when you challenge these people to provide evidence of genocide in gaza, they always change the topic to the west bank, which is a more grounded argument.
listen: i was arguing this was a genocide 20 years ago. i was picking up cues from chomsky, who correctly pointed out it's not apartheid. apartheid is a type of slavery; israel has no intention to enslave the palestinians. i was annoyed at listening to people call it apartheid, as it wasn't. i suggested using the correct term, which was genocide in slow motion.
as the fake left has slowly adjusted it's blinders and begun to see reality for what it is, it has followed my lead, 20 years after the fact and started calling it a genocide. meanwhile, i've moved on to better adjust to the facts, and the fake left remains out of touch, by 20 years.
genocide is a fact of life. i don't exactly want to say "it's evolution, baby!', because that's not what i think, and it's not actually true. what is true is that it's not helpful to hold to these conservative - and that is what it is. it's paleo-right. - perspectives about culture, like you're some kind of anthropologist or something. we have to change and adapt.....and die. that's how it is.
there have been positive genocides in human history, as well. it's not inherently negative. in the distant past, steppe and forest peoples would periodically rise up against the slave traders in the settled areas, and we have half dozen examples of societies that were just burned to the ground and forgotten: ugarit, assyria, minoan crete, carthage, persia - these were cultures that got wiped out because they were horrible. they enslaved and raped and in some cases even ate their own children.
is palestine really that bad? are they michael jackson bad? george thorogood bad?
gowan bad?
gowan bad is bad. it's styx bad. that is the most aptly named band of all time, because being forced to listen to styx is like being sentenced to purgatory, in some conradian epic fail. it's apocalyptically bad, now.
i can imagine that there is some conradian parallel to the tunnel system in gaza, and there are some really damaged, crazy people down there, on the brink of reverting to homo erectus. damn it, kurtz, you've lost it.
ask one that's known them. are they really so bad?
arguably.
i can't generate the slightest bit of empathy for them at this point. that's where i am. is it a genocide? yeah; and, good riddance. the world is better off without this culture, without these values, without this religion and without this race. it's not a question of guilt v innocence at this point, it's a process of pointing out that you can't de-radicalize them. it's a lost cause. if we could just flush it into the mediterranean; learn to swim i'll see you down in israel bay.
all that to ask - should this woman be sanctioned? well, that depends. i think her views are openly anti-jewish, and she'll deny it, but it's a facade. it's my opinion, however, that that is free speech. i don't think she poses any threat of harm to anybody, and if the argument is that she's creating frivolous indictments, then you fight that in court, not with ad hominems.
but nobody ever accused the trump administration of holding too close to enlightenment values, which is the irony of the situation. there's no discernible good guy here.