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I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I'm an idiot.

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[-] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 day ago

Israel are absolutely and undeniably the bad guys. To use an analogy, imagine a school bully who is stronger and gets the support of the teachers and principal of the school, and the bully beats up the smaller kid every day until they hit a breaking point and throws a punch back. A reasonable school would support the bullied kid, but in this case, the principal just gives the bully a gun and looks away.

Israel has been dehumanizing and oppressing the Palestinian people since it's inception and things have been getting worse. When October 7th happen, it was indeed horrible and many civilians got hurt, but Israel's response was so completely disproportionately mad that they are actively committing genocide, treating the list of warcrimes like a to-do list.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

The working class in both nations. The people, divided and conquered.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

If Israel has a working class, it is one of settlers, IDF soldiers, etc. Those are not the "good guys".

There is a longstanding and incorrect view of Western leftists in the capacity of the Israeli working class to build their power and address the injustices. That class has no capacity to do so whatsoever. They are fully bought-off by the ethnocentric project, both materially and psychologically. This is not very different from how other settler colonist "working classes" did the same. If anything, it is an important lesson that the working class is not a moral quantity, it is a group defined by its relation to production, and only through political education can it gain agency for positive change.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

They do have a working class, but your second point is all too true, which is why it has made no impact.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 33 points 1 day ago

The humanitarian aide workers.

[-] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Have you watched the Mandalorian? Palestinians are Grogu and the Mandalorian, Israel / US and Zionists are the Empire.

[-] tupalos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The volunteers that risk going to do stuff in either side. It’s crazy out there

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 days ago
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[-] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

on a scale from 1 to 10 how serious are you in asking this, I ask because I am genuinly unsure if you are confused and unaware of what is happening, or if you are trying to start some shit

[-] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I've answered this in the post to another commenter, but I am 100% serious.

[-] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Well for Decades the Irealies have both been genociding the Palistinians, and have been on a long push to try to conflait zionism, an origionaly anti-symetic idea in eurpope, that was even embraced by the Nazis, and quinticentialy jewish, so they could use anti-semitism to shield themselvs.

The good guys are the palistinians who where there before anyone else got there, and have been being genocided agian for decades on end, and are being genocided now.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

The fact that somebody would be asking this question after a year of genocide is phenomenal.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reminder that at the outbreak of WWII, TONS of people in the US supported the Nazi regime right up until they started invading Western Europe AKA "the countries that matter"

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Also worth noting that the US continued to do business with the nazis well into the war, and IBM famously facilitated the holocaust.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

The palestinian people. Sure, they have done some horrible things but it's been mostly out of desperation for decades of abuse from Israel, who are actively invading their country.

[-] awesome_guy@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

Yeah the conflict started way before october the 7th.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago

This is what Israel defending itself actually means

Well obviously it's the Western powers that gave a bunch of displaced Jews land after WWII, despite no legitimate claim to the area, and then proceeded to keep meddling in Middle Eastern affairs so they could get cheap oil. And the biggest of those Western powers directly gives taxpayer money to war profiteers so there's a direct financial incentive to keep the genocide going.

Those are the goodest guys.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

The Zionist project was going full steam ahead prior to WWII. Zionists collaborated with Nazis to get Jewish people to emigrate or get deported to Palestine. And Holocaust survivors were often looked down on there are Jews that had not done the "right" thing of abandoning their homes to steal someone else's in Palestine. Zionists spread some of the most antisemitix things you have ever heard when it comes to this topic.

The backer of Zionism simply switched hands after WWII. Before it was the British, then it was the US.

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The resistance including Hamas, Ansar Allah, Iraqi resistance, Hezbollah, etc.

but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

lol what. You do realize gaza is a concentration camp right? That's like saying the Jews who fought back during the warsaw ghetto uprising were bad guys. Also they aren't trying to get their hostages back at all. On oct 7 the IDF was responsible for the MAJORITY of deaths. Look up hannibal directive.

The bad guys are Zionists. Simply put they think they are superior to anyone that's not Jewish. Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.

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