These things are true to varying degrees.
The things are true in and of themselves, it's only the opinions about them that are left to discuss imo There's also a lot I left out about Israeli criminality both prior to, on the day of and since the 7th attack.
Hamas made its whole big shot at fame an orgy of killing. They clearly pursued the deaths and kidnappings of civilians as a PRIMARY goal. That makes them pretty much entirely illegitimate. I'm not saying that's an excuse to starve kids, but I'm saying they are illegitimate and if Palestine is deprived of their crack governance skills I'll use my two fingers to play you a violin.
The illegal attack on Iraq was an orgy of killing, as has been the Ukraine/Russia war, or the Syrian war. Military conflicts are all orgies of killing. I grant you that taking hostages, military or civilian was a primary goal of the attack, they have said so and that, wrt the civilians only, is a none contested war crime.
What you appear to be saying is that certain war crimes make you " illegitimate" and others don't?
I don't buy that for one minute, imo, war criminality itself is what should be the arbiter for the tags
The Israeli state was better. Unfortunately, not so much any more. They should have had the integrity to convict Netanyahu and put him where he belongs before this ever started. They still should. Their claims to legitimacy are sinking faster than my Moderna shares. A lot faster.
Was it though? For sure it wasn't in the midst of a full blown genocide like it is now BUT it still did much the same before 7th attack as it has done since only the scale is much worse and there's no real pretense to hid things/actions.
People who have followed this conflict for years already know this, at least if they have dared to invest some independent research into it. They were doing the same ethnic cleansings before even Netanyahu appeared on the scene.
Is settler colonization ever " legitimate"?
The Russian state has committed a strange mix of crimes against humanity and gestures of responsibility. They don't make much sense. No serious person would argue that Putin has a right to rule them. Maybe they could be better sometime soon.
It was the war the West wanted imo but I agree that Russia is in breach of international law and engaging in war crimes of it's own, as is the state of Ukraine even if they do have the higher moral ground of at least fighting off illegal occupiers. Palestinians aren't seen in the same light even though they too are the ones fighting off illegal occupiers.
And then there's America - gone from handing out food to starving children to... what it is now. How fast, how few people, it takes for a state to go from being known for good to being known for evil. The people haven't changed - not even the cops manning the speed traps have changed. So what does that tell you?
Again. people who think they USA is " known for good" must have selective amnesia to have blocked out all of the evidence to the contrary.
What does it tell me? That too many people are fooled or willing participants to their own indoctrination by the state propaganda system.
It is not wrong to stand for anarchism, but remember: anything that can be written as a law can be written as a right. So-called "anarchists" were given a few square blocks at CHOP to protest police brutality, and ended up shooting a pair of people for driving a stolen jeep. Other anarchists make up and enforce laws against scientific research or wearing fur. The movement is currently too contaminated to provide plausible guidance, I think.
Not sure why the diversion into what anarchism is and/or what anarchists are doing. To me the tradition is as useful now as ever it was, maybe even more so.
