Gaza

[sabotabby]

I don't really have anything insightful to say. I don't know if there is anything all that insightful for anyone to say—if someone thinks they're engaging in clever commentary about a massacre of protestors, they're probably wrong. You see a list of names like this, which includes 14-year-old children—shit, the picture of that little kid in his tux—and there's no real political analysis to be made beyond, "Fuck this." So I'm adding my voice to the collective global "fuck this," for what it's worth.

What do you even do from over here? Like a petition is going to change things when the Israeli government, led by an actual psychopath, has been given a carte blanche to fire into crowds of protestors by the country with the most nukes? It just feels like screaming into the void.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Yes. :(

I wish I could explain to my fellow Americans that this embassy move, made by a president who uses anti-Semitic dogwhistles, was not for the benefit of Israel let alone American Jewish people, and how it was actually intended to lead to exactly this atrocity and the accelerated snowballing of the cycle of violence.

I wish I could help anyone by being sad.

[sabotabby]

Same here.

I actually think that most Zionists would agree that gassing 8-month-olds is not awesome for Israel's international reputation, and ought to condemn it along with everyone else. And I'm seeing some are. Sadly, that nuance will be lost on most Americans.