Qasim Rashid, Esq.Oct 7, 2023

I stand by what I've long said. Attacks on civilians are never justified. Hamas terrorist attacks, which have killed 200 Israeli civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, and horrific. My deepest condolences to the loved ones of those lost.

Furthermore, Hamas is not Palestine. Israel's attacks, which have killed 230 Palestinian civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, & horrific. Israel now cutting off electricity to 2M+ Gazan civilians is collective punishment & violates international law.

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Let’s be clear. Occupation is violence. And innocent children & civilians continue to suffer the gravest consequences of this violence. The USA & the world must stand together & stop this violence by upholding justice based diplomacy—the one tactic that can truly create peace between Palestine & Israel.

I will always stand for justice for Israel & justice for Palestine, where every Israeli civilian & child is safe, & every Palestinian civilian & child is safe. That is the only path forward.
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Long live Israel, long live Palestine.
Show threadDavid J. AtkinsonOct 8, 2023
@QasimRashid If we focus on the children, it rightly diminishes all the historical baggage on both sides. We wish the children to be safe, to live and thrive. All the children. All else is secondary.
Show threadhansceesOct 8, 2023
@QasimRashid I agree that collectieve punishment is wrong. However cutting of electricity of your military enemy during war is not. Urban warfare makes for difficult choices. Both sides responsible
#IsraelPalestineconflict #Israël #israelunderattack
Show threadSecond Chance BikesOct 9, 2023
@QasimRashid as with most wars, the ruling factions make war and the everyday people bear the brunt of it. The US is not without shame. Our government systematically wiped out a continent full of people who lived here 10s of 1000s of years, simply because the power structure saw an opportunity for enrichment. Families were encouraged to "go west," kill any natives who got in the way, and create "settlements."
Sound familiar?
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Oct 9, 2023
@2CB @QasimRashid And this is probably why so many White Americans flip their lid at any suggestion that Palestinians have rights. If “we were here first” gives anyone justification for someone to push for their land, what does that say about the relationship between indigenous people and us? If we recognize the horrors of colonization overseas, we’ve got to recognize the horrors of colonization at home, and our role in it. Many people can’t face it.
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It's a factor, but I think mostly it is the rapture crowd clinging to a centuries-old fever dream of some opium smoking crackpot. They support Israel against any criticism because they want the prophecy to come true in their lifetime. Personally i favor giving them all tickets to the comet and sending them to Antarctica to wait for the shuttle.
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Oct 10, 2023

.@2CB @QasimRashid Oh that too, but that prophecy is based on the same moral concept: that whoever takes a land has the right to rule that land at the destruction and subjugation of its former inhabitants. Isn’t that exactly what happens when Jesus comes back? The wicked are destroyed, people are forced to convert, Jesus wins kingship over the whole earth, and everyone bows to him. And he has that right because he’s the strongest possible being in the universe: God. Might makes right; the strongest make the rules.

The Second Coming is colonization.

#ReligiousTrauma

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@corbden @QasimRashid "The Second Coming is colonization."

It is also bullshit.

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Oct 10, 2023
@2CB @QasimRashid I mean, that goes without saying. But some people like me like to deconstruct how these doctrines influence our culture and moral reasoning. Even for those who no longer or never did subscribe to those doctrines yet are still influenced by them because we're a Christian-centric society. We're better able to combat these ideas and their implications if we understand their psychological power.
Show threadThecarpyOct 22, 2023
@QasimRashid that means Israel must adhere to international law, which it does not want to.