5 year old Ahmed Dawabshih from Palestine whose entire family was burned alive by jewish extremists sees his best friend for the first time as he recovers from his injuries (2015)
I went looking for some context. First, because it's important to fact-check any image you see online today, lest someone catch a fake one and use it to discredit real claims. And second, in order to be able to explain to people the context. This sort of thing is never just a one-off.
This boy, Ahmed, is now 13. He lives with his grandmother and uncle.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/family-baby-killed-settlers-fears-fresh-attacks/36916
In this article from December of 2022, he and his family discuss how the attack remains an inescapable presence in his life. He travels into Israel on a special permit every six months for medical treatments only available inside the '48 border. The settler attacks remain a constant threat.
This article is from a year after the last, in August of 2023. Several months before Oct. 7. It's from Haaretz, the Israeli equivalent to the NYTImes, and is about how the far right political establishment was pushing for the complete amnesty of the murderer who received three life sentences for burning Ahmed's father and infant brother alive.
I believe that Ahmed will live to see the end of this. I dream of a single bi-national state, in which Ahemd's family is not only safe in their current home, but free to travel the region without permits, and safe from Jewish supremacist extremism.
That's the difference I see between the left and right. I don't want to sound condescending but I think intelligence is valued far more by the left than the right, and it's not biased to say that.
And even if it is biased, who cares? The right clearly doesn't give a shit about bias, so neither should we.
At the end of the day, there has to be someone who sets the rules, simply by overpowering those who oppose whether by violence or votes.
Right. And it needs to be us. But chastising yourself for not adhering to a rule that your enemy wouldn't even dream of following doesn't help anything.
Exactly. They're the ones telling us that we need to play fair. They play off of our intellectualism by getting those with even a little doubt to start questioning themselves too much to do anything. I have no doubt.
At a certain point, that enforcement of fairness may have been helpful, but it isn't anymore.