Keep your ‘I am neutral and want peace on both sides’ sentiment to yourself. There’s a genocide happening. If you still can’t see it for what it is, it’s because you don’t want to.
Just to be clear: I want peace on both sides. We all should want peace on both sides. My whole point of this post was to highlight the oxymoronic nature of people who are neutral yet want peace. Peace cannot coexist with genocide. If you want peace, you have to pick the side of the oppressed—the ones who are being starved to death and mercilessly bombed on their own land. Because unless we acknowledge the suffering of the Palestinians and the colonial nature of Israel, peace equals a never-never land. Not to mention, the entire narrative further contributes to the dehumanisation of the Palestinians.
