Great to see Keith Davis make his debut in the Top 5, with this topical article on Gaza from January.
Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? Palpably so. But have you bothered for even a second to step back and ask why it is happening? Probably not if faux outrage without historical underpinnings is your usual herd follower instinct.
I’m not going to fully fill you in on the history that has led to the current Gazan catastrophe. Maybe a few Google searches will ease your path out of your rigid stance, but probably not, because such an effort requires a questioning of both yourself and the automatic prejudices that you carry. Nobody voluntarily subjects themselves to such scrutiny, do they?
Ever since, over the last 1600 years, your christian west has subjected the Jewish people to an unending experience of pogrom, ethnic cleansing, and outright genocide. Think Venice in the medieval era, think England in the 16th cenury, think Russia in the 19th century, think the Nazis and their final solution. Uncomfortable thoughts that don’t fit in with the current zietgeist of being a lefty supporter of Palestine.
I’m proud to be a lefty. Doesn’t mean I left my brain and its capacity for critical thinking behind in the morass of the current sport of dumping on the Jews. You know, a while ago I published a little piece called The Gaza Sten-Gun Staccato, and people were that prejudicially entrenched they weren’t quick enough to understand that the piece outright pilloried both sides in the current conflict, it simply said that what both sides are doing is wrong. Well, that did not, for sure, appeal to the herd followers of either side.
I support the notion of a Palestinian State. The establishment of it is beyond due, and Israel will lose land to that new State. I support the notion of the Jewish People retaining a State of their own without the constant threat of outside interference.
I have no time for those who fail to read or comprehend the sharp bite of the history that informs the current actions of both the Palestinian and Jewish People.
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*I support the notion of a Palestinian State. The establishment of it is beyond due, and Israel will lose land to that new State. I support the notion of the Jewish People retaining a State of their own without the constant threat of outside interference.*
And that’s it. Thank you.
We live in an educated technically advanced World now. All of history becomes irrelevant if one chooses to either commit genocide or ignore it.
One would offer some more recent and direct historical analysis including the corrupt codependent narcissism of the Netanyahu and Hamas regimes.
Both were being manipulated for Kremlin’s assymmetric warfare to pressure Biden/Dems*, NATO and EU, benefitting Russia’s stalled invasion of Ukraine, keeps Netanyahu in power and out of gaol, while helping Trump’s electoral chances….
In turn both are familiar with Putin while Israel has significant numbers of Russian speaking citizens, too many RWNJ MPs and West Bank settlers.
European (not Anglo) analysis suggests that Putin gave green light to Hamas for Oct 7 (met two weeks earlier), then Russian proxies/allies kicked off, he called and gave condolences to Netanyhu for Oct 7, who then refused the same from Zelensky yet allegedly shares the Jewish faith?
The beneficiaries have been right wing parties in the Anglosphere who have been able with RW MSM support to create tensions at home and accuse centrist government inc. Biden/Harris – Dems, Starmer – UK Labour and Albanese/Wong – ALP of being anti-semitic.
Recently we saw Murdoch and Bolt visiting fire bombed Synagogue in Melbourne, height of cynicism….