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(DIR) Post #AxjiAfJhJketgvbAWm by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:26:30Z
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Gideon Levy: »Most of #Israel's Protest Movement Only Cares About the Lives of the #Gaza Hostages – Not of Palestinians.Opposing total evil, one must stand for total humanity, which is almost non-existent in Israel. If it were fully moral, the protest movement would make its main concern the struggle against #genocide, along with the campaign for the release of the hostages«https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/most-of-israels-protest-movement-only-cares-about-the-hostages-and-not-about-palestinians/00000198-fc66-d4e1-a3f8-fc66a1620000 (Paywall)http://archive.today/DyRU0 🧵
(DIR) Post #AxjiAmuT5RENEzr8JU by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:28:20Z
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»Opposing it is a small extra-parliamentary movement, humane & bold, which values all human lives equally.Between this handful and the evil government lies the middle-of-the-road camp. Most of it struggles against the increasing loss of humanity & deception exhibited by the governm.. People in this camp are shocked by every videoclip, losing sleep over the fate of the emaciated hostages & dead soldiers. But when they hear reports of a horrific massacre at a hospital, they yawn, disinterested.«
(DIR) Post #AxjiAuEvpkl7yUU4gK by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:28:52Z
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»They are better than the government and its supporters. They are humane and show solidarity, but only selectively. There is no such thing as being half-moral. Just as double-standard morality is not morality, so is half-morality. It is the opposite of true morality. That's what people in this camp are like. They worry about the lives of 20 hostages while ignoring the fact that their country kills 20 innocent people an hour on average. «
(DIR) Post #AxjiB1zyzDYS2RYFUW by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:29:17Z
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»For them, humanity stops at the borders of nationality. They'll leave no stone unturned to help any Israeli but avert their gaze with a lack of interest in the case of a Palestinian whose fate is often much worse. They are enraged at Benjamin Netanyahu's cold-heartedness, but theirs is no less evident. When it comes to Palestinians, they exhibit the same evil and cold hearts.«
(DIR) Post #AxjiB9qhnat4NzGx8q by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:30:00Z
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»It's hard to understand this phenomenon, which has reached its nadir during the current war. How can one be shocked at the sight of starving hostage Evyatar David and shrug or even rejoice at the killing taking place in lines for food? How can one be shocked at the murder of the Bibas family yet show no interest in the 1,000 babies and 19,000 children killed by the IDF, or in the 40,000 Gazan orphans?«
(DIR) Post #AxjiBH6CqMRgs5Zvm4 by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:30:22Z
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»How can one lose sleep over Hamas tunnels and show no interest in what goes on at the Sde Teiman or Megiddo detention centers, to our shame? How is this possible? How can one demand Red Cross visits for the hostages while knowing that Israel prevents such visits to thousands of kidnapped Palestinians? «
(DIR) Post #AxjiBOiOWm9UUYV1lo by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:30:52Z
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»It is human nature and understandable to first and foremost worry about your own people. But exhibiting total indifference to members of the other nation, who are being massacred in the tens of thousands, with their country destroyed before our eyes by our own hands, turns many of the good people at the Kaplan Street and Hostage Square demonstrations into non-human people themselves. «
(DIR) Post #AxjiBWPttQ70NVuN3Q by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:31:29Z
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»For them – and some of them say so openly – Israel must do everything to release the hostages, and then it can return to the war, to genocide and ethnic cleansing. The main thing is for the hostages to be released. This isn't morality or humaneness. This is abject ultra-nationalism.«
(DIR) Post #AxjiBe9X89m0N4JPea by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:31:45Z
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»Viewing human beings – children, the disabled, the elderly, women, and other helpless people as dust, as people whose killing and starvation are legitimate, with their property worthless and their dignity non-existent – is tantamount to being Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.«
(DIR) Post #AxjiBlZfXNq3O9asrY by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:32:38Z
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»Opposing total evil, one must stand for total humanity, which is almost non-existent in Israel. The moral refuge of hanging a yellow ribbon from the car door & the ostensible expression of concern for the hostages is not a refuge & does not constitute morality. Even a hollow extremist ultranationalist such as journalist Almog Boker, who knows that "there are no innocent people in Gaza" wants the release of hostages. This doesn't make him less ultra-nationalist or less vile, even for a moment. «
(DIR) Post #AxjiBtM8bZlhWVKBsm by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T16:33:02Z
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»The moral power of the protest movement is only partial because of its selective nature. If it were fully moral, it would make its main concern the struggle against genocide, along with the campaign for releasing the hostages. Its struggle would not be diminished; its moral validity would only be strengthened. One cannot escape the numbers: 20 living hostages and over 2 million Palestinians whose lives are hell. One's heart cannot help but be with both.«
(DIR) Post #AxjiC0o2uDFed5R4r2 by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T17:45:05Z
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Das was Gideon Levy mit diesen Worten beschreibt trifft einen beträchtlichen Teil des linken, linksliberalen, grünen oder mittigen Lagers in Deutschland ganz genauso. Ist extrem leicht ständig immer wieder bei jeder sich bietenden Gelegenheit an das Schicksal der von der Hamas entführten Geiseln zu erinnern. Aber es ist halt keine Form von Moral dies zu tun, wenn man gleichzeitig kein Wort des Protests über den Genozid in Gaza verliert.
(DIR) Post #AxjiC8TQOlVgPRqip6 by stephie_hamburg@norden.social
2025-08-31T17:50:13Z
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Es ist leicht an das Schicksal der Geiseln zu erinnern und sich dafür einzusetzen, während man sagt dass man Netanyahu doof findet. Es ist billig. Leute wie Netanyahu sagen doch auch dass sie sich für das Schicksal der Geiseln einsetzen. Netanyahu persönlich doof zu finden macht keinen großen Unterschied, wenn man gleichzeitig weigert ein Ende des Genozids in Gaza und ein Ende der Besatzung zu fördern. Es bedeutet ein im Stich lassen der Geiseln.