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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 16:11:32 JST Aral Balkan

   Israel’s genocide isn’t just murdering Palestinians en masse, it’s also destroying any semblance of morality or ethics the West might have purported to possess. International law? Bullshit. European values? Trash. Western democracy? A joke.

   #israel #unitedStates #germany #europeanUnion #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #internationalLaw #europeanValues #democracy #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 16:39:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Eudaimon ꙮ

     @eudaimon We don’t have to go so far that we wrap around the other side: there’s nothing absurd about being opposed to Putin’s Russia and its war of aggression on the Ukrainian people and its regressive stance on human rights. More than one actor can be bad.

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     Eudaimon ꙮ (eudaimon@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 16:39:42 JST Eudaimon ꙮ

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     @aral
     I see it as "The Big Unmasking". It looks to me as if the elites had always been classist, racist and prone to violence, but they had just been hiding, after the horrors of WW2 ("It's not polite now"). Let's not forget that fascism, although it took power "only" in 3 European countries, it had sympathies in many, even from Churchill, as I read somewhere, all to defend against "the threat" of Communism. To me WW2 in Europe was not a war against fascism, although it's portrayed as such, but against a nation who became too expansionist in the wrong direction. I guess there would have been no problem if Hitler had decided to expand only eastwards. I guess that Mussolini would have been left untouched had him not allied with Hitler (as Franco was left untouched). In the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans received very few help from abroad (unlike the fascist uprising), I guess because Anarchists and Communists were having too much power for the elites, so fascism was clearly a much better option to them.
     
     I think/hope that most of Europeans do not approve the support our countries offer to Israel, nor the absurd enmity against Russia (being that an attitude of absolute submission to US' interests and completely contrary to ours). We citizens however are not showing any strength in preventing our governments' actions, though. I myself am not very active, in this regard...
     
     Well, I was intending to write a small response, but I ended up with a long one... 🤷
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 28-Jul-2025 18:20:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • yianiris

     @yianiris Yeah, Russia, Belarus and Serbia are such outstanding defenders of human rights and democracy, aren’t they?

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     yianiris (yianiris@libretooth.gr)'s status on Monday, 28-Jul-2025 18:20:03 JST yianiris

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     Except for Russia Belarus Serbia and maybe Ireland the rest of Europe not only supports Israel it has criminalized any opposition to genocide.
     @aral