Zodiark
I keep thinking it's theater for the willfully ignorant Jewish diaspora population back in the US and Europe. People in denial often seek affirmation of the counter reality.
My confusion is that the situation is not obscure anymore that it is impossible to deny unless that unraveling Israel also unravels their personal identity.
I want to believe that this irrationality is the conclusion and final erosion of a society like Israel that can not achieve its settler colonial ambitions and is now forced to face their ugly crimes instead of letting time whitewash and sanitize it the way the US and Canada have theirs.
I guess I want to believe that to be the case because the alternative is further escalation.
Anyone notice twitter Israeli propagandists post pictures of a market with lots of food and call it present day Gaza?
Does anyone believe that.
This is the guy who announced the intent and commission of a war crime of blockading a civilian population of food, water, and fuel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1d22hhz/aoc_calls_israeli_attack_on_rafah_camp_an/
thread there is surprisingly decent for r/politics
Most people are. I think Piers has reached his tipping point and realized that he can renegotiate his position back into media and society if he was ostracized for coming out with these tepid criticisms at this point.
Too little, too late. But at least we saw a glimpse that there is human beneath his skin..
Human shields is not just a way to retroactively justifiy civilian deaths within a military target. It is also used as a way for the premeditated murder of civilians while using military target as an excuse.
So when Israel kills hundreds within a civilian refugee camp to kill one military target/hostile, that is using the military target as an excuse for destroying and terrorizing the population. e.g: (Wolf Blitzer/IDF spokesman bombing a refugee camp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyqFFsRifFM&t=2s
Roy's resolution in Shamballah is better than FMAB's ending for Roy. Cursed with the memories and grief of his war crimes, he commits a sort of intellectual suicide by sequestering himself in a remote snowy region as an outpost guard. (A huge step down from Brigadier General). Even his revenge against Bradley for Hughes death was done out of a sense of honor and guilt rather than genocidal fury against Envy.
While Bradley's death had more showmanship and climactic presentation in FMAB, the 2003 version is much more satisfying and vindicating of Roy and the general themes of that show with Bradley's death in that version.
The State (called Amestris in FMAB) is also dissolved from the military dictatorship under Bradley and back into a parliamentary democracy.
I didn't like the presentation that FMAB Roy's aspiration of becoming a compassionate Fuhrer as a way of resolving Amestris's issues and prefer the systemic rehabilitation of the state and nation in the 2003 version.
They're both equally good but despite having the same name and story - up to a certain point - they're completely different the way apple cider is to water with an apple slice in it is.
It's worth a slow rewatch. Dameon Clarke as voice actor for Scar is a better Scar.
Scar's last act was to save Alphonse from being transformed into combustible metal and grant the Elric brothers their wish: The Philosopher's Stone.
The last twelve episodes of the 2003 anime were really well written.
I liked the 2003 version too. Dante's a better villain than Father, and Shamballah is a great refutation, reconciliation, and resolution of the Elric brothers myopic pursuit of a magical solution to their crime of desecrating their mother by playing God.
Considering how impotent our input is to the function of the government, I've stopped being outraged at them. Disgusted, definitely.