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I get your feeling of injustice, putting them into relation. But flying a Hezbollah flag doesn't change that, and doesn't support your argument. It just supports Hezbollah. You can criticize without supporting the next best worst opposition.
If you want to demonstrate the maximum amount of opposition, with disregard for anything else, it does that. And that may have some effect and value too.
But what's your goal, and who do you want to reach? Who will you push away by flying a flag of a terrorist organisation (looking at what they did, irrelevant why they came to be and act the way they do for now)? Isn't supporting Palestine and Palestinians, demonstrating for their right to exist and live, and against Israel's terror - isn't that just as viable? Isn't that the goal? I don't think there's a need to support Hezbollah or fly their flag for that?
Israel should definitely be held to the same standards, which it currently is not.
You can't support Palestinians without supporting the armed indigenous resistance groups that fight for their survival. Support Hezbollah and Ansar Allah and Hamas, because they are the only hope Palestinians have.
Yes it's quite simple actually.
There you go. Easy wasn't it?
You don't support the actually existing fight for Palestinian freedom. You don't support the only hope Palestine has of being free.
Do you just want them to peacefully die?
Stop looking for easy answers.
If the only hope is an internationally decried terrorist cell then I feel really bad for the poor people of Palestine that are stuck in the middle.
Do you think I don't feel bad that Palestinians must resort to violence to be free of a genocidal settler colonial entity? I don't like that they need to fight their way out of this.
I just recognize reality.
I don't think the current state and progress support your argument. We can see what they brought to all of Palestine, all of the civilian Palestinians. It's certainly not freedom.
You want them to die in terror? Not just those fighting, but all of them? That's what's happening right now.
The genocide started long before Oct 7th. This is an acute period of hightened violence, but Israel was murdering and kidnapping and displacing and otherwise terrorizing Palestinians every year before this too. Why do you think Palestinian resistance exists?
Israel is in a weaker position than it ever has been before. Europeans are ending trade and arms deals with them, the majority of Westerners oppose arming Israel, Israelis are fleeing Israel to return to their secondary countries, this is the beginning of the end.
The US/Israel occupation is going to lose.
Support resistance or stand aside.
Do you not believe that sometime when fighting terrorism (coming from the IDF and settlers) that it stands to reason that you have to so terrible things yourself, lest you just get wiped out.
How would we feel about the Iraqi government locking people up for flying the American or UK flag during our illegal invasion. We could have been labelled as terrorists for those actions.
I’m not saying I’m right here, but I’m incredibly frustrated and on the verge of doing something serious as I don’t know what else to do. I educate my ignorant friends, I protest, I write to my local officials etc.
To a degree, I do. I can understand why it happens, and see opposition as just to some degree. And there is part of the blame on civilian settlers invading too, with ignorance or deliberately. But there is nuance in actions (damaging property vs people, etc), and planning for and handling consequences. The terror evidently caused much more terror and damage to their own side. It did not improve the situation at all.
If you're looking at the situation now, is it more important to support armed defense and opposition, or opposing Isreal in its activities? It's very clear to me.
Supporting Hezbollah doesn't give us anything in this situation. It is damaging in rallying support and in supporting Palestinians and their misery.
I think there is an important lesson to be learned here. The countries we live in came to be through (sometimes armed and violent) protest. They dont change through disagreement but through long lasting and resilient protest.
Another important part: a lot of the people we know today as those who formed our human rights and countries, would ne branded terrorists today. The countries we live in use terror to overwhelm opposition but they call it legitimate. We have police in tanks using chemicals against protesters, killing some.
Its total bullshit and sign of undercomplex understanding of the world to blanket distegard groups because they form armed resistance against oppression. Armed resistance is also covered by international human rights, while the actions of the current aggressor are not.
Did anyone blanket disregard groups in this thread? I don't see it.
We can understand why a group picks up arms, and can even see it as just to a degree, while disagreeing with some of their actions.
Some activities being covered by international human rights doesn't mean all of them are. Raising their flag means supporting all of their actions.
I wrote this to highlight how the term "terror*" is used to smear armed resistance.
Raising a flag in general does not mean you support any and all deeds an organization has done. Another undercomplex take.
For example germany, usa, etc have done unspeakable things, yet we can raise their flag. These double standards are insane. There is no group that - by this standard - would be worthy of flying their flag. Even in the lgbtq and neurodivergence movements there are people who are bad actors. Its is a complete L take.
I'm not saying hamas or whatever group is beyond criticism or even worth considering supporting but I'm saying a very small portion of people speaking about this cab write two paragraphs about these organizations, why and how they were formed and what things they did and what they should be criticized or ousted for.
I'm pretty sure it's the interpretation most people will conclude to when they see someone wave that flag at a demonstration, though. There's a Palestine flag too. Raising that gives a very different image.
The German "Third Reich" had it's own flag, which is forbidden in Germany. I can see your point, though.
Those are country flags, though, not a country's militia flag. Germany has other Nazi symbols outlawed too.
The reich is not germany. Germany after the third reich has also done unspeakable things. Currently, germany is assisting in genocide which hopefully will lead to german politicians being charged and sentenced for crimes against humanity.
My point was your argument is bogus and flying a flag does not mean aligning with every deed. It shows that you dont understand how public image works.
Painting an organization (or a person) as bad is very easy, same with painting them as good (whitewashing). Flying any flag means sparking discourse and in some cases it means reopening the public case to change the public image.