Since Zionism has nothing to apologize for, I'm not a Zionist apologist. Jews no longer live in psychological or physical ghettos and don't apologize for their sovereign existence, no matter how much it inconveniences Jew haters like you.
Zionism is the national sovereignty recovery movement of the Jewish people, the final remedy for more than 2000 years of persecution, pogroms, Koranic and Church mandated legal subordination and genocide.
I sleep well at night because I'm certain it's the billionaire Hamas leadership in Doha who hold Gazan Arabs hostage and their western useful idiots who shouldn't. Every dead Gazan would be alive today if they had not started this war in a joyful delirium of livestreamed GoPro-ed murder by beheading, burning alive and raping victims, celebrating cruelty by using the victims' own phones to send livestream killings to their victims' parents and siblings.
Hamas knew what the response would be, that thousands of Gazans would then die in the ensuing war. And they did so at the behest of their Iranian sponsors to short circuit the extension of the Abraham Accords to Saudi Arabia, a form of human sacrifice to that geopolitical strategy.
More moral asymmetry from protest dogs that didn't bark: Not a single Jew has passed out candy to celebrate Arab deaths. Not a single Jew has chanted gas the Muslims. Not a single Jew has assaulted a mosque anywhere. Not a single Jew has torn down a poster of a kidnapped Gazan or West Bank Arab.
A fundamental law of human history: start a war of extermination and lose and you will lose territory. The Prussians started two world wars and Prussia ceased to exist. The Sudeten and Silesian Germans supported the Nazis and ended up as refugees in postwar western Germany or Stalinist Ossiland. Ethnic Italians who supported fascist Italy in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Fiume (Rijeka) ended up as refugees in postwar Italy. Nobody supports a spurious "right of return" of any of them, and rightly so.
The settlers are majority Sephardic, just like the rest of Israel. They are the descendants of the 850000 Jews from Arab countries and Iran who were dispossessed of their homes and assets in a pogrom at a scale that far exceeded those of 1517, 1834, 1920, 1929, 1936 in Ottoman and then mandatory Palestine. The value of those assets far exceeds what Arabs from Israel and the West Bank lost.
You write so passionately about this war while practicing deafening silence about:
1. Assad's Syria: 1/2m dead
2. Darfur: over 300000 dead.
3. Saudis' Yemen intervention.
4. China putting 1m Uighurs in concentration camps.
5. Russia's kidnapping of over 20000 children, for which Putin has become an ICC-indicted war criminal.
6. Hamas throwing Fatah functionaries off rooftops in 2007.
7. Pakistan's deportation of 2m Afghan refugees.
8. The Taliban's repression of the female half of Afghanistan's population.
9. Russia turning Grozny into rubble and then Groznifying Mariupol, Severodonetsk and Bakhmut.
10. Egypt's blockade of Gaza.
11. Turkiye's war on the Kurds.
12. Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh.
"these conflicts you mention were fomented by the US with the help of Israel. Zionists are US lackeys."
How Israel caused these dozen conflicts you blame it for is beyond my comprehension. Your belief in omniscient Protocols-like Jewish power is as touchingly naive as it is deluded.
It's these protest dogs that don't bark that explain how Jew hatred is the core of all the pro-Hamas protests. Nobody in Sydney is chanting "gas the Turks, the Azeris, Russians, Chinese, Syrians, Saudis, Sudanese, etc. Only Jews are singled out for a global disinformation pogrom echoing the 1903 Kishinev pogrom my grandfather survived. You're part of this movie that's a rerun of a very old hit.
And please explain how "from the river to the sea" isn't a genocidal slogan.
And please tell me if you'd prefer deportation or extermination to implement this slogan for Israel's 7.3m Jews, 65% of whom are Sephardic, and therefore no whiter or more European than the Arabs in the countries their parents and grandparents fled from.
Hamas killing some of those trying to flee and telling Gaza city residents not to flee, and taking away the car keys of some, to implement its self-declared human shield strategy is well-documented. Israel has recorded phone conversations with geo-located Gazans telling Arabic-speaking intelligence agents that Hamas took away their car keys to keep them in Gaza City.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zahri in 2014 on Hamas' human shield strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZEzbT0H1s
Palestinian peace activist Bassam Eid confirms this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6of72XgiUg&t=54s
Hamas is nothing more than a kleptocratic criminal mafia with a green jihadi flag led by Iranian puppet billionaires in Doha masquerading as a resistance movement. When they took over Gaza in 2007 in a bloody coup overthrowing Fatah they could have use donated pipes for water systems instead of rockets, cement for housing instead of tunnels and UNRWA schools to educate instead of indoctrinating children with Jew hatred. But don't take it from me. Listen to the son of Hamas' co-founder, Mosab Hasan Yousef: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIBzZylOpk&t=2s
Here's a summary of Hamas' genocidal ambitions and how it enforces that against Gazans who dissent:
"In any case, Hamas communicated its genocidal intentions not just in words, but in deeds. Before it took control of Gaza, the group deliberately targeted Jewish civilians for mass murder, executing scores of suicide bombings against shopping malls, night clubs, restaurants, buses, Passover seders, and many other nonmilitary targets. Today, this killing spree is widely blamed for destroying the credibility of the Israeli peace movement and helping derail the Oslo Accords, precisely as Hamas intended. And it did not stop there. Since the group took power in Gaza, it has launched thousands of rockets indiscriminately at nearby civilian towns—attacks that continue at this very moment and that have boosted the Israeli right in election after election.
Hamas’s anti-Jewish aspirations were evident not only from its treatment of Israelis, but from its treatment of fellow Palestinians. Despite being the putative sovereign in Gaza and responsible for the well-being of its people, Hamas repeatedly cannibalized Gaza’s infrastructure and appropriated international aid to fuel its messianic war machine. The group boasted publicly about digging up Gaza’s pipes and turning them into rockets. It stored weapons in United Nations schools and dug attack tunnels underneath them. (Contrary to what you might have read on social media, Gaza does have underground shelters—they are just used for housing Hamas fighters, smuggling operations, and weapons caches, not protecting civilians.)
When dissenting Gazans attempted to protest this state of affairs and demanded a better future, they were brutally repressed. Hamas has not held elections since 2006. In 2020, when the Gazan peace activist Rami Aman held a two-hour Zoom call with Israeli leftists, Hamas threw him in prison for six months, tortured him, and forced him to divorce his wife. Why? Because his vision of a shared society for Arabs and Jews, however remote, was a threat to the group’s entire worldview. Jews were not to share the land; they were to be cleansed from it.
Simply put, what Hamas did two weekends ago was not a departure from its past, but the natural culmination of its commitments. The question is not why Hamas did what it did, but why so many people were surprised. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, quick to discern anti-Semitism in any effort to merely label Israeli products from West Bank settlements, somehow overlooked the severity of the genocidal threat growing next door. Journalists like me who cover anti-Semitism somehow failed to take Hamas’s overt anti-Jewish ethos as seriously as we should have. Many international leftists, ostensibly committed to equality and dignity for Palestinians and Israelis alike, somehow missed that Hamas did not share that vision, and in fact was actively working to obliterate it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/what-hamas-wants-israel/675648/
