People need to get it through their heads that this is not Israel vs Palestine.
This is hamas vs jews
This is a call for freaking genocide
https://twitter.com/CRYPTIDSandUFOs/status/1712804283337388367
I was looking this up earlier today, intifada doesn't seem to refer to a genocide. There is plenty of justified anger to go around, no need to buy into narratives that are actively trying to escalate violence around the globe.
An intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة intifāḍah) is a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It is a key concept in contemporary Arabic usage referring to a legitimate uprising against oppression.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntifadaThe intifadas were two Palestinian uprisings against Israel, the first in the late 1980s and the second in the early 2000s. The intifadas had a dramatic effect on Israeli-Palestinian relations; the second, in particular, is widely seen as marking the end of the 1990s era negotiating process and ushering in a new, darker era in Israeli-Palestinian relations
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080066/israel-palestine-intifadas-first-seconda violent act of oppostion by the Palestinian people to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intifadaI'm hosting a small Shabbat dinner tonight as I do almost every week for certain Jewish family and friends. In my circles, at least, the preeminent thoughts are around ways to minimize violence to civilians both in the short and long term. Apartheid regimes are brutal and despicable, terrorism attacking children even worse. I don't see how this specific Israeli military response results in a more peaceful future, nor do I think it targets the people who I suspect are most responsible (anti-Israeli agents in Iran and Qatar, and the myriad political entities behind the Iranian/Saudi conflicts). I have many friends who've spent considerable time in Israel, and the collective mourning among them for the combination of the humanitarian suffering on both sides of the border, and the loss of any degree of optimism around long-term de-escalation is brutal to be near. I personally don't see any remotely realistic, non-tragic continuation of what's happening, there is just absolutely no winning for the innocent, nor is there feasible retribution for the most villainous.
Best case (?) models to look toward are maybe some combination of the end of the Yugoslav wars, the Good Friday Agreement, and tragically/ironically the creation of Israel following mass displacement/death of a religious minority.
It will always be absolutely insane to me how much suffering the people of the middle east have gone through over the past thirty years next to the enormity of wealth that has been generated in the region. Just a failure of humanity.
