Glastonbury festival v Nova festival. Chanting genocidal slogans to protest an imaginary genocide aside, and the fact that “Palestine” hasn’t existed since 1948 and so there’s no “Palestine” to “free”, the bone-crushing stupidity of “from the river to the sea” is what it means in practice. That chant is saying “destroy Israel”. That’s the only possible interpretation. Israel is the only country in the world that has people chanting for its destruction. Ok, take that position if you like, but that means Israel is in an existential fight: and it has a well-armed armed forces. And if you *really* want “Palestine” to be “free”, that’s only going to happen by force of arms. And if you want to destroy a country, if you’re genuinely hell-bent on its destruction, all bets are off for that country to defend itself. You think any country in the world wouldn’t fight tooth and nail against its own destruction? “From the river to the sea” is nothing more or less than a genocidal call for much, much more violence on both sides. Idiots.
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