The more you make peaceful protest impossible, the more people like Elias Rodriguez become inevitable. At a certain point, hyper-normalized whiplash progresses into a combination of the imperial boomerang and blow back; you can only torment people so much before they feel the need to take matters into their own hands. You described it really well in this piece -- that hopelessness that so many of us feel at times when the legal and peaceful avenues towards change and progress continue to slam shut in our faces. The callousness and complete disregard for human life that we bare witness to on a daily basis from the U.S. empire is capable of driving people beyond their limits, as we've seen in the past on numerous occasions. Luigi Mangione comes to mind as an alleged recent example: how much violence can for-profit healthcare and insurance inflict upon people before that violence blows back? The irony, of course, is that when that violence blows back, as you discussed as well, it's treated as some incredibly rare phenomena that must be condemned across the board, with no nuanced analysis or dissection of what could've possibly led to this happening.
It's completely absurd to frame these two Zionist-Israelis as "two loving individuals who simply attended a Jewish event" when they both made clear and intentional decisions to devote their lives to a genocidal apartheid state that's currently mass murdering and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their land. That's a conscious choice they both made and it should be understood as such. Political violence doesn't fit the antisemitic narrative -- therefore it's conveniently omitted from the discussion all together. The constant and immutable contradictions of empire are so frustrating to contend with, and yet it's what were forced to grapple with day in and day out. We so desperately need that organizing infrastructure that helps us establish a national workers movement to help push back and reclaim some ground. As you worded so perfectly, "The hierarchy of lives is on bare display for anyone willing to look." If we don't find ways to act and soon, I fear it may become too late, but I keep my faith and hope in those who are capable of leading us out of this mess. "A society where all lives are held sacred has nothing to fear," and it's been long overdue that we establish that kind of society for the betterment of us all.
Without being hyperbolic or insulting, I believe the Star of David will go down as being tantamount to the Nazi swastika. Thanks to the Zionists, Judaism as a religion will always be associated with Gaza. It's a real tragedy.
"Peace loving" 🙄 One of them posted threats to AnsarAllah just days before his timely death. Since when are Israeli diplomatic staff *NOT* Mossad? Valid targets, all of them.
The actual decision-makers hide behind multiple layers of praetorian guards and surveillance apparatus; they're only too happy to sacrifice junior-level staffers that they can then turn into martyrs for their cynical use.
Israel has created a monstrously unjust situation. For the sake of a stronger argument, we can set aside the morality, and observe that Israel has created a plainly unsustainable situation. With the systems of justice corrupted and sabotaged, then the reaction to the plainly unsustainable situation necessarily reverts to the default - response in kind, violence of the same kind. Making a battlefield out of places which according to modern norms should not have been battlefields. Just as in Gaza itself. Should be obvious.
For reason that will puzzle people later, the US is spending what's left of its "soft power" influence around the world to prolong this genocide. Certainly nobody aware of what's happening should in any way contribute to the continued power of nations or organizations who do such things.
The more you make peaceful protest impossible, the more people like Elias Rodriguez become inevitable. At a certain point, hyper-normalized whiplash progresses into a combination of the imperial boomerang and blow back; you can only torment people so much before they feel the need to take matters into their own hands. You described it really well in this piece -- that hopelessness that so many of us feel at times when the legal and peaceful avenues towards change and progress continue to slam shut in our faces. The callousness and complete disregard for human life that we bare witness to on a daily basis from the U.S. empire is capable of driving people beyond their limits, as we've seen in the past on numerous occasions. Luigi Mangione comes to mind as an alleged recent example: how much violence can for-profit healthcare and insurance inflict upon people before that violence blows back? The irony, of course, is that when that violence blows back, as you discussed as well, it's treated as some incredibly rare phenomena that must be condemned across the board, with no nuanced analysis or dissection of what could've possibly led to this happening.
It's completely absurd to frame these two Zionist-Israelis as "two loving individuals who simply attended a Jewish event" when they both made clear and intentional decisions to devote their lives to a genocidal apartheid state that's currently mass murdering and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their land. That's a conscious choice they both made and it should be understood as such. Political violence doesn't fit the antisemitic narrative -- therefore it's conveniently omitted from the discussion all together. The constant and immutable contradictions of empire are so frustrating to contend with, and yet it's what were forced to grapple with day in and day out. We so desperately need that organizing infrastructure that helps us establish a national workers movement to help push back and reclaim some ground. As you worded so perfectly, "The hierarchy of lives is on bare display for anyone willing to look." If we don't find ways to act and soon, I fear it may become too late, but I keep my faith and hope in those who are capable of leading us out of this mess. "A society where all lives are held sacred has nothing to fear," and it's been long overdue that we establish that kind of society for the betterment of us all.
Thanks for another great read as always Scarlet!
Only Israel is allowed to murder and assassinate embassy staff in foreign lands, doncha know?
Without being hyperbolic or insulting, I believe the Star of David will go down as being tantamount to the Nazi swastika. Thanks to the Zionists, Judaism as a religion will always be associated with Gaza. It's a real tragedy.
"Peace loving" 🙄 One of them posted threats to AnsarAllah just days before his timely death. Since when are Israeli diplomatic staff *NOT* Mossad? Valid targets, all of them.
The actual decision-makers hide behind multiple layers of praetorian guards and surveillance apparatus; they're only too happy to sacrifice junior-level staffers that they can then turn into martyrs for their cynical use.
It certainly makes it obvious for those with eyes to see it just who rules us.
Israel has created a monstrously unjust situation. For the sake of a stronger argument, we can set aside the morality, and observe that Israel has created a plainly unsustainable situation. With the systems of justice corrupted and sabotaged, then the reaction to the plainly unsustainable situation necessarily reverts to the default - response in kind, violence of the same kind. Making a battlefield out of places which according to modern norms should not have been battlefields. Just as in Gaza itself. Should be obvious.
For reason that will puzzle people later, the US is spending what's left of its "soft power" influence around the world to prolong this genocide. Certainly nobody aware of what's happening should in any way contribute to the continued power of nations or organizations who do such things.