De facto #annexation keeps on keeping on
Question to all right-wing conservatives in the US:
You insist that you have the right to defend YOUR home with force, to bear arms and STAND YOUR GROUND, etc...
Do Palestinians have that right too?
If not, why not?
What is so striking is constant erasure of Palestinians as VICTIMS of violence at hands of Israel/Israelis. Because of this erasure, there can be NO discussion about the right of Palestinians to use force. In fact, ANY and ALL of their uses of force are condemned as "terrorism"
To me the CLEAREST example of this erasure is how the US media has remained SILENT about revelations that senior Israeli officers created & ran a terrorist group that killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon in 1980s
Because this Israeli #terrorism never existed, question of Palestinians defending themselves vs "the terrorists" cannot possibly be raised. & yet, this Q would reveal a lot about how we REALLY think about legitimacy of the use of force vs "the terrorists":
The "war on terrorism" (a discourse pushed by Israel since late 1970s) has been abject failure. It is high time we develop RADICAL critique of discourse that has enabled & justified so many criminal & counter-productive policies. So that one day the cycle of violence may stop
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