It’s the question that’s weird actually. Does anyone ever ask if Australia has a right to exist? Does anyone ask if America has a right to exist? It’s called sowing doubt, and it’s always in this context and it’s always the same goal in this current media ecosystem. Abdul is just demonstrating the nature of the question which you simply don’t see people do, either becuase media outlets coach them not to, or they’re caught off guard by the implicit gaslighting. If you and I had a public conversation and I, unprovoked, kept asking you if I have a right to live, people watching might start to think you don’t think I do regardless of how you answer despite how absurd the question is to ask in what we consider civilized society.
If you and I had a public conversation and I, unprovoked, kept asking you if I have a right to live, people watching might start to think you don’t think I do regardless of how you answer despite how absurd the question is to ask in what we consider civilized society.
This is SUCH a good simile. Bravo! I’m gonna use that the next time someone mentions Israel’s “RiGhT tO eXiSt”.
It’s not a weird question. There’s no other group claiming territory in Australia. Nor are there any real territorial disputes or territories claiming independence from the United States.
Israel and Palestine have an active disagreement about who owns what territory, and both fundamentally disagree on the other even existing at all. It’s also an extremely relevant topic right now, with Israel being a long time diplomatic and military ally of the United States.
It would be like asking a candidate if Taiwan has the right to exist, which is also very relevant.
Thoee would also be pertinent questions to ask. At least to a Republican candidate since the Republican president is the one with those aggressive claims.
He is a person so, you’re wrong. Also not everyone agrees with your bias, especially when you include the appropriate context: “Does Israel have a right to exist as a state that inflicts collective violence and murder on unprecedented scales against a large segment of their population based on ideology and skin tone without consequence?”. Does Isreal have a right to exist? As much as any other state, and NO state has a right to exist if that existence is centered on violent expansionism, bigotry and genocide. This is akin to how nobody asks if Israel is anti-Islamic, we’re being fed carefully curated narratives to avoid the follow-up, and to that effect I’ll ask you: Does Palestine have a right to exist as an independent state and defend itself against foreing aggression? If not, why?
I agree, yet people are constantly asked if Israel has a right to ‘defend’ itslef when referring to precisely that behaviour in our biased legacy media, and then don’t blink when confronted with video evidence of the IDF bombing groups of unarmed civilians with thermobaric weaponry… Or refuse to acknowledge that throwing rocks in the face of sniper fire is met with improsonment, sexual torture using trained dogs, and death. I just don’t see how anyone can point the finger anywhere else when committing to those actions, and I’ll be first to stress the fact that terror attacks by groups like Hamas are not justifiable, either. They’re just not baseless or irrational, that too is self-defense, and every aggressive action whether in Gaza, Lebanon, or Syria by the IDF is GOING to result in more of this, and the leadership knows that. People have to call out their disingenuous assertions that somehow this is unexpected or unreasonable, and that because of an iredeemable suffering inflicted 70 years ago they should be allowed to inflict the same on other people without question.
People can believe what they want, but I just have to reject that status quo on humanitarian grounds, and it’s not negotiable. I’m not going to passively observe someone who is knowingly or otherwise enabling the narratives that pave the way for more of these actions.
It’s the question that’s weird actually. Does anyone ever ask if Australia has a right to exist? Does anyone ask if America has a right to exist? It’s called sowing doubt, and it’s always in this context and it’s always the same goal in this current media ecosystem. Abdul is just demonstrating the nature of the question which you simply don’t see people do, either becuase media outlets coach them not to, or they’re caught off guard by the implicit gaslighting. If you and I had a public conversation and I, unprovoked, kept asking you if I have a right to live, people watching might start to think you don’t think I do regardless of how you answer despite how absurd the question is to ask in what we consider civilized society.
This is SUCH a good simile. Bravo! I’m gonna use that the next time someone mentions Israel’s “RiGhT tO eXiSt”.
But we don’t, we’re a big lie.
I thought we went through this
Fair, that was a bad example lol
It’s not a weird question. There’s no other group claiming territory in Australia. Nor are there any real territorial disputes or territories claiming independence from the United States.
Israel and Palestine have an active disagreement about who owns what territory, and both fundamentally disagree on the other even existing at all. It’s also an extremely relevant topic right now, with Israel being a long time diplomatic and military ally of the United States.
It would be like asking a candidate if Taiwan has the right to exist, which is also very relevant.
Does Canada have the right to exist? How about Greenland?
Thoee would also be pertinent questions to ask. At least to a Republican candidate since the Republican president is the one with those aggressive claims.
People would answer “yes of course, why do you ask such a weird question”. He didnt answer like this for a reason.
Its a loyalty test question.
He is a person so, you’re wrong. Also not everyone agrees with your bias, especially when you include the appropriate context: “Does Israel have a right to exist as a state that inflicts collective violence and murder on unprecedented scales against a large segment of their population based on ideology and skin tone without consequence?”. Does Isreal have a right to exist? As much as any other state, and NO state has a right to exist if that existence is centered on violent expansionism, bigotry and genocide. This is akin to how nobody asks if Israel is anti-Islamic, we’re being fed carefully curated narratives to avoid the follow-up, and to that effect I’ll ask you: Does Palestine have a right to exist as an independent state and defend itself against foreing aggression? If not, why?
Not in a rapemurder civillians style. This can not be seen as defensive action.
I agree, yet people are constantly asked if Israel has a right to ‘defend’ itslef when referring to precisely that behaviour in our biased legacy media, and then don’t blink when confronted with video evidence of the IDF bombing groups of unarmed civilians with thermobaric weaponry… Or refuse to acknowledge that throwing rocks in the face of sniper fire is met with improsonment, sexual torture using trained dogs, and death. I just don’t see how anyone can point the finger anywhere else when committing to those actions, and I’ll be first to stress the fact that terror attacks by groups like Hamas are not justifiable, either. They’re just not baseless or irrational, that too is self-defense, and every aggressive action whether in Gaza, Lebanon, or Syria by the IDF is GOING to result in more of this, and the leadership knows that. People have to call out their disingenuous assertions that somehow this is unexpected or unreasonable, and that because of an iredeemable suffering inflicted 70 years ago they should be allowed to inflict the same on other people without question.
People can believe what they want, but I just have to reject that status quo on humanitarian grounds, and it’s not negotiable. I’m not going to passively observe someone who is knowingly or otherwise enabling the narratives that pave the way for more of these actions.