r/JewsOfConscience • u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist • Oct 27 '24

Discussion Cultural exchange with /r/Arabs!

Hi everyone,

Today we will be having a cultural exchange with r/Arabs - beginning at 8AM EST, but extending for about 2 days so feel free to post your questions/comments over the course of that time-frame.

The exchange will work similarly to an AMA, except users from their sub will be asking us questions in this thread for anyone to answer, and users from our sub can go to a thread there to ask questions and get answers from their users!

To participate in the exchange, see the following thread in /r/Arabs:

https://old.reddit.com/r/arabs/comments/1gd9eb3/cultural_exchange_rjewsofconscience/

Big thanks to the mods over at /r/Arabs for reaching out to us with this awesome idea! Thanks to MoC for posting the original post.

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u/endingcolonialism Oct 27 '24

How do you feel about 1) armed resistance in general? 2) October 7 in general?

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u/Saul_the_Raccoon Conservadox & Marxist Oct 27 '24
  1. Armed resistance is an inevitable material consequence of occupation. Immediately, this means that occupation produces armed resistance as an inescapable consequence; consequently having feelings about it is like having feelings about hurricanes.
  2. It was an absolute mike charlie foxtrot. I am reminded of the fourth rule of gun safety, which is "Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it", and Al Qassam Brigades's leadership's fatalism and belief in divine intervention proved fatal. Not securing the entry points to their Area of Operation allowed them to lose control of the battlespace and has produced devastating consequences. All guerilla military operations are by their nature political operations, and this one turned into a fiasco -- what has saved the IRM is the unprecedented open brutality of the Occupation Forces and the hand-wringing glee they take in genocide. That said, many of the atrocities committed that day were fabrications both to cover the IDF's abject incapability as a fighting force, and a way of stirring up perhaps the greatest race riot the world has ever seen. At the same time, if you apply the Zionists' standard for collateral damage to Al-Aqsa Flood, they have nothing they should be complaining about.

And generally: one cannot start a race war and then complain about the things that happen in a race war.