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How do you feel about financing a genocide? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by selokichtli@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I didn't want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I'm right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

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[–] mawkishdave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

My biggest complaint is that Ukraine has to be very careful about this or they would lose their support. Israel goes all out on this and the west can't give them sorry fast enough.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

If you were in power in Israel, and care for its citizens, what would your steps be as reaction to what happened? Please imagine both short and long term consequences.

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/protestors-block-downtown-seattle-streets-amid-middle-east-war/QHUUZH3QQNBL7IB7I7UPY6EKZM/

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

All the evidence so far tells me that nobody is serious about stopping the violence. The only way the violence will end in this region is if the entire region is turned into a sheet of glass.

My only interest in the region is ensuring that the violence continues, until such time as an option other than "glass them all" presents itself.

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