• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Yes, you’re perpetuating systemic oppression, murder and sexual abuse.

    Let me put it very plainly. Let’s say someone is bullied for a year and every week for a year the target of bullying gets beaten up. And then after a year they decide to throw a punch at the bully. Which of the two reactions sounds less evil? “obviously the bully had it coming they’ve been beating the shit out of the other person.” or “I can’t believe what a violent piece of shit the other person is for punching the bully.”?

    In case it’s not clear, you’re the latter calling people terrorists for being violent against the violent oppression that they’ve been subjected to for decades.

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      8 days ago

      Terrorists don’t throw punches at bullies, they rape and murder civilians, and that’s what youre trying to defend here.

      Absolute evil, and I mean you

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        I’m not defending that. I already said I don’t condone their acts of violence. I’m simply stating their actions are in response to the systemic atrocities Israel enacts upon them. That’s not absolute evil, that’s just stating the obvious. What is absolutely evil is your complete refusal to accept that even as possibility.

        We’re done now. You can continue barking like the Israeli lapdog you are, I don’t give a fuck. I have zero respect for soulless monsters like you.

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          Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
          

          ~~Jean-Paul Sartre

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            Those who affirm the sovereignty of the Israeli state and also believe Palestinians have a right to sovereignty for the same reason, and who take the Palestinian question as fundamental, must admit that the Israeli establishment’s policy is literally crazy and deliberately aims at avoiding all possible solutions to this problem. It is therefore politi- cally accurate to say that a state of war exists between Israel and the Palestinians. In this war the Palestinians’ only weapon is terrorism. It is a terrible weapon but the oppressed poor have no other, and the French who approved FLN terrorism against the French must approve in turn the Palestinians’ terrorist action. This abandoned, betrayed, exiled people can show its courage and the force of its hate only by organizing deadly attacks.

            ~~Jean-Paul Sartre, 1972, after the attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich