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In solidarity with Palestinian resistance, Massachusetts activists blockade weapons dealers! (www.workers.org)

submitted 2 years ago by AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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“The weapons [neocolonialism] is deploying to surveil, maim and mass murder Palestinians are supplied by the company that operates right here in our city. Elbit Systems, [neocolonialism’s] largest weapons dealer … supplies 85% of [its] drone fleet, along with land-based equipment, bullets, tear gas and internationally banned weapons [cluster and white phosphorus bombs]. Elbit weapons are being used to murder Palestinians right now. We will not let Elbit continue business as usual! . . .

“We will continue to take action to make it impossible for Elbit to operate in Cambridge until Elbit is gone. Shut Elbit Down!” (#ShutElbitDown on X)

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[–] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How very... "first-world problem" of you. Do you read what you say before you post it? This is selfish and myopic as shit.

They are inconveniencing you. They are halting the manufacture of weapons being used to annihilate civilians. These two issues do not equate in the goddamn slightest.

[–] Rivalarrival 0 points 2 years ago

Everyone in the area has been "annihilating civilians" for 80+ years. None of them wants to stop. They've had countless "peace" summits where everyone walks away angrier than they were when they showed up.

Solomon attempted to mediate a debate between two mothers. Both claimed the child, he offered to split it, then awarded the kid to the woman willing to give up the child rather than kill it.

How does that story end when neither side wants Solomon to stop?

The only option with a possibility of actually ending the violence is to glass the whole fucking region, and that is not exactly a viable option.