For the last 7 months, it's been nonstop "Israel needs to destroy Hamas", "Go into x and finish them", "End Hamas!"
Putting aside the genocidal implications, the only response I can formulate to this is "And then what?" The whole world just watched you bomb civillians for half a year and then celebrate it. This isn't going to end with one group being stamped out. What happens when the next Hamas pops up? And then the one after that? Then the one after that? Are they just buying time until they can properly declare war on Lebanon or something?
And yet there are still indigenous nations and peoples here fighting for their existence.
This is borderline patsoc talking point btw.
Can you elaborate? This got me thinking...
Is it bc patsocs use fatalism regarding the struggle of indigenous nations as an "argument" to oppose it? Or is it that its reproducing fatalism regarding a just struggle that needs our solidarity and "pessimism" isn't helping?
(I hope I am not being insensitive. Pardon me if I don't have the best read on this. I am not a USian and not super exposed to this and I know far too little about the topic)
I obviously agree that its important to stand in solidarity with the struggle of indigenous nations in the land under US occupation! But I too would think that the Zionist regime would be happy to have their settler colony achieve US levels of "completion" of their genocide (which I also don't see happening, but that's besides the point)
I don't see a contradiction between both. It would simply mean that one deems the struggle against the US settler colony, the struggle for liberation, harder as of yet. Which seems to be an unfortunate but fair analysis or not?
Yeah basically both of those. And I wasn't leveling it as an accusation but it is a very common argument of chauvinists like PatSocs and liberals alike.
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