And of course because of course :
Elon Musk endorsed users who have posted ‘wrong and unverifiable things’ while paid-for accounts spread fake news
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Are they just fucking ignorant of their own tactics? How can you be moronic enough to instruct people to leave and then block their exit?
In nazi Germany, the Jews were deemed undesirable yet they weren't allowed to leave the country.
I have no idea how this will go down (and frankly even typing this is hard to me). For all the worldwide outrage and hostility that Hamas brought towards Palestinians (and towards Muslims in general because bwaaah-look-at-what-their-religion-did-again), it also succeeded in reminding the world that Palestine is an issue : because right now, frankly, the israelian apartheid and the ongoing colonization pushed by the ultraconservative government were being shrugged off and normalized even within the muslim world. But also, on Netanyahu's side, it succeeded in greenlighting more violence, extermination and conquest, which is just a large benefit - it's not like a sudden heel turn in his discourses and policies. So it can all go towards a renewed diplomatic urgency, or towards more indifference and apathy for the destruction of a people many are prone to stigmatize already (waah muslims I'm not islamophobe but they always make trouble everywhere). In a general matter, certainly a boon for the islamophobes and the antisemites piggybacking on it, as if Netanyahu and his clique were "the Jews", as if Hamas' attack was "religious". Dickheads feeding each others. Those are feelng fine.
Here we're terrified for our partners, on both sides. The bridges, the cooperation, the trust that their organisations were building will be crushed by this new polarisation, and the obstacles and hostlity they already faced from conservatives (
fuck conservatives always ever everywhere) will just double down. That is, if they even survive this. It's like building houses of cards in a hurricane. The little healing they were bringing to their societies, to the victims of violence so far, is beyond undone, it's just rendered futile in one stroke.
Stupidity always wins in the end.
Hamas is getting exactly what it wanted - an over-reaction. It wanted to turn sympathizers into activists, and civilians into sympathizers.
Locally maybe, but the international community is so appalled by what they did, it goes both way. Palestinians are losing support. It's not like Hamas had targetted fanatical settlers or racist military squads, or any legitimate hard target. And we already saw here that when it comes to counting deaths and scores to settle, people gladly start counting from saturday.
But possibly the new israelian violence will manage to dwarf that attack, that's their big hope ? We can always count on ultraconservatives to surpass each others in inhumanity, but I'm not sure it'll count as a victory for Hamas, given what would be left of them. And it certainly won't be a victory for Palestinians. Or their future perspectives. Manufactured rage won't bring the peace that they require in a context where full military victory wouldn't be theirs, and I doubt they ignore it.
But of course, despair breeds some weird "everything but the status quo" logic.