Israel might be right here, you know.
It has a lot to defend from Iran.
Many of us woke up – or went to bed – to the news that years ago would have sounded like the beginning of the Third World War (these days, many regions seem like that war already). Israel has struck multiple targets in Iran, escalating its previous attacks to an even more alarming level.
Or, as many of our national broadcasters will present it: Israel is responding to that existential threat we’ve been hearing about. The strikes are pre-emptive, you see. They are needed. They are justifiable – they can be explained: rationally, calmly, appealing to our shared values and the need to protect our Western Civilisation. The word “civilised” will likely be used here.
But this is where we have to admit that Israel might be right here.
The threat is real.
And there is a lot to protect:
If you want to protect your domination, you will kill, attack, bomb, and destroy anyone and everything that’s in your way.
If you want to protect your genocide, you will kill, kidnap, deport, smear, and destroy anyone and everything that might impede your mass murder.
If you want to prevent a nuclear deal from being signed, you will kill, attack, bomb, destroy, provoke, and sabotage everything that could potentially lead to it.
So yes, the threats to Israel’s domination and its plans to implement its final solution for Gaza are real.
As a global movement, we have to be that threat, increasingly powerful, too.
And we have to continue rejecting militarism, more loudly than ever, and notions that countries with horrible leaders suddenly deserve to be bombed — especially when bombed by genocidal states pretending to care for anyone’s human rights record.
As always: stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
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