I am also not convinced that executing the POWs will help, but that being said i think you’re overestimating the degree to which international opinion has any ability to impact this conflict whatsoever. It has been clear for a while now that neither the occupation regime nor its international allies care to mask their brutality anymore. They are not concerned about what anyone else thinks because they believe no one can do anything to stop them. And frankly i think at this point Palestinians just don’t and can’t afford to care anymore about the optics of their struggle either. It is life and death for them and they have to do whatever it takes to survive.
Agreed. If international opinion mattered enough to accomplish anything, surely it would have done so at some point within the last 75 years of atrocities against Palestine? It’s perfectly understandable to be uncomfortable with the idea of killing prisoners, children, etc, but it’s more important to acknowledge who is responsible for the material conditions that created the current situation.
I think it’s an appropriate human reaction to find people killing people in general to be horrific, but for those of us not actively involved in the anti-colonial struggle, it’s not our place to lecture those who are. If any internet leftists think they know better than groups like the Marxist PFLP who are actively fighting for an end to the apartheid regime, I want to see some airtight materialist reasoning behind it, not nebulous ideas about some hypothetical support based on international vibes.
I am also not convinced that executing the POWs will help, but that being said i think you’re overestimating the degree to which international opinion has any ability to impact this conflict whatsoever. It has been clear for a while now that neither the occupation regime nor its international allies care to mask their brutality anymore. They are not concerned about what anyone else thinks because they believe no one can do anything to stop them. And frankly i think at this point Palestinians just don’t and can’t afford to care anymore about the optics of their struggle either. It is life and death for them and they have to do whatever it takes to survive.
Agreed. If international opinion mattered enough to accomplish anything, surely it would have done so at some point within the last 75 years of atrocities against Palestine? It’s perfectly understandable to be uncomfortable with the idea of killing prisoners, children, etc, but it’s more important to acknowledge who is responsible for the material conditions that created the current situation.
I think it’s an appropriate human reaction to find people killing people in general to be horrific, but for those of us not actively involved in the anti-colonial struggle, it’s not our place to lecture those who are. If any internet leftists think they know better than groups like the Marxist PFLP who are actively fighting for an end to the apartheid regime, I want to see some airtight materialist reasoning behind it, not nebulous ideas about some hypothetical support based on international vibes.