No but I’m losing my mind over how Lucy’s last employment ended with her entire team/all her friends dying all because her employer sent them in unprepared and because he didn’t care and didn’t lift a finger to help or save them when things went bad. Because Lucy told him something was wrong and he sent her back in and told her to do her job, and she was right and he just stood there and slowly backed away as she screamed Jacobs’ name and begged and pleaded for help as everybody was dying around her. Because he completely and totally abandoned her and his own.
And then when she gets hired at Lockwood and Co, and she asks “I’ve shown you how good I am, how do I know you’re good enough for me?” And then we immediately smash cut to a case that’s rapidly going wrong because they didn’t have all the info or equipment again and Lucy’s in mortal danger again, and she’s screaming her employers name and begging for help again…but the difference this time is Lockwood is screaming her name back. Lockwood never once abandons her or leaves her in this situation. He does everything in his power to keep her safe and figure out what’s going on and as soon he he pulls her back over the ledge, horrified and practically clutching her, one of the first words out of his mouth are “if you don’t feel steady, we should just go home now.” And THAT right there, is what sets him apart, what makes him good enough. Because that’s exactly what Jacobs should’ve done. That’s exactly what Lucy was denied. And she didn’t even have to ask this time, he offers it. Because nothing is more important than the people in his life.
People do not realize that when we say Israel is a settler-colonial state, we mean it was literally devised in junction with European imperialism around the turn of the century.
To encourage mass Jewish migration to Palestine, he worked with the British, who had recently drove the Ottoman Empire out of the Levant, and now boasted political dominance in the region, thanks to the Sykes–Picot Agreement between the UK, France, Italy, and Russia which covertly authorized British influence in Palestine, which had become a target of colonial expansion. He specifically wished to collaborate with Cecil Rhodes, a British imperialist who played a lead role in colonizing Zimbabwe and Zambia, and later took inspiration from his time spent extracting wealth from Africa as the founder of mining conglomerate the British South Africa Company.
“You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews […] How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial […] I […] have examined this plan and found it correct and practicable. It is a plan full of culture, excellent for the group of people for whom it is directly designed, and quite good for England, for Greater Britain […]”
“[Jews] among us […] who have been living in our province since before the war; they are as we are, and their loyalties are our own.”
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of parliament, officially established the British Mandate of Palestine, sowing the seeds for the modern state of Israel, by means of the UK’s ongoing occupation of the region.
Zionism was never about promoting Jewish culture or safety; it has always been tied up in Western (settler-)colonial expansion. !من النهر إلى البحر
Reblogging again because I see some really great points in the tags:
Aside from that, I want to clarify my last point. The tactic often used by colonial states of attaching Indigenous culture to settler national identity is also seen in Israeli society with the revitalization of ancient Canaanite and Hebrew culture (as well as the appropriation of Palestinian culture). Along with this came the historical and contemporary suppression of Jewish culture within Israel.
I’m sure there are many other instances like these that I’m just not aware of. However, it becomes obvious that the creation of an Israeli state was for the purpose of continuing Western imperialism in SWANA while covertly expelling Jewish people from increasingly nationalist states in Europe in the 19th-20th centuries, not to cultivate Jewish security or culture.
What Palestinian resistance will always show you is that when people in the west talk about supporting resistance and freedom fighters they mean in Star Wars shows and not in real life because in real life violence occurs and that’s a big no no. Don’t tell them about what the occupiers were doing though because apparently that’s okay.
It really is fascinating to me that a lot of people just think violence is the exclusive right of the state. Israel can carpet bomb and imprison Palestinians all it wants, occupy and bulldoze their homes, poison their fields, rob them of all dignity, and to most people this is fine because it’s all done via the proper channels. It’s certainly not called “escalatory” or an atrocity. But if any Palestinian group responds to the near century of violence with retributive attacks, suddenly it’s terrorism and unspeakable evil. I dunno there’s just something…bleak, about it.
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