#i've seen people be rabidly anti-Semitic about people fleeing in airports

[northwest-by-a-train]

The amazing thing is not that the stomach churns, it's that it doesn't churn more often

#I've seen people say ''hamas is not murdering civilians it's expelling settlers'' #i've seen people be rabidly anti-Semitic about people fleeing in airports #newsflash: there's not exactly a robust train system or safe roads #i've seen people— neighbors. neighbors. say that animal control is the best solution for this #i've seen people posting maps of reservoirs in Gaza and @-ing the Israeli government in it #i've seen pictures #i've seen people calling for retaliation on Iran and listing off targets #i've unfollowed countless people I thought I had things in common with because nothing anyone can do is criminal #forget evil for a second; evil's not a historical category #this is; as another put it; a series of massacres #and yes most if not all anticolonial movements went through massacres #and I do believe people who switch sides or withdraw any sympathy and wash their hands of it the moment a massacre are committed #i believe that those people are deeply unserious; no matter how sympathetic i am to them #and I also personally don't believe Hamas is doing this half-cocked/for the fun of it/with no blueprint for the political aftermath #i do think this is not random; senseless violence. it was carefully planned violence. a very organized massacre #and of course the stomach churns to that; as it did to what came before and what came after #i just wonder whether anything else is possible. if there is a path to peace where our stomachs will not churn. one not forged in massacre #it wasn't possible for French Algeria. it wasn't possible for India. it wasn't possible for Haiti. it has happened elsewhere #but can anything else happen here ? within these borders ? with these people ? with all the blood ? #so as I have always done and will likely always do I support any Palestinian challenge to the occupation #but the stomach churns at it. don't believe it doesn't