#tw hamas

[wolrith]

nothing like a ceasefire where hamas violates the agreement terms (not releasing civilians as agreed) on week two just so they can force four idf soldiers kidnapped from their beds, bleeding in their pajamas, to be paraded on stage drugged and at gunpoint wearing homemade military uniforms in front of hundreds of terrorists and jeering crowds, after 476 days of barely even seeing daylight

[scarletseacollectspronouns]

It's been wild to have multiple people who deny the genocide of Palestinians, or deny that it is ongoing, like one of the comments i made on a post. like....guys. you don't agree with me at ALL but it's hilarious that you're liking my comments. free blocklist for meee :3 anyways! restating my opinions in case this changes anyone's mind about me: Free Palestine. the genocide is ongoing, the ceasefire has been violated so many times by Israel. I don't believe Hamas' crimes are on the same level as Israel's against Palestinians (since i've seen so many people posting 'oh but Hamas killed 5 Palestinians' yeah ok well Israel has killed 60,000 so what are we doing). And if you're looking for someone who is completely biased and doesn't have nuance on resistance movements and how people come to join a terrorist organization against a 'country' that is literally killing them, yeah not the blog for you! I am very much anti-zionist, and yes, educated on what zionism is. I don't believe ANYONE is inherently evil based on religion, country of origin or political beliefs. And i consistently speak out against antisemitism, both in my own family, friend groups and the world, ESPECIALLY my own 'country', the US. It's a topic i very much speak out against, just like any other bigotry. I don't believe Israel as the right to exist and i don't believe the United States has the right to exist. I am for land back for indigenous groups across the world and for right to return for Palestinians.

anyways!!! i don't argue with people i disagree with unless they directly talk to me, i typically block and move on. I would suggest you (general) do the same. if you deny ANY genocide, or deny that a current one isn't ongoing, i will block. If you're a self-proclaimed zionist, i will block (i understand there is nuance but the political movement from the 1800s and the modern day belief i am very much against). If i see any 'antizionism is antisemitism', i will block. If you believe Israel has a right to exist, i will block. ANY level of racism or antisemitism or islamophobia, i will block SO FAST.

[morningstar-chronicles]

why don't i allow israel/palestine asks anymore?

to get started, i will establish my stance on the subject: i am pro-palestine, and i've listed some ways you can help at the bottom of this post. all y'all zionists can leave now, please and thanks. this is for my lovely followers who may be leaving asks. in addition, this post is not targeted at any one person in particular, this is just the result of a lot of my own thought over the conflict.

after a several month-long debate with myself, i am no longer allowing any asks about the israel-palestine war. any asks about the subject will be immediately trashed. here's why.

i suffer heavily from compassion fatigue. and i know some of y'all reading saw the words "compassion fatigue" and wrote me off as an asshole making shit up so i have a reason not to care. anyone claiming compassion fatigue "isn't real" is not only failing to demonstrate the very same empathy they demand from others, but is also just plainly uneducated on the subject, and therefore has no right to speak.

compassion fatigue is not neccessarily caused by exposure to information, like one would see just perusing the internet, but a person's empathy can be heightened/damaged by separate personal issues, which i won't be getting into on the internet, causing them to struggle with caring deeply about other issues (source). If you want to do some reading on compassion fatigue, here's a list of articles you can read.

psychology today

canadian medical association

webMD

national library of medicine

american psychological association

what i will say is that this post is not meant to demean anyone for doing what they can to help, especially social media activists. it is because of social media activism that i know about this topic at all. however, talking directly to people about the issue unprompted is not the answer. i understand that the people who do this are likely teenagers, probably 13-17, looking to make a difference. i can say this, because i too was once a teenager, aged 13-17, looking to make a difference.

you really wanna help palestine? donate here, or here, or here. write letters or e-mails to your local politicians. do fundraisers in your community. hell, click this button everyday that @hiya-itsamber showed me. volunteer by helping put together refugee parcels. but in the kindest way possible- get out of my inbox. i am eighteen years old, financially dependent on my parents, and extremely mentally ill already. this is not the place for your well-intended activism.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

It's not like I've ever seen anyone here have any filter for what political messages they reblog, people just see someone talk about a situation in a way that makes them feel like they know who the villain is and press reblog, without question or applying any prior knowledge to their interpretation, especially if it's something that doesn't affect them personally, and especially if it goes against what they think most people believe so they can stick it to the man and feel like they know better. It's not something new and I usually don't hold it against anyone, I'm definitely guilty of it myself, but man does it feel more pervasive than ever now that every 5th post is taking a very confident stance on a war they only know from news and social media, all saying the same thing, enraged that anyone would ever claim otherwise. And it never hit so close to home for me, it was always someone else's problem for me too, someone I didn't know, but this time I got to spend a day wondering if a loved one was still alive, this time I get to be careful in public so I don't get killed for someone else's crimes.

Can we just all (myself included) think a little more, do a little more research before we decide what nuance does or does not exist? I promise you that you're not obligated to post about everything, you're not obligated to have an opinion on everything, and I promise you are going to be wrong sometimes.

[wolrith]

and now hamas has announced they are delaying the hostages release until further notice, a blatant cancellation of the signed ceasefire treaty. Make no mistake, this is not a valid means of negotiations, nor is it a retaliation to whatever the fuck they made up.

this is about three factors; psychological terrorism, as hamas repeatedly tried to do, as they pummel the israeli public with shocking announcements and disheartening rituals, like the barbarism displayed at the hostage exchanges.

two, now that they've seized the netzarim corridor, they essentially got what they wanted in their smuggling of ammunition to the north, and the, essentially, blitzkrieg of civilians being sent back to the ruins in the north to make the IDF's job impossible and costly in casualties as they try to avoid the human shield.

three, the bibas family. we've seen the conditions our hostages came back, grown men who've lost half their weight and came back skeletons reminiscent of holocaust survivors. they dont want to admit they killed two infants and their mother in captivity, or they cant find their bodies, or they don't want to give them back if they are alive. the first ceasefire broke down over Hamas violations, when they refused at the last minute to release the bibas family and instead broke down negotiations and started firing rockets.

of the four pictured, only the father returned. kfir, ariel and shiri are all still in captivity, dead or alive, held by hamas like playing cards. and once again they refuse to let them go.

[destiel-news-channel]

Increase of antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes

Following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre there was a big increase of antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes. CAIR (Council on American–Islamic Relations) reported 2,171 asks for help and reports of anti-Muslim and/or anti-Arab biases in the US since Oct. 7 (as of 2 Dec.). The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) reported 2,031 antisemitic incidents in the US between Oct. 7 and Dec. 7. This is a 337 % increase of antisemitic hate crimes compared to the same time frame in 2022 and a 172 % increase of anti-Muslim hate crimes compared to the two month average in 2022. More than half (1,411) of the antisemitic hate crimes were linked to the fighting in Gaza and Israel.

[realitymage]

Seeing people's lack of empathy blatantly out on the internet is always disturbing. While browsing Twitter a few days ago, I came across a tweet from a Palestinian surgeon about how hospitals had already run out of medical disinfectants and antiseptics and had been forced to treat burn victims with regular soap and water.

And just, Jesus Christ the comments:

-People doing the holier than thou "Pssh, Hamas spent a year preparing to kill Israelis but didn't bother to stock up on medical supplies"

-People blaming the surgeon for the crime of "being Palestinian" (i.e. "You wouldn't need to worry about this if you hadn't let Hamas be in charge")

-People being like "I just looked at Google Maps and see you have a border with Egypt, can't you just smuggle in medical supplies?"

-Possibly the worst comment I saw was from a guy who was trying to do the "let us find peace" sort of thing except he said "antiseptic won't be needed in the future"

But a lot of the "pssh, how could you not have enough antiseptic if you were preparing to go to war" comments were coming from people with American flags in their Twitter names. And it's like, aside from the complete lack of humanity/blaming Palestinian civilians for the actions of Hamas, do you just not know how resource-intensive war is, especially for a nation like Palestine/a region of a nation like Gaza?

Lemme break this down for Americans:

In red, we can see Passiac County, New Jersey It's about ~45 sq mi bigger than the Gaza Strip. Now imagine that instead of its population of around 513,000, Passaic County was home to around 2 million people. NOW imagine that Passiac County is essentially cut off from the rest of the world and essentially controlled by the rest of New Jersey (and also the rest of New Jersey has the official policy of opposing the existence of Passaic County).

War breaks out between Passaic County and New Jersey and New Jersey begins an intensive bombing campaign of Passaic County. Do you really think there is practically ever going to be enough antiseptic to respond to the human damage that causes?