Bibi sits in and supervises Zio-Don as they joke about Gaza's ocean front real estate, more ethnic cleansing, threatening nuclear war with Iran, escalation in Yemen.
I don't want to get into a big fight on this topic, but I also don't want my silence to be taken for agreement. So I'll just say that I don't agree with the "poor Gazans" idea, unless the Gazans under discussion are those who recently protested against Hamas. Or the ones who are thrown off rooftops for loving the wrong person. And I don't agree with the "Jews bad" idea just because the Israeli government sucks beyond the telling of it. I used to conflate citizens and governments, but since the USG embarrasses and appalls me pretty much hourly no matter how hard I vote, I no longer do. That's all.
I do not conflate citizens and governments. I've tried to be clearer in the language I use when writing about this topic. Writing "Israel is genociding Gaza" can be interpreted as a sweeping statement that everyone in Israel is on board with it, synonymous with the actions of their government. Whereas it is the governmental leadership / the IDF / the Israeli forces carrying out and / or ordering the killing, which I try to be distinct about in the vocabulary I use to describe what is happening.
Similarly, as you point out, the people living in Gaza are not synonymous with being Hamas - they too have little control over who governs them. James Corbett has a well sourced piece on 'The Secret History of Hamas' supporting the not-a-wild-conspiracy-theory that Israel's government has supported and funded Hamas:
I don't want to get into a big fight on this topic, but I also don't want my silence to be taken for agreement. So I'll just say that I don't agree with the "poor Gazans" idea, unless the Gazans under discussion are those who recently protested against Hamas. Or the ones who are thrown off rooftops for loving the wrong person. And I don't agree with the "Jews bad" idea just because the Israeli government sucks beyond the telling of it. I used to conflate citizens and governments, but since the USG embarrasses and appalls me pretty much hourly no matter how hard I vote, I no longer do. That's all.
I do not conflate citizens and governments. I've tried to be clearer in the language I use when writing about this topic. Writing "Israel is genociding Gaza" can be interpreted as a sweeping statement that everyone in Israel is on board with it, synonymous with the actions of their government. Whereas it is the governmental leadership / the IDF / the Israeli forces carrying out and / or ordering the killing, which I try to be distinct about in the vocabulary I use to describe what is happening.
Similarly, as you point out, the people living in Gaza are not synonymous with being Hamas - they too have little control over who governs them. James Corbett has a well sourced piece on 'The Secret History of Hamas' supporting the not-a-wild-conspiracy-theory that Israel's government has supported and funded Hamas:
https://corbettreport.com/the-secret-history-of-hamas/