cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1928681
The rest of this story has been in the hexbear megathreads, but I'll probably compile it into a post someday. It's mostly me using facts and logic, along with ethos and pathos and Norm Finkelstein's book Gaza to convince them that Israel is a genocidal ethnostate.
Report: February 26th 2024
I am still continuing to radicalize my parents on Israel/Palestine as often as I can get away with. Today, I explained to them what white phosphorous is and how often Israel is using it. And where it is manufactured (it's the USA, folks, in good old St Louis, MO).
If you don't know already, white phosphorous is
NSFL description of a banned weapon that Israel uses weekly
this sticky goo that bursts into flame on contact with the air, then it burns the skin of the victims and poisons you by entering the holes that just burned up, causing liver damage and eventually multiple organ failure.
Also mentioned that Israel destroyed nearly every hospital in Gaza, so no treatment for those women and children burned with chemical weapons.
My mom searched "white phosphorus israel" and saw that Israel did a white phosphorus attack on a Jabalia refugee camp on October 31, killing 195+ civilians (they're all civilians, it's a FUCKING REFUGEE CAMP).
Source here, debate perverts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_October_2023_Jabalia_refugee_camp_airstrike
I asked my dad "What you are supposed to do when evil wins and your country is funding it?" (Thanks JT for the excellent framing device). He had a long think about that one.
Next post: my notes from reading Chapter 1 of Gaza by Dr. Norm Finkelstein. They were very persuasive in a family meeting I presented.
I don't think you can go wrong with Norman Finkelstein, he's always been committed to the truth and is rather obsessive about it - as his extensive footnotes attest! I first came across him in the early 2000s during my university degree when he was on our reading list (The Holocaust Industry) and I've been a fan ever since. He's done some wonderful interviews during this current genocide - including one with TrueAnon which was both informative and rather entertaining.
This is good stuff. I wish my parents were this willing to listen. Instead they are just awful people all around.
I'm glad that my parents aren't terrible people. My Mom was pretty good at understanding the crux of the issue but my dad took a LOT of convincing.
My Dad has a HARD block on Russia/Ukraine. In his mind, Putin is Literally Hitler and has no justification for wanting a buffer zone without NATO nukes.
Not even drawing comparisons with the "Cuban Missile Crisis" is making a dent.
