I’m not so hopeful that this current eruption of visible violence (to the western world) will result in a free Palestine, although I do reserve a naive glimmer of hope for all good things somewhere in my mind. Two things I hope people everywhere walk away with are the humanization of Palestinians as worthy of life and being denied it by Israel and erasing the concept of “complicated” from this whole situation. Everyone who is paying attention sees an uncomplicated situation where one side subjugates another and the subjugated ones fought back and are now being collectively massacred as a result. Everyone can see the inherent injustice in such actions even within the “starting on Oct 7” context. Once people uncomplicate things the solution becomes clear.
Not unlike a materialist view of the world, once you strip away the bullshit film smeared on by neoliberals to mystify everything, it all becomes so simple that you wonder how you never saw it before. And you wonder how it is that all those around you can’t also see it.
That’s my super paraphrased, shitty, condensed Marx summary.
All the “it’s complicated” people just use that framing to either obfuscate the truth from you/others or to cope within themselves. Whether it’s economics or the conflict in Palestine, it’s rarely ever complicated at the core. I hope people learn to kneejerk reject that framing. That means the next step to solving things is really close.
I’m not so hopeful that this current eruption of visible violence (to the western world) will result in a free Palestine, although I do reserve a naive glimmer of hope for all good things somewhere in my mind. Two things I hope people everywhere walk away with are the humanization of Palestinians as worthy of life and being denied it by Israel and erasing the concept of “complicated” from this whole situation. Everyone who is paying attention sees an uncomplicated situation where one side subjugates another and the subjugated ones fought back and are now being collectively massacred as a result. Everyone can see the inherent injustice in such actions even within the “starting on Oct 7” context. Once people uncomplicate things the solution becomes clear.
Not unlike a materialist view of the world, once you strip away the bullshit film smeared on by neoliberals to mystify everything, it all becomes so simple that you wonder how you never saw it before. And you wonder how it is that all those around you can’t also see it.
That’s my super paraphrased, shitty, condensed Marx summary.
All the “it’s complicated” people just use that framing to either obfuscate the truth from you/others or to cope within themselves. Whether it’s economics or the conflict in Palestine, it’s rarely ever complicated at the core. I hope people learn to kneejerk reject that framing. That means the next step to solving things is really close.