Palestine

Content warning for racism and violence.
My imagined version of Omelas has a fluctuating pronunciation, deal with it.
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Palestine Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net/
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[@haruruben]

I saw a girl who lost her leg and her whole family was killed when her house was bombed. She survived and said she was committed to moving on and living the life her parents wanted for her. Then two weeks later the hospital was hit and she was killed. That still haunts me, I think about it almost every day.

[@yumeriagirl1231]

Same. Fuckin' heartbreaking 💔 af!

[@megaham1552]

Which hospital?

[@blasko88]

@@megaham1552what a suspiciously specific question. As though some sort of moral qualification is brewing.

[@cookies23z]

damn... kinda wish I didnt read that...

[@legaldinho]

She was interviewed and answered that she hoped to go to Europe to have prosthetics fitted. And she would then hope to train to be a doctor to help future generations like the doctors who helped her Two weeks later a tank shell was fired at her hospital ward. Reports were that she was decapitated.

[@freesoul2677]

"They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it.. then they demand you thank them for their generosity.. o their audacity!" - Ghassan Kanafani

[@eschur]

No Jewish people aren't stealing anyone's bread

[@Jkjoannaki]

Literally why the working class is modern day slaves. And the reason bourgeois class wants the slaves to believe they are equal and it's just about luck and gods tests for your soul and whatever

[@Jesus_Language_Aramic]

He was a Christian btw. And one of the earliest participants of liberation movements. When interviewer asked him why they don't just give up as fighting back causing them more deaths. He replied, "To us, to liberate our country, to have dignity, respect & human rights is as essential as life itself" -Ghassan Kanafani

[@eschur]

anti-Israel SOB

[@zarbins]

@@Jkjoannaki You based the worthiness and equality of individuals based on their economic status? I know many happy working class people and many miserable and suffering bourgeois. I realize this is anecdotal but most people stuck in working class conditions around me (friends and family) are there largely because of consequences for choices they made in the past and their abject refusal to change their behaviors to facilitate upward mobility. You can lead a horse to water, and often have, but you can't make it drink.

[@arnoldkotlyarevsky383]

One of the hardest parts of being an anti-zionist jew is finding out how alone you are. Finding out that your friends and family actually dont think that what the Nazis did was wrong, but that who they did it to was, is so fucking alienating and isolating, I cannot put it into words. I feel more alone now than I did during quarantine.

[@DeoMachina]

@idnevertakenbefore lmao okay Himmler settle down on the race science

[@tibot4228]

I am so sorry to hear that. You are doing the right thing, and hopefully you'll be able to join a like-minded community.

[@freesoul2677]

In every Palestinian protest, I find MANY anti-Zionist Jews who are ones of the best people I ever saw. I hope you find like minded people around you! Praying for you 🙏🏻

[@eosapienrancher4045]

@@DeoMachinaI don't think they're doing race science at all. Their point is that ethnonationalism and progressivism are incompatible. I dont think they communicated it very well though.

[@Amir_97]

@idnevertakenbeforeconservatism dies out buddy

[@Kobenoz]

When I was 15, on the TV news, I saw a boy throwing rocks at tanks, yelling about stolen land, and killing of families. I’m now 42, and on the internet, I saw a boy throwing rocks at tanks, yelling about stolen land, and killing of families…

[@17-MASY]

Look up a song called (Stand up for the Revolution). And chapter 19 of the Quran.

[@googooboyy]

That boy never grew. That tank never moved. The world never changed. Sad.

[@MAHtheofficial]

I blame myself and the humans living their lives all over the earth for not speaking up sooner. I feel like now it is just too late to stop them. Our ignorance has made them powerful enough to keep going no matter what the world thinks of them.

[@Yassinovish007]

help gaza : humanappeal.fr/faire-un-don/projets/urgences/urgence-gaza?gclid=CjwKCAiA6KWvBhAREiwAFPZM7nD8FlD_u7KhlWVjeETymCrzvcxYt2d-_9MHilaeSRDyaxlN1hLm6RoCBuIQAvD_BwE

[@okaytosmile]

​@@MAHtheofficialBut we know better now, boycott, talk about it and go to protest and pickets

[@derekneese9497]

I remember a clip of a man holding a baby boy he had no relation to but who's entire family was killed by an Israeli airstrike. An interviewer asked him something along the lines of "will you take care of him now?" And the man simply replied "What else am I supposed to do? He is my son now." I'm not sure I even want to know the fate of that man and his adoptive son. But I desperately hope that boy will grow up being raised by his father.

[@geoffreysmith49]

that made me cry. Palestinians have collectively experienced dozens of 10/7s, yet have not devolved into mass murdering psychopaths

[@PC1989]

That hurts. I cannot imagine...

[@jevonp]

Jesus Christ 😖 actually so fucking sad

[@Stephanie-mv9iy]

I mean... some of them.​@@geoffreysmith49

[@SuperStella1111]

I saw that! He was asked: "Where are his parents?" The reply was: "They are dead. This is my son now." The tenderness was overwhelming.

[@SkyFoall]

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” -Malcolm X

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

So it is a class struggle. Nathks

[@antoocello5289]

This quote is braindead

[@konbust]

@@antoocello5289 But it fits the description of what is going on with media clearly altering the facts to make it so israel seems like the ones being oppressed

[@Wakamolewonder]

@@antoocello5289bet you believe everything the media tells you to believe

[@antoocello5289]

@@Wakamolewonder sure, keep on believing that "the media" is trying to indoctrinate everyone or something. You know what newspapers give you? Information that is at your disposal so that you can make your own judgement. I can't stand that quote because the oppressor and oppressed narrative people try to push in every situation contradicts my belief

[@munirah3098]

I will never forget a clip I saw of a father, a doctor, cutting off his teenage daughter’s leg without anesthesia, over a paint bucket, with people around her pinning her down so she wouldn’t move or resist. I felt nauseous. What is happening is a disgrace to all of humanity and to all progress that our mouths mock.

[@lisac747]

She was evaluated thankfully

[@NoOne-ev3jn]

I think she was his niece

[@amoonwalker]

It was his niece and he cut it off with a saw💔💔

[@Yassinovish007]

help gaza : humanappeal.fr/faire-un-don/projets/urgences/urgence-gaza?gclid=CjwKCAiA6KWvBhAREiwAFPZM7nD8FlD_u7KhlWVjeETymCrzvcxYt2d-_9MHilaeSRDyaxlN1hLm6RoCBuIQAvD_BwE

[@foxnamedcromezz1200]

That’s awful. It’s such a shame what’s happening. I hope she’s ok.

[@dina11001]

As a Palestinian, my grandfather took refuge in Syria in 1948, and I was born in Syria, and neither I nor my father visited my homeland, because the right of return was taken away due to the presence of the Israeli occupation. At the same time, any Jew in the world, regardless of his nationality, can go to our land in Palestine and carry the citizenship of the Israeli occupation. Our pain is 75 years old.💔💔

[@chillstorm2341]

Allah is the ultimate provider of justice. Have no fear nor doubt, simply believe in His power and might.

[@mmelshapbsglobal]

Not true. Not a single Jew lives in Palestine

[@mysteryd8866]

​@@mmelshapbsglobalthere's many jews living in the west Bank illegally

[@dina11001]

@@mmelshapbsglobal if they follow the true religion of God, then those who live in occupied Palestine can't be called Jews, but rather Zionists who occupy land in the name of Judaism.

[@botanicalitus4194]

@@mmelshapbsglobalthey do, they just call it "israel" now

[@anmolt3840051]

It's always "Hamas killed 1200 people" vs "Israeli military action has resulted in 30,000 deaths"

[@ninototo1]

To be fair, there is a difference between a terrorist attack and a military attack.

[@jasonstormsong4940]

@@ninototo1 I agree, there can be no greater difference between an attack intended to cause terror against civilians and a genocidal military campaign against civilians.

[@j_117]

​​@@ninototo1not when youre bombing children

[@megaham1552]

How many were Hamas?

[@anmolt3840051]

@@ninototo1 Your naivete would be funny if it was not so profoundly sad

[@marktaylor6491]

"You can't claim moral superiority when asking for support, but then moral equivalence to excuse your crimes." You can frame that one.

[@brasileirokubrusly2]

thought the same

[@marktaylor3290]

Hey you have my name

[@thomdotexe]

he really does come through with the coldest lines of any political commentator

[@Soggysenpai]

I mean this is basically a leftist spoonfeeding what his audience wants to hear. Idk why I actually thought this would be a nuanced take but it's just a typical Lefty pov

[@trainer_red7645]

@@thomdotexe Jesus why is it always "cold" when talking about quotes, its not fitting at all in this context

[@MohammedAhmed-iy4gp]

'You cant claim moral superiority when asking for support, but then moral equivalence to excuse your crimes' -Shaun.

[@simenberge3656]

I guess this comment only works one way for u guys. Even do it’s a perfect quote for both sides

[@warmlycalculated390]

​@@simenberge3656Huh? No one's tax dollars are supporting Hamas.

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

@@warmlycalculated390except, ironically, Israeli tax dollars

[@eeeertoo2597]

@@simenberge3656 In your mind the state that was invented out of nothing decades ago and that is trying to replace the indigenous population, that is supported by the strongest and richest countries in the world are the real victims here.

[@teslashark]

When has that ever stopped soldiers?

[@flapadodawhitewoods5670]

Writing this currently from my job in Jerusalem. If I have anything to add is that the moment I heard that nurses voice I knew she didn’t know a lick of Arabic.

[@panadocoughsyrup]

I’m happy that you’ve realised the horror of the situation. Are you planning to move? What is the attitude of the general Israeli citizen?

[@flapadodawhitewoods5670]

@@panadocoughsyrup Hard to say I’ve realized the horrors. I’ve always had mixed feelings about this conflict, as well as many others here. That’s why even the left and all my anarchist punk friends can’t exactly properly support the Palestine movement. All of them are victims of a conflict they didn’t have anything to do with. Half of them were forced to enlist as it’s the law, whether they support the cause or not. Half of them have had to bury their brothers and sisters in this war, while getting DMs on instagram calling them Zionist scum. All the while my friends in the IDF get shown explicit videos and images of r*pe during October 7th. But most of the populace think Arabs are scum and Gaza should be flattened. I get customers that ask me if any of ‘them’ work here. A little Arab girl got shot in a crossfire right up my street a few weeks ago. When I said she was a poor soul I heard people say she was going to be a terrorist anyways. I’ve always wanted to move, and I will. Just today I picked up my Australian passport, lord knows how hard it was for me to get it. Even without the conflict, this place is just poisonous. You can’t live your life here. You live to work until you die just to not make enough to pay for rent.

[@flapadodawhitewoods5670]

@@panadocoughsyrup I wrote a whole comment but I think it got taken down. To shorten it though, I’ve always had mixed feelings about this conflict, so does everyone else on the left here. A lot of them were forced to enlist by law. A lot of them suffered casualties and lost loved ones. A lot of them got harassed online for being Jewish. A lot of them that enlisted were shown explicit unreleased videos of atrocities committed by Hamas during Oct 7. So it’s complicated. Most people here though want to see Gaza flattened and genuinely hate Palestinians. I’ve always wanted to move. I actually picked up my AU passport just today. This place is poisonous.

[@panadocoughsyrup]

@@flapadodawhitewoods5670 Jeez, that’s horrible. I’m excited for you that you’ve got your passport though. I’m sure a big part of that attitude is propaganda. Sending hope from South Africa 🇿🇦. I hope your fellow countrymen and the culture of your nation will change. They don’t deserve hatred for being Jewish too, obviously, so stay safe

[@imjusthere8024]

@@panadocoughsyrupwtf are you talking about?

[@uncomfortablecats]

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”-Kait Rokowski

[@warlordofbritannia]

The cycle of violence is one helluva drug

[@Shmeeby9411]

That is a good quote

[@Kimmaline]

WOW. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@Dracobyte]

Tragedy and missfortune without selfreflection / introspection, empathy, determination and wisdom will not make us better. It will make us more miserable. And in worse cases, it will make us spread that misery to the world.

[@backpackpepelon3867]

This become tragically true as we are now at the eve of the new holocaust.

[@ianmacdonald8585]

There is nothing about this that doesn't rot my soul in some way. But the concept of a "terrorist sign-in sheet" is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.

[@AvocadoAfficionado]

N---a, is you takin notes on a criminal f--kin conspiracy?

[@fodonogue3]

So who signed in? Was it Thursday or Sunday??

[@snakesnoteyes]

I’m Monday

[@geoffrayylmao]

​@@snakesnoteyes monday is hamas

[@blahblah-hz8ey]

Trump 2024

[@Emmaherbst082]

12:12 as a person who speaks Arabic, the white caption on the video is grammatically incorrect. She says "listennnn.. unbelievable (male active voice)" She refered by the verb she used to herself as male, which is a Google translate mistake. If she was Arab she would've used the female verb since there's a huge difference .

[@AzmiAidaSafri]

Lol! Thanks for pointing that out

[@2FreePalestineFreeYourself]

True And talking English while titling in Arabic adds another layer of suspicion to the other multi layers of wrong things in this video And Even if we said that there were a couple dozens of Hitlers inside,where is the heroic image of the white man in movies who only cares about saving people and he do it and take out the criminals even in impossible situations, looks like the easy situations especially with power tech etc that make tens of other half reasonable approaches is not their speciality huh And when they take a 0.00000000000000000001% of a sip of their actions(hurting civilians to hurt the criminal) i find a literal mind-blowing yapping every single where even from the people of those who they hurt them , this is good and all but when it becomes a specific thing for certain people only and it becomes a crushing hammer over the heads of other innocent people (on purpose) then it becomes no good at All

[@awsamagbarya7275]

This is 100% correct, but is only true 99% of the time because i personally have seen some people wrong gender for adjectives in certain towns here, ive always thought it's a bit stupid and its mostly rare but i dont think that (alone) is definitive because it happens every now and then here

[@Speensinc]

As a medical professional, that is a really cheap stethescope that really isn't considered good enough quality, but in the other ones all the medical staff are using good quality litmann's stethescopes

[@mehmeteking]

That poem killed me inside... "Come back..." :.(

[@areejashraf7413]

I cried, my heart has been numb for months because of all the horror was too much yet this...sparked a flame in me.

[@genaromorales6946]

Do you have the time stamp or name of the poem?

[@Smhedgehog]

​@@genaromorales69466:23

[@capn_toad]

i watched a video of a 12 year old boy carrying a white flag through a so called "safe passage" out of gaza be shot in the street in front of his parents. when his older brother rushed over to him, he was shot too. never again means never again for everyone. we're not free until all of us are free.

[@indyjacob4597]

injustice somewhere is a threat to justice everywhere

[@InTheMood-fi3bh]

No, there is a stark difference between zionists and Jewish people as a whole

[@chandelier6811]

@@doomdimensiondweller5627ok national socialist

[@Froggeh92]

No we dont. We need to talk about zionism co-opting judaism and hijacking the faith though. ​@@indyjacob4597

[@concept8192]

@@doomdimensiondweller5627 I think "we on the left" can wait until *after* the conflict is over to discuss anything of the sort

[@freesoul2677]

I always wondered how did the people see the Nazis crimes and remained silent, unfortunately now I know when I see Israel’s defenders. It is not only remaining silent. They are defending the crimes. It is a sad time to live in.

[@Punk_Tovarisch]

A. The crimes of Nazis were revealed late into the war. And their magnitude only years after the war ended. B. The Nazi crimes were kept mostly secretive to the public until very late in the war, nearing its end. C. Nazi Germany was already regarded as an evil enemy to the "free world" as the war started. Israel is an ally to "the west" which is roughly the same as those times "free world" thus their actions excused. People tend to forget, up until Germany attacked Poland, "the west" was still more than neutral and accepting to it, cuz it benefitted them economically and politically. Hell, up until the US joined the war, American corporations were trading with Germany during the Holocaust and some were profiting from concentration camp labour for their production. This world mostly revolves around economic-political interest, and is the sole reason Israel still exists as it is. Gladly as the world progresses with technology, there's a trend for change, but don't expect any quick magical solution or end to the world's atrocities. Remember the world still trades with all sort of tyrants, warmongers and isolates or embargoes any state "non-compliant" to the world's hegemonic capitalist interest, e.g. Cuba, N. Koreaa, Venezuela and few more.

[@freesoul2677]

@@Punk_Tovarisch The more we learn the truth about the so called “free world” the more we understand that it has nothing to do with freedom 😐.

[@cojoes1423]

@@Punk_Tovarisch You can actually see countless examples of people in the West, including liberals cheering on the U.S to war (for example the war in Iraq and Afghanistan), and approving of their countries actions when it clearly had a devastating effect on the civilian populations of those countries. George W. Bush had high approval, including among American liberals when they declared war. If it’s “our side”, we can’t possibly be doing anything wrong, right?

[@Punk_Tovarisch]

​@@cojoes1423 ye, that too

[@rongur2154]

Also - the jews did not rape, kidnapped and burnt alive Germans

[@wumbothewombat1280]

On the artist you mentioned, Noury (Nouran)-she and her family have thankfully evacuated Gaza. They are all terribly injured, and the accounts she’s posted of the extent of their suffering is horrible to read. But they are, as of now, safe. Nouran is such a sweet, brave individual, and she deserves all the love she’s received. I’m glad you mentioned her ❤

[@thunderbird3304]

Thank god. I wish nothing but good things for her, and for her to one day be able to draw Gojo Satoru again

[@khoirulanam9141]

"Most Zionists don't believe that God exists but they do believe he promised them PALESTINE" - Ilan Pappe

[@jackduane5555]

There's no country by that name. Try again

[@buzzare4077]

​@@jackduane5555You mean PALESTINE?

[@buzzare4077]

​@@jackduane5555Look at a history book and them come back

[@jackduane5555]

@@buzzare4077 I know the history better than you. That's how I know that there's never been a country called 'palestine'. It's just an Islamic lie

[@jackduane5555]

@@buzzare4077 I know the history much better than you. I also know the present better than you. There's no country called 'palestine'

[@arnbrandy]

"The history of World War II is complicated, the history of human slavery is complicated, but the acts of genocide and slavery are not morally complex at all." Couldn't have been put in a better way.

[@Shut.Eye.Cinema]

Not to ridicule the subject, but this video has to do with Gaza as much as that Zara ad did.

[@Blue-qt8ms]

its not a genocide

[@Croco_G]

What is it?@@Blue-qt8ms

[@randomaster138]

@@Blue-qt8ms Elaborate.

[@jeannedarc7533]

@@Blue-qt8ms Why is it not a genocide? (Hint: Don't use population increase/decrease as a standard because it's not mentioned in the Geneva convention.)

[@theplaguedaemon]

There's a satirical essay by Mark Twain called King Leopold's Soliloquy where Twain, writing from the perspective of King Leopold, denounces Kodak cameras for allowing the world to see the Congolese victims of Belgian violence, specifically countless photos of people with only one hand

[@hueypautonoman]

It's interesting because we're reaching a point in social media where corporations are automatically filtering out comments and posts that contain "controversial" information. You can't use words like (ray-sizm) or (not-see), even to denounce them, because algorithms will detect them and assume you're promoting them. I'm afraid it will only get worse as the desire for increased ad revenue will encourage them to sanitize the Internet.

[@mickeyg7219]

@@hueypautonoman And the fact that AI is incapable of understanding the context makes things even worse. Social media is going full "enlightened centrist" in how they moderate things.

[@hueypautonoman]

@mickeyg7219 Funny you mention that because when Google made its Gemini AI available in beta, the first thing I asked it was if Israel was an Apartheid state. I was testing it, of course, and it failed. It gave, as you described, an enlightened centrist answer that gave "both sides" of the argument, except one side was human rights organizations and international law and the other side was basically just statements from Israel saying, "Nuh uh!" But it equated them as equal and told me to do my own research. The problem is that people are expecting AI to do the research, which is why they would ask it in the first place. They'll probably just accept the both-sideism and go on about their day.

[@-Zevin-]

@@hueypautonoman This is happening right now big time on KZbin. Regardless of intent or factuality I noticed a huge amount of comments get auto deleted. Anything to do with allot foreign events with the wrong key words, and it vanishes into thin air...

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

@@mickeyg7219 Like 1 out of every 2 YoúTube replies I write get hidden by their bóts, and I usually have absolutely no idea what in their contents would be flagging them. It’s painfully obnoxious

[@80yearsold23]

My aunts family is Muslim because she married an Egyptian man, and growing up I went to a few events at their masjid. I remember many Palestinian women who were incredibly kind and seemed very tall to me, in their hijabs or burqas. I was just a little white kid but I loved their accents and how their eyes would smile at everyone. I wasn’t told this for years but most of them were widows, or mothers separated from their whole family, denied the right to return. There’s so much racism and hatred in America. So much hatred in the whole world, but it hangs by only a thread. love is so easy and possible, I swear it. The cruelty and violence of America, my country, relies on us being seperate, set against each other. But it only takes one party of mingling with kind strangers, being laughingly scolded for stealing sugar cubes, to dismantle all hate. To all the Palestinian strangers of the world, this stranger loves you. Nothing can ever break that love that was fostered by only a few hours of being in your presence. From the River to the Sea.

[@rayme5632]

This is beautiful thanks for sharing ❤ well people who believe western media misunderstand Palestinians, they are just people who were kicked from their homeland to create another for another group of people and their situation is similar to Ukraine invasion yet everyone fails to understand that reality

[@TK-cg4ks]

Wow. Thank you for this comment it is so profound. It takes complex technology and state run pr0poganda to get us to hate each other but one real interaction for us to see our humanity. Love is a seed that only needs watering.

[@shamim621]

​@@TK-cg4ksam getting emotional reading yours and the main comment. Hugs .🫂 free Palestine

[@5amsaramadanlearnarabic347]

BTW The girl who pretended to be a Palestinian nurse turned out to be an Israeli actress, they already shared her Instagram .

[@omarelders]

true.

[@tresnabayuriyandi]

True, That's why isn0treal is just full of lies and hypocrisy

[@bl8de3]

what a terrible actress that is. holy shit.

[@samwindmill8264]

And note the massive irony of using actors to do this terrible propaganda, then in the next breath it's "Palestinians faking injuries!!! DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES"

[@OsirusHandle]

how do people just willfully lie their pants off like this

[@freesoul2677]

If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze- and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself- sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale ….. May Dr Refaat Alareer rest in peace..

[@bayanhamzah9343]

May Allah bless you

[@lulusp1023]

Lovely poem. Palestine will be free from the river to the sea

[@pawdaypay]

Beautiful poem

[@chillstorm2341]

Ameen. The struggles of Palestinians are not unseen nor ignored by Allah. He sees all.

[@ShahAznable]

White cloth and some strings is what Muslims use to wrap their deads before burry them. The thought of someone selling my things to burry me breaks me.

[@Teethmafia]

“Suffering doesn’t make you better It just makes you suffer. “

[@cosmosofinfinity]

It's like the naive notion that everything is God's plan, or karma, or justice. No, a lot of things that happen in this world are complete INjustice and provide no ultimate value, just senseless unnecessary misery. This is a poor attempt to rationalize an unjust world as one of intelligent order, when it is in fact one of idiotic chaos. We are dumb animals wrestling with our dumb animal nature, trying to be better than animals, trying but usually failing to overcome our animal natures, our incessant ignorance. We aren't really that much better than animals and in a lot of ways we are worse. The arrogance of humanity over other life, including other humans, knows no limits. Us having what we have is not because we deserve it, just like with billionaires. It is just dumb chance occurring to dumb people, that does not make them divinely smart or worthy of what they happened to have land on their laps. Israel certainly doesn't deserve the position of power they have and this unearned notion that they are so civilized, when they act like barbarians and succumb to every psychopathic impulse

[@kentuckyjohnson7394]

It really depends

[@hollyc5417]

@@kentuckyjohnson7394depends on the person not in the suffering.

[@Gimlinti]

When does he say this in yhr video ? I think I missed it !

[@fireball43]

@@Gimlinti🪲🧠

[@marksmanlegend3606]

As a Gazan who his family is living in Gaza and is unable to go see them. This guy won my heart.

[@weonton]

I know words are very shallow sometimes, but I genuinely hope we see a free Palestine and your reuniting ❤️🖤🤍💚

[@someonewow7053]

الله معكم و نحنا معكم الله يصبركم يا أهل غزة، تحيات من أردني فلسطيني

[@maltemoller07]

​@@someonewow7053❤

[@hiddenechoes]

Sending love from Canada. I'm so sorry.

[@evyatarshafran5017]

I was born and raised in the education system of Israel. It was only a few years ago, in the tenth grade, that I came to realize the sort of place I was living in to the full extent. Funnily enough, one of my first big moments of shock was when I translated Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owens into Hebrew, for a history lesson about World War One. The final phrase I translated into Hebrew as טוב וראוי למות למען ארצנו, which is a phrase that was famously used by Joseph Troumpaldour, one of the “founding fathers” of Israel. Since then I have been shocked and appalled by the things I have seen and heard, even from people who I had considered to be liberal and educated. I keep coming back to your video, not because it changed my mind but because it helped me phrase everything I’ve been thinking and feeling so clearly. Free Palestine, and fuck Zionism.

[@OsirusHandle]

what do you think is the ultimate solution to the situation? single unitary secular state, two states, "a great return "home""?

[@_________________7778]

So you are telling us that you support hamas?

[@OsirusHandle]

@@_________________7778 dude stop with this nonsense deflection

[@dolphinloser6546]

Sorry the replies to your comment are going to suck, OP - zionists repeatedly dogpile the people commenting on this video. But I congratulate you on your ability to see past the apartheid propaganda of Israel, and I sincerely hope we both see a free Palestine in our lifetimes ❤❤❤

[@yossi6665]

I don't get why people gave Zionism there own definition, Zionism meant "giving Jews there own country to feel safe in and protected" I think the only reason it's all been fucked up, is cause of the president of Israel fighting the idea of peace that the assisinated president of Israel was leaning for, it's two worlds fighting for "peace" trying to solve it with more violence, when the people just want safety and freedom

[@BobSims-yi3os]

Great observations about Maus. When I lived in Israel, I witnessed two unforgettable moments. Some LGBT Jews came to the holocaust memorial to remember the queer community exterminated by the Nazis and a group of Jews screaming at them “but those people deserved to die”. The other was how horribly the Ethiopian Jews were treated.

[@nektarios5291]

​@@michael_hollow What a brilliant way to illustrate one of the most well made points in the video. You cannot on the one hand claim moral superiority, then at the same time demand moral equivalency for anything bad. Genuinely brilliant work there mate 😂

[@aribantala]

​@@michael_hollow "Moral Equivalency does not negate your lack of one"

[@catharinrin]

@@michael_hollowstick to your bad animations.

[@aribantala]

​@@michael_hollowSo who do you support here for you to say that opinion of yours?

[@seekingabsolution1907]

​@@michael_hollowaccording to most queer people who have gone to Gaza, they think they're alright.

[@PC1989]

At 35:03 - There's no way you could have known about Aaron Bushnell, but these words are haunting.

[@enbyglitch]

Just got there too, holy shit

[@weatheranddarkness]

@@enbyglitch did that happen yesterday? I only started getting the story come up on my Insta this morning.

[@ramywiles]

Went looking for this comment because I just got to this part too... wow.

[@charliem989]

Same

[@wollkee1700]

yeah holy fuck

[@arsilia]

As a Palestinian, this is the best video I have ever seen about my homeland.

[@ieatrocksfordinner]

the homeland of the arab people is arabia not israel, israel predates "palestine" by over a thousand years so get out of my land

[@joshuafrank1246]

⁠@@ieatrocksfordinnerNo, you are wrong.

[@eeeertoo2597]

@@ieatrocksfordinner Your land is hell, where your heroes, the nazis went. Palestine belongs to Palestinians, and in time the zionist occupation of palestine will collapse like Apartheid south africa and Rhodesia did, and you will be remembered in the same light as their supporters

[@zarbins]

@@joshuafrank1246 They are 100% right.

[@joshuafrank1246]

@@zarbins Zionism is colonialism they are one and the same. Palestinians lived in Palestine and then a bunch or random white people decided that it would be okay if Jews also live there and in order to do this they have to colonize Palestinian’s homeland. My homeland is America however, I ethnically am European, does this mean that I am not still American; no it does not. Nobody inherently has a claim to land and trying to pretend like this war is about religion shows that you do not understand the very simple history behind it.

[@Werliza]

The audacity of people to still say that ‘israel has the right to defend itself’

[@ieatrocksfordinner]

yes we do have a right to defend ourselves and we do have a right to demand that we dont live beside hamas that just mudrered 1400 of us and kidnapped another 200

[@_.belladonna_]

@@ieatrocksfordinner you guys funded hamas made them rival the PLO, created more hostility and play the victims. Trust me no one empathises with isr*lis you all put yourselves into that situation, heading off to arab land picking on every arab state and not expecting a response is beyond delusional. I'm moreover surprised on how nice they've been and not done worse.

[@ieatrocksfordinner]

@@_.belladonna_ they havent done worse because they failed too average arab L

[@gabemissouri]

@@ieatrocksfordinner The Arabs successfully defeated the Ottoman Empire, You however did not. You stole land from the Arabs who had fought for their freedom and homeland against the Ottoman empire. If the Ottoman empire hadn't been defeated, there would be no Isreal today. You can thank the Arabs.

[@tysondennis1016]

Did the European colonial nations have the right to defend themselves?

[@Clawdragoons]

That part about Maus, how someone can see, can experience, horrendous bigotry, and then turn around and use those exact same arguments against others, is something I've seen and experienced my whole life, and I've never seen another piece of art represent it so perfectly.

[@JohnEusebioToronto]

I loved how Shaun highlighted how the father didn't take issue with him being compared to a Nazi, but in Jews being compared to black people. It's that implicit admission that he didn't object to Nazi ideology; simply the target of that Ideology.

[@teodoraristic822]

now that i think about it its not a very surprising aspect of human psyche. thats basically how misogyny was maintained for this long

[@zipwok]

This is exactly what I was thinking about. I've seen it happen often with minorities trampling over other minorities, using whatever next morally irrelevant excuse they can find to try and justify doing to others what was previously done to them. Then living completely oblivious to this injustice they're perpetrating, content with their justification.

[@Clawdragoons]

@@zipwok Hey, Zipwok, now there's a name I recognize! Yep, we're on the exact same page here. Keep up the great music!

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

@@zipwok Something something LGB alliance

[@henriquemedranosilva7142]

God, I sometimes forget how propaganda can be so stupid yet so evil. The calandar one genuinely felt like a fucking helldiver 2 item description

[@TheDizx]

How do magnets work???? It´s Hamas

[@SadigR]

​@@TheDizxstop downplaying Hamas!

[@TheDizx]

@@SadigR Stop downplaying genocide and colonialism, then sure thing buddy

[@SadigR]

@@TheDizx pro-palestinians love to cry out whataboutism unless they do it themselves. I literally asked to take the dangers of Hamas seriously and people can't even do that, instead they wave it away.

[@snippingtool7810]

I feel like the IDF and Israeli Govt knows their propaganda is bullshit at best. But they didn't care. Because they feel other nations can't do anything to really stop them, even if they wanted to. See the UN? How many times the nations at UN has request the Israeli to stop their military invasion, for only The US veto'ed their pledge and basically give Israel a free "get out of jail" card?

[@shporks]

As an 18 year old who moved to Israel as a child and grew up intentionally avoiding politics and news, I was absolutely disgusted hearing what really happened in the past months. I remember last year when we were studying in school about WW2 and the founding of Israel, and not a single word was told about the Palestinian people. Not one mention of the countless sacrifices the natives were forced to endure. Thank you for using your audience and platform to educate people, and for much is it's worth, you've made an impact in my life. ❤

[@Short_Clips44]

move out of it or you will drink from its cup of wrath.

[@ieatrocksfordinner]

when i was learning at school about ww2 and the founding of israel we did learn about the palestinians... you either are not even israeli at all or you just skipped a ton of classes

[@Romapolitan]

​@@ieatrocksfordinnerOr, you know not every school is the same. There are many teachers that leave out certain parts of history because of their own biases. Maybe you just had good teachers.

[@ieatrocksfordinner]

​@@Romapolitan the ministry of education has a laid out plan and teachers who do not follow it get fired, this can be verified by how many students pass the tests and if barely any pass a test on a topic that should be taught but the teacher didnt teach or didnt teach good enough the school will look into it, so no my friend all schools have the same education plan (all secular non religious schools) so he is either not an israeli or if he is he skipped way too many classes

[@chillstorm2341]

Gtfo. It's not yours.

[@user-xh5bk4cw2t]

I have been advocating for palestine for 20+ years, i never thought i would see the day where people from all across the world would know about the conflict let alone speak up about it. The crimes they have been getting away with for all these years is insanity. I have never seen anything more evil and i have never seen this much lying and manipulating.

[@17-MASY]

We must continue until Freedom is achieved

[@lulusp1023]

Palestine will be free from the river to the sea

[@dirtypure2023]

​@@lulusp1023Doesn't this mean everyone in Israel must be deleted or removed?

[@lilmoe4364]

Exactly how I feel

[@lilmoe4364]

It's like a litmus test to separate people with humanity from sociopaths

[@andrewsauer2729]

"You cannot claim moral superiority when asking for support, but then moral equivalence to excuse your crimes." Holy shit well said

[@Skiivin]

Pretty much sums up the entire Israeli position

[@justinfavet6850]

what a bizarrely ignorant comment to latch on to. That phraseology infinitely excuses terrible behavior.

[@monkfishmondfinsternis3162]

Israel does not 'claim Moral superiority'. It was forced into a war by hamas terrorists who killed as many civilians as possible. Israel has EVERY right to fight hamas, who repeatedly has stated it wants to annihilate every jew in istael. BUT Israel needs to act as carefully as possible in this war, esspecially as hamas terrorists use civilians as human shields. Hamas wants to drive up civilian death so it can rail up antisemitism and hate. I'm so disappointed shaun fell for this scheme.

[@Foxtrox7616]

​@@justinfavet6850 speaks against terrible behavior

[@d-o-v-3-1-1-1]

@@justinfavet6850read it again

[@sashaneumann]

I think a great point raised in the Maus section is that saying that Jewish people can't commit genocide because they lived through genocide is another form of otherising a group of people. Jewish people are people just like everyone else and that means individual Jewish people and majority Jewish societies can hold prejudice, biases and rasict beliefs. My great grandfather was Jewish, he was left and orphan at a very young age by antisemitic pogroms in his area. His son, my grandfather, recalled growing up with a Jewish father, being mocked and chastised for having Jewish heritage, how he was bullied by kids in his school and over time both his father and him learned to hide their heritage. My grandfather grew up to be a secretive and paranoid man clearly deeply traumatised by the antisemitism he lived through. My grandfather was also extremely racist and taught his children the same racism he himself suffered from. My homecountry, Russia, has a lot of people immigrating from neighbouring post-Soviet countries for work, education and better life conditions. Some of these people are not ethnically Slavic and come from majority non-Slavic countries. There is a lot of hatreded and casual racism against those people in Russia, and when my grandfather died, his son, my uncle, said "I chose restaraunt A over restaraunt B to hold his wake there because restaraunt B is owned by [racial slur for people of colour]. Dad woundn't have wanted that". I was appalled by this statement. How could a man, who was discriminated against his whole life, whos father was orphaned by ethnic hate, be so full of ethnic hate himself? The answer is very simple. My grandpa was just a dude. Just a guy. Regardless of his background, he is human, and if you don't put in the work, you'll fall victim to the same hatred that is weilded against you.

[@cat-le1hf]

There are too many people who legitimately think child abuse is fine because the parents themselves were abused as children. If people cannot understand why a simple situation with an obvious victim is wrong, why would they understand a complex situation spanning generations?

[@RickyCigarillo]

Great point. Lots of zionists have this view of Jewish people in that they think that being victim to horrendeous persceution from Europeans for hundreds of years has transformed them into something different than other humans, something that cannot be judged in the same way that other humans can. Its othering to the extreme.

[@lowenherzhendrik9708]

Why he got "hatred"?

[@clipdump]

This is a really interesting anecdote. Thanks for sharing it man.

[@cjboyo]

Hell, Henry Kissinger was a holocaust refugee

[@ItsMeSNiPEZ]

The worst thing is most people who side with Israel or are sitting on the fence, won't end up clicking on a video like this or will click off as soon as they feel like their false beliefs are in danger, and now they have to actually think and consider the reality that maybe they've been on the wrong side this whole time.

[@aniros116]

people who support Israel are smart enough not to watch an hour-long video with a random leftist that ignores the terrorism that the Palestinian people are doing

[@cojoes1423]

@@aniros116So you admit you didn’t watch the video thus proving @ItsMeSNiPEZ point.

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

@@aniros116Not all Palestinian people are involved with Hamas. Half of them are kids, come on mam.

[@aniros116]

@@bigbluebuttonman1137 nope, all of them, about kids, when a kid aims a weapon at you just should stay and do nothing yea?

[@aniros116]

@@cojoes1423 i didn't even need to, you lefties all the same, same anti-Semitism that you cover up with "poor Palestinians", which only with smiles did 10/7.

[@barryeldar687]

One people, one struggle. ✊️🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🕊

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

Even if they are not that way normally, the pressure tends to do that to sentiments.

[@obstipuit]

the police hitting the pallbearers with batons makes me lose faith in humanity, but the pallbearers REFUSING to let the casket touch the ground even ONCE gives me faith. palestinian endurance is unbelievable

[@samaraisnt]

thank you for pointing this out 😭

[@user-lb9px4oo1k]

and the fact the pallbearers where mostly muslims

[@Dorian-lq3up]

Saints. May they be blessed by Allah.

[@thedarkerknight2188]

You're right, they did not let her go. That sheds a different light on that clip.

[@RiesenWuschel]

@@Dorian-lq3up This war, like so many others, would not be happening if people didn't believe in beings like 'Allah' or 'Yahwe' or any of that sort.

[@sethrussell6393]

"If people learned from atrocities, then there would be no more atrocities" Such a remarkably simple yet profound statement. I had never thought of it that way, but it is quite terrifying when you consider its implications. Perhaps the long arc of the universe doesn’t inevitably bend towards justice after all. You have to bend it in that direction.

[@MrDesmondPot]

Not all humans have the same moral code or sense of responsibility outside of their own existence. Some of us - many of us - are very selfish and depraved people.

[@janedoe3043]

People do learn, unfortunately we don't learn the same lessons.

[@SteveCatalunyaSE]

People do learn from atrocities: that might makes right, that perpetrators are hardly ever held to account, that perpetrators often profit from atrocities.

[@billhicks8]

anyone who has experienced severe trauma, been close to someone who has been through trauma, or has worked with the traumatised, knows that healing isn't the only option, unfortunately. In fact it is the most difficult choice to make. Another option is passing on the abuse you've (or your people have) endured. That is how many, including the Israeli state, have carried on the trauma of the holocaust, but it is certainly not how all Jews have dealt with it.

[@MikkoKuusirati]

I think people do learn, but by the same token we also forget. Both as individual persons, and collectively as communities. And every time any particular lesson doesn't get retained and passed on, for whatever reason, it has to be learned again.

[@SilentMeteorite]

I needed to come back here for a bit of sanity after the way mainstream news outlets have framed the entire situation with student protests

[@nathan30711]

Same.

[@17-MASY]

Watch Second thought's "The Most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere"

[@shamim621]

Me too

[@baranxlr]

I'm starting to notice a trend of angry comments that call the video bullshit, but don't argue against a single point made in it. Almost like they're commenting without watching.

[@shinjinobrave]

Followed closely by comments that angrily complain that this guy is so STUPID that he doesn't even ADRESS this... thing that Shaun does adress. Every half-assed hasbara comment in this comment section has already been adressed in the video, so frustrating!

[@zidan40o0]

it is just JIDF, they get paid few cents per post, ignore them.

[@mudkatt2003]

@@BarcaHannibal exactly, especially once he started his "history" of palestine lulz he gives the game away when he doesn't he mention oct 7th, i mean wtf

[@BarcaHannibal]

@@mudkatt2003 he actually mentioned Oct 7. Something in line of it was embarrassing for Israel and failure on their side. This would be as we blame population of Gaza for electing Hammas in 2006, and bringing nothing but devastation for their peoole (which is actually true). Im from Iran and the only aid they have been sending for 30 years is rockets. And I know my corrupt government too well to know any of their proxies and supporters such as Hammas are just scum on the earth.

[@Sputterbugz]

yall just mad he debunked Israel's claims and proved palenstines claims lol Hamas is not Palestine.

[@arnon85]

As a Palestinian, thank you for this video. We really need more people like you in this world.

[@lulusp1023]

Iam reading the book 100 years war on Palestine. It's a great book. Palestine will be free from the river to the sea ❤

[@christianmiller9934]

@@user-mk5ep7id7jawwww Hasbara bot can’t handle facts😂😂😂😂

[@user-mk5ep7id7j]

@@christianmiller9934 Handle what? Like how Gaza Is going to be a parking space for this summer? Sounds pretty good to me! 😁

[@eeeertoo2597]

@user-mk5ep7id7j Keep posting about your love and support for war crimes. You and your zionist friends will have to face justice sooner or later and you are giving all the evidence needed for it.

[@coderamen666]

What would a free Palestine look like?

[@dolphinloser6546]

​@@coderamen666 this is actually a good question! There are a few steps involved: Step 1: Remove IDF/Israel occupation forces from Palestine. This means extracting any and all military currently occupying Palestinian areas. Step 2: Return the land already stolen by the Israeli occupation. They've driven hundreds of thousands from their homes and forced them out of their towns and cities. Helping them return is step 2. Step 3 - the big step: Removing the Apartheid state. Israel, like South Africa was pre-1995, is an Apartheid, meaning its entire country functions on institutionalised segregation. Palestinians (and Arabs as a whole) are not given the same rights as Israelis, are not allowed in the same areas, are not even granted full citizenship status in Palestine even if they were born there. Arabs living in Israel are kept separate from non-Arabs - separate schools, separate public areas, separate homes/neighbourhoods (as Arabs sharing accomodation or even towns with non-Arab Israelis is HEAVILY frowned upon). In Palestine , it's not uncommon for Israelis to simply walk into a Palestinian's home and claim it as theirs - in which case the Palestinian has no legal grounds to say "no", and may be arrested or killed if they protest. To provide Palestine with freedom means removing the people in power who continue this apartheid, changing all laws that class Arabs / Palestinians as second-class citizens, and giving control of the region over to the Palestinians. Note: this does NOT mean the removal of people currently living as Israelis. This is important, as many claim that removing Israel's apartheid would mean kicking out or killing its current citizens. When South Africa's apartheid against black people was taken down, the white people who lived there were not removed or executed, it just meant that the government had to treat black people equally and black people were not segregated to separate areas. It's the same here: changing the governmental system and removing the laws that prevent Palestinians from owning land or voting or sharing public spaces doesn't mean getting rid of the people who live there now. Step 4: Education and restoration. A lot of Palestinian history has been erased by the occupation. With the apartheid removed and the military occupation gone, Palestinians (and the world at large) can work to restore the places that have been destroyed and re-build their society. Arabs and non-Arabs, and Jews and non-Jews, in that area have lived happily alongside one another for centuries, with references to Palestine going back to Shakespeare and beyond. They can live peacefully alongside one another again, it just takes people making those in power aware that we won't just allow Israel's military to decimate Palestine, and that the segregation experienced by Arabs in Israel isn't something to be tolerated.

[@alexhirsch5738]

I know this comment will get buried but what the hell. I'm Jewish and this video spoke to me incredibly, especially the section on Maus. I haven't read Maus in a long time, probably since I was in middle school, and it could do with a re-read because a lot of the nuance went over my head even when I understand the weight of the holocaust. But what you and Art are describing speaks to something I've seen over and over in my personal life, and hopefully somebody reads this who can understand. My Jewish family supports Israel right now, today. They support the IDF and what it does, even though they are American Jews who have been to Israel once (maybe twice) in their entire lifetimes. My father is pretty deeply racist and my mother can be as well, though they both hide it well enough as liberals who live in a very liberal American city. But then, they would never see themselves as racists, and never equate what they are doing or saying to what the villains of history have done before. Speaking to my father about Israel is like speaking to a brick wall. My father knows that I work, professionally, in politics. He understands that knowing the nuances of situations like this is my job, and openly concedes he knows much less on the topic than I do. But he and my mother will never budge an inch on emotional support of Israel, as if their lives depend on it. And at a certain point, I needed to step back and realize that the reason is because their entire identity of being oppressed for being Jewish is at the core of their ideology. Antisemitism is very real and very dangerous, but they've learned to see that threat everywhere, especially from Muslims, and at all times regardless of context. Imagine, if you will, a walnut at the center of a ball of rubber bands. The ball is a person's ideology, and every new rubber band is something new you believe in. The deeper and earlier you learn those beliefs, the more you would need to remove before you can replace it with something new. For my parents, and the parents of every Jewish kid I grew up with in my Jewish community, the very core of their ideology is the persecution of Jews, and ensuring their defense by any means necesarry. It is the unquestioning loyalty to the military preservation of Jewish people from oppression. This belief didnt arise from malice, but it has absolutely been aided by it. And if you wanted to change this belief, if you wanted to remove the walnut at the core, you would need to strip down literally every belief my parents have ever had in their entire lives, and then build them again from scratch. That is a LONG process, and not an impossible one. We've seen it done for survivors of alt-right groups who want to be rehabilitated. But it takes time, deliberate effort, and a community that wants to see it done. And I don't think we ever will, frankly. I lived with my parents for 23 years, and I don't think they'll ever change their ways. I think my dad is a good person at heart, and I've seen true compassion from him. But I've also seen just how that rotten walnut at the core is, and I don't think I'll ever be able to get it out.

[@mixie.-.]

I feel you. I’m an anti zionist jew as well and it feels rlly isolating :/

[@MarvTube87]

@@mixie.-. Honest question: what do you think would happen to the Jewish people in Palestine if the state of Israel stopped existing? Do you see any way for Jews living in safety if groups like Hamas or Hezbollah are around, whose goal is to exterminate all Jewish life? Or do you advocate for the evacuation of Jews from Palestine? Then where would these people go?

[@mixie.-.]

@@MarvTube87Hamas would most likely disband if Palestinians are given their independence, as they were only created as a reaction to Israel’s colonial violence. The person in charge should be someone who doesn’t view one party as superior to the other and all people should be given equal rights. This includes Israelis, who are welcome to stay if they want, or can go back to their original roots in Europe. Also it’s a strange question asking me what would happen to Jewish people once Israel is gone, because Israel doesn’t represent all Jewish people and many Jews are antizionist bc the torah themselves state that Jews aren’t supposed to have a state

[@aribantala]

​@@MarvTube87Do you think it's only Hamas that have any say in Palestine? How about Fatah and PFLP that is now grasping straws at the West Bank against Hamas themselves and the Israeli Settlers? We almost had a Peace Declaration between Israel and Palestine through Yitzhak Rabin's and Yasser Arafat's mediation but the Zionists blew it over by literally assasinating Rabin. And Hamas winning against both Political and Literal Armed conflict betwen Fatah's PLO. Your shallow understanding of Palestinian politics and the weight of the internal conflict within PNA is absolutely disgraceful

[@Adsper2000]

@@mixie.-.Bro google the Rwandan Genocide if you think that ending colonial oppression magically erases all ethnic hatred. When colonialism in Rwanda ended and the Hutu underclass took power from the ruling Tutsi, did the two groups live in peace? No, the Hutu’s hatred for the Tutsi only grew for thirty years until they massacred 800,000 Tutsi in 1994. Hatred is not a rational emotion. It does not disappear when no longer necessary. It mutates and survives to the next generation, like a virus.

[@CuteCat200200]

As a Palestinian, I'm so grateful for you making this video.

[@potatomancer9473]

where do you live?

[@CuteCat200200]

@@potatomancer9473 In Jordan, my entire family was displaced since 1967

[@potatomancer9473]

@@CuteCat200200 sorry to hear that, where did they live before 67 ?

[@CuteCat200200]

@potatomancer9473 Palestine. Looking at your replies to other people, I can smell your evil genocide denialism a mile away. Go ahead and be racist all you, show your true colors, no need for small talk.

[@yrspider]

I'm also Palestinian and am extremely grateful for this video.

[@nellywilde9541]

Watching this and reading the comments has somewhat given me a bit of hope for humanity. People can actually see what’s going on is wrong. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@abbassari4203]

If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze- and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself- sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale ......

[@GreeeenT]

Native Arabic speaker here just adding my 2 cents for good measure: lady supposedly recording in the hospital has a very obviously fake Arabic accent

[@AWSMcube]

Native English speaker with an interest in languages: Yeah her accent sounded way more Hebrew than Arabic, even if she tried to sound Arabic

[@antoinettemey]

Native Hebrew speaker here : it is a Hebrew accent, and those gloves are used in israel. Source: me and my hospital visits.

[@Turner6277]

The region is mixed you guys are idiots.

[@dante5088]

@@antoinettemeyAs a native Hebrew speaker as well, this does not sound like Hebrew.

[@uNiels_Heart]

Unfortunately, I don't know all the languages y'all do, but the "bombing sounds" clearly sound like added to the video afterwards, and they sound like they were recorded on an outside battlefield, not inside a building. And her acting comes across as unnatural and dishonest.

[@EntonDelMonte]

„ Suffering doesn’t make you better - it makes you suffer.“ pretty deep

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

Pretty dumb. How does he think people gain resilience?

[@20storiesunder]

​@@jeremynewcombe3422That resilience is a learned attribute is a common falsety.

[@pascalzaugg3823]

You have missunderstood the meaning of better in the above quote. In the context of the quote it means morally better. Resilience.has nothing to do with moral.

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

@@pascalzaugg3823 Ok. I'd need to check that part of the video out for myself but I can't be bothered self-flagellating. It doesn't make me better after all.

[@pascalzaugg3823]

I think you have exhausted yourself enough by admitting that you may have been wrong.

[@doctorlinked950]

Not sure if this means anything, but I found it kind of funny that youtube's algorithm links "The Holocaust" wikipedia article, but has no link to anything about the history of palestine, in a video literally titles "Palestine."

[@joseph8762]

we know why

[@Bionickpunk]

It's ironic, that the people who went through the Holocaust are now enacting their own Holocaust against the Palestinians. Didn't take them long, right after WW2 Israel and Zionist became a problem.

[@High_Jelly_Fish]

As a Lebanese myself, I consider this to the best long listening vid I've seen in a while. I thank you dearly for speaking out❤🙏

[@gailcbull]

There is a very real psychiatric explanation for why we don’t learn from suffering, and it was discovered, appropriately enough, by a holocaust survivor who was also a psychologist. He published a memoir called “Man’s Search for Meaning”. Near the end of the memoir, he and another survivor have been freed from the camp and are walking along a road. Suddenly, the other man runs into the grain field next to the road and stomps and destroys as much of the grain as he can. The author (forgive me, I’ve forgotten his name) is shocked and asks him why he did that. He answers that his suffering has given him the right to act however he wants. He has “earned” the right to be destructive. As a cancer survivor, I also saw this attitude surface among some of my fellow survivors. If you’re trying to find an “upside” to your suffering, “now I have free ticket to behave however I want” becomes really attractive.

[@fig1115]

i thinks it more simple ,victimhood + supremacism = a dangerous pathological sense of entitlement.

[@montygerin9903]

Viktor E. Frankl! I read this too and immediately thought of this example. Thanks for sharing.

[@gailcbull]

@@montygerin9903Thanks for providing the author’s name. I had a brain glitch and couldn’t remember it.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

That's not due to them having survived something tough. That's just their usual mantra as ''God's chosen people''. They cry out in pain as they strike you.

[@LovenGnat]

Thank you for sharing. This is something I've wondered about. It also describes, in my personal experience, the justification abusers seem to use. If someone hurts them, they should feel free to do the same. Continuing the cycle of abuse is terrible for all involved. I read something the other day that said-ish, "What if what we are judged for in the end is whether we used our suffering as an excuse to make others suffer?" Whatever we believe, it's not a terrible guideline to follow. It's important to heal ourselves so we don't needlessly hurt others. Plenty of people come through abuse, have empathy and accountability anyway, and do not become abusers. I wonder what makes someone in a similar circumstance turn the opposite way? Or why some people are more resilient overall? I hope we learn so more people can be helped to find a healthier way and some inner peace instead of perpetuating what they should have never had to endure. - Love

[@funktimusrhyme]

My "scales from eyes" moment came when I was watching a clip from Euronews about 20 years back, in it a Palestinian man was having an argument with an IDF soldier, he was quite animated, but unarmed and never approached closer than a few metres, the man then turned and walked away, whereupon the IDF soldier casually shot him in the back, just planted a bullet in the kidney of an unarmed man

[@54032Zepol]

Awesome

[@funktimusrhyme]

@@54032Zepol hasbara filth

[@ayushsharma8804]

@@54032Zepol you should reread your comment ten years later

[@michimatsch5862]

@@54032Zepol I pray you find it in you to regain your humanity at some point and will still be able to look at yourself in the mirror after that.

[@fthagnryleh4951]

Do you have more details so we can find the clip and validate your story?

[@ssaberwolf]

Thanks for this. Phenomenal video, as always. As an anti-Zionist American Jew, I've found myself isolated and alienated not only by the unfathomably immoral White House response (and thoroughly maddening and irresponsible coverage by the so-called "liberal" media), but also by the unfathomably immoral and tribal response by my family and supposed community. It can be hard to feel a part of a broader international community of people concerned with social and economic justice and courageous Jewish people who are willing to apply their values equally (even to themselves and the groups/identities/belief systems with which they themselves identify), but videos like yours remind me that this is indeed the case. The deliberate conflation by Israel (and its supporters/defenders/apologists) of Zionism and antisemitism strikes me as itself deeply antisemitic -- I'll never be okay with the perpetrators and supporters of a genocide insisting that it's being done in my name or best interest. I find it insulting, as somebody who belongs to a group in which the shared cultural trauma of the Halocaust plays such a critically important and omnipresent role, that anybody -- let alone my Jewish family and fellow community members -- would even try to make that argument. I will not have my cultural identity exploited and used against me by an authoritarian right-wing government seeking to justify its unjustifiable project of genocidal ethnostate expansion at the expense of tens if not hundreds of thousands of indigenous people's lives. History has spoken, re: all the people in Germany and across the world who remained complicit during the Halocaust (and let's face it, many of them had a lot more to lose by speaking out than American Jews do now). There are also plenty of Jewish people sitting in Israeli prisons -- for things like protesting war crimes against civilians, refusing to be conscripted into mandatory military service, etc. Women in Israel have been protesting and getting arrested and locked up for decades because they aren't permitted to pray at some of Israel's most holy religious sites, for instance. It's a restrictive, oppressive regime internally as well as on the world stage. To call Zionism the same as Judaism -- to accept the propagandistic conflation of terms advanced by Netanyahu's authoritarian regime -- is to fail to show solidarity with all the brave Jewish people in Israel who are suffering the consequences for living their values: values that compel them to stand up for freedom, gender equality, peace, and/or democracy despite the fact that the IDF's guns are a lot closer and pose far greater danger to them than they do to us, their supposed cousins and community members in the US and elsewhere. I also appreciate the Maus plug. One of the best graphic novels ever committed to glossy paper and one of the most fascinatingly complex oral histories/ explorations of modern and historical Jewish identity in any medium; and the book that, for me, kicked off an obsession with adult comix that started more than 20 years ago when I stumbled upon Maus in a Boston public library as an undergrad and that remains with me to this day. Your thoughtful essay means a lot to me, and gives me a well-researched, historically-grounded, clear, and clarifying resource to share with others.

[@17-MASY]

Thank you from a Muslim, I hope that one day we will find peace.

[@lazulii9395]

If you're okay with what Israel is doing to the Palestinians in 2024, it's like saying if you lived in the 1940s and saw what the Germans did to the Jews, you would have been okay with it. It's about being unable to see the humanity in others.

[@TestTest-uo7zv]

You are exaggerating. The war in gaza is horrible but it is nothing like holocaust

[@AhmedKamaleldin]

@@TestTest-uo7zv sounds about the same. destroying historic palestinian sites and their culture, trapping them in a walled prison, starving them to death, youre just missing the chlorine gas now

[@eeeertoo2597]

​@@TestTest-uo7zvThere is no exaggeration at all.

[@ThePoliticalEuropean]

When did I say I wasn’t okay with it?

[@CMGThePerson]

​@@ThePoliticalEuropeanTurn yourself in for your crimes

[@jackakimbo5718]

That woman who filmed herself extremely shittily acting out some fan fiction about what was supposedly happening at the hospital...why? It's just so pointlessly cruel. As if it's all one big joke.

[@mirroredhour]

It's appalling.

[@timothymclean]

It's propaganda. It's meant to convince people who already agree with her that agreeing with her is a reasonable position to take. I dunno if the state of Israel was paying for that shoddy disinformation, but it functions the same whether it's manufactured by a large group or improvised by one person.

[@BombastionSez]

The only thought that occurred to me was propaganda. Not sure if she was paid or she just believes in the cause enough to organically lie about it.

[@achehex]

@@BombastionSezMy first guess was the latter, just propaganda poison being self replicating.

[@firebornliger]

Propaganda is important in a war to maintain support. She was likely paid quite handsomely for her bad acting. Because it supports the narrative that the people who want the war want to spread. That the people they're fighting are so depraved that they're stealing from the sick and injured, justifying the bombing of said sick and injured, because they're being used as shields.

[@ashfox7498]

Finally, a Palestine video that meets me on my own terms: disgusted weariness that doesn't even know if it's worth bothering to debunk lies told with such carelessness it's as if the point was to not be believable.

[@user-tx9so7om5t]

What the fuck do we do?

[@tungvudang9414]

this is so true, seeing constant casual misinformation or outright biased malice, where people actually pride themselves in being cruel, or just trolling to get kicks out of people who actually cares, makes me think whats even the point of trying to change other's mind on comments platforms such as this? the people who relish in the suffering of innocents arent here to have their mind changed, they are here to troll and gloat. And certainlly words typed from a keyboard dont have the power to change that. no, we need something on the level of Schindler's list for them to draw the parallels

[@mj.l]

@@user-tx9so7om5tput so much pressure on the westerns enablers of this fascist genocide that their support for zionism becomes untenable.

[@IcarianX]

​@@user-tx9so7om5tprotest and vote.

[@fallingphoenix2341]

I would have liked a little exploration of the situation reasonable Israelis find themselves in. They live with massive privilege which could not be maintained if Palestinians got equality. They know that the violent actions taken to establish and maintain that privilege invoke righteous anger and desire for vengeance. They were born on a Tiger's back with no way off. So the best they can hope for is to quietly "manage the conflict." That fear of punishment for the crimes of their fathers, and how lightly it fell on the South African whites is the reason Mandela is loved so widely, in my opinion.

[@jonathanaarhus224]

One of the things I've learned recently is the Borat is actually a caricature of Israelis, ironically enough. Just replace every anti-Semitic slur Borat says with anti-Palestinian slurs.

[@SilvestraX]

Palestine will be free. We will never ever forget. Now, my greatest wish for the future is to see my son grow healthy and to visit Gaza, as a part of free State of Palestine, same as my father and grandpas dreamed on free Croatia.

[@LobotomizedTard]

You'll stop caring about Palestine in a few months lmao

[@silver4831]

​@LobotomizedTard Yep these kids can't focus on a event for too long.

[@WhereItCounts]

It is fascinating that the Wikipedia page about the Holocaust is what KZbin placed as context for this video.

[@Sableagle]

Notice anything missing from that text, like other 7 million?

[@Khaydog]

Right? The largest mass killing of jews in history done by... Europeans

[@linusdroptips660]

maybe you should question why

[@jcdenton2907]

very interesting

[@norsehorse84]

I mean, at the end of the video he talks in detail about Maus, so it at least makes some sense? Not the wikipedia link choice I would've done though. :p

[@BeckaBN]

'It feels like there is nothing I can say that thousands of dead civilians shouldn't be able to' really captured the moment for me

[@giffica]

Ahhaahahah 2 words cope and seethe

[@AL-lh2ht]

why does gaza not releas the hostages? are they dum?

[@ree3762]

@@AL-lh2htthe only dumb person here is you, hamas has said multiple times they’d release them and Israel denied, Israel has killed many hostages at this point, they don’t care about them

[@cybercore1629]

@@AL-lh2ht Gaza is a city, not a living entity. It has nothing to do with the hostages also, israel has consistently rejected hostage negotiations. Along with killing hostages while bombing Gaza, if israel genuinely cared about the hostages they wouldn't be rejecting negotiations for 4 months now.

[@cybercore1629]

@@JohnCollins-vy4nf that's just not true. both sides have breached ceasefire/ truce agreement. 212 Palestinians died in the context of the occupation and conflict in 2023 before 10/7 compared to just 4 israelis

[@happysmiles2893]

The Disappointing Silence of KZbinrs During the Palestine Crisis is not talked about enough They have the most influence in this generation and seeing the amount of people continuing their channels like millions are not being killed is just sad.

[@54032Zepol]

Where? Hahaha 🤣

[@dolphinloser6546]

I agree completely. I've lost respect for a few people. I would also recommend checking out the "Creators for Palestine" campaign currently going on, in which 30 creators are pledging to help raise $1million for Palestinian aid! Some creators are speaking out, and they're helping raise money whilst they do so 🇵🇸

[@silver4831]

News flash 99% of the world don't give a fuck. Its harsh but true!

[@CMGThePerson]

​@silver4831 99% of the world not caring about children being bombed isn't the own you think it is

[@curlychapina]

Shaun, I'm sure you will not read this comment, but I read Maus thanks to your recommendation and cannot state enough how thankful I am. I absolutely loved it, it is indeed a masterpiece.

[@Juliemariak]

The Maus part really got to me. Not only do I agree that suffering is not (often) a good teacher, but I also think that suffering can teach us the “wrong“ lesson: that the world is an inherently violent place where you are either a victim/weak/colonized or an oppressor/strong/colonizer and the only way to ensure you and your family’s survival is to become an oppressor.

[@samaraisnt]

great way to put it. it’s totally the fetish of the strongman so many zionists now exhibit.

[@Gezira]

Agreed, in fact, victims of violence often become abusers themselves and the cycle of violence is reproduced.

[@luminousflame]

Attack on titan in a nutshell

[@biggieb8900]

@@luminousflame haha read my mind exactly

[@dwc1964]

I was brought up to hear "Never Again!" as meaning never again should that happen to _anyone_ The Zionist interpretation is that never again should _we_ be on the receiving end

[@Novacanoo]

With the news breaking a few hours after the release of this video that Aaron Bushnell immolated himself in protest of the attacks in Gaza, we've immediately been given an example of one of the bleakest possible ways a person could walk away from Omelas.

[@tamelo]

Don't forget to bring marshmallows.

[@fraugiblets6955]

​@@tamelo You should consider trading in your humanity card. Joking about a man who immolated himself in protest to children being killed is deeply callous.

[@tonybeluga2796]

@@tamelo😂😂😂

[@aregulargenericname8794]

Weak willed are you?​@@fraugiblets6955

[@tamelo]

@@fraugiblets6955 bacon is not kosher nor halal then...

[@lorrainemcgrail6315]

You always take abstract thoughts and feelings i already had and articulate them so beautifully and concisely, love your videos

[@17-MASY]

For more information about this you can watch channels like: Hasanabi, Second Thought and The Muslim Lantern.

[@17-MASY]

I'm sure that many Israelis and Israeli supporters sometimes think after seeing what is happening (Are we the bad guys?..) but then they brush it off quickly. Because the weight of the horrible deeds and various atrocities done by them over the years would be unfathomably shattering. It would be the moment of (...Oh God... what have we done...).

[@lukisprieston477]

I paused to read “If I Must Die.” I’m crying now. It’s absurd and foolish and wrong to cry only for one person when thousands have been killed, but I can’t imagine ten thousand deaths no matter how hard I try. I can’t feel it. I read this poem and felt pain, understood emotion, and the scale of the thing came into fleeting focus.

[@thebigmanufacturer]

I just imagine coming into town, and instead of seeing home, seeing a mound of bodies.

[@erinkrabill23]

I think about the pain and emotional anguish and utter despair I feel for that one individual and then try to imagine what those emotions would feel like multiplied by 1000. I Imagine that’s probably the closest I’ll get to understanding what it must be like having to experience your loved ones and community being brutally murdered over and over again, everyday.

[@shamim621]

​@@erinkrabill23my exact feelings too.

[@Coolmanbob7]

"You can't claim moral superiority when asking for support, but then moral equivalence to excuse your crimes" What a beautiful quote

[@saifmohamed9592]

Israel: watch me

[@rumination2399]

That jumped out at me too above all things in this great vid

[@qiang2884]

Ironically it also applies to the other side

[@rayman-kx3ig]

​@@qiang2884ironicly it Applies To Israel As well. I see what you were trynna do lmao you aint sly.

[@ngotemna8875]

​@@qiang2884 Damn, it's almost like that's the point of the video: That it's bad *regardless* who does it and that *both* need to stop. Great commentary, very insightful

[@lollipopasmr7193]

before Oct 7 no mainstream media was talking about the atrocities israel was committing against Palestinian children. if Oct 7 didn't happen, most people on the planet would have no idea about the nightmare Palestinians have to endure since years before 1948

[@hotpocketsat2am]

sorry, what happened? i looked it up and the first source was from an .il domain so i don't think google is trustworthy

[@jerinmathew4726]

The section about misinformation is particularly heart breaking because my country is playing a huge part in it, funded by the central government and I feel the same helplessness in stopping it.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

you think you own your country, it owns you peasant

[@REDI____]

it cuts both ways

[@brainbane8550]

Which country?

[@CarloRossiTheGreat]

It's because the way you combat misinformation is by investing in education so the populace can discern truth on their own. But that is an unpalatable solution because it takes time and a restructuring of how resources are spent. Instead we use censorship as a stop-gap solution but that just opens up all sorts of other problems.

[@christianmiller9934]

@@REDI____no it’s not

[@LinusBerglund]

"How many parents have seen other parents mourning for their kids [...]" I constantly have flashbacks to a clip of a Palestinian man calling for his children into holes in the rubble of their old house. Salma and Saed. I cry every time.

[@TheGLaDOSvideoCore]

i won't describe in detail the images i've seen of dead kids but i will say half of the parents who hold their children's decimated bodies into the air for the people and cameras to see look shell shocked. no emotion on their face. a racist would say they dont care, but i see someone who cant even speak because of what they're holding.

[@Emma-Maze]

It completely breaks a person, they haven't had any time to process it, sometimes it takes a long time until emotion comes back after a loss. @@TheGLaDOSvideoCore

[@Koush88]

same one, same thing, to want to save your loved ones infront of your very eyes and be completely powerless to do so, bless their souls

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

@@TheGLaDOSvideoCore It’s completely impossible to imagine what that experience is like. I would say “unless you go through it yourself”, but honestly I don’t think even that is true. My feeling is that it’s an experience which goes beyond the bounds of our minds’ very capacity for comprehension. To the point that it becomes less an “event witnessed” and more of a literal, severe, unhealable injury to the brain. When you see that shellshocked look in a parent holding their child’s destroyed body, you are witnessing in them the mental equivalent of someone having multiple limbs blown off.

[@diamondhamster4320]

So... what about Ukranian kids (around 300K) who got abducted by Russians?

[@psychodycho3492]

you cooled down my heart with this video, as someone who lives in a neighboring country to Palestine i am always watching heartbreaking news about the situation (and getting news about family members dying in Gaza) and thinking to myself that whatever happens israel will continue and nothing will ever change, but seeing that people from across the globe are witnessing the truth and exposing israel gives me hope that all of this is gonna get resolved thank you so much!

[@Neon_talons]

One thing that makes me so upset about this as a German is that we like to claim that we have learned from our history, yet here we are again supporting atrocities. But I guess those lessons are only selectively applied and the acceptable target for dehumanisation has just changed to Muslims and brown people (not saying that antisemitism isn't still there as well, but you get my point). Being expected to stand by the Israeli state in the name of "never again" is so hypocritical and feels like a perversion of justice. And what I just wrote would be easily dismissed as antisemitic for comparing other atrocities to the Holocaust, when that's what I need to do to explain the absurdity of the situation.

[@ObsidianOsama]

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA IS WORSE THAN HOLOCAUST

[@rookideetrainer1635]

if not the Holocaust itself (to avoid bad faith arguments), it's absolutely a brutal genocide

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@ObsidianOsama not yet not yet hopefully never

[@zornrose3547]

One thing to note about The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas is that throughout the description of Omelas, the narrator asks the reader if they believe Omelas exists, over and over again--just before they tell about the child, they say: "Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing:" After they finish telling you about the child, they ask again: "Now do you believe them? Are they not more credible?" The notable thing is that on a gut level they are--that through the whole time the narrator describes the early Omelas, it sounds too good to be true, it sounds fantastical and unrealistic. But when they describe the child, it really does make Omelas sound more believable, more like a place that could exist--even though it's the most fantastical element of the story, the part that *ought* to strain our imaginations the most! On this reading, part of what LeGuin is pointing out is the epistemic error of excessive cynicism, that we have such a strong feeling that any improvement to the world can only come at a terrible cost that it's easier to believe that a city made some kind of strange demonic pact than that it could just be happy. Utopianism is often criticized, and perhaps rightly, but I think part of what TOWWAFO shows is that it's easy to become so skeptical of a utopian vision that the thing you're suspicious of is not the implausibility, but just the *goodness*; that just building a better world without making terrible sacrifices is unrealistic, but that the most strained, fantastical costs to such a world are not.

[@lmn977]

This is so interesting to read about, thanks for explaining all this! Do you think this reading of Omelas can coexist with Shaun's less edifying one about moral paralysis and cynicism and individuals divesting from the state? Omelas is such a deceptively simple story but it clings to you with so many philosophical hooks

[@zornrose3547]

@@lmn977 Yes, I definitely don't take my own reading to be incompatible with Shaun's and in general I think any reading of a story that offers something of interest is valid. I think my reading's relevance to the video has more to do with the points Shaun makes to towards the end, about the possibility of making things better - it's true that, as Maus shows, the world is not guaranteed moral progress; it's not inevitable that we learn from our mistakes. But it's also not the case that moral progress is impossible - not everything is zero-sum, it's not a law of nature that every improvement to someone's life involves a worsening of someone else's

[@Eudaletism]

Yeah, people fear that helping others will cause them to lose what little piece of pie they have, when it would actually increase the whole pie.

[@JudgeMingus]

@@Eudaletism The worst aspect of this zero sum perspective is that some people are only able to appreciate their piece of pie if they can see that others' pieces are smaller than their own, and would rather that the total pie shrink rather than that they get a bigger but equal piece of a bigger pie.

[@bunasdfghjkl]

⁠thank you so so much for taking the time and effort to comment this! you’re very eloquent, and just ugh, this interpretation of the text is both compelling to me and incredibly important. it seems like an actual tangible piece of evidence which points to the subjective urge to reject positive plans for action which many, many people are overcome by once a proposed idea becomes “too optimistic.” there is absolutely something to be said for utopianism, but our current capitalist society necessitates that we remain discouraged and ignorant to the power we actually hold. if we don’t continue to work towards overcoming our inner cynicism and subsequent inaction, everything will remain stagnant and depressing. and it absolutely doesn’t have to!

[@brunoactis1104]

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?‘ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.” - Aaron Bushnell

[@SanctusPaulus1962]

Well I certainty wouldn't douse myself in petrol and light myself on fire, that's for sure.

[@nadox5259]

It was to send a message

[@UndecidedCryptid]

@@nadox5259it’s was suicide. Plain and simple. The second we glorify suicide we’ve lost ourselves

[@vilkristproductions6772]

​@@UndecidedCryptid Why? Whats so wrong in it?

[@thomaskilmer]

Something to consider: When media reports that an enlisted soldier "made the ultimate sacrifice" by putting their life on the line to defend civilians in combat, we don't generally consider that a suicide, right? We are all aware that there are circumstances in which a soldier can take actions which they know for a fact will get them killed which are not suicidal. These actions are not necessarily indicative of a deep and abiding depression which drives someone to take their own life. When someone volunteers for rear guard duty which they and everyone else know is going to get them killed, to screen a civilian retreat, the first place our mind jumps is not suicide. I don't think anyone would describe that person's internal state of mind as suicidal. There is in fact a sense of heroism within humans which can drive us to self annihilation in the defense of others, when we believe it is the only way to protect those people. It's not the default, it is exceptional and unusual ... but we don't apologize it as mental illness because of that. Instead we recognize it as exceptional in the opposite direction, as something to be respected and even admired. On February 25th, Aaron Bushnell, an active duty US airman, decided he was complicit in genocide and the murder of innocent civilians. And he decided the most effective way he could protect those civilians instead would be to immolate himself in an act of protest. An act with a proven track record of changing political discourse around supporting foreign wars in the United States, specifically when filmed. Why, specifically, are you labeling this as an active suicide derived from mental illness, rather than the act of a soldier consciously making the decision to die to protect civilians?

[@shawnkay5462]

My Bro in law is from Gaza and many of his relatives were killed by IDF.

[@nazokatisamova5073]

You are not the only one Shaun, i literally had to go and get depression prescriptions. I have medicine to cope with the events but it is nothing compared to what kids, women, elderly- are still feeling. They do not even have a water to drink.

[@lulusp1023]

Stay well. Best to you❤

[@lulusp1023]

Stay well ❤

[@silver4831]

Stop doom scrolling media.

[@bijoukaiba]

In 2021, the United Nations voted on recognizing food as a human right. It passed with an overwhelming majority - 181 in favor, 5 who did not vote, and 2 who opposed it. If you're reading this comment & watching this video, you probably have a good guess on who those two countries were.

[@54032Zepol]

Russia and China duh!

[@aribantala]

The explanation on the US side is hilarious... the US Mission to UN has a detailed document on why they were Against on the vote "...However, the resolution also contains many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions the United States cannot support." "The United States is concerned that the concept of “food sovereignty” could justify protectionism or other restrictive import or export policies that will have negative consequences for food security, sustainability, and income growth" And after saying the why, they Followed by "We also do not accept any reading of this resolution or related documents that would suggest that States have particular extraterritorial obligations arising from any concept of a “right to food,” which we do not recognize and has no definition in international law." It's literally just: "Uhh right to food is actually bad, also it may be used to block trade, and also we don't want you to read the resolution document ever again, byeee! 👋👋" I mean what in the actual blazes? 😂😂😂

[@honestpuck4887]

@@54032Zepol United States and Israel.

[@V3RTIGO222]

@@aribantala I think the point is that guranteeing food for everone could inadvertantly lead to food scarcity in the cases where any interlinked country within the system chooses to selectively ignore benefitting the whole, as well as a mechanism to deprive people of food when it is convenient (hence threat to food security)... its an overly pragmatic if not paranoid take, so it's very USA. This kind of logic is why things take a long time to get better, people are too afraid to risk idealist policy because they are afraid of it being exploited.

[@F1guRas]

@@honestpuck4887NAHHHH no wonder US school lunches suck😢

[@ibnthani]

The lady in the hospital was the IDF officer acting as a Palestinian, Dr.

[@Short_Clips44]

"juice and their lies " mhhh

[@17-MASY]

‏‪11:26

[@Yassinovish007]

help gaza : humanappeal.fr/faire-un-don/projets/urgences/urgence-gaza?gclid=CjwKCAiA6KWvBhAREiwAFPZM7nD8FlD_u7KhlWVjeETymCrzvcxYt2d-_9MHilaeSRDyaxlN1hLm6RoCBuIQAvD_BwE

[@sky-wq7th]

As a lady myself, don't call her a lady. That's a monster lying to millions, enabling and encouraging mass-murder of millions. All of which were innocent people..

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

No she was an influencer

[@vittoriobonanno3839]

I have to admit that while I disagree with a lot of your stances on other topics and moral points of view, you were able to speak about this genocide is a way that so perfectly encapsulates the way I feel about all the suffering that is happening and the frustration from seeing our western governments take the side of the perpetrators so mindlessly. I am very happily surprised and I must say, well done for speaking up your mind in such a time and in such a clear way.

[@legendofayda]

As an Arabic speaker from Egypt, I can confirm that she doesn’t sound Palestinian

[@michaelharvest931]

As an Australian in Australia, why does Egypt have a hard border with Gaza, and why aren’t they helping their “brothers” For that matter why isn’t the Muslim world helping Gaza? Maybe it’s because even Muslims know Gazans are too extreme.

[@SAFAAJOUDAL]

@@michaelharvest931maybe because they need to stay in their land ? If gazans left gaza , there will be no Palestine in future. That’s exactly what the zionists want, sandi arabia , UAE and even egypt have zionist presidents unfortunately .

[@eeeertoo2597]

@@michaelharvest931 Egypt has many Palestinians living in Egypt. But of course since you view all muslims as the same horde of brown people, your white supremacist brain cant comprehend the fact that Palestinians might not want to lose their land

[@jeannedarc7533]

@@michaelharvest931 Why didn't the Western European countries take in J's before the Natsee H0l0ca4st? Does that mean the J's were too extreme? Please stop, this is straight up f*sc*st rhetoric.

[@IGetIntoArgumentsForFun.67]

​@michaelharvest931 . Egypt isn't responsible for the crimes of israel . Furthermore , If they do open the borders and allow Gazans in, then they would be complicit in israels' ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign.

[@TheSpoilerOfDreams]

I cannot describe how relieved I was when the leader of my country, Lula, openly called what is happening what it is, genocide, and refused to retract his statements after internal and external backlash. I'm not the most sympathetic to him and his policies, but that right there felt like a genuine manifestation of political representation, this fabled transcendental entity chased by political liberalism. For a moment I felt like I wasn't in Omelas.

[@Carols989]

BRs no shaun aq

[@cosmojenkins3020]

Lula is the best leader Brazil has ever had though, no? Why aren’t you a fan? He seems genuinely progressive and his policies have done great things for Brazil, especially the working class and indigenous peoples..

[@TheSpoilerOfDreams]

@@cosmojenkins3020 Indeed he is, but the bar is pretty low. He's also a neoliberal, so despite all the good he did he also enabled a lot of the problems we have today. It's a very complex topic to explain here, but in regards to diplomacy his administrations were great. Economic policy not so much.

[@nektarios5291]

​@@TheSpoilerOfDreams I'm not Brazilian, but Lula a neoliberal?!?!? He's further left than Boric in Chile, and I wouldn't call Boric a neoliberal, and he seems about the same as Petro in Colombia, which again, wouldn't call a neoliberal either

[@TheSpoilerOfDreams]

@@nektarios5291 Petro is much more to the left than Lula. In fact, in this third term Lula's economic policy strongly resembles the right-wing governments that preceded it. Dude wants to privatize prisons, if you want a particularly disturbing example. His first two terms too were marked by great social justice-oriented public policies, but no actual progressive reforms that the country desperately needs, which explains also why all that was gained back then was swiftly destroyed in just 6 years of having the right in power. He's a centrist more than anything. If you really look into his policies you'll understand what I'm saying.

[@Leafeon56]

I was a premie baby, by about a month and a half. I was 4 lbs when i was born, i was skinny and tiny, and i had to be incubated. The image of the premie babies during the first month of the assault on Gaza broke my mom. She cried every day for a month for the babies in Gaza. Ive been telling her for years that what Israel is doing is immoral, and it doesnt feel great that it took this for her to understand, but i feel like ive never seen a moment like this for Palestine, and it gives me hope. Ive never seen more people marching and saying free palestine before. Im seeing the zionists hit the comments really hard, so solidarity forever!

[@GreatSighForward]

This has gotta be the most excellent video essay I've heard in a long time.

[@nman1]

Honestly same! I'm happy to hear someone else say this. (Please reply if you can cause I wanna be able to revisit this comment)

[@zmaj12321]

​@@nman1 I'm back for a rewatch, in my opinion this is Shaun's best video

[@farleymarly2575]

Dam never seen this channel, I put this video on I can't believe I listened to the whole video at work, amazing work

[@GebtMirHirne]

"Children are dying. [...] That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words." (Steven Erikson)

[@minestar2247]

But children always die, why would them dying more motivate someone to do something?

[@HerrCron]

@@minestar2247 Woah, take it easy! You don't want to cut yourself on all that edge.

[@OGreenWorId]

@@minestar2247And the birth rate is the lowest it’s ever been across the entire world so do the math. Low birth rate and high child deaths.

[@minestar2247]

@@HerrCron thats not ege, that what you westerners call sanity, because people being hopefully and moral is delusion

[@minestar2247]

@@OGreenWorId you're wrong, only the first world has low child births, that's why you need immigration, we are different, it won't hurt us, but You, as your influx will dwindle

[@NoSpanks]

"You can't claim moral superiority when asking for support, but then moral equivalence to excuse your crimes." This might be the most insightful one-liner I've ever heard from Shaun. I am writing this one down now so I do not forget it. After watching the whole video, I think it's one of the best ones Shaun has made, and I'm very grateful to have seen it.

[@mikewilliams6025]

Except this is exactly what the Islamic world on a whole has been doing for the past 1400 years

[@mijubo]

The problem is that this quote has a lot of issues. As it is extremely reductive. Firstly moral superiority is not about not committing crimes. It's exactly the moral equivalence in committing crimes that can enable one to caim moral superiority. Secondly what we consider morally equivalent is up to our definition. And there's a lot of examples, where what we consider equivalent or morally equivalent are drastically different. Thirdly if Israel can't claim moral superiority, by the same token palestine can't, as shaun implicitly proclaims as well, but this renders the whole quote irrelevant because it is symmetric. Fourthly Pretending that states or groups of people act like individuals is extremely flawed. The "you" in this quote leads to a contradiction that can be equally placed in the fact that groups act contradictory compared to individuals. And lastly it's questionable if one even needs to excuse crimes to claim moral superiority. Understanding that crimes are inexcusable can even be a sign of moral superiority. (And forgot to say that it's also a valid question if saying "but Palestinians do it do" does imply that people cheering the bombing don't consider it a crime to do so. This is quite awful but a lot of right wingers will believe that their cheering is no "crime" as they are cheering for what is just in the first place) I'm sorry that I'm so nitpicky about this. But using this quote and example shows the guidelines of shauns thinking. He explains or excuses why he puts the emphasis on Israel. But let's face it that is not dependent on Israel claiming moral superiority at all. From my point of view it basically puts this conflict into the wrong debate. Because the only thing we are doing here is basically argue our own opinion of what moral superiority looks like (or what is justified or who is right or who started it). Who to empathize with, and than being sad that humans don't act accordingly and don't even seem to learn from any of this. This also means that the solution to this conflict seems to be realizing the inherent worth in any human being. So we will be really sad in the end because our own perceived moral superiority will not be realized when we project it onto the conflict. And even worse it makes us implicitly believe that if everyone shared our perspective there would not be a conflict as we have a solution to it already, while not noticing that our way of looking at the conflict is already part of it while not leading to a solution. Additionally makes us unable to see palestinians as more as just victims and israelis more as just perpetrators. Both is a disenfranchisement and both make us unable to understand the ambivalence of this conflict. Which is so important if we want to be able to find a solution. This however is extremely stupid, most israelis and most palestinians won't care if they are morally superior if at least there was some kind of solution (or lets face the sad truth, if at least they wouldn't be dying). We know that bombing gaza will not help at all in finding a solution, however justified it might be. Even if no crimes were committed in the process, bombing gaza would most likely not help at all. So setting it up like shaun does might make us believe that this somehow is about Israel being morally wrong. But it is not. It's about bombing gaza being wrong. (And to close the loop, for anyone that didn't see it yet. Criticizing palestine for anything won't stop the bombing. But this leads to the a posteriori reasoning shaun was doing with this quote)

[@NoSpanks]

@@mijubo Saying that morality is subjective is an extremely weak position to hold when trying to counterclaim what Shaun said here. If Israel is deserving of foreign aid (i.e., morally superior), then why are they intentionally bombing civilians (such as by lying about terrorist groups operating out of hospitals)? Shaun is pointing out this logical incongruity. I also like what he said later: the party with the greater power is the party with the greater responsibility. Israel has such a tactical advantage for a war in Gaza that they shouldn't need to kill civilians in anywhere close to these numbers. If they wanted to hunt down a terrorist group without harming civilians, they are powerful enough to do so. They are choosing not to, and lying about the reason why.

[@mijubo]

@@NoSpanks I particularly pointed out that the importance here is what we consider morally equivalent. So this was not about morality being subjective. It is pointing out that for israel supporters bombing children by accident (they will say it's by accident or hamas forced their hand) is not equivalent to hamas hunting children to kill while trying to avoid the military. This is an important point because I think, like you say, we must all agree that killing children is wrong. It shouldn't be subjective at all. And to make this more clear you then go to "with great power comes great responsibility". The issue here is again the question is what is responsible. For israel supporters it will look responsible how they bomb because their intention obviously isn't killing every palestinian (at least some people in government are advocating against it, sadly I'm not even sure if that's a majority). While hamas is exactly stating that they want to kill every last jew (not even saying israeli, and for that matter everyone they define bad). So in turn israel supporters will say the most responsible thing is to bomb the living hell out of hamas, and historically speaking they believe it to be right. Bombing the living hell out of everyone that attacks israel is pretty much their foreign policy, and they believe it to be responsible for not having any greater war the last decades (apart from gaza conflicts obviously). This is again an issue of moral equivalence being totally different from shauns perspective to an israeli perspective. That this obviously doesn't seem to work at all with the gaza conflict in turn strengthens the position of hardliners if we exclaim that this conflict is about doing the "responsible" thing, which they in turn interpret as "we need to bomb more". Also there is a huge issue with the "power/responsibility" thing, that makes this whole line of thinking quite childish, but I won't bother you with that. Maybe you've read Watchmen they pretty much allude to that. If one does not understand that these perspectives differ by quite a lot in a conflict that involves both parties for nearly a century. Then it is quite understandable why there is no real solution yet. And I repeat that the question here is if the arguments we believe to be good ones are nothing but a posteriori reasoning to defend what we believe in the first place. (and the reason we do this is again really complicated and sad) Like I said again this moves the conversation into an argument of moral superiority, of power, responsibility, history whatever. It would be quite the interesting argument to be had. But let's at least stop the bombing first. As whatever stance we have on these topics does not change that the bombing right now does not take us closer to any kind of solution. And while having those arguments people are dying. They also don't seem to further the understanding of the conflict parties. Anyway there is way more to be said on this whole topic, but this is to long already.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

It is truly a "Jesus wept" moment for me as a Christian. The people of God have murdered their own soul.

[@chebichevinovichskic]

A smart and eloquent human being. I have never been to your channel before, but now consider me one of your hardcore fans. Thank you for being a good person.

[@domenico_ginny6164]

Ashamed of my country for supporting them

[@crabwalkarooandcrazydancin9785]

I am Jew and I’m ashamed to say I used to be a zionist. It was never to a crazy degree but I believed some of the talking points and didn’t believe that the actions in Palestine were a genocide. Ever since Oct 7 I rode the fence. I clung onto the dregs of Zionist talking points, tried to see the nuance, fixated on the people who maybe did perpetuate an anti-Semitic bias. I tried to see both sides so hard. I just didn’t want to believe that my own people were capable of doing what was done to my grandparents and great grandparents. But you can only bury your head in the sand for so long. The last straw for me was Rafah. How could the IDF tell all the civilians to flee there? How could they tell them it was a safe zone? How could they do all of that and bomb them afterwards? There was not a thing I could think of to justify any of it. It was at that point I realized that this is a genocide. This video could have not come at a better time. Reconciling my Jewish identity with what is going on right now is physically painful. I literally feel sick. This video helped a lot and I think was the final nail in the coffin for any Zionist views I was holding onto. I hope that other Jews wake up to the reality of what’s going on. It can be so hard when your whole community are zionists. It’s very isolating. My own parents, who are normally very progressive people, have bought into all the Zionist propaganda. I hope that I can start to slowly change their minds too. It won’t be overnight but maybe if I start asking the hard questions I had to ask myself, they’ll come around. To my fellow Jews going through the same painful process, you’re not alone and you’re doing the right thing. The guilt and shame is a lot to reckon with but be grateful that you feel it at all. It’s better to wake up late than not at all.

[@naitsirhc2065]

Who told you that the IDF told all the civilians to flee to Rafah promising it was a safe zone and then immediately bombed it?

[@guernica5413]

@@naitsirhc2065 reality.

[@V3RTIGO222]

I honestly don't think I've met a Jewish person who was so hypocritical. While they certainly can and do exist, as anyone of any ethnicity, sex, race or creed could be... I do not belive it is in our benefit to see other's as perpetrators of such wrongs unless they do so. And when they do, it is important to take a stand and tell them it is wrong.

[@NHarts3]

Thank you. I am glad that you have started to open your eyes to the truth. I know it must have been immensely difficult ❤

[@three_seashells]

Thank you 🙏♥️

[@berintmoffett421]

“Do it to spite those fuckers blocking the trucks” Raw as hell

[@user_unsub2553]

💘

[@megusato2212]

1:24:02 ❤

[@the.amazing.spatterman]

you best as fuck as I went and did it. PCRF 50 bucks

[@eschur]

Those fuckers are victims

[@warmlycalculated390]

​@@the.amazing.spatterman You rock! Just thought you should know :).

[@animalnannymom]

Oct 7 opened my eyes to the evilness of Zionism. I’m poring through every book I can get my hands on. I recommend Bloodlines by Meital Yaniv. She’s a former IOF soldier who now works for peace.

[@Rad_one]

At this point, I don't think people are still misled, there are just some people who support Israel no matter what.

[@TheN00bmonster]

I had a baby at the end of September. The circumstances were a bit messy and we ended up needing a c-section surgery to get her out. It was heart wrenching to think about how a mom and baby in our situation would be dead if we lived in Gaza. Every time I jokingly want to say to my baby that she’s “the hungriest baby in the world” because she’s eating voraciously like babies do I feel a pang of guilt. There are truly hungry people in Gaza right now, babies who will never nurse with their mothers ever again. My heart breaks for Palestine. I feel like I must be missing something, my government insists that israel are the good guys but I see the devastation with my own eyes, hear the first person accounts in the safety of my home. We have to continue to remind the world not to forget the innocents of Palestine.

[@screamskilos3951]

your comment hurts, i hope your baby grows up to be a wonderful, productive member of society and, hopefully, alongside her, 1000s of km away, maybe palestinian children can hope to grow up in a similar manner.

[@theflipper404]

The USA doesn't even care about the suffering and oppression of Black Americans, genocide of Native Americans, racial discrimination against Latino Americans in Florida & Texas, the ban of abortion in the USA & homeless people (many being veterans) who are hungry/dying every night. Why would they care about Palestinians? There are people being genocided in the millions right now in the world. Ughyrs in China and Ukrainians. Nobody cares about them either let alone talks about them. The world is fucked.

[@fcklife182]

My heart is breaking whilst watching these babies being born to be the oldest living relative of their entire family. It’s beyond devastation and we’re powerless to the powers that be. I can’t stomach it.

[@mannygutierrez7654]

When the govt is telling you not to believe your lying eyes, there's a problem

[@Peter-jo6yu]

​@@fcklife182 What about the innocent Israeli babies tortured and burned by the Palestinians on October 7?

[@pasarasaki9007]

Hi, linguistics specialist here: That woman 100% has an ISRAELI accent, not Arabic.

[@KristinaPup]

also a linguist, can you elaborate on what specifically you noticed abt the accent that was israeli?? i promise this is not a weird "call-out"; i just want to learn more, esp if this is your specialty!

[@alexf6994]

@@KristinaPup not OP but a linguistics student: An easy way to distinguish is by the letter R (ie. when she says “over”). The Arabic r (ر) is pronounced as /r/, rolled, trilled, or tapped. The Hebrew r (ר) is pronounced as /ʀ/ or /ʁ/ which you might know as the “French r”

[@EbrahimHasan]

I'm an Arab and a linguistics grad. That woman doesn't speak a Palestinian accent. It is unmistakeably Egyptian. Her Egyptian is somewhat broken and unnatural.

[@hebamohamed2739]

Not linguist here but Arabic is my first language, I just noticed she said "morphin" , we don't pronounce it like that we say "Morpheen", I can literally smell the hebrew in her accent a mike away

[@ngotemna8875]

​@@hebamohamed2739 I believe you Just because you can't pinpoint the exact mistakes it's one of those "you know it, when you see it"-cases Ir rather "when you *hear* it" in this case lol

[@HB-dc2dv]

This is VERY WELL DONE. Thank you for taking the time