In addition to being an immoderate act, self-immolation is a violent one, indeed one of the most violent, and if you dislike violence, then you should abhor it no matter your view on the war in Gaza.
That war began when Hamas terrorists burned Israelis alive, and the livestreamer showed no appreciation of the irony that it would end, for him, with his own voluntary experience of the same fate.
Cotton candy brain. The Atlantic only lets idiots write this shallow garbage because it’s in support of the West. The few articles in the Atlantic of actual value that challenge dominant Western narratives have to be ironclad in order to be published, whereas if you’re a civility-brained lib you can just mash your head against the keyboard and hit send.
The Palestinian case, in its minimal form, goes something like this: Palestinians have lived in and around the territory of Israel for a long time, and Israel shouldn’t force them to move or mistreat them if they stay. The Israeli case is also simple: Jews have been there a long time too, and have their own right to safety and dignity. I am aware that even these summaries will draw vicious ire. But my point is that a decent person can agree with both, and from that serene starting point negotiation could begin
Israel does not give a fuck about the safety and dignity of Jews, abusing cultural and religious symbols as justification for settler-colonialism, oppressing multiple Middle-Eastern Jewish populations, and opposing Jewish assimilation outside of Israel as they wish to grow their colony by using antisemitism across the world.
