What's Your Answer to All the Blogging

Credit where due to the genocide apologists. They've stopped asking "well what's your solution?" with the implication that of course anyone who opposes genocide wants to see Israel eradicated completely. /eyeroll

I want to believe that they've figured out that "Israel must commit genocide in order to survive" is a stupidly bad argument, but the truth is that these people do not give a fuck about Palestinians. These racist fucking assholes do not actually believe that it's a bad argument. In their worldview - this genocide is good because the dirty brown folks deserve it. I mean, how else can you defend genocide?

No, what's happened here is that they've had this question answered too many times. There is an obvious choice which ends the violence - and that's addressing the root cause of the violence. The key to peace in the Middle East is to end the occupation. It's painfully obvious. An oppressed people will struggle to be free - this is not a hard concept to grasp. Even with their immoral wallowing in the dehumanization of Palestinians - this is obvious. Even if you are one of those racist sociopaths that think Palestinians are no better than wild animals - well, you don't keep poking wild animals with a sharp stick expecting them to suddenly start loving you.

Christiane Amanpour had Ami Ayalon on for an interview. Ayalon spent 33 years in the Israeli Navy, starting in one of their secret mission special forces units and working his way up to eventually becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. After retiring from military service he headed up Shin Bet, Israel's counter-intelligence service. This is a guy who is insistent on strong and robust Israel military forces. and not some Columbia University protestor.

Unless we shall understand, again and again I am saying it, - that if we shall not end the occupation, we shall not have security, and if we shall not end this occupation, we shall not have democracy - we shall not have democracy and we shall not have security and this is the end of the Zionist dream.

Sometimes people forget. It's so obvious that the question catches you off guard. "How do you bring peace to Israel-Palestine?" Of fucking bloody course you have to end the occupation. The occupation itself is a violation of peace - it has been perpetually and constantly violent - the oppression and humiliation of Palestinians for generations. Not only does ending the occupation remove the source of the animosity that drives terrorism - but by definition, there is no peace so long as Palestine is occupied.

No peace so long as Palestine is occupied is not a threat - it is a simple statement of fact.