Violence is "So Called Violence" If Committed As "Resistance" To "Oppressors"

The theme of yesterday's rally sponsored by local Socialists

Murder is not murder.
Rape is not rape.
Kidnapping is not kidnapping.

Not if the goal of the murderer and rapist and kidnapper is “Justice.”

Continuing to reflect on the rally I witnessed yesterday, the theme of the day is evident:

If working toward the interest of justice demands you murder, then you murder but it’s not murder. If working toward justice demands you to rape, then you rape but it’s not rape.

As speaker after speaker took the microphone to address eager listeners yesterday, they all said the same thing in just so many words: Violence isn’t violence. No, it’s “so called violence.”

And as these speakers linked “Palestinian liberation” to America’s “Black Liberation Movement,” the message got amplified: Both here in colonialized America and there in colonialized Gaza, “any means necessary” are fully justified in the interest of “liberation” and “justice.”

Cheers erupted with this messaging. The Socialists ate it up because they’ve never met a genocide they didn’t embrace as their own. And the Palestinians ate it up too, because they’re off the hook for the violence they perpetuate.

If today Hamas would lay down its weapons, the region would be at peace; but if today Israel were to lay down its weapons, the Jews would be wiped off the face of the Earth.

The Palestinians elected Hamas in a democratic vote; let them live with the consequences of their choice.

Egyptians, Syrians, and the Jordanians have all denied safe haven to Palestinians. It’s no mystery why: these people are the worst among human kind who have spread violence wherever they have lived.

Here’s just one more example:

Gaza has a terrible problem with the complexities of concentrated urban living, like dealing with sewerage. When Israel delivered pipe to upgrade the sewer lines, Hamas used the pipe instead to build rudimentary rockets to fire down upon Israeli neighborhoods.

Hamas shields their weapons with children; Israel shields their children with weapons.

There is no “moral equivalency” happening here. The “cycle of violence” isn’t a cycle: it’s a repeated effort on the part of Palestinians to commit genocide.

The celebration of rape and death I witnessed will always remain with me. Among the supporters at the rally yesterday were friends of mine who I know are so deeply confused that they believe they are acting in the interest of “justice.”

Nothing could be further from reality.

This morning news broke that Hamas beheaded babies during the attack, as many as forty babies slaughtered in their cribs. A dead mother was found with her baby by her side with the umbilical cord still attached to the dead newborn.

“Resistance” demanded Hamas to do this, you see. “Justice” demanded it of them. Meaning, the murder of those babies isn’t “murder.”

The situation has not been as stark and crisply clear since the 1940s and the discovery of the death camps.

Hundreds came together on the streets of New Orleans yesterday to celebrate this “justice,” and I condemn it - and them - in the strongest of terms.

Allow no safe haven to the monsters who rationalize kidnapping and rape and the execution of innocent children and babies in their cribs.

The Socialists were unknowingly right when they said, “There are no ‘two sides’ here!”

No, indeed, there are not.

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