Q: Where is the Gaza Strip? A: Don’t worry about it. It won’t exist by the end of the week.

Q: How has the media approached the conflict? A: Swiftly and irresponsibly.

Q: How many people have died? A: That depends on whether you count Palestinian deaths as well.

Q: Am I allowed to be sad for all of the victims? A: Absolutely not. You have to pick a side.

Q: What’s been the international response? A: People across the world have contributed an outpouring of infographics.

Q: How has the United States responded? A: U.S. leaders reminded Americans that their nation has a responsibility to be a frothing worshipper at the altar of death.

Q: How is Israel working to avoid civilian casualties? A: Civilians in Gaza are being given the opportunity to be driven out of their homeland forever.

Q: Where can I learn more? A: This is a logistically and morally complex situation involving decades of recent history and thousands of years of context, so try your cousin’s Instagram stories.

Q: What lessons should I take from this conflict? A: That dehumanization begets dehumanization, terror begets terror, and none of us will be free until all of us are free; or, you know, that it might be easier to just look away.

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The Palestinians are being genocided, but then again they’re also antisemitic because they don’t support a Jewish ethnostate, so who can really say whether they deserve it or not?