Why no foreign uprising about Gaza genocide ?

One person on Mastodon asked why people in Western countries, the countries complicit in the Gaza genocide,
do not rise up and overthrow the regimes.

Very interesting question.

And can I write about this here without getting arrested immediately ?
You never know in this “cool”, former colonist, Netherlands country.
Therefore I’ll keep it polite and “classy”.

My gut feeling not based on facts tells me that this is not feasible in Western Europe.
In South America maybe. In Africa and Asia it’s possible.

And then there’s the mysterious USA.
One wonders what happened to all the bragging gun lovers wanting to defend themselves.
Now that the enemy within, the fascist Trump regime, is destroying parts of USA (with Putin
in Russia laughing” there is still no civil war. Ironically Elon “Nazi salute” Musk who
made hints about civil war in the UK is still influencing millions of people without
any repercussions.

How about the Netherlands (further abbreviated as NL) ?

Since a really long time I have been thinking that the middle class has grown too big,
and too many people have been happy with their TVs, cars, and more recently an
incredible amount of people appear to be married with their phones.

As long if there is not a critical mass of angry people in a country
who want big chances there’s little chance for an uprising.

But in general for uprisings various other ingredients can be important.
For example, a corrupt military.

However, one thing is that mass surveillance is pretty strong in NL.
Cameras everywhere, and climate activists getting arrested for no reason, just
for intimidation.
(With some “funny” exception like diamond stealing. A bunch of guys stole several
diamonds during the day at an exhibition and <checks notes> they got away by
using electric steps, and still not arrested as far as I’ve seen in the news.)
The other thing is that fossil fuels dependency (and possibly lobbying, bribes)
is pretty strong, as well as the “special” relationships with the USA and Israel,
meaning that there’s all kind of companies involved backing the government’s
status quo.

Add to that the massive rise of fascism, with fascism ideas been normalized in
talkshows, newspapers, TV, radio and so on.
Currently the Netherlands has these fascist political parties in the 2nd Chamber :
PVV,FvD,JA21,Groep Markuszo, and the fascist leaning VVD,BBB,SGP.
That’s a scary seven political parties.

Regime change in the Netherlands, whether that is by voting, discrediting
fascists, demonstrations, writing to your MPs and so on, is not realistic
any time soon.

What can do you if you’re in the Netherlands apart from boycotting Israel ?

Take on the fossil fuel, by doing this it basically weakens the power of the
current government.

– Buy a solar panel for your balcony.
If you don’t want to spend money on it start a crowdfunding campaign.

– Experiment with wind energy for small things that need little amount
of energy.

– Stop cooking on gas. Buy a rice-cooker. Eat more raw food and bread.

– Break with the banks that support climate-destruction, war, apartheid.

– Break with health care insurance companies that support
climate-destruction, war, apartheid.

– Urge your city to do more for public transport.

– Start talking about Israel’s apartheid. NL has a history with
apartheid in South-Africa, that is an emotional connections. Lots of
politicians, newspapers and journalists are still very afraid to use the word
genocide in regards to Gaza. Therefore empathize on the word
apartheid. Israel is an apartheid state and NL is shamefully supporting
that very much.

– Ask your work to be allowed to work more from home if you need to
travel by car to your work.

– Donate to projects that will support Palestine, for example
Plant een olijfboom.

– Call out government and complicit people about them falling for the
lobbying by CIDI. If they really stand for all Jews in this world why
is a Jewish group like Een ander Joods geluid every time excluded
from talks with the government ?

– Promote music that is anti-genocide and pro-Palestine, for example
the Irish band Kneecap and Bob Vylan.

– Consider traveling to the West Bank to support Palestine people
against the Zionist settlers violence simply by staying there.

– Follow the Global Sumus Flotilla sailing with more than 100 boats to Gaza
to break the illegal siege.

– Write angry letters to your newspapers about the shameful Israel apartheid
complicity of NL.

– Tell people that the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will
be free” is not a violent slogan. Go read about the violent Christian Crusades
history and you’ll see the name Palestine. Jews and Palestians have lived
in peace in the past in the same area.

– Share this story.

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a Mastodon post to share ideas, food for thought, food for discussion,
food for change. Go for critical thinking.

Like in the Monty Python movie Life of Brian where Brian from an open window
shouts to the huge crowd outside below “You need to think for yourself!”
(and the crowd, like a unison choir shouts “We need to think for ourselves”).

Critical thinking is something we need more than before in these times
where silence and looking away has become normal for many people.

Free free Palestine!

#freepalestine

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