the enemy of my enemy

[solarbird]

This appeared first on my Mastodon account last night; it’s proven popular, so here it is – trivially expanded because I had to trim it more than I liked to fit in 750 characters – for here, too.

Some weeks ago, protesters at UW occupied an engineering building on campus, demanding that UW cut ties with Boeing over Israel’s war in Gaza.

“That’s fine,” I thought, and I started relaying news… until I saw their ebullient praise for Hamas and the October 7th attacks. Then I stopped.

Some people will roll their eyes at that reaction, noting – correctly! – that the Israeli government has done so much worse since. But that doesn’t make Hamas into good guys here. They are not.

For example, here’s translated Palestinian reporting on Hamas death squads killing Gazans trying to get food from non-Hamas aid stations, condemning them as “collaborators.”

It is an inconvenient truth that Hamas is a nightmare organisation – but it’s still a truth.

Don’t let Netanyahu’s crimes erase that.

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

Comments

[jessie_c]

There's a horribly cynical 'joke' about just putting up a wall, letting them fight until there's nobody left and only then opening up again.
If we could only get the innocent people out, then it might work.