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My own observations:
They are empathetic. They care about children being killed (who does not? nobody). They therefore demand “immediate ceasefire”.
They are naive and ignorant.
Naive:
An “immediate ceasefire” allows murderous Hamas to regroup for the next October 7 murder and mayhem spree. Hamas have said time and again that that’s what they want to do. An immediate ceasefire, without having destroyed Hamas, allows that.
They call for Israel and Palestinians, in Gaza and West Bank, to live in one state, absorbing the current state of Israel. That you’d just need to be nice to each other and all would be sweetness and light.
Ignorant:
They don’t know the first thing about Hamas. For which you just need two read their Charter. Which calls for the mass murder of Jews, not just in Israel, but in the world. Hamas explicitly mock any “solutions”, any “two state proposals” any “agreements”. They only want one thing: to kill the Jews and occupy all the land....
“From the River to the Sea”, is the land they want to occupy. Which is from the Jordan River to the Med. Yet a shockingly small number of the protesters -- if any -- know what the chant means.
They are ignorant of the longer history of the Levant. That there never was a Palestinian country. That the Muslim Arabs in the region were never “Palestinian” until the PLO and Yasser Arafat, did the rebranding, in 1964.
They parrot a conspiracy theory: that the October 7th murderous attacks were a “False Flag” operation. Initiated by Israel. They could only know about things like “false flags” if they heard it somewhere else, an that would be in the Hamas-infiltrated social media, where they had bots ready to attack anyone not on their side and to push their crazy theory. You only have to ask: what would it benefit Israel to run a False Flag? When they were about to sign an extension of the Abraham Accords, a deal with Saudi Arabia, which was delayed (at least) by the current war. For Israel the deal with Saudi Arabia was far more important than any other fanciful “benefit” they might have gotten from killing and raping their own people. The idea of that is simply grotesque.
Yet all that naive nonsense is believed by these people. It’s scary. It’s ridiculous. It’s pathetic. It’s unconscionable. It’s a dereliction of duty to know what the hell you’re protesting against or for, when you go out on the streets. It’s hypocrisy.
ADDED: I’d call the protests “Pro-Hamas”, not pro-Palestinian. For that’s what they are. They are explicitly pro-Hamas. Yet we are assured that not every Palestinian supports Hamas. Being pro-palestinian, in that case, means being anti-Hamas.
