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And I never said that, either. I was asking whether or not somegeek was equating Israel with all Israelis, since they didn't make a distinction (e.g. by saying "the state of Israel" or "the IDF" or "the Netanyahu administration").
Seems fair in light of the broad statement made by somegeek.
I disagree, I believe it's understood in common parlance. I hate "Iran" not the majority of its peoples but the government that rules it. I've been saying fuck Israel, I have no issues with the majority of Israelis and since for some reason it needs to be said now, I certainly don't have issues with Jewish people because they are Jewish.
Would you apply those same standards to Gaza?
Would you say you hate "Gaza" if you hated the government that rules it, but not the millions of Palestinians living there?
Would you say "fuck Gaza" if you had no issues with the majority of Palestinians?
Because to me, it just seems that people apply wildly different standards. People seem to explain "here is my standard" when talking about one side, and then they absolutely refuse to adhere to their own standard when talking about the other side.
Saying Fuck Gaza is like saying fuck Wyoming, so sure why not? We say fuck Texas, or fuck Florida all the time. Saying fuck Palestine would be the equivalent to Saying fuck Israel. And yes people DO apply different standards. Welcome to being human. Not everything I'd black and white. Biases exists I'm. Not sure why this is apparently taking you by surprise. Let's get Israel out of occupied Gaza, and then we can criticize the Palestinian governments lack of care for its people? Same with Ukraine, I fully support Ukraine, is their government without faults? No, but they're kind of being attacked right now, so critizing them for doing XYZ or not doing XYZ while being bombed is pretty fucking stupid.
The West Bank is ruled by Fatah. Gaza is ruled by Hamas, partly because after Israel withdrew from Gaza, removed all Israeli settlers in Gaza, tore down illegal Israeli settlements and handed over other Israeli infrastructure to the Palestinians, Hamas got into power and never held elections again. Oh, and they also murdered Fatah members and instituted a de facto dictatorship.
So it makes sense to look at Gaza separately from the West Bank.
Well, all right then: are you okay with people saying 'Fuck Palestine" if they just dislike Hamas?
Well if you read what I wrote you wouldn't have asked. Also what does it matter what I am ok with? Am I the arbiter of just ness? Are you ok with people saying fuck Palestine? Or fuck Gaza, or Fuck Israelis or Fuck Israel?
Dude, we're having a personal, one-on-one conversation. If I didn't want to hear your opinion, I wouldn't have bothered asking you a question in the first place.
I'm just interested in why people have a radically different standard for Israel than for Gaza or Hamas or Palestine. I'm interested why people are a-okay with saying "fuck Israel" or "Israel is a terrorist state" or "Israel is committing genocide," but then don't have the heart to use the exact same standards for Gaza/Hamas/Palestine.
And clearly, you don't.
When asked a fairly straightforward question, instead of saying something like "if Hamas does the exact same thing that the IDF is doing, then they deserve the same label," it seems that you're getting all defensive. As if you simply don't have it on your heart to say something like "fuck Hamas."
I may be wrong, but that's certainly how it comes across. And I don't mean to pick on you personally, either. There's a ton of people around who will say "Israel is a terrorist state because they're murdering innocent civilians," but those same people just can't bring themselves to say anything negative about Hamas, even when it's pointed out that Hamas has absolutely zero problems murdering hundreds of civilians and even though Hamas keeps loudly telling everyone that they will keep on murdering innocent civilians in the future, and that anyone who murders innocent Israeli civilians is a hero.
I think that's worth noticing.
I'm not defensive, I'm simply tired of the amount of people who focus on "well hamas" when the issue right now, is Israel bombing the fuck out of innocent Palestinians. I have said fuck hamas countless times. As I said before, it's not black and white. For example I hate that Islam is generally very negative towards LGBT people, and, I know Hamas isn't LGBT friendly, but right now, that's no what needs to be focused on. I'm tried of people excusing the Israel genocide of Palestine because Hamas is horrible. The standards are different because at this exact point in time, Israel is the aggressor, well funded with the best in high tech military Gear, and the choose to flatten parts of Gaza. They make outright lies and claims that are BS, and they keep getting praise for it. As soon as you say something remotely critical of Israel you're called antisemitic. I'm tired of people thinking it's black and white, it's not, I'm tired of having to say " well Israel did this bad thing, but Hamas is bad too" no fucking shit. That's not the point right now. If Israel used their tech actually targeted Hamas leaders ( who are mostly not in Gaza) no one would really complain. No instead they chose to move 1.5million people, out of 2 million, into a war torn hell scape, bombing hospitals, ambulances, schools and homes. And people have the gall to say, "well you didn't say Hamas is bad".