So I was watching an interview that was given like one or two days ago in one of Argentina's most watched news channels, and the inverviewed person in question is an argentinian international journalist who was in Palestine when Hamas launched their assault. The interview started fine, she stated that she was evacuated by one of the KC-130 "Hercules" sent by the Air Force to retrieve people from Israel, she said that when the fighting began she was working in Ramallah, West Bank. So far so good, she praised both the Israeli and Palestinian embassies in Argentina for their help and the Air Force for taking people back for free in their transport planes. She then said how much a bureaucratic hell it was to get from Ramallah to the Ben Gurion Airport as all exits from Palestine are under Israeli military control (and Palestine has no airports), but when she said the word "occupation" all hell broke loose, it was funny to see the faces of the journalists change in real time as she said that magical word.

From that point onwards, she was continuously being attacked by the "journalists" interviewing her, saying that "this is normal because Israel is in a exceptional moment", that "there is no occupation", then kinda admitted there is occupation but "Hamas is responsible" (Even though she stated Hamas doesn't have a lot of presence in the West Bank as it does in Gaza), then they began to say she's an "anti-semite who refuses to condemn Hamas" (even though she did, numerous times) and that the blockade on Gaza, no matter how inhuman it is, is "thanks to Hamas dictatorship and other Arab countries that forced Israel to do it". And of course, the classic "Yeah, unfortunately there are civilian casualties but it's Hamas who hide among them". And despite all that, she kept their cool, but I must admit it's a shame she didn't take the opportunity to say "You are all defending the genocide of Palestinians by the Apartheid State of Israel".

This is the state of things in the West, don't you dare call out Israel for their massive wrongdoings in their war against the Palestinians as in the colonial relationship, they will always put all blame on the colonized subjects instead of the other way around. But the thing that pains me the most is that first they're doing clear genocide denial. They're of course completely against the idea of even thinking that what Israel is doing is genocide and ethnic cleansing, if you even point that out you are a Nazi (for some reason?). This is extremely concerning, I would expect this from media like CNN, because of course they will support genocide they're AmeriKKKan! But from argentinians? This is spicy, considering we had two genocides in about 100 years (The first in the late XIX century which saw the State advance through Patagonia killing the natives there) and the second in the 70s with the US-backed dictatorship which killed about 30,000 people. We went through great and painful lenghts to bring justice to the latter, just to see the media deny there's a genocide in Palestine right now. Zero self-awareness.

But also the fact that this nation was born out of anti-colonial struggle. Of course the history is more complicated than that as Argentina was not founded in 1810 as the Junta of Buenos Aires broke away from Spain, but indeed the proto-nation shattered the colonial relationship and after a period of internal struggles, it became independent (althrough it submitted immediately to british interests). Palestine is fighting their own anti-colonial struggle, but god forbid you develop some kind empathy for them as their history and your own have similarities. No, we must stand together with the genocidal oppressor that is the State of Israel, and if you don't you're a Nazi or something. This is what they want, they want to destroy whatever link you might develop with the Palestinians, you're not supposed to feel bad for them, you're not supposed to feel empathy for them, you're not like them, nothing unites you with them, they are, after all, lunatic islamic zealots who hate the west (They told the interviewed journalist that she would have been killed by Hamas if she dressed "like that"). Stop thinking about the suffering of the Palestinians, it is the Israeli who suffered for 15 minutes in their personal anti-rocket bunkers, it is the Israeli with whom you can relate to, as they're white like you, democratic and secular. It is Israel who's defending itself here, you don't feel bad for Palestinians because "they brought it upon themselves by choosing Hamas", they deserve it so shut the fuck up and ignore the never ending genocide.