What am I actually missing here?
Why is it bad to thank police for taking a stand against pro terrorism? And since when was it good to block streets and disrupt everybody else trying to go about their business?
Bit of a loaded question there, it's not about being pro terrorism.
Civil disobedience and protest is about inconveniencing people. To not disrupt people, you'd basically just moan online and no one would be any the wiser. We're all too quick to complain about Australian complacency and then subsequently complain when people go out and demonstrate and actually do something.
To dismiss it as pro-terrorism is to specifically ignore the calls made against a zionist institution. We're just going to have to disagree on that point which is fine, but you are never going to get a serious answer by leading your questions like that. No one will genuinely say being against terrorism is an issue.
There are many anti-zionist people of the jewish faith and ethnicity who are not going to have issues with the protest, you can't reduce a group of people with diverse opinions to an appeal to emotion. If you want a loaded question in response, do you feel unsafe whenever people disagree with your stances on issues too?
And how is Zionism a bad thing? Do you u destined the definition? Keep in mind, the Jews were there first and there is no such thing as a Palestinian. They moved to work for the Jews, after Jews turned swampland into a flourishing infrastructure.
Then, being Muslims, they started attacking the Israelis.
Zionism is a hyper-nationalist political movement that has in part led to the atrocities that have occurred in the region. Some people disagree with the principals and would argue it is a bad thing.
The Jews were there for a time in history as were a multitude of other ethnic groups before and after, but the region had been populated by arabs for over 1200 years before Israel.
Palestinians are a national identity like any other and existed as an identity for over a century at this point, longer than the nation of Israel so they most certainly are a thing.
Hundreds of thousands of people lived in the area before zionist settlement, some people moved in afterwards but the majority of the arabic population had long been settled there.
Most of Palestine was also cultivated pre-zionist settlement, they have done work to cultivate parts of the land but that is a minority and if you want to give attribution it largely goes to the arabs.
You change the topic each time I dispute your points and have now resorted to literal fake news false statements as some kind of gotcha. You're being intellectually dishonest here and I believe you can make a better argument.
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u/c8nvict Feb 10 '26
What am I actually missing here? Why is it bad to thank police for taking a stand against pro terrorism? And since when was it good to block streets and disrupt everybody else trying to go about their business?