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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Israel doesn't have to be gone in order for Palestinians to be free. People are protesting because this isn't a war, this is resistance fighters standing up against an occupation and apartheid system. A free Palestine does not mean Israel and Zionists wiped off the map. It means Palestinians living with dignity, human rights, and self determination; things they are not given now, and have not been given for 75 years.

Yes, there are those in the fringe that believe Israel needs to be wiped off the map. Any political situation will breed extremists. But in order for peace to be achieved, first and foremost is the dismantling of Israel's APARTHEID SYSTEM.

this is why we rally. Our governments must understand that we are tasking them with putting pressure on Israel to change its ways. This is how apartheid fell in South Africa.

Free Palestine.

Salam and shalom to all citizens of Palestine.

Edit: forgot to add: those extremists do not represent the movement as a whole

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So what does a ceasefire mean? If Hamas is not releasing the hostages and continues to fire rockets and bullets at Israel how is that a ceasefire?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Hamas wants to release the hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement. That's why they took them in the first place.

Also, Israel declared war against Palestine in 1967 with their occupation, and against Gaza specifically in 2005 with the blockade. From that point onward Israel is the aggressor; if they give Palestinians peace and then Hamas continues firing rocket attacks your point holds. I haven't seen anyone make the point you're arguing against.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hamas wants to release the hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement. That's why they took them in the first place.

Why did they stop releasing them while there was a already a ceasefire? No one has answered my original question. I'm just trying to understand that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The ceasefire was for a limited number of Israeli hostages and a limited number of Palestinian hostages to be released, along with a limited time truce. As for why that's the case, Israel didn't want a permanent (or long-term) ceasefire. They vowed the war wasn't over the day they signed the truce, remember?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

what does a ceasefire mean

For Hamas? Nothing. There a news about Hamas firing rockets from humanitarian zone, for example. There a video of Hamas stealing humanitarian supplies. They don't care about all this "political" fuse around them. They never have been. They just wanna kill jews, cause that is their religion.

Upd. Also, before voting on my comment, look closely what Hamas did. And if you still proceed to defending point "Israel is wrong it's need to be stopped" I will at least know whom I dealing with.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A ceasefire comes about as an agreement between the parties. That's why it is hard to get to (Hamas won't stop defending Gaza, and the IOF doesn't want to stop shelling/infiltrating). In order for the two parties to lay down arms even for a moment is with negotiations and agreements. We saw during the ceasefire, multiple negotiations, resulting in specific numbers of hostages from both sides released. These numbers weren't decided at the time of release, they were specifics negotiated and agreed upon between parties.

Everyone that I know, that is calling for a ceasefire wants to see a permanent ceasefire. Not one that begins with Israel stating they will return to obliterating Gaza as soon as its over, but one that results in a process toward Palestinian self-determination, ALL hostages released both by Hamas and Israel. Keep in mind, Israel holds thousands of Palestinians hostage, including many without charge or trial and during the ceasefire, Israel detained more Palestinians than they released.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Just a point of clarification: Israel does not hold hostages. Everyone in Israeli custody is suspected, charged, or convicted of a crime.

Some have argued that Israel's criminal justice system is severely broken, and that it's very biased, and even that it is rife with wrongful convictions and lack of due process. But it is counterfactual to say that Israel is holding hostages. No one is held by the State of Israel as a civilian who was captured and held on threat of life with the purpose of being released in exchange for a political goal. You will never hear Hamas supporters name even one.

People can twist and torture the definition of the word "hostage" to the point that it becomes meaningless in an attempt to establish some type of moral equivalency, but it will never be objectively true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Holding someone in "military administration", without trial, without charge, without access to a lawyer or family, for political gain sounds a lot like a hostage to me, ESPECIALLY when the detainee in question is a child, of which there are hundreds.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

glad you find the situation funny