the thing is israel basically belongs to the united states. it is funded by our government. they test weapons for us. when the us defends israel it is not defending a sibling nation where there might be room for them to break away or disagree, it is defending its own military interests. i think this is important for understanding why the states are acting this way and to make it clear this is something US citizens are directly involved in, as much as any other cruel, imperialistic war we are told to support, only to be apologized for as wrong decades later. you can apologize for the deaths once you have already benefitted from the deaths. that is how these things go but it is always essential to fight that pattern because we already know how it ends if we were to let it play out. none of this is new, for all the claims of complexity, it is the same old playbook and we must recognize it for what it is and fight it as we would any other demand for crimes against humanity in the name of "peace". learn from the past, learn from each other, learn from those who have been fighting this struggle longer than we have been alive. mass opposition to US imperialism, to settler colonialism, to """justified""" genocide is the only way.
to those in the notes asking what can be done, here are some resources to get you started. most of the scripts list is targeted towards a U.S. audience but should be possible to modify for use elsewhere depending on where you live.
call scripts (most can easily be modified into email scripts as well):
contact your city council to put out a statement in support of palestine
contact your senators/representatives to support the ceasefire bill
a post on how to archive the events and information being shared online
there are also many donation links going around which are compiled in other posts. i am currently getting a lot of mileage out of sharing the games for gaza bundle on itch, as it is very easy to bring up in conversation. if you are in discord servers with gaming channels, it is a very easy way to bring people's conversation and attention back to palestine by sharing it.
keep sharing!! keep talking! don't look away. give these resources to other people and keep listening to and boosting palestinian voices. that's what has been asked of us. your words ARE important right now. there would not be so much effort to silence and shut down the public's cries for justice and freedom if there were no effect.
