To ask what on earth do people who post about Palestine expect to happen?

[trekking1]

It seems that every time I log into social media there are so people constantly posting about how we need to free Palestine and condemning everyone who ignores their posts.

May I ask what do they expect posting about it will actually accomplish? Did I miss something and wars can be stopped with SM posts? If so, why are they not posting the same about Ukraine? There is still a war going on there...

You don’t need personal ties to a country to feel outrage at the mindless killings of 40,000 civilians. You just need humanity.

How on earth does that compare with Arafat?

No one thinks the death of civilians is ok...or do you think those people who don't endlessly post their displeasure on social media are secretly thrilled when they hear a child has been killed?

Why start with Palestine, though? There are horrible wars all over the world, why are people fixating on this one?

land belonging to theTurks was also given away to the greeks. Everything that one side suffered so did the other so tell a full story not half just to create a narrative to suit you. The war in Cyprus once again due to the governments and the British government (there's a surprise) of course the land was traded off the two sides separated 🙄

Also worth pointing out that there was a pretty decent sized Jewish population living in that area for the entirity of the Ottoman empire (and before) and that the division of land when creating the state of Israel was, in part, based on the existence of these settlements.

You are putting words in my mouth, never said it doesn't bother me, I just don't understand what people think posting some generic "let's free Palestine" posts will achieve as if Middle East wars are ended with social media posts

Of course social media posts have an impact on awareness and perceptions, just like any other media type. Otherwise you wouldn't have governments or companies using them to sell policies/products.
Politicians are very aware of social media and use it to gain support on issues and also gauge public opinion too, this is nothing new.
Social activists use it to lobby and build connections and movements.
So I don't really get why people think it achieves nothing, when it's pretty evident that it can.
The support for Palestine is pretty vociferous because many governments are supporting Israel, and citizens are finding it difficult to reconcile that their country is supporting an action with the gargantuan level of casualties that it has had to date.
I also think that there is no clear endpoint for this military action by Israel, so people are justifiably fearing that it is meeting the criteria for genocide.

They always try to put words in your mouth OP.

The words ‘Hamas must surrender immediately so Palestinians can stop being used as human sacrifices for an extremist religious ideology’ doesn’t come out of theirs though funnily enough.

Argggh I explained in a subsequent post - you like another poster have misunderstood what I am saying - my point was in response to the OP in that people I know who have not said a peep online about other recent atrocities and genocides are now posting about the situation in Gaza multiple times per day - which would be understandable if they had ties to the region but they don’t, so why haven’t they been so fixated on other situations where lots of innocent people are being massacred? No amount of 🍉 emojis and ‘solidarity 👊’ is going to make the slightest bit of difference to the conflict.

Also worth noting lots of zionists don’t believe in a God and yet believe God gave them the land. Contradiction is something else.

Maybe that's not what you meant but that's the message that gets planted. I don't support the Palestinians with a view of not supporting the Israeli civilians. Both sides are suffering.

I find people who use religion as a means of oppressing and hurting others don't actually believe in God at all even the ones who say they do. because anyone truly believing in a Being who Created all life should not be able to take life so willingly

Maybe this touches them differently?

Watermelons may mean nothing to you but when the Palestinians weren’t allowed to fly their flag they drew pictures of watermelons as their resistance to occupation. Again that does nothing in itself but to the Palestinians I know it means we care about them and are trying to keep them alive. So many villages have been wiped away, homes repopulated, and now so many lives lost keeping the watermelons going keeps them visible. This thread (and the 8+ pages of posts) proves it.

Oppression is just wrong.
Occupation is just wrong.

I'm 100% in agreement in that

I was just pointing out the inherent hypocrisy of people using religion as an excuse to hurt other people

applies to people using any and all religions. including using the old testament as an excuse to throw people off their land or Al Qaeda/ISIS misusing cherry picked versed of the Qur'an out of context to kill people or Hindu extremists abusing Muslims because they sell meat/beef

I've seen people commenting on Instagram on Pregnant Then Screwed and a couple of other charity pages, demanding and actually being quite rude, all along the lines of why they aren't raising awareness about Gaza. Ridiculous.

100%

The occupation on exists because of western support, western weapons are what have killed so many children. Absolutely citizens of western countries should be protesting and sharing information as much as possible.

@trekking1 So if i understand correctly you are posting a pointless post about pointless posting?

or are you saying we should al refrain from posting on things that have a point?

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You really expect me to name individual members of the public on an open forum?

Hamas is accountable for the horrors of 07/10.
The Israeli government, who supported Hamas for 14 years ( well documented), is responsible for what is happening now.
using their own people as human shields
A tactic used by the IDF too
Human shield - Use of Palestinian civilians as human shields in violation of High Court order - Israel | ReliefWeb
These numbers (that I’ve also seen being reported on these very threads!) were completely fabricated.
Here are the figures
UN says Gaza death toll still over 35,000 but not all bodies identified | Reuters
It’s important because the mendacious accusation of genocide is being thrown around and used to demonise Israel and Jews. And it's being used precisely because Jews have experienced genocide. This is however, nothing new. The accusation of genocide in Palestine has been alleged for decades, even as the population increased substantially.
The courts will decide if it is a genocide, not you or me.
What we are seeing here is the UN's complicity in colluding with terrorists.
All 193 members? You do know that the UN partitioned Palestine in order for Israel to be founded? Now they are terrorists lovers?
Israel accepts the surrender of prisoners and treats their wounded. Israel allows aid into the enemy.
There is being ill informed and there is being deluded.
Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests - Amnesty International
I won't bother trying to counter argue the rest of your post because I don't have the time.