Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists gathered in the main hall of Amsterdam Central Station at rush hour on Nov. 7 for a sit-in protest and called for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.
You should also be happy you are not unfortunate to live either in Gaza or West Bank too. Because if you were I am sure you would have looked at this from a different angle.
or people would also spend more time protesting Hamas.
So there are three problems with this:
1-Hamas is a response to Israeli occupation, not an independent phenomenon. You can’t stop them without taking out the root cause.
2-What, exactly, would protesting Hamas even accomplish? Protesting Israel is basically telling your government to put pressure on Israel to stop its genocide of Gaza. You can’t put pressure on Hamas since they’re already cut off from almost the whole world.
3-The assumption that the existence or non-existence of Hamas has any effect on Israeli treatment of Palestinians is very naive.
forming a protest march in a city thousands of miles away from the theater of war isnt going to change anything either - if it did, the huge protests in London, etc would have done something.
Protests themselves don’t do much, but Western governments are Israel’s biggest backers so Westerners working to change their policy on Israel does matter.
You should also be happy you are not unfortunate to live either in Gaza or West Bank too. Because if you were I am sure you would have looked at this from a different angle.
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So there are three problems with this:
1-Hamas is a response to Israeli occupation, not an independent phenomenon. You can’t stop them without taking out the root cause.
2-What, exactly, would protesting Hamas even accomplish? Protesting Israel is basically telling your government to put pressure on Israel to stop its genocide of Gaza. You can’t put pressure on Hamas since they’re already cut off from almost the whole world.
3-The assumption that the existence or non-existence of Hamas has any effect on Israeli treatment of Palestinians is very naive.
I mean there are a ton of bad stuff happening many places. Don’t understand why I should care so much about this one.
Because if no one cares about those things they won’t change.
forming a protest march in a city thousands of miles away from the theater of war isnt going to change anything either - if it did, the huge protests in London, etc would have done something.
So let’s sit and watch how thousands of innocent lives are destroyed? Is this your solution? Or what solution do you suggest?
Protests themselves don’t do much, but Western governments are Israel’s biggest backers so Westerners working to change their policy on Israel does matter.
but the Biden administration is firmly behind Israel…
Reporting would suggest this is not the case.
Biden administration staff sign open letter demanding cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war