Comment by hypeit
2 years ago
If I'm ever fired for taking a pro-Palestinian stance, I will spend the rest of my life suing everyone involved. The capital community has crossed so many lines in their witch hunt for pro-Palestinan voices that it's not even funny. Our industry has reached a breaking point and I'm not sure what's going to happen since most of the VCs are extremely pro-Zionism and a huge portion of people under the age of 45 are pro-Palestinian, including most engineers and tech people I know.
I’m very pro-Palestinian. That’s yet another reason why I want Hamas gone. There’s no chance for social justice while terrorists are running the show.
What do you think about the historical evidence of Netanyahu promoting Hamas for this very reason?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
Anyway, we can make a similar argument about the Netanyahu regime: it is actively making Jewish, Israeli, and American people around the world less safe. It is almost treasonous that our elected officials are supporting this dangerous regime so uncritically.
> almost treasonous
It's fully treasonous imo. Has been since Biden repeated the "beheaded babies" lie twice, even against the express disapproval of his own staff.
If the conditions in Gaza continue as they have for multiple generations now, the eradication of Hamas will just beget the founding a different group with the same approach, or near to.
The conditions in Gaza are the result of Hamas and similar groups. Israel ended their occupation of Gaza twenty years ago and dragged Israelis out. Israel invested in Gaza infrastructure, but Hamas ripped it out and used it to make weapons. Israel allowed Gazans to work in Israel, who then told Hamas where to attack. Israel tried ceasefire after ceasefire, but Hamas just sent suicide bombers and rockets. And when as a result Israel tightened their border and built the Iron Dome, people say they're in the wrong. Those same people also never think about why Egypt also has a tight border with Gaza.
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Hamas will only end along with the Zionist occupation.
How does this work out? Let's say Israel admits defeat and gives Hamas everything it wants. How does this remove Hamas from power?
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To be clear, you mean the entire nation of Israel, correct?
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By your logic, any peoples defeated in warfare and kicked off lands are justified to commit murder, rape, to pillage, and to kidnap occupiers.
In America that would include hundreds of Native American tribes today whose descendants could resist that way against Americans, yes?
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Yup,anyone with a brain and access to internet (non mainstream media) is pretty much against Israel exercising ethnic cleansing on Palestinian people. And you're right, young people tend to be more empathetic and less likely to support a bully.
I definitely have a client who would fire us if I said anything remotely against Israel.
Which is normally a very bad thing, but during a genocide it's a million times worse. I think a lot of people can feel that they're not allowed to say something right now that they should probably say, or at least be allowed to say.