GrabItNow

It's truly baffling to me that anyone who suggests they believe in some kind of left politics would make a statement like this. Do they not reflect on what it must be like? Set aside that this is the only home many Palestinians have known, they're literally stuck there. They're blockaded and fenced in and coralled by military outposts, and not even the arab states that support them want them as refugees. Nobody does, nobody wants them. They're entirely fucking stuck there, and they're blockaded and dirt poor and at the mercy of people with openly genocidal intentions against them. I hate today because I really don't want to spend all of my time looking at this shit, but it is hard to look away. How can a person so callously "condemn" the Palestinians that choose violence, regardless of who it is pointed at, when THAT is their condition. They're in a hopeless situation and the big liberal democracies all talk about them like criminals for cynical geopolitical reasons. How maddening must that be?

Israeli sadism created the conditions for this. The only point in highlighting what is immoral or unfair about the response is legitimating the status quo of violence that Israel perpetuates. It's police logic, it's like the United States repressing and marginalizing its internal colonized and formerly enslaved populations, and then when those populations lash out and act erratically or criminally from the conditions they've been subjected to, the United States says "see, this is why we must ruthlessly police them". The responsibility for fixing the damage done is taken off the table, the onus is placed on them for making themselves better under continued conditions of criminalization, policing, de-legitimizing their grievances. The colonial apartheid state of Israel needs to take responsibility for the psychosis is has subjected the Palestinian population to instead of treating it like some hopelessly sinful, feral pest nesting in its basement.