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To add to this: the two sides in the war are supposedly Israel and Hamas. Can we not agree that either side killing civilians is wrong?

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You would be surprised how controversial this is. Try saying all civilians should be protected, or should have equal rights. The racist will come and tell you how one side is more important than the other to have the same rights to life, dignity and safety.

At the very least call it Israel vs Gaza, calling it just "Hamas" when many gazan civilians are involved does not fit what is happening. Language matters, and in fact I wouldn't even call it Israel vs Gaza, but Zionist Terrorists vs Palestine, because I don't recognize the settler colony "Israel".

I think by "involved" you mean victims, right? I read that wrong the first time and thought you were making the opposite point.

Completely agree that the framing is deliberate and bullshit. When you see what's actually happening, it's hard to believe that they're not actually trying to push Gazans into the sea (or Egypt).

The zionists have been trying to ethnically cleanse the palestinians and their leadership has made that very clear.

Gazans are involved as victims, but they also support Hamas since that is the only group that stands up for their rights and dares to fight back. You may not agree with them, but I do and completely understand the mindset. The only reason we even talk about Palestine now instead of allowing a slow genocide to happen, is because of the bravery of those men from the resistance who dared to fight back against the oppression.

https://johnmenadue.com/the-october-7-hamas-assault-on-israe...

Killing in general is wrong.

Great, seems we agree. So it should stop and we should speak up about it, right?

I have no problem with people speaking up just with people that want to be edgy and write a sob story when a opportunity arises. As I said you deciding to speak up now but not about other conflicts says more about you than you think. Do you really not sleep?

I don't usually post this sort of "dear diary" thing either, but when there's a US ally doing a genocide, and we in the west have the opportunity to do something about it, I figured it was better to post. Not sure what I can do about the Congo, but if I get some small set of folks in tech to feel like they can criticize this genocide, we have the ability to change US policy.

But yeah, I'm not being facetious. I haven't slept properly since Oct 7.

Your previous blog posts are still available for everyone to read. To say you don't normally write emotionally loaded is obviously wrong.

Which one are you thinking? It feels to me this was the first post I've written with real emotion.

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