Post AacB7exq0qacqXNk80 by ramonita@todon.eu
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 (DIR) Post #AacB7bcoQYzMUSWPRI by ramonita@todon.eu
       2023-10-09T19:31:40Z
       
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       I would kill the Nazis who tried to kill me. I would not rape them, or their mothers or wives. I would think that goes without saying, but apparently not.I blame First World's people glorification of peace. It leads them to a binary, where there are two worlds, the world of peace that they inhabit, and the world of violence which remains foreign and Other (and that, as I've experienced numerous times, they will pay any price to keep that way).So when they are forced to recognise the legitimacy of violence, they look at it like at a primitive, uncognoscible subhumanity, incapable of ethical complexity ("a vicious tribal conflict", in that USian's words).Palestinians are clearly justified in violent resistance, therefore Hamas is justified in the weaponisation of rape. By which alchemy "Hamas" is made to equal "Palestinians" (in erasure of Palestinians who oppose them, or are oppressed by them as well as the settlers). and "rape" equals "violence" equals "resistance".The irony being that the people these white folk are using as comparison when they say "tribal"--the State-refusing, indigenous folk of the world--have for millenia developed cultures of war, whole ethics of war, completely lost on the "civil" peace-lovers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AacB7exq0qacqXNk80 by ramonita@todon.eu
       2023-10-09T19:51:25Z
       
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       The actions of Hamas in this attack do not retroactively justify the atrocities that Israeli settlers have inflicted for decades on Palestinians, nor the atrocities the Israeli forces are doing in retaliation. None of these atrocities justify the abuse of noncombatants by Hamas, either. One bad government doesn't erase the other, and common folk pay the price regardless.War is fought to stop the enemy from having power over you. In many situations this involves lethal violence. In no situations this is advanced by systematic rape, or racial slavery, or concentration camps etc. It is important to distinguish the means and the dynamics of violence.I've said it before and I'll say it again: for as long as a single fascist wields a rifle, we are against peace and for war. The resistance of Palestinian people is entirely justified, lethal force inclusive. What Hamas did in this action was however not just lethal force; it wasn't an action to curtail the enemy; and the moment that you think anything leaders plot is justified if it's leaders of an oppressed people, you lose the distinction between the governments and the people, and with it class consciousness.