Eudaimon ꙮ"It Shouldn't Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gaza" by Caitlin Johnstone<br><br><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-shouldnt-have-taken-this-much" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-shouldnt-have-taken-this-much</a><br><br>>I’m glad people are waking up to the cruel reality of this nightmare. I’m grateful to each and every influential voice who uses their platform to speak out, even at this late date. I truly am.But I also think we need to take a very hard, very uncomfortable look at ourselves as a society right now. If all those monstrous abuses were tolerable for us over these last two years, there’s something deeply and profoundly sick about our civilization.<br><br>Caitlin offers a very necessary inventory of Israel's, IDF's and settlers' abuses, war crimes (if we consider this a war, which I wouldn't) and acts of genocide prior to current mass starvation. Yes, mass starvation is surely a red line, but why weren't all these other atrocities? Maybe these "newcomers" are now seeing that this is the end for Gazans, and they wish to be able to say "hey, I opposed the genocide!". Well, it took almost two years, and that silence is exactly what helped, so don't feel so good about yourselves... What you should do, in my opinion, and that certainly would be very helpful for the future, is to follow Caitlin's advice and take this hard and uncomfortable look on yourselves. For that, a therapist will help a lot, because for such endeavours a third person is usually necessary. You see, humans build all sorts of mental frameworks that help them feel good about whatever they do, even if it's a socially destructive (even criminal) practice. Nobody thinks they're the bad guy, everyone can justify what they are doing "rationally". Even if they're not especially proud of it, it may sound as "you know, I have a family to feed", or "I follow orders". Our minds can be that deceptive and blinding.<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/israel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/idf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IDF</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/settlers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#settlers</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/genocide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genocide</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/colonialism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/palestine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/westbank" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WestBank</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/westernmedia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WesternMedia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/redline" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedLine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/caitlinjohnstone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CaitlinJohnstone</a>