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The history around Gaza and Israel is long and super complicated. The "they hit me first" gets really fucking dumb after like 10 rounds. That's why most people in the west don't support the war, they support leaving people alone. Either the gazans or the Israelites.

War is the ultimate singularity. It's a black hole that sucks up everyone and everything and there's literally no positive to it. So if you have a say in it, the only way to cause less tragedy is to stop it.

On that note, fuck the Hamas for attacking Israel at the festival, and fuck Israel for escalating this into another war.

can i be pro-both, anti-genocide, and think that both of their ruling parties are fucked to shit

I think that much be a popular opinion but WTF is happening there

Yeah I was thinking it was pro Palestine until I read the comments and realized it could be interpreted the other way as well...

Idk if the ambiguity was intentional, but it's good lol.

Ishmael v Isaac. Got it.

On one hand I totally agree, but on the other I would like to see billionaires on the guillotine.

Two neighbors were fighting over a financial dispute. They couldn’t reach an agreement, so they took their case to the local rabbi. The rabbi heard the first litigant’s case, nodded his head and said, “You’re right.”

The second litigant then stated his case. The rabbi heard him out, nodded again and said, “You’re also right.”

The rabbi’s attendant, who had been standing by this whole time, was justifiably confused. “But, rebbe,” he asked, “how can they both be right?”

The rav thought about this for a moment before responding, “You’re right, too!”

Yeah, I want to interpret it as someone posting not only in support of Palestine, but in warning to Israel that their actions are that of the star wars Empire, and that the rebels did eventually succeed in a massive counterattack

Both Death Stars were literally weapons of mass destruction. You could not choose a more appropriate military target to blow up

I’m really not sure I understand what point he’s trying to make.

The point is that there exists a fundamental dissonance between events as they transpire in fiction and for which the audience is emotionally invested and those same kinds of events as they happen in real life and the audience's perception of them as they happen in real life.

Star Wars was originally inspired by Lucas's perspective on the Vietnam War. The Storm Troopers are, in that sense, comparable to American forces killing unarmed Vietnamese farmers. Most Americans who saw Star Wars never made that connection because this is in conflict with the audience's internalized notion of "America good" and "America's enemies bad." As such, in watching and enjoying the story of Star Wars, you are ironically investing yourself into a narrative that inverts your normative ideological position. You can extrapolate this onto the current conflict in Ghaza without much effort.

First of all he’s equating fiction to reality which is ridiculous at the very least.

They are not being "equated" - they are being compared. He's making an implied comparison between fictional events and real world current events in order to highlight similarities between the two. Specifically, he's doing a form of comparison called "juxtaposition." Being able to do this is a very basic element of media literacy.

he took revenge on the people who actually killed his family

Well, no, the specific individuals who killed his family were probably the stormtroopers stationed on Tatooine, whom he never actually interacted with. The specific people onboard the Death Star that were not part of the Empire's military high command had virtually nothing at all to do with his family's death.

As opposed to taking revenge on people that just happened to be in the approximate vicinity of people who killed his family. The Death Star was a military base.

The individual in the image literally says that he "immediately joined the armed resistance and literally blew up the enemy base." Not sure what your point is here, unless you're implying that you believe that the Palestinians who are fighting against Israel are only attacking indiscriminate civilian targets and not military ones.