While geopolitical dynamics continue to shape history, the Israeli-Palestinian war remains one of the most enduring complex flashpoints in history’s vast library.
It has become common practice to refer to this as a war and I have done so myself. We should be explicit and call it a genocide as that is what it is. They have programmed the public to tolerate perpetual war, now we are seeing the selling of genocide as the norm. Too many so called wars of the past were in many ways genocidal. The distinction between what is war and what is genocide is becoming a dangerous blur.
I think the situation goes deeper than what you've described.
The USA, the UK and other western countries have always backed right wing governments, but with Israel's massacre of people in Gaza, American support for these kinds of governments is being exposed. You should read Vincent Bevin's book 'The Jakarta Method'.
Biden is performative, saying he's upset with Netanyahu, but continuing to send Israel money and arms, as are other western countries to a lesser degree.
The increased violence supported internationally is in lock step with the increased police presence in our countries, and with our deteriorating standards of living and concentration of wealth.
There's also a huge propaganda war, with the people believing the right will bring back order are the ones who will be most negatively affected.
Where do we go from here? How do we expose this?
How do we get people to fall in love with a peaceful, just and green future where we can all thrive?
I think we start toward a peaceful, just and green future by teaching kindergartners to look after plants and animals and to aim to live in as small a place as is reasonably comfortable. Bicycles, scooters, roller blades, skateboards are among the most prestigious kinds of transportation. Big bank accounts are indicative of greed. Greed is an ambition that goes nowhere. Billionaires are not admirable people but rather, almost always people who have put money and stuff before the earth and what lives on the earth. And this kind of teaching needs to continue right up to adulthood. Fat chance huh.
it is a reply to the comment above it......."How do we get people to fall in love with a peaceful, just and green future where we can all thrive?" Companies that make weapons and bombs are making a lot of money off this genocide and off wars that are happening in the world that require weapons and bombs. Making money seems to be a major aim in our world. So peaceful, less consumptive societies might mean that there would be less push for people to get a lot of money. In this situation that we are discussing, selling weapons and munitions are making a very few people rich while others are dying and having their homes and cities destroyed.
Agreed! but Amazon also has a very good range of books not available elsewhere. Most importantly Kindle books are available very inexpensively and instantly. I do not like putting money in his pocket but Amazon is a critical supplier of books for me and my research. They also supply book reviews so you get a good idea of what you are buying.
Whatever else Amazon is an invitation to read more books, for illiterate and poorly informed societies.
I buy my books from Amazon, but that is all. I read ebooks, but if I choose to buy a hardback book I will buy it at a used bookstore or Books a million or Barnes & Noble. I don’t like to buy anything else from Amazon, though. I’ve heard about Jeff Bezos, too.
Yes they can comrade - but so can Israel hand back what’s rightfully the Palestinians as well as stop the genocide and oppression but you don’t want that either do you comrade?
You are grossly wrong. There's no denying that there is a culmination of a decades-long effort to turn Israel into a pariah by holding the country — which was itself founded in the aftermath of a genocide of Jews — to a far higher level of scrutiny than other nations. You guys love to hate the Jews, don't you?
We see the horrific invasion of Hamas, which inflicted its own genocidal attack on Israel on Oct. 7, prompting the Israeli military to pursue Hamas into Gaza just as any other army would have done.
But the antisemites love to jump on the bandwagon of hate. None of you even mentioned the raping of young people and butchering them while the rape was going on. Would you not be angry if someone woke you up from a peaceful dream to kill you with glee? It's all documented by the butchers of Hamas. This is war!!! Simple as that.
Eejit they've slaughtered more than 40,000 Palestinians just since October so you fascist zionazi can no longer hide behind the whole antisemitism rise. Grow up.
Hits the nail right on the head. I myself characterise Israel as a narcissistic state, exhibiting excessive self-victimisation gaslightling, and manipulation. Now heading into narcissistic collapse. An abused turned abuser. Amoral and totally bereft of empathy.
No that wont work anymore. I appreciate that you have probably been brainwashed but you are supporting a genocide. That makes you the mass murderer. You are complicit.
"Israel faces significant challenges. Its lost the PR war." - I was just thinking the other day how even if Hamas is annihilated, they've accomplished what they set out to do and showed the world Israel's true colors.
Genocide is a legal term, and in no way do Israeli policies and actions meet this legal threshold. Instead, the sensationalist use of the term genocide in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only inaccurate and misleading, but it serves to demonize the State of Israel and to diminish recognized acts of genocide.
In no way has Israel engaged in any action with the intent to exterminate, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people.
Accusing Israel of genocide has the collateral effect of diminishing actual acts of genocide – such as those that occurred in the Holocaust, against Armenians, and in Rwanda.
What seems to be forgotten by people like you is the fact that many Palestinian civilians entered Israel on Oct. 7 on the heels of the Hamas terrorists and participated in murder, rape, and looting, much of it documented on film. Palestinians were filmed cheering the massacre and jeering and attacking the hostages as they were led into captivity.
What they did was genocide. But antisemitism runs long and deep with the likes of you espousing dangerous and misguided “facts” and accusations. You have the right to have an opinion, but when it leans heavily to one side, it means to me that you are clueless and misinformed. And you should use your accusatory words carefully.
It has become common practice to refer to this as a war and I have done so myself. We should be explicit and call it a genocide as that is what it is. They have programmed the public to tolerate perpetual war, now we are seeing the selling of genocide as the norm. Too many so called wars of the past were in many ways genocidal. The distinction between what is war and what is genocide is becoming a dangerous blur.
Thanks Robert will read
I think the situation goes deeper than what you've described.
The USA, the UK and other western countries have always backed right wing governments, but with Israel's massacre of people in Gaza, American support for these kinds of governments is being exposed. You should read Vincent Bevin's book 'The Jakarta Method'.
Biden is performative, saying he's upset with Netanyahu, but continuing to send Israel money and arms, as are other western countries to a lesser degree.
The increased violence supported internationally is in lock step with the increased police presence in our countries, and with our deteriorating standards of living and concentration of wealth.
There's also a huge propaganda war, with the people believing the right will bring back order are the ones who will be most negatively affected.
Where do we go from here? How do we expose this?
How do we get people to fall in love with a peaceful, just and green future where we can all thrive?
I wish I knew.
I think we start toward a peaceful, just and green future by teaching kindergartners to look after plants and animals and to aim to live in as small a place as is reasonably comfortable. Bicycles, scooters, roller blades, skateboards are among the most prestigious kinds of transportation. Big bank accounts are indicative of greed. Greed is an ambition that goes nowhere. Billionaires are not admirable people but rather, almost always people who have put money and stuff before the earth and what lives on the earth. And this kind of teaching needs to continue right up to adulthood. Fat chance huh.
Excuse me but what does your above statement have to do with this particular piece of journalism?
it is a reply to the comment above it......."How do we get people to fall in love with a peaceful, just and green future where we can all thrive?" Companies that make weapons and bombs are making a lot of money off this genocide and off wars that are happening in the world that require weapons and bombs. Making money seems to be a major aim in our world. So peaceful, less consumptive societies might mean that there would be less push for people to get a lot of money. In this situation that we are discussing, selling weapons and munitions are making a very few people rich while others are dying and having their homes and cities destroyed.
Essential reading: https://www.amazon.ca/Corruptible-Who-Gets-Power-Changes/dp/1982154098
If I were to buy it, I'd order it from my local bookstore, and not Amazon.
Agreed! but Amazon also has a very good range of books not available elsewhere. Most importantly Kindle books are available very inexpensively and instantly. I do not like putting money in his pocket but Amazon is a critical supplier of books for me and my research. They also supply book reviews so you get a good idea of what you are buying.
Whatever else Amazon is an invitation to read more books, for illiterate and poorly informed societies.
I buy my books from Amazon, but that is all. I read ebooks, but if I choose to buy a hardback book I will buy it at a used bookstore or Books a million or Barnes & Noble. I don’t like to buy anything else from Amazon, though. I’ve heard about Jeff Bezos, too.
Yes they can comrade - but so can Israel hand back what’s rightfully the Palestinians as well as stop the genocide and oppression but you don’t want that either do you comrade?
It’s won in every way possible.
Hi Henya are you ok?
Let us please stop calling this a war because that's most certainly not what it is.
You are grossly wrong. There's no denying that there is a culmination of a decades-long effort to turn Israel into a pariah by holding the country — which was itself founded in the aftermath of a genocide of Jews — to a far higher level of scrutiny than other nations. You guys love to hate the Jews, don't you?
We see the horrific invasion of Hamas, which inflicted its own genocidal attack on Israel on Oct. 7, prompting the Israeli military to pursue Hamas into Gaza just as any other army would have done.
But the antisemites love to jump on the bandwagon of hate. None of you even mentioned the raping of young people and butchering them while the rape was going on. Would you not be angry if someone woke you up from a peaceful dream to kill you with glee? It's all documented by the butchers of Hamas. This is war!!! Simple as that.
Eejit they've slaughtered more than 40,000 Palestinians just since October so you fascist zionazi can no longer hide behind the whole antisemitism rise. Grow up.
Pog mo eireaneach thoin.
😂🤣😁😅🤪😆😅😂🤣😱
Hits the nail right on the head. I myself characterise Israel as a narcissistic state, exhibiting excessive self-victimisation gaslightling, and manipulation. Now heading into narcissistic collapse. An abused turned abuser. Amoral and totally bereft of empathy.
Tony!!!! People like you would be the first ones to send us to the gas chamber. You sound so hateful.
No that wont work anymore. I appreciate that you have probably been brainwashed but you are supporting a genocide. That makes you the mass murderer. You are complicit.
Speaking of brainwashing....look in the mirror. Have a good day. Over and out.
The hard truth is always revealed ...
Yet faith is like Enigma or Misery or Suffering, it never leaves us ...
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/misery-loves-company
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/suffer-well
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/return-to-innocence-the-kiss-arse
Hamas can surrender at any time. But you don’t want that, do you, comrade!?!
"Israel faces significant challenges. Its lost the PR war." - I was just thinking the other day how even if Hamas is annihilated, they've accomplished what they set out to do and showed the world Israel's true colors.
verkackte rightwing people!
Genocide is a legal term, and in no way do Israeli policies and actions meet this legal threshold. Instead, the sensationalist use of the term genocide in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only inaccurate and misleading, but it serves to demonize the State of Israel and to diminish recognized acts of genocide.
In no way has Israel engaged in any action with the intent to exterminate, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people.
Accusing Israel of genocide has the collateral effect of diminishing actual acts of genocide – such as those that occurred in the Holocaust, against Armenians, and in Rwanda.
What seems to be forgotten by people like you is the fact that many Palestinian civilians entered Israel on Oct. 7 on the heels of the Hamas terrorists and participated in murder, rape, and looting, much of it documented on film. Palestinians were filmed cheering the massacre and jeering and attacking the hostages as they were led into captivity.
What they did was genocide. But antisemitism runs long and deep with the likes of you espousing dangerous and misguided “facts” and accusations. You have the right to have an opinion, but when it leans heavily to one side, it means to me that you are clueless and misinformed. And you should use your accusatory words carefully.
That is not the opinion of the International Court of Justice. You are Hasbara, covering up therefore complicit in genocide.