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Oct. 13th, 2023 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leejooheonTW: Discussions of war, genocide and colonization
I don't want to bring subjects of this kind into my journal but here goes.
I've seen a lot of people online be very dismissive about the idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is "complicated" and acting like that's equivalent to placing equal blame on all parties.
There is a clear oppresor in this situation. The fact that Israel can cut off food and water from Palestine should tell you everything about how unequal the power dynamics are. This is colonization. We are witnessing genocide. Of course that's all true.
But this doesn't change that the topic is complex. Many of the people living in Israel were born there. It's not as easy as simply telling them to "leave." Leave to where? You can say none of this should have happened in the first place, but it did happen, those people are very much now living there and finding a solution is complcated.
The reality of the situation is that ALL conversations surrounding colonization and land-back movements are complicated, as much as we would like them not to be. And I think it's fair for people to not speak on the subject if they barely know anything about it, if anything that's preferable. I'm only just now informing myself about the conflict, so I haven't engaged with the subject much. This is really the only place I feel comfortable saying anything about it.
The news about Gaza's evacuation have left me feeling empty. We are so powerless to stop this. Those israelian victims are being used to justify this ethnic cleansing and I just can't fathom how vile that is. I feel so much dread just imagining it.
I hope the innocent israelian civilians are safe. And I wish freedom to Palestine.
I don't want to bring subjects of this kind into my journal but here goes.
I've seen a lot of people online be very dismissive about the idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is "complicated" and acting like that's equivalent to placing equal blame on all parties.
There is a clear oppresor in this situation. The fact that Israel can cut off food and water from Palestine should tell you everything about how unequal the power dynamics are. This is colonization. We are witnessing genocide. Of course that's all true.
But this doesn't change that the topic is complex. Many of the people living in Israel were born there. It's not as easy as simply telling them to "leave." Leave to where? You can say none of this should have happened in the first place, but it did happen, those people are very much now living there and finding a solution is complcated.
The reality of the situation is that ALL conversations surrounding colonization and land-back movements are complicated, as much as we would like them not to be. And I think it's fair for people to not speak on the subject if they barely know anything about it, if anything that's preferable. I'm only just now informing myself about the conflict, so I haven't engaged with the subject much. This is really the only place I feel comfortable saying anything about it.
The news about Gaza's evacuation have left me feeling empty. We are so powerless to stop this. Those israelian victims are being used to justify this ethnic cleansing and I just can't fathom how vile that is. I feel so much dread just imagining it.
I hope the innocent israelian civilians are safe. And I wish freedom to Palestine.
