That is literally the world we live in at this very moment. There is no middle ground. No willingness to compromise, or negotiate. It’s like comparing oil and water. Or two very different types of people—one that is a native population fighting for their lives and their land against a foreign population of deranged zombies who are attacking with state-of-the-art weapons to steal land, eat the flesh of natives and steal all their precious commodities. Oh wait…
By now, if you had wanted to see it, you could’ve already seen gruesome drone footage or direct phone footage shot by IDF soldiers on the ground of a dying or already dead Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on the front lines of the resistance. I’m assuming the footage was intended for a purely Israeli audience or at least one that considered Mr. Sinwar a terrorist to the bone, but of course, thanks to social media, the footage was quickly circulated to the rest of the internet and the reactions are starkly different than the one you will see on mainstream media. To give readers an example of what I mean, I went to the instagram channels for Telegraph, WaPO & NY Times and read a few of the comments (I’m sure Meta will soon figure out a way to censor these):
nelio.st
Was he in a hospital or a school?
bukharizulfi
From his last breath… resistance! Legend!
court.schluessel
He was not desperate in his final moments. He was steadfast.
nurangargury
Died fighting for his country and his dignity, rest in peace. People of honor are a true legend
anfelbn05
Long live resistance long live Palestine ❤️🇵🇸
yaragaber_
He died as a fighter in the field. Our hero.
motualweher
You can kill a man but you can’t kill the resistance
de_atjehers
He was not hiding in a tunnel as has been reported so far. He participated in the war with the others. A true leader. Different from Netanyahu, Yoav Galant, Herzi Halevi.👏👏🙄
I could go on & on, but I think you get the idea. For every 10 pro-resistance messages of condolence and comments questioning whether the decades-long genocide will finally end following the death of the presumed October 7 mastermind, there is a brazen pro-Israeli commenter showing how tough they are with the 💪 emoji and reminding the world not to mess with them.
The other high-value target who was recently murdered was of course Sayyed Hassan Nasarallah. To some, an intellectual sage, media personality, political humorist, religious scholar, military strategist—just to mention a few of his qualifications on his LinkedIn profile. If you’re on the other side of the world (or “border”), Mr. Nasarallah was known simply as a terrorist leader of the terrorist organization Hezbollah. At the time of his expensive murder, Israel’s Channel 12 reported that American-Israeli air forces dropped “about 85 bunker-penetrating bombs weighing a ton of explosives each.” At $40,000 a pop, US taxpayers paid about $3.4 million to kill Hassan Nasarallah. That’s one expensive terrorist! Anywhoo, I didn’t see the comments posted on various social media channels at the time of his bunker-busting murder campaign, but I’m assuming the general sentiment was very similar, if not more powerful than the tank shell and drone that killed Mr. Sinwar. Mr. Nasarallah was the head of resistance group Hezbollah for the past 32 years, so definitely much longer than Sinwar’s few weeks at the helm of Hamas, so I guess in one way, the added expense for his assassination is understandable.
Regardless of what you think of these two men, it is very interesting how perspectives and narratives are created by the media and I’m sure this has been written about a bazillion times ever since battles have gone on between natives and enterprising settlers to distant lands. Bombs can destroy bridges, buildings and homes (along with the people inside them), but state-powered media can destroy how we think about the people who lived in those homes and utilized those bridges and buildings.
On one side of the world, the incentive to resist violently or silently yields a certain level of freedom from an occupying power, freedom to live without high-tech bombs dropping on your universities, hospitals, and homes. Freedom from your home getting stolen by a foreigner who can’t afford a housing or healthcare back in Moscow, London or Brooklyn. In their unique way, if you really want to stretch the meaning of “freedom,” both groups of people are freedom fighters, I guess. Obviously one group is fighting for their own humanity and justice, while the other is motivated by power and greed.
Along with the word “terrorist,” it appears we can also add the word “freedom” to the growing list of words that are getting new meanings in this ever-changing new world. The term dual-use comes to mind. Whatever the case, choose your words carefully so you can be on the right side of history.
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