...Except I clocked Israel as having genocidal ambitions within days of Hamas' attack, right about the time their generals started talking about cutting off power and water to the entirety of gaza.
I have imagine I am both less informed and more naive than any of these politicians. I don't have to applaud them when they spinelessly slither with the prevailing political winds.
hamas could surrender tomorrow and end any pretense or cover for the "genocidal ambitions". you are being incredibly racist towards palestinians by infantilizing them and suggesting that hamas doesn't have any agency or responsibility for this war or it's effect on innocent civilians.
I think you are putting too much weight on the organization rather than the idea and collective it represents. From a very westernized idealized perspective.
Hamas is not this all encompassing high communication stable organization able to surrender tomorrow.
Hamas, or rather the idea, is instead made up of everyone who had a family member, relative or friend killed by Israel wanting to live a good life without the threat or pain of past actions.
One group of a loosely connected collective surrendering won’t materially change the situation on the ground.
Right. Anyone with basic empathy, the ability to read past the coordinated consent manufacturing media machine & actually listen to what the Israeli and Western governments were saying, and an understanding of what Israel really thinks of Palestinians, would have almost immediately realized a genocide is in the works.
The people who didn't realize it had many chances to do so over the past 2 years. First, the ICJ motion by South Africa: why would they have gone through the effort to even bring a case to the ICJ if nothing was amiss? Second, the ICC warrants.
In the US specifically, the biggest chance/wake up call of note was the coordinated wave of college protests. I mean, if you had sat down and seriously considered why so many colleges decided to protest across the nation, and expended just a tiny bit of effort to read past US gov statements and Western media pundits, you would have quickly realized that something was truly wrong.
If after all of this you still didn't see what was happening, then you can be proud to know that you'd likely have reacted to any other genocide the exact same way. At best, know that the skin color or "otherness" of the victim most likely contributes to your lack of empathy - so it would be good to take this as an opportunity to do some self-reflection :)
...Except I clocked Israel as having genocidal ambitions within days of Hamas' attack, right about the time their generals started talking about cutting off power and water to the entirety of gaza.
I have imagine I am both less informed and more naive than any of these politicians. I don't have to applaud them when they spinelessly slither with the prevailing political winds.