There's a group of Americans that thinks it owns certain ideas, one of them being "honor." If you say this word in the United States, you're likely to evoke various tropes--such as you might see in westerns--held dear by conservatives, a group most American Zionists probably belong to. What if we reclaimed this word? What if we relentlessly reminded everyone of the fact that dropping a bomb on someone, far from being brave or tough, is actually cowardly and utterly devoid of honor? (Anyone know the altitude these bombs are dropped from? That'd be a good fact to slip in at every opportunity.) I could be wrong but I think it'd be rather painful for them if we were able to wrest this word away from conservatives and genocide defenders and convince more fence sitters that what Israeli does is, in fact, the very definition of cowardice. And that what the U.S. does, far from being rugged and macho, is also the commission of violence from a safe distance, and done for the love of money at that! This has to be a rhetorical device; no arguing with demented Zios over it, just hammering home a more accurate idea of what of honor is and isn't, with the goal of knocking genocide defenders off their game and forcing them into ever more desperate and delusional arguments that look more and more like the cartoon they are. Caitlin's right about the deep distortions in pro-Israel thinking; the more we can reveal how hollow their "reasoning" is, the more people will see through it. They've had us on the defensive since October 7th. It's time to stop answering their lunatic arguments from the Hasbara playbook and commandeer the debate. Other words and ideas can be reclaimed too, but I think honor is one of the more potent. (Another example is calling the mountains of weapons and cash we give Israel "welfare." If they're so strong and tough, they should be able to do what they want to do without welfare checks from the American people. Of course we know they simply can't do it without them.)
There's a group of Americans that thinks it owns certain ideas, one of them being "honor." If you say this word in the United States, you're likely to evoke various tropes--such as you might see in westerns--held dear by conservatives, a group most American Zionists probably belong to. What if we reclaimed this word? What if we relentlessly reminded everyone of the fact that dropping a bomb on someone, far from being brave or tough, is actually cowardly and utterly devoid of honor? (Anyone know the altitude these bombs are dropped from? That'd be a good fact to slip in at every opportunity.) I could be wrong but I think it'd be rather painful for them if we were able to wrest this word away from conservatives and genocide defenders and convince more fence sitters that what Israeli does is, in fact, the very definition of cowardice. And that what the U.S. does, far from being rugged and macho, is also the commission of violence from a safe distance, and done for the love of money at that! This has to be a rhetorical device; no arguing with demented Zios over it, just hammering home a more accurate idea of what of honor is and isn't, with the goal of knocking genocide defenders off their game and forcing them into ever more desperate and delusional arguments that look more and more like the cartoon they are. Caitlin's right about the deep distortions in pro-Israel thinking; the more we can reveal how hollow their "reasoning" is, the more people will see through it. They've had us on the defensive since October 7th. It's time to stop answering their lunatic arguments from the Hasbara playbook and commandeer the debate. Other words and ideas can be reclaimed too, but I think honor is one of the more potent. (Another example is calling the mountains of weapons and cash we give Israel "welfare." If they're so strong and tough, they should be able to do what they want to do without welfare checks from the American people. Of course we know they simply can't do it without them.)