actions are the result of a series of (horrible) choices made over many years (and not just by Israel.)
The Holocaust has been used as a justification in a range of ways, but I don’t think it’s really the reason, exactly. Zionism is very similar in ideology and action to a lot of colonial projects, after all.
It's hard to compare anything to the Holocaust, but there isn't an ascendant genocidal military movement in Armenia, or Rwanda. Muslims in the Balkans or Myanmar are not trying to build an apartheid regime. The trauma of genocide and centuries of antitsemitism are big factors in the success of Zionists and imperialists trying to cleanse the Holy Land of their enemies, but a lot of folks in Europe and America wanted to do that before the Holocaust and would probably still be trying to had the Holocaust never happened. There's nothing that makes genocide inevitable. There's no inevitable result of genocide. There's always room to fight against the forces that treat humanity as a resource to be hoarded and siphoned and spilled at will.
I contact the do-as-little-to-nothing democrats often, reminding them that they (Harris Walz) lost to TheracistrapistRUMP because of Genocide Joe and the DNC's continuing support of zIsrael and its attempted Genocide!
I don’t actually think they lost because of Gaza. Inflation was what most people cited, and what most experts think was the main issue.
But not everything is about electoral politics. The genocide is bad because it’s a genocide, whatever effect it may or may not have had on 2024.