Political Memes

I hear this argument a lot.

And following your thread. How would you suggest Palestinians free themselves from the prison they're all living in?

Or should they just be content with their lot?

Conflict is messy. People die. The nature of assymetric warfare necessitates a specific kind of fighting. And that's what this is, really. Unless the Palestinians have bunkers full of modern military hardware they can use to go toe to toe with Israel with.

But maybe there's a better way. So what is it?

There's rarely a simple "good guy" or "bad guy", but the situation has clear causes that need to be acknowledged and addressed for the conflict to ever cease. The core problem right now is that the Palestinians are an aggrieved population that are denied basic human rights and political self-determination, resulting from the post-Holocaust reaction to grant swaths of land to the global Jewish population guarantee them political self-determination. Since then there's a problem of political opportunists and, especially on the Israeli side, corporate interests, that benefit from the conflict itself and fostering extreme viewpoints based on antagonizing opposite sides of the conflict. There has to be a cultural migration towards non-antagonism, guaranteeing human rights for the Palestinians, de-escalating the conflict, and understanding that the core questions of each group's identity basically boil down to ideological and religious allegiances that are more based on history/tradition than in good sense, since the whole us-vs-them tete-a-tete is ultimately based on these arbitrary (nonsensical) group identities in the first place. That all being said, the reason Israel so commonly is depicted as the "bad guy" in the conflict is because militarily, politically, economically, they have the upper hand on all fronts, and those facts express themselves in the overall death count in the conflict since its beginning, which is heavily weighted against the Palestinians.

Western leftists, like their right wing counterparts, are very prone to propaganda. Massive propaganda campaigns by islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Pakistan, etc managed to convince western leftists that a literal terrorist group on the same level as ISIS is actually the good guy and that they're the real victims. It took a horrific invasion and terrorist attacks that murdered nearly 1000 innocent civilians AND have all of the horrors captured on video to convince a portion of western leftists that maybe a terrorist group is really a terrorist group.

Right now the left is STILL split where a big chunk is still doubling down on the propaganda where they're straight up celebrating and justifying the torture, rape, murder of civilians and the parading of their naked corpses, while another chunk is just starting to realize that maybe terrorists really are the baddies and so they take this "both sides bad" stance beause they're not fully sure about it. I really hope it won't take another horrific terrorist attack and the lives of another 1000 innocent civilians for western leftists to wake up and understand that Hamas IS the bad guy here. There's no ifs or buts about it. There's a lot to criticize Israel for, a lot, but there's no "both sides" to this. Israel is infinitely better than Hamas.

The thing is that this isn't new. Western leftist were also duped by Russia to believe that they were the good guys until they invaded Ukraine twice, and there's still a part of the left that's pro Russia. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see leftists defend evil regimes like Iran, China, Russia, and even North Korea. It shouldn't take atrocities for the western left or right to see evil and acknowledge it.