Salem

https://bsky.app/profile/stoporangefascism.bsky.social/post/3llwhdbppis2j

looks like bluesky

It gave me a Food Wars with Tower of Druaga kind of anime vibe when I first saw it come out but I'll switch to it.

Israel feels it has no choice to finish its genocide in Gaza, and the Palestinians there that have no where else to go or have not bought their way out, are willing (perhaps resigned is a better term) to be martyred there. Wars have two phases, the combat itself and the brokering of peace.

After the war, there will be investigations, estimations. The vanity of Israel is the belief their country will return to normalcy. But no matter how well Israel tries to hide the carnage, even if it bars the international community from investigating, the census numbers won't lie.

There will be fewer Palestinians in Gaza and people will be affirmed of conclusions already drawn; indeed, action would have been taken had we a nominally functional liberal democracy. But because the state is already heavily suppressing and destroying the ideology of liberal democracy to protect Israel and its campaign of genocide, it proves that resistance and protest are working because the US state is forced to abandon its facade of liberalism to ensure its commitment to empire. It also proves that the current mode of protest and demonstration has to persist and expand into economic boycotts, sanctions, and social humiliation.

Israel's post-genocidal society may mirror states like the 19th century US or post-communist purge Indonesia where their killers and genocidaires are sanctified and glorified. But their society is stained with the genocide and people won't forget what we saw Israel, the US, and the West did.

History is made, and you are right to hold this view point that Israel's defeat, admonishment, or punishment are not set in stone but there in lies the question: what is to be done? I think (hope, rather) BDS will be the focus and gain momentum to do what violence did not accomplish.