I know you all mean well with this sentiment but it’s not a victory to lose hundreds of thousands of your friends and family. Too many innocents died to be thankful for the silver lining. Yeah there are some left over who get to pick up the pieces and “survive” but it’s going to be shit even given the ceasefire, ie, the bare minimum. There is no abstract Palestinian squatting above the world who survived the conflict, there are many Palestinians who forever lost the chance to see liberation in life because they were martyred.
I hate to say it but I agree with this sentiment; this was just a genocide, and the Israelis got to revel in killing a ton of Palestinians while barely being scratched for it. No adult can bear the trauma of Gaza over the last fifteen months, and yet this is the reality for its children. The only positive to come out of this is that hopefully Israel has burned its goodwill from most countries around the world, but this genocide frankly has only made an end to the apartheid in the same vein as South Africa literally impossible. Most of Gaza has been turned to rubble and who knows how they're supposed to rebuild especially is Israel still won't allow concrete into Gaza and won't allow what it would take to begin to fix it all up. The trauma the people living there are facing is worse than any soldier has ever known, and worse, they'll never see justice for it.
What silver lining there is, the Gazans won't feel it; the only comfort I've seen they have is what few of them are celebrating the ceasefire. If this ceasefire is permanent (and I have zero idea if it will be or not), then there's also the matter of if Israel will resume the blockade or not, putting them back to where they were on October 6th but this time with much loss of loved ones, loss of limbs, loss of infrastructure and a landscape of rubble and bodies; and the 'international community' can't be relied upon to get their act together.
Yes, thanks I agree. It feels wrong for me, as an outsider, to try to find the good in the situation. It’s just not my place to say that. Palestinians should have their own voice and speak for themselves, instead of trying to set the tone ourselves. It didn’t happen to me personally— how can I say whether it was worth it? To that end, was it even a choice to begin with?
My stance is to be supportive where I can but to never to coddle.
surviving means you can fight another day
I know you all mean well with this sentiment but it’s not a victory to lose hundreds of thousands of your friends and family. Too many innocents died to be thankful for the silver lining. Yeah there are some left over who get to pick up the pieces and “survive” but it’s going to be shit even given the ceasefire, ie, the bare minimum. There is no abstract Palestinian squatting above the world who survived the conflict, there are many Palestinians who forever lost the chance to see liberation in life because they were martyred.
I hate to say it but I agree with this sentiment; this was just a genocide, and the Israelis got to revel in killing a ton of Palestinians while barely being scratched for it. No adult can bear the trauma of Gaza over the last fifteen months, and yet this is the reality for its children. The only positive to come out of this is that hopefully Israel has burned its goodwill from most countries around the world, but this genocide frankly has only made an end to the apartheid in the same vein as South Africa literally impossible. Most of Gaza has been turned to rubble and who knows how they're supposed to rebuild especially is Israel still won't allow concrete into Gaza and won't allow what it would take to begin to fix it all up. The trauma the people living there are facing is worse than any soldier has ever known, and worse, they'll never see justice for it.
What silver lining there is, the Gazans won't feel it; the only comfort I've seen they have is what few of them are celebrating the ceasefire. If this ceasefire is permanent (and I have zero idea if it will be or not), then there's also the matter of if Israel will resume the blockade or not, putting them back to where they were on October 6th but this time with much loss of loved ones, loss of limbs, loss of infrastructure and a landscape of rubble and bodies; and the 'international community' can't be relied upon to get their act together.
Yes, thanks I agree. It feels wrong for me, as an outsider, to try to find the good in the situation. It’s just not my place to say that. Palestinians should have their own voice and speak for themselves, instead of trying to set the tone ourselves. It didn’t happen to me personally— how can I say whether it was worth it? To that end, was it even a choice to begin with?
My stance is to be supportive where I can but to never to coddle.