“My son is an American before Palestinian,” his grieving father said as he grappled with the U.S. government’s role in the violence in Gaza and the West Bank. “Americans, us, our government backs it up.”
  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
    27·
    10 months ago

    I was there just 4 years ago https://jeena.net/pods/21 but I don’t think I’d go today. Even back then you could feel the tension while both sides welcomed you as a foreigner you could tell they hate each other and fear each other.

    • library_napper@monyet.cc
      6·
      9 months ago

      If you’re white its much less risky. The settlers and military are conducting an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (and are trigger happy of all brown people). This is why international solidarity from white people is super important.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
    10·
    9 months ago

    Was he living under a rock prior to the visit? One of the worst ethnic cleansings in modern history is happening there right now, and that’s when he decided to visit?

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    10 months ago

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    AL-MAZRA’A AL-SHARQIYA, West Bank — Tawfic Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, 17, was born and raised in Louisiana, in a city called Gretna across the Mississippi River from New Orleans and surrounded by the delta’s swampland and bayous.

    It’s a long way from the mountains of the occupied West Bank, but when Tawfic arrived in May, he was excited to properly explore the landscape of the village where his dad grew up, and to learn more about his roots as a Palestinian American.

    But he says the Biden administration’s support of Israel, including with weapons, and what he sees as a tepid response from the White House to Tawfic’s death make him doubt that his government will act in his son’s interest.

    The incident comes as human rights groups have documented a rise in settler violence in the occupied West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began.

    Since Oct. 7, at the start of the war in Gaza, 344 Palestinians, including 88 children, have been killed by security forces and settlers across the West Bank, according to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

    Since the start of the war, President Joe Biden has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza, but the death toll has continued to skyrocket in the months since.

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  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    2·
    9 months ago

    Meh, he’s better off. Life is better to those who live the least of it.

    Human “civilization” is just another label for eternal hell without end.

    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgM
      5·
      9 months ago

      I’m not here to tone police your doomerism, but have you considered how the words “he’s better off” might upset anyone who’s lost family due to violence?

      Please do your best to be considerate of the feelings of others on beehaw, it’s the nice thing to do 💜

      • tygerprints@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Well you’re right, I can’t argue with you there. The pervasive sense of doomerism and love of gun violence that is our modern society has turned me very cynical about death. I don’t think you can have it both ways - culture of violence and also being upset when violence happens. That was really just where I was coming from.

        Trust me no one is more pacifistic and in love with the idyll of a peaceful world than I am.

      • tygerprints@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        Probably doesn’t help at all. The truth is unpleasant, rarely very helpful. Do not look behind the curtains, and do not live without delusion because what humans really are is too horrible to contemplate and still be able to go on with your existence.

    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu
      3·
      9 months ago

      I can almost guarantee you much prefer civilization to the natural state. It’s nice not having to find your next meal, often going days or even weeks at a time without eating, right? That’s just one of many ways that civilization makes your life better than without.

      • tygerprints@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        True - I’d not do very well on Naked on Afraid, I’d survive about one second if I had to go outside. The slightest breeze would send me into a spiraling calamitous downfall. If I saw a spider I’d die of apoplexy.

        I’d go into severe withdrawal and severe geriatric profranity disorder if I had to live without my video games and TV and electricity.

        Yes I’m the first to admit I’d not survive long on my own but I still dream of living by myself in a tropical (what else) paradise where food is plentiful and there just happens to be electricity enough to run a big screen TV and several video game systems. And by coincidence is right next to a Hostess bakery outlet.

        IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK OF LIFE???