I’m not defending that. I already said I don’t condone their acts of violence. I’m simply stating their actions are in response to the systemic atrocities Israel enacts upon them. That’s not absolute evil, that’s just stating the obvious. What is absolutely evil is your complete refusal to accept that even as possibility.
We’re done now. You can continue barking like the Israeli lapdog you are, I don’t give a fuck. I have zero respect for soulless monsters like you.
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And of course he plays the “you’re an anti-Semite” card. It’s not antisemitic to call someone a monster if they deliberately try to villainize victims of oppression. I don’t even know if the commenter is jewish or not and I don’t care because it doesn’t change my opinion of him at all, he’s a piece of shit regardless.
And it’s not antisemitic to call out the state of Israel for their deplorable acts of oppression. Israel being a jewish nation doesn’t make them imprevious to criticisms you could aim at any nation in the world (if they were systematically oppressing a minority group). Israel also doesn’t represent all the jews in the world which means criticism of Israel is not criticism of the jewish people. Calling others antisemitic because they criticize systemic oppression does nothing to address the criticism, it’s a cowardly attempt (by both the other commenter and the Israeli government) to sweep the criticism under the rug because it’s an indefensible position.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Those who affirm the sovereignty of the Israeli state and also believe
Palestinians have a right to sovereignty for the same reason, and who
take the Palestinian question as fundamental, must admit that the
Israeli establishment’s policy is literally crazy and deliberately aims at
avoiding all possible solutions to this problem. It is therefore politi-
cally accurate to say that a state of war exists between Israel and the
Palestinians. In this war the Palestinians’ only weapon is terrorism. It
is a terrible weapon but the oppressed poor have no other, and the
French who approved FLN terrorism against the French must
approve in turn the Palestinians’ terrorist action. This abandoned,
betrayed, exiled people can show its courage and the force of its hate
only by organizing deadly attacks.
~~Jean-Paul Sartre, 1972, after the attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich
Terrorists don’t throw punches at bullies, they rape and murder civilians, and that’s what youre trying to defend here.
Absolute evil, and I mean you
I’m not defending that. I already said I don’t condone their acts of violence. I’m simply stating their actions are in response to the systemic atrocities Israel enacts upon them. That’s not absolute evil, that’s just stating the obvious. What is absolutely evil is your complete refusal to accept that even as possibility.
We’re done now. You can continue barking like the Israeli lapdog you are, I don’t give a fuck. I have zero respect for soulless monsters like you.
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And of course he plays the “you’re an anti-Semite” card. It’s not antisemitic to call someone a monster if they deliberately try to villainize victims of oppression. I don’t even know if the commenter is jewish or not and I don’t care because it doesn’t change my opinion of him at all, he’s a piece of shit regardless.
And it’s not antisemitic to call out the state of Israel for their deplorable acts of oppression. Israel being a jewish nation doesn’t make them imprevious to criticisms you could aim at any nation in the world (if they were systematically oppressing a minority group). Israel also doesn’t represent all the jews in the world which means criticism of Israel is not criticism of the jewish people. Calling others antisemitic because they criticize systemic oppression does nothing to address the criticism, it’s a cowardly attempt (by both the other commenter and the Israeli government) to sweep the criticism under the rug because it’s an indefensible position.
~~Jean-Paul Sartre
~~Jean-Paul Sartre, 1972, after the attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich