The Drop That Unleashed The Flood. On Israel, Gaza, and Protesters
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Western saying (maybe): Kill one with a sword, face to face, and you’re a barbarian; kill 10 with a missile, miles away, destroying a single building, bodies turned to pulp, and that’s a clean strike but a disappointing count.
PDLism: Seeking to understand does not mean that one condones; being tribally blinded to one side's view leads all sides to see only their truth.
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Something's Not Kosher
Considering all that Israel has been able to get away with in the last 75 years, I suppose it can be said that what we’re witnessing is a positive change given the fact that a significant segment of the world not only felt a need to speak out against Israel, many of them managed to do so, albeit having riled up the expected anger from those sure to see any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism.
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The events that unfurled in Israel on Saturday, 7-Oct-2023, were horrific; there's no denying that.
However, let's not kid ourselves: these things don't happen in a vacuum, and although war crimes and savagery don't justify additional war crimes and savagery, I find it egregiously unjust that the actions undertaken by the Al-Qassam Brigades—and Hamas as a whole, being the deciding body—are interpreted and judged free of the long-standing abuses and human rights violations aimed at crushing one's spirit and destroying a people that are endured daily by every Palestinian, leading to these two unavoidable truths:
1. The horrors that have been inflicted on Israelis are in no way comparable to those inflicted on Palestinians by Zionists.
2. The "outburst" was foreseeable, many having warned that the applied pressure that was being increased along with the displacements enforced were sure to result in the type of violence seen (for many years, now).
I hear them already, the cries of "false equivalency" and "two-sideism". Discarding any consideration for these two aspects and their implications, as well as the psychological effects that follow from being perpetually submitted to such conditions, forced to live caged up and under a constant tension, that tends to produce a fierce and uncontrollable backlash, like those traumatised victims who snap one day, blank out, and need to be told that they stabbed Bully Bob 163 times, look, here's the video...
What took place wasn't quite that, as this was a carefully planned operation toward which, officials tell us, Palestinian fighters had been training for roughly a year, continually adjusting their plan as needed. But the psychological effect endured is on the same line.
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Meticulously-planned operation… that depended on a circumstantial hole in Israel’s defenses? I gotta admit, there's something there that isn't right.
That 'something big' was in the air is something Egypt had formally warned of, and others less formally so. Hence, that's a major, career-ending goof if I ever saw one.
But, still, multiple layers and failsafe systems and protocols and none of those assured that what billions of dollars were spent to do did do when it really mattered, the world’s ultra-efficient defensive power and top intelligence forces proving they’re neither, for it’s not how one fares in a training exercise that is the true test of one’s military prowess...
And if no one were ready and none of the systems were operational when the proverbial shit does hit the fan—but with kabooms, not splats—that’s a bit like needing your car each time it’s at the bottom of an ocean, isn’t it?
And, real fast, without getting into the details: I don't buy the "over-reliance on AI" excuse that's been repeated, unless they hired the most incompetent of boobs to be the program director. Otherwise, those who work in that field and who are in the know are well aware of the probable shortcomings that are mentioned, those issues being ones that would arise only if those in charge of the project are untrained amateurs possessing the types of notions given as cause for such a failure.
That said, the problem there, given what was seen, would have to relate to gross incompetence on the developers' part and/or a bad implementation of the training libraries and/or bad supervision and tweaking of the ML, and not an 'overreliance on AI' per se, or due to AI missing that human touch; the last two are totally absurd to me, and they reflect a misunderstanding of what AI really is, how it works, and what it's capable of.
Anyhoot, my point: As far as the Israeli police and its armed forces go, there's something way off in the lack of immediate response seen, allowing the attack to go on for over 6 hours before finally dispatching security forces is troubling to hear.
Best case scenario makes it a truly embarrassing moment that destroyed the Israel forces and Mossad's reputation, while the worst one sees the government and IDF officers in cahoots, letting the massacre happen.
In spite of all that's been said and done by the Netanyahu government, most recognise that the latter is a possibility that few want to truly entertain, however, the person who was most persuasive on the matter, certain that Netanyahu and his coalition buddies are capable of carrying out such an act on their own people, is a former Israel politician who'd quit office, as he identifies as an anti-Zionist, and claims to have been thoroughly disgusted by Tel-Aviv's attitude toward Palestinians.
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If the US justified its fight for freedom from the British through violent means, complaining that they were being oppressed, having been triggered to the point of revolt because of a tea tax, well, la-di-da, for the reasons that motivated the Thirteen Colonies to give its monarchy the boot is like a hangnail to the pain that's been forced on the Palestinians.
Palestinians that Zionists have called animals and Satan, subhumans and Nazis, all while beating the whole lot on the head with bombs, whether civilian, fighter, mother, or child, to then have the gall to abuse the terrorist label, applying it to the Palestinians' despair that's coaxed out of the fight for survival that'll be continually imposed on them until the area that the Zionists have decided is theirs alone is free of monkeys and their cages, and, finally, the whole seaside can be converted into luxury real estate, hence forcing them to take some action, to preserve some sense of dignity as they demand to be shown a humanity that lets them enjoy the same basic human rights as any Israeli.
Alas, such is not in Tel-Aviv's all-or-nothing plans that don't allow a two-state solution to be implemented, nor the room to tolerate non-Zionists, especially if of the Islamist variety.
Because, if properly viewed, indeed, the pro-Israel rightwing nationalists are right, and one is bound to see a tremendously jarring amount of hatred being expressed, and it's not the one weaponised through empty calls of anti-Semitism, for no hate comes across louder than the one that's tied to racist Arab stereotypes and an acute Islamophobia.
With that, it should be clear that the pro-Palestinian protests that are reviled by some aren't in celebration of the deaths inflicted by Hamas, obviously. They're to bring attention to the Palestinian cause and to rally the world into tempering the reaction Tel-Aviv was sure to deliver, going all out into the "disproportionate measures" like it usually does whenever brave Palestinians try to fight back and to claw their way out of the unacknowledged harsh reality defined by the brutal, inhumane conditions they've been tricked into and forced to accept, given that "beaten" and/or "killed" are the options open to those wanting to oppose the Zionist occupation that's wedged itself in the area.
And that's now aiming to "finish what it started," as there are some pro-Israel folks who blame Tel-Aviv for the ongoing occupation and subsequent violence, as Jews wouldn't have to endure any of that today had their predecessors not gone soft, having been persuaded to opt for a wimpy ceasefire and some peace rather than seal a bow on the genocide that's been announced many moons ago, such being the clear course I'd called out roughly a year ago, finally making sense of the Biden Bunch's foreign policy goals, maybe—worst FP ever—though being entirely confident that Netanyahu and his Yahus had been given the greenlight, the recent assertion that Tel-Aviv could 'do its worst' being a redundant confirmation.
And anyhow, should anyone have noticed: Biden's say, even if for the US, isn't something that garners real attention or that's attributed much weight nowadays; the cliché's nightmare of a speech he gave from the Oval Office on the 19th, there's no way that that was seen as anything positive except by patriotic ding dongs who believe their gas will be cheaper if Washington can settle on a country to bomb the shit out of...
That's expected, I suppose, as Israel also has trouble settling on just one. Israel strikes also targeted the Damascus and Aleppo airports; three times! Local reports say that both airports are now rendered inoperable.
That's a war crime. Along with blocking food and water and electricity, and the savagely indiscriminate bombs dropped on civilians is one big Mama of a war crime. So where are your cries now? Where has your indignation been all these years? You pull it up now to defecate on Palestinians and those who support them, but only because you're absolutely clueless about what's going on the rest of the time? Or is it because you reserve your good sense and your humanity for all the wrong ethno-nationalists and neo-Nazi people propped up by the West for some end you just know many are going to suffer for in some way?
To add a real disturbing layer to it all is the sharp contrast that was witnessed with the Ukraine situation, the same lies fed to Westerners being simply flipped, which is all that's needed to trash a huge chunk of reality in order to disregard and disparage whole sets of demoralised victims and the war crimes deemed to be acceptable, so long as that narrative conflicts with the indoctrinated hatred that predetermines one's foe and narrative expectations. Reality is for evil losers!
In the Words of Officials
Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, offered some details in a press briefing:
"The Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood began where the Battle of Saif Al-Quds ended in 2021, and we went to it for the sake of the prisoners."
The military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood included the firing of 3,500 rockets and artillery shells, targeting the Gaza Division, “which we destroyed through 15 points, and we also attacked 10 additional military intervention points, during the attack on its centers.”
He said: "We were keen to hide our intentions, training, and movements before the Al-Aqsa Flood was implemented, and we made extensive plans to train the forces, so that they would be able to carry out missions efficiently. We also made a precise plan to summon 3,000 fighters to the battle, and 1,500 for support and support operations."
He added, "The enemy is committing the most horrific crimes against innocent civilians, and it is better to hold its leadership accountable for that," stressing that "the Al-Aqsa flood battle continues on the ground in all areas of operations."
He stressed that "the Al-Qassam Brigades control the course of the battle on the ground, and we confirm our readiness in the defensive field, and our combat structure and armament enable us to effectively defend."
Addressing the steadfast Palestinians in Al-Aqsa, the West Bank and Gaza, he said, “Our battle is for the blessed Al-Aqsa,” warning the occupation army that “if it dares to enter Gaza by land, we will crush it,” explaining that “the enemy’s threat to expand the aggression on land will push us to activate options that will inflict pain on the enemy.” Huge loss of life and equipment."
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Israel Army spokesman, Daniel Hagari, said in a press conference:
“The families of 222 kidnapped people in the Gaza Strip have been informed. This number is not final.”
He added: "We will continue to work in all possible ways to return the prisoners to their homes safely, whether military, intelligence or political."
Hagari continued: “This is the goal of this war, in addition to the goal of ending Hamas’ authority and Hamas’ capabilities, and the goals will be achieved,” he said.
He stated, "During the night (Sunday-Monday), armored and infantry forces carried out an incursion with the aim of eliminating armed cells that are being prepared for the next stage, and also to determine information about missing persons and kidnapped persons."
"The military readiness of the Israeli army is present and strengthening. Even as we speak now, there is a plane attacking dozens of targets where there are militants, in preparation for the next phase of the war."
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Abdul Latif al-Qanou, the Hamas spokesman, said in press statements:
“If the occupation makes a ground entry, this is a good opportunity to inflict losses in killing and captivity.”
He continued, "The Kissufim operation yesterday (Sunday) is one of the messages he received."
On Sunday, the Israeli army announced, “A soldier was killed and 3 others were injured, as a result of an anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip at a military force in the Kissufim area in the south of the country.”
Al-Qanou stressed that the resistance is cohesive, strong, capable of managing the battle, and is highly prepared to confront any ground aggression against Gaza.
“The madness of the criminal, fascist Zionist occupation in bombing civilians demonstrates the state of confusion in which it is still experiencing and the confusion of its army leadership in managing the battle.”
He pointed out that the occupation's operations to destroy the Gaza Strip and commit massacres against civilians will not achieve its goals or give it the image of victory.
"[O]ur people are triumphing over the state of agony, pain, killing and destruction in order to thwart the displacement plan and liquidate their just cause."
The One Drop that Unleashed the Flood that Triggered Countless Drops
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. That’s the name given to the campaign launched by Hamas on 7-Oct-2023, a day of Sabbath and a date on which the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah is celebrated.
“Celebrate”. That word took a weird turn in the attack’s aftermath in light of the pro-Palestinian sentiments that were expressed; many were accused of doing just that, celebrating, either through posts, segments, or protests whose aim weren’t the expected and acceptably stiff condemnations of Hamas and/or Palestinians—for those who made the distinction—as anything else signalled that one was rejoicing, for Jewish babies were beheaded while women were raped before joining the men in death, the latter potentially equally raped, since, after all, Hamas seems to be most appealing to Woke Weirdos, so, come to think of it, who knows what Hamas are into... Those sickos. Death to Hamas perverting Wokes, too!
Sigh.
Essentially, all those who’ve gobbled up the "pro-Jewish" mainstream version of life in Israel amid the threat of anti-Semitic pockets of Palestinians all seemed to have embraced “celebrate” as the verb of choice to describe the actions of those who openly supported the Palestinians.
‘The Lefties have gone completely mad and a little psychotic, too! Cheering a gruesome slaughter?! How many brain cells does going Woke kill?’
Of course the attacks unleashed on 7-Oct were horrible; what's truly upsetting is that things have gotten that far and the calls for attention reached such levels.
Since not all have their head in the sand the rest of the time, what's a real annoyance and a major insult are the vapid, idiotic judgments passed on those not wholly ignorant of the Palestinians' full-time situation, not having let the ingrained bigotry and Islamophobia they claim isn't there do their thinking for them so that half of reality is wiped away for them.
What intensifies all degrees of heartbreak in a truly fruitless manner is how these simultaneously demand an unconditional condemnation and call for censorship as they make a plea for acts of heightened aggression that are sure to inflict greater pain on those who've done little more than endure needless suffering—more than anyone should ever bear—having done so since 1948.
Because, for those who didn't just take notice of Palestinians when they were being publicly demonized by Zionists for some violent act they'd perpetrated on Jews in a totally unprovoked manner that deserved harsh retribution, and for those who stopped believing those lies, the state of war declared by Netanyahu isn't the result of Arabs living up to the terrorist label applied by the West. It's the expected result of long-endured abuses and it comes in reaction to a near-approaching terminal culmination that's been loudly signalled since Biden took office, Trump's turn having set the necessary elements in place.
But, albeit ample examples and all that should feed doubt, yet again, people have given in to indoctrinated hate through knee-jerking so vigorous it's sprung them on the hate bandwagon and the right-turning high-horse carrousel its pulling, fooling riders into a sense of arrogant confidence in a roundabout way that's led all nowhere and resulted in additional deaths, though it has kept these away from a path where far more nuanced interpretations of events do exist.
And, no, "nuance" isn't a Commie word, nor is seeing nuance in all things a gateway to 163 genders.
Consequently, as one should now expect: the world split in two on this issue, too.
Curiously, the divide that established itself—which then had minor adjustments made to it at the leader level—appears to cement the global divide between pro-US-hegemony countries (West) and the multipolar-pushing ones (rest), but it also revealed fissures between traditional allies, and it's widened fractures within societies given the politicisation of humanitarian facets and the collective shift that continues to gain momentum, presenting a growing challenge to the attitudes that underscore the malice that's become a dominant feature of Zionism, these sharing much with those that so eagerly drive the wheels of Capitalism to our doom.
Granted, there were some reactions that were a tad too gleeful and cold for my taste, but that applies to a handful, maybe two, and the vast majority of these are expressing a well-justified anger that relates to personal experience and not a Woke-provoked psychopathy.
Sure, a few may be externalising misdirected pent-up frustrations with their parents, and fewer still may be cheering on the death of Jews, possessing a genuine, Hitler-worthy hatred of them, and sure enough, these are the cases that pro-Zionists and opportunistic conservatives will limit themselves to and amplify as they repeat the destructive lies and disregard the overwhelming majority, yet, why not, while at it, they've the gall to dispense their boasts and advise on the topic of Democracy.
Take the glaring hypocrisy shown by the likes of long-time reporter and pundit, Rex Murphy, who nagged and attacked Trudeau endlessly for the overreaction Murphy assigns to him through a clearly exaggerated interpretation of Trudeau's mention of Nazis at the Truckers Convoy when, really, as Murphy repeated numerous times, swastikas and other hate symbols were present among pockets of individuals, making it bigotry to label the whole group as such... something that Murphy actually does himself in a 2021 piece that was recently re-posted while he's on vacation, in which he claims to target hate but helps to spread it as he judges and condemns all pro-Palestinians as if members of Hitler's Happy House Club seeing as the large rallies were "pockmarked" with a few individuals that sported swastikas. That these were almost always linked to Zionists on signs being held, thus equating them with Nazis for their treatment of Palestinians, is something that seems to be overlooked or attacked as sick behaviour by those calling anyone not cheering for harder, faster Zionism still a big ol', stinky Hitler.
Murphy took a weird and insufferably-whiny right turn in his old age, but, as he's no longer burdened by the limitations that ensure one's career in some future's, the rants he allows himself to go on tend to deliver clearer examples that betray the kinds of cruel political games some are willing to play, and how stupidly obtuse and myopic they're showing themselves to be—liberals or conservatives, party or media—which they'd be forced to see, nothing they stand for being reinforced, if it weren't for years of sustained propaganda backed by other forms of manipulation, the power of labels, and the brutish bullying that's been encouraged, and which they've played a hand in, done in order to enforce the reality that Tel-Aviv and Washington wanted served up.
Self-delusion. Whatever kind of skill it requires, doesn't seem like there's much in that to be proud of, methinks.
No surprise, therefore, that, as usual, what was seen was a gross, knee-jerked overreaction based on a coarse and ignorant interpretation that suits one's hatred of the ‘other’ along with the habitual willingness to pass a quick judgment but not toward an attempt to understand why, in this case, as concerns this issue, humanitarian-geared people would hold such a view rather than, say, suddenly wish life were like a slasher film?
Parting the See that Blocks the Vue
The easiest way to label the divide is between Zionist and anti-Zionist though that can pose a problem if getting down to nitty gritty details, unless one limits the definition of Zionism to denote Israel, as defined per the 1967 borders, perhaps, which Hamas has indicated being willing to recognize, for how this group is viewed is severely skewed, Western powers having, yet again, worked hard to mold an evil foe and entity out of a much different reality.
Of course, the more militant pro-Israel Jews will have us believe that "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" and anyone who doubts this probably possesses that hypothesized Hitler gene, the one whose A doesn't identify an adenine base nucleotide but an antisemite one.
Reducing the significance of the fundamental notions that have been clashing for over a century—Zionism was born in 1897 and the Balfour Declaration that put their plan into motion was signed in 1917—to those that are enforced by the pro-Israel lobby, we should all be approaching this issue as a black or white one that involves "productive, love-giving people" or destructive, hate-filled anti-Semites.
Indeed, the pro-Israel lobbying tool that fronts as a hate watchdog, Canary Mission, which I discuss briefly further below, says:
"Anti-Israel groups like to trot out the disingenuous disclaimer that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Professing they are not against Jews, they cloak the most modern version of the oldest hate in the world in the thinnest of veils."
What about Jews who are against the Zionist movement? Those are vile self-haters, brainwashed into reviling their own kind by the evil anti-Zionists' corrosive epigenetic effect on the theorised Jew gene.
It also offers this piece to clarify matters:
These excerpts below, along with the text in the screen grab, are particularly telling as concerns the Zionist mindset as a whole:
"It serves as a subtle, yet insidious form of antisemitism, one that undermines Israel's right to self-defense and blurs the lines between an established, democratic nation and a militant group engaged in terrorism.
"The concept of "two-sideism" is, at its core, a deeply biased perspective that equates Israel, a nation bound by democratic values and the rule of law, with Hamas, an organization that employs violence and terror as its primary means of operation. This false equivalence not only undermines the legitimacy of Israel's actions but also perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Jewish people and their right to a homeland.
"Israel's right to defend itself is not merely a privilege granted to her by other friendly nations; it is a fundamental duty to protect her citizens from harm. In the face of threats posed by Iranian proxies, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Israel not only has the right but also the obligation to finish what it started."
The second paragraph in the grab amounts to whining about a pattern that ends up calling for Israel to be reasonable, and the next one subtly tells us that including the other side's perspective in this is a naive and misguided "attempt to appear balanced". In essence, forcing tolerance on the Israelis is the problem.
And the mention of "harmful stereotypes" is a lark that betrays the 'supreme' arrogance under which Zionists operate given that absolutely all that they offer in regard to Palestinians, especially Hamas, is nothing but BS to propagate the justifications needed to bring about in a palatable way the long-established and genocidal end to Palestinians, which, anyhoot, aren't 'a real thing', didn't you know?
Yeah, the latest angle: Palestinians aren't a people because, before 1948, all those who lived in the region were called Palestinians, whether Arab or Jew, so there!
No, that's not an ultra-stupid statement and stupider way to see things; if you weren't such an anti-Semite Hitler-Lover about things, you'd understand why such a perspective implies that Tel-Aviv must treat Palestinians like cockroaches, and Palestine like a nowhere place.
Oh, and speaking of stereotypes, on 27-April-2023, in celebration of Israel's anniversary, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, stated in a speech: “Today we celebrate 75 years of vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East. You have literally made the desert bloom.”
Josep Borrell's ears perked up at that dog whistle, which he understood full well, for sure. Funny thing is how her statement has been strongly defended as being no more than a reference to Israel's agricultural achievements and the advanced irrigation systems and techniques it's developed, and none of that noble garden versus savage jungle imagery was intended, such an interpretation being the product of sick, anti-Semitic minds, of course, thus converting the mention of that as a dog whistle into being a clear anti-Semitic dog whistle, I bet.
But who am I to claim that Ursula won da Lying is a pro-imperialist, white-supremacist hypocrite and major B-word when 45 EU officials and 800 staffers are calling out EU President von der Leyen for the racist, gross double standards they're seeing being applied to Gaza, which is in sharp contrast to all they'd been told per the course forced upon Europe in regard to events in Ukraine.
All that unraveling that's being fought against but slowly and surely happening any how, that's due to too many now being fed up and too many more cluing in to all the lies that have been maintained for far too long simply to prop up Western elites and to keep their supremacy-driven egos in check while they raped the world.
The last is what makes the entire "Two-sideism" piece an incredibly pathetic and puerile type of argumentative approach that actually has more in common with fascism and crushing dissenting views than it does with good sense.
Not only does it assert that a hard, Western-set dichotomy divides the world in a manner that's reducible to simplistic, idealised notions of good versus bad that stem from one branch of post-Abrahamic religions and, therefore, are to be accepted and not questioned, but it also tells us that the "concept of 'two-sideism'" was created just to put down the Israelites since, if one believes that there are as many sides to every story as there are implicated parties, well, that entails holding the belief that Hamas and Palestinians are worth an equal amount of attention and understanding as the Israelis, and that's just not acceptable to non-anti-Semites; it's Hitleresque thinking! Got that?
In regard to the "democracy" and "violence" jabs made in that two-sideism text, underlined above, sadly, an aspect to which I want to dedicate a post: Hamas appears to have a far greater respect for, and deeper understanding of, Democracy and its principles than does the current Netanyahu government, for sure, and many Western ones, too.
It's since turned Gaza into a one-party government, but with good reasons, which I'll discuss in that post, though this, too, is twisted into the rocket-freely-firing, bomb-placing, crazed jihadist Islamist image of terrorist-gene-carrying Palestinians, though those having an easier go at pushing that narrative the previous times are finding themselves facing a somewhat tougher audience this time around.
Because, indeed: Something's changed. I have my reservations as concerns attributing this stronger show of solidarity for Palestine to a growing "awareness", as a sense of "urgency" in the face of a clearer threat seems to have sparked much.
Hamass? Is that the Pig Version of a Jackass?
Halal or Kosher?
Hamas, properly, is considered a grassroots, counter-hegemonic, militant socio-political Islamist movement that’s deeply embedded in the Palestinian community.
It maintains an associated charitable infrastructure that includes medical, educational, and social organisations, these having been under constant threat by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli government.
And Hamas has also proven itself very law-and-order minded, having achieved more good, higher lawfulness, and procured greater security for the people with fewer officers and through less oppressive means than what the Fatah forces had accomplished over the decades, the party having long seen itself as the de facto power and, thus, became plagued with corruption. Plus, the Fatah-lead PA worked harder to please the West than to secure the wellbeing of Palestinians, and the people were fed up.
So, for Westerners who bemoan the days of Fatah: Who gives a crap?! You obviously don't, not for the Palestinians.
It's important to understand that Hamas is better grasped if perceived as a movement than as a group, and thinking of it as a "terrorist organisation" is definitely all types of wrong given the sense that's intended, and it becomes a great show of ignorance that's very insulting to hear whenever anyone says that "Israel has the right to defend itself" while wanting to damn Hamas to hell for resisting to the forced displacement and/or genocide that's been taking place with incremental force and increasing speed, the whole aiming for a long-built-up end that the current hard-right Israeli coalition government is keen on reaching sooner than later. Satisfying that desire appears to be a role that Netanyahu's future is dependent on, one senses, given his legal woes and the constitutional changes he's hoping to pass through...
The organisation and the developments that took it to its present-day form are quite interesting, and the entity that is "Hamas" is far more complex than the asinine, hyper-reductive group it's presented as, the easy acceptance of such a view relying on the crude stereotypes that identify Arabs as terrorists.
Unfortunately, communicating the organisation's essence and the surprisingly positive and socially-geared politics it's adopted, which Hamas has refined into its real "charter" in 2006, discarding the 1988 one that Westerners all cling to and which Hamas themselves claim is "replete with anti-Jewish references" and it even includes "tracts that are emanating from the infamous 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which does unambiguously call for the end of Israel... well, you see where I'm going with that "unfortunately" and now expect me to say that Hamas deserves a different focus than the brief one it receives in this post.
So, until that other post is ready, I affirm the following: How Hamas is presented in Western media is yet more fiction to serve a pro-Israel, Western agenda; such presentations sap out the reality that otherwise makes clear the depth of the rage that Palestinians have a right to feel themselves if "Israel has the right to defend itself", for logic tells us that it is Palestinians, therefore, who had the right to defend themselves first in that loop that the Zionists started over 75 years ago, the Nakba alone having provided the equally valid conclusion that's now offered by Israel and endorsed by the West: They should have put an end to it back then, preferably, before the Zionists even got started.
Also, briefly, Hamas being a political party with dedicated branches, their armed forces are the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, most commonly referred to as al-Qassam Brigades, or Qassam Brigades.
Two aspects, yet again, stand out of this conflict:
1. The fact that propaganda is entirely responsible for the general public's false impressions of Palestinians, Hamas, and how it perceives the conflict.
a. The "terrorist" label has been adroitly exploited.
b. "Islam" still provides an easy trigger that's exploited in parallel to "terrorist".
2. A group like Hamas presents another case filled with false facts due to flawed thinking, as the whole is seen through West-serving framings and a highly-limited understanding based on events viewed through a Western navel.
Understanding what's meant in point 2 requires a grasp of certain facets that pro-Israel Western officials and media have ruled improper lest the desire to have one's picture hanging in hell, next to Hitler's, should be one's wish...
There's a far better and Occam's razor-pleasing reason than the one they provide to explain why pro-Zionists don't want anyone having a look at 'both sides of the coin', which is: they don't want anyone to know the truth.
What amazes me—much as it did for the Ukraine-Russia situation and anything involving China—is how utterly and crudely biased the vast majority of Westerners are, though I'll admit to having had to shed some of that baggage myself even though I'd seen neo-colonialism for what it was in my early twenties. However, awareness of such a bias being reflected in my thinking is what had me review those impressions of the West's common foes long before I allowed these to reach a point where I found comfort in the open expression of hate and calls to wipe out huge groups of people in a world that assumed that all the negative that was witnessed could either be blamed on Arabs if not on an evil eastern nation, possibly two... all depends on "Taiwan's freedom". But not really.
Additionally, forcing a people into a cage and calling them animals doesn't make one a zoo-keeper, it makes one a despicable failure at being human.
And although it's very true that collective punishment is a war crime, since the world is dealing with Gazan “animals”, what’s the worry, right? I mean, other than being bitten by a rabid feral Palestinian.
Ba-da-boom! Tish?
My honest sentiments on the matter: Hardline Zionists who dare bring up the Holocaust usually do so in a manner that makes them profoundly disgusting people, and screw them and their calls of anti-Semitism so long as they display such passion and dedication toward the spread of Islamophobia and of contemptible lies that amplify the suffering of many, aiming to efface the Palestinian struggles and their humanity by obliterating Palestinian homes, doing so in order to call a land that wasn't theirs their own.
The biblical reasons given shouldn't be, for they make of religion a complete mockery, reminding the world of our savage reality when life revolves around a fantasy.
Speaking of idiotic, harmful stereotypes that senselessly promote Islamophobia...
Occupied by Wall Street
7-Oct. I’m not sure whether that particular day and date had a precise significance among those suggested by the media, but I am confident that an upcoming one prompted this new revolutionary phase in the Gazan government's military arm: Saudi Arabia and Israel formalising their normalization agreement, this being Biden building on the Abraham Accords established by Jared Kushner and the Trump Troupe.
Which omitted Palestine from the whole, hence the reason why'd predicted its eventual failure unless that was rectified.
The fact that it wasn't leads me to conclude that it's always been a defining feature of the accords for Washington.
And, so, Biden's Bit, done callously, with little real interest, it's also the piece that's threatening the rest to crumble.
Other Arab nations may have tempered their reaction in order to maintain their newly established and potentially lucrative relationship with Israel, but the whole is still too fresh, whilst Biden's bizarre foreign policy positions and the USA's past history in the region, combined with events in Ukraine and the West's loudly anti-China turn, all of it managed to unify the Arab world, accelerated peace between them, and it's motivated them to take back the dignity that the West had stolen long.
Consequently, despite any Western posturing or aircraft carriers and battle groups, the neighbouring Arab states have made their position quite clear, the lot, even Israel, not paying much heed to what the US had to say, though the motivation for each, the Arabs or Israel, is entirely different, as are the dependencies that established the previous, Rules-Based Ordered world that had been so beneficial to the US, an aspect that Washington, and its allied institutions, allowed Western corporations to shamelessly abuse while Western governments preached to the developing world it assaulted and ravished, sucking the wealth with the threat of its army in exchange for Freedom & Democracy®.
The 2,000 Marines that were mobilised are no match against the numbers in the region, but those aren't, as most assume, just for show, flexing some muscles to intimidate the neighbours, in my opinion; these were deployed with the kidnapping aspect in mind, providing a strike team focusing purely on an in and out with hostages, and security forces to get personnel out if required.
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The West's reaction. If I'm perfectly honest, I found it seriously troubling to see that kind of blind unity through the statements all made, ditto blocking a ceasefire—the West hasn't been big on that at all lately, preferring war each time—all the more so given what lies at the end of their silence, already complicit in lies.
And, as Nikki Haley is working hard to establish: There's no reason to miss the days of Bush Jr. The GOP always has a fresh stock of warmongering crazies.
Bits of a Harsh Reality
The last trustworthy count that was to be had at the time of writing this post dates from Saturday, 23-Oct; they were:
Over 5,087 Palestinians are registered dead, including 2,055 children, 1,119 women, and 217 elderly people. 15,273 have been injured.
Also, at least 15 journalists were killed since 7-Oct-2023, all of them clearly identified as such. One Israeli shell targeted a group of at least journalists killing at least two and injuring
On top of the 1,300 to 1,500 Israelis that died on 7-Oct, Israeli police and armed forces are reporting the loss of 308 soldiers since entering
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Internal emails circulated Friday; US State Department staff wrote that senior officials were to refrain from using, and did not want press materials to include, these three specific phrases: "de-escalation/ceasefire," "end violence/bloodshed," and "restore calm."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit at a Toronto mosque yesterday established that this rule does not only limit itself to US governmental and diplomatic officers and staff, but to those of allies as well, as Trudeau absolutely refused to tell the Muslim crowd that he would call for a ceasefire.
In fact, this simple act is one that all Western leaders—other than Hungary's Victor Orban—have refused to publicly adopt, doing their all to justify any route other and than one that involves a ceasefire.
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Issues relating to the Trump Troupe aside, since week one in office, the Biden Bunch's foreign policy positions and decisions were confusing and destabilizing, an aspect I'd continually complained about as the lack of cohesive sense demonstrated wouldn't allow me to map out a clear direction out of the mess that appeared to be a no more than a series of brash steps and back-tracking steps.
To Be a War Crime, All Depends on the Who and Which War
Human shields; odd that Amnesty International’s report that had come out in the summer of 2022 that accused the more extremist Ukrainian elements of relying on human shields—forcing villagers to stay to that end to boot—and setting up bases and firing stations within civilian installations… well, if Amnesty produced such a thing, surely, none of them understood war but all loved Putin a tad too much, and, so, Twitter buzzed with agreeable tweets: all of A.I. staff deserved being dropped sans parachutes from an airliner, then hanged, then set on fire!
Imagine! Such a vile and Hitleresque attempt to deflect the Russians’ demon-motivated, puss-filled lust for the murderously-annihilatory hate that is their responsibility and theirs alone—along with China, Iran, and the bad, anguished Korea.
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Have schools gone Woke and is Woke insanity? Well, crazy students were heard chanting ‘We want Jewish genocide’ at pro-Palestinian protests!
Actually, that's a bad or malicious translation; groups were chanting, “We charge you with genocide,” which is a phrase oft repeated at pro-Palestinian rallies around the country.
Lot's of those types of examples where, instead, people are choosing to see a version Hitler, and to therefore spread vehement hatred targeted at those they've falsely accused of being what they aren't. And Amen to you. Because Woke is the problem...
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After his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed, per AP:
“As I told the president, I’m here to underscore the commitment of the United States to rebuilding the relationship with the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people, a relationship built on mutual respect and also a shared conviction that Palestinians and Israelis alike deserve equal measures of security, freedom opportunity and dignity,”
The truce that ended the Gaza war on Friday has so far held, but it did not address any of the deeper issues plaguing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, something Blinken acknowledged after meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We know that to prevent a return to violence, we have to use the space created to address a larger set of underlying issues and challenges. And that begins with tackling the grave humanitarian situation in Gaza and starting to rebuild,” he said.
Blinken has also made the following promise: The US will reopen its Jerusalem consulate, which, for years, until Trump had shut it down, had served as the de facto embassy to the Palestinians.
Problem is, that meeting and those comments and promises (more not included) all date from 25-May-2021.
As of today, that Jerusalem office has yet to be reopened.
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Young thinking people who don't fit in with yesterday are the problem, got that?
“Decolonization” is a movement that views people as either “indigenous” and good, or “colonizing” and bad. Decolonial fanatics tend to despise western civilization and the people who trace their heritage to it.
Jamie Sarkonak: If there was ever a time to defund student revolutionaries, it's now | National Post
No, you simple-minded all or nothing fool. They and I love the West even more than the idiots who share any conclusion similar to the one reached by Jamie Sarkonak, no matter how strenuous that may have been for her .
Unlike her, we don't seek to continue on the same moronic and destructive path that does the world harm. We're the West, and we can do far better than the mentally-deficient lack of vision that drives Sarkonak who's seemingly too stupid to realize she'd be the court jester with her head up the King's ass who'd denigrate anyone suggesting to explore new lands...
Yeah, her piece upset me. It's the product of a brain-dead.turd with legs who spews idiocy on top of more, making sure to bully anti-Palestinian hate and anti-Russian hate and... Rightwingers. So much is about seeing things their way or it's called hate if not terrorism. These people tend to be close-minded in a manner that enrages me , having little patience for some forms of stupidity.
Any ways, the citation is what I'd wanted to focus on. Getting tired, time to finish up.
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Meanwhile, leaders and representatives of 130 countries were in Beijing, attending China's third official Belt & Road Initiative summit and celebrating the grand, global project's 10th year anniversary.
Much has been done by Western forces, and West-leaning ones, too, to destroy the globally positive and productive, unifying project that China launched, gifting the framework to the world, for all to collaborate on and to benefit through. Not as a target for one's demented sense of competition that seeks, instead, to build parallel and duplicate infrastructures projects at huge costs, both financial and environmental ones.
That whole mindset seen from the West as concerns such things, it's Insidious and destructive, and it's fast becoming irrelevant, as it's precisely the type of thinking that's steeped in a harmful supremacy that gives life to something like Zionism.
Being Dumb About Ignorance About Dumb Beings
Below are excerpts from two National Post articles that expressed a certain rightwing idiocy to a tee
You owe your current life to imperialism, so shut up and help enforce it!
Canada’s continued prosperity in an increasingly dangerous and disordered world depends on the rules-based international order maintained by the United States and the alliance it leads — a system Ottawa played an integral role in building and that Canadians greatly benefit from. Canada’s allegiance is thus to the West, not to the “axis of outcasts “: Russia, Iran, North Korea and Syria. So why do “progressives” keep regurgitating these countries’ talking points and advancing their interests?
Other “progressives,” including Rhodes scholars, elected members of Parliament, law clerks, professors and union leaders also did their best to whitewash Hamas’ despicable attack. Many more gathered at protests in Toronto and Montreal to celebrate this senseless killing. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
The international security environment is likely to deteriorate further before it improves. The only appropriate response to deter the West’s enemies is for countries like Canada to unconditionally support their allies in their times of need. “Progressives” should understand how their bread is buttered and get with the program.
George Monastiriakos: Canadian progressives playing into the hands of our enemies | National Post
Monastiriakos easily tied the broader conflict that Ukraine represents to Gaza's, so I'm not sure why people thought it was a stretch for Biden to have done so in his 19-Oct Oval Office speech.
Note that his piece is titled: "Canadian progressives playing into the hands of our enemies"
Gotta fall in line, people, and y'all gotta accept that the world spins in thanks to the Euro-centric, whitey-led US Rules-Based Order way, and y'all need to learn about bread, butter, and buttering up, which is why all should quit school and kill the Woke extremists on their way out!
That Monastiriakos' opinion piece explicitly targets the "Progressives" is a trend I've noticed, and it appears to be linked to a wider political effort to concretize a target that signifies Wokism while avoiding the "Woke' label; the other example provided below does the same with "Call it what you like" when "Woke" is what's undoubtedly implied.
This is made possible through a tacit acceptance that the Palestinians are irrational and a threat to Israel, who's shown tolerance and compassion despite the evil that confronts it. This is an image that's been carefully maintained by Western powers and bullishly enforced by the liberal and conservative media, along with lobby and advocacy groups.
Reality is what justifies telling people like Monastiriakos to take their bread and shove it, toasted but unbuttered, for greater discomfort. And the realization that the set ways that he and the likes strive to maintain are senselessly unjust, based on a destructive, violent supremacy, and that they're globally undesired except by the West due to the hardships and enviro-taxing ways it rewards and encourages, that's what makes the mindset demonstrated in the types of pro-conservative viewpoints that the National Post is aggressively promoting so irrelevant nowadays, these putting on display a great deal of denial and very little wisdom.
Among several mistakes made by Monastiriakos, the following betrays how he's just a barely-thinking fool that feeds the propaganda he eats up, happy to keep all ignorant, himself most of all:
"[Israel] tolerated Hamas’ rule over the enclave as a brutal but sovereign statelet since it overthrew Fatah in 2007."
Perhaps someone should inform the Zionists' useful idiot that Hamas coming to power involved zero coup but it did involve fair elections, albeit it was the Fatah partythat had, provenly, cheated and refused to cede to Hamas, the winning party finally taking legal control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) for Gaza in 2007.
Even Israel and the US—having to have their say—had allowed Hamas to partake in the 2006 elections, which it fairly won; the elections were held per the Palestinian legislative election rules, and they were internationally supervised and deemed to have been fair and legit.
Since 1997, the political arm of Hamas had become a serious party and political player and they followed all the set rules
"To better understand the Palestine that Hamas wants to build, just read its charter, which is pro-Islamist, anti-peace and vehemently anti-Israel."
This is BS; the idiot establishes why calling him a "moron" may be far more apt; personally, if I weren't making an effort to remain polite, I'd add a few more denigrating qualifiers to describe the moron seeing how he simply laps up the superficial, propagandised spins fed to brainless "non-progressives" like him—which, in proper political parlance are, I believe, called "retards"—and it's on that type of disinformation that he bases himself in order to pass his empty, hate-filled judgments that help perpetuate the persecution against Palestinians that's now been ongoing for 75 years?!
"Iran is a medieval theocracy, and the world’s biggest state-sponsor of terrorism."
Nope. The world's biggest is, by far, the US. They not only helped create most of the large factions they now use for fearmongering purposes that idiots like Monastiriakos eat up and spit back as the undeniable truth all are to accept, but the US continues to fund some of these, even pitted 'terrorist' against 'terrorist' in Syria, among other places.
And the "medieval" is pure bigotry as is, for the lack of specificity offered provides yet another gross generalization from an assumed level of superiority that fails to account for a myriad of contradictory beliefs and actions.
Mine and other Jewish navels are all that matter!
“To see what is in front of one’s nose,” the British literary giant George Orwell wrote in 1946, “needs a constant struggle.” Averse as Justin Trudeau’s Canada has become to any serious moral inquiry or anything like intellectual struggle, we shouldn’t be surprised that it is only now that a bloodcurdling sociopathology that has been incubating under Canadian noses all along is at last coming to public notice.
The phenomenon has metastasized in federally subsidized “social justice” circles, in the milieu of avant garde activism, in the public sector unions and in the social sciences and humanities faculties of Canada’s most prestigious universities. Call it what you like. A defining feature of the thing is a radical-chic antisemitism that masquerades in the guise of “left-wing” anti-Zionism.
“The fact that we now see hundreds of people in the streets rallying in support of Hamas’ barbarity is no surprise given these groups have operated with impunity,” Shimon Koffer Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told me. “These demonstrations in support of Hamas’ brutal assault on Israeli men, women and children are nothing short of morally repugnant and traumatizing.”
Terry Glavin: Hamas supporters enjoy safe haven and left-wing support in Canada | National Post
Not much to add that isn't self-evident, Terry Glavin, the author, being predictably conservative through all the wrong, bigotry-informed and ignorance-fueling ways he embraces on any key issues, especially anything that overlaps on those rightwing obsessions normally attacked as Wokism under the rubric of Culture War.
The "Call it what you like" mentioned earlier references this article.
Frankly, I find Glavin to be offensively ignorant and a huge bigot caught in yesteryear that spreads far more hate and ignorance than anything meaningful and positive, and, as such, he deserves the time needed to raise a middle finger, and no more.
Nothing to Love About Anti-Hate Hatred
I'm not voicing anything I haven't said before: I find it truly disgusting the way some have weaponized anti-Semitism—hinduphobia, too—these being more obsessed with labeling someone as anti-Semite and categorizing them as hateful, readily seeing targeted hatred and conspiracy theories in anything that connects to Jews in any way, or that utilized one among a long list of common words deemed to be dog whistles.
Interestingly, those people are the ones most likely to be drowning in senseless Russophobia, the same ones who were calling "Death to Russians" for anything the Zeesky, the West, and their media decided to spin and present as a war crime, and no matter how wildly it did so, no fact checking was necessary. In fact, wanting to check any of Ukraine's facts sealed one's fate as a Putin lover.
When any form of criticism that's amply acceptable if it concerns anyone but a single group of people inexplicably turns into unacceptable "aggression" and "hate speech" when that one group becomes the focus, that ought to be as a clear sign as needed to see the abusive, guilt-inducing and bullied shaming that's been 'packaged' into a tool and a means to an end: We Jews do what we want and anyone who complains is scum.
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The images below are from a piece titled "Antisemitic NGOs justify terror in three stages" that's actually a laughable, contentless piece that offers nothing resembling what the title suggests but instead presents common activist behaviour as if a common tactic employed by anti-Semitic hate groups. In other words, wasted server space used up merely to fill sites with a content type that feeds a certain impression and reinforces certain behaviours by vilifying what it doesn't like.
These two images, from a protest in Brussels in 2021, are provided as examples of an evil NGO, Students for Justice in Palestine, getting young people to act in vile, anti-Semitic ways.
Sigh.
Antisemitic NGOs justify terror in three stages – opinion | msn.com
Meet Monsters
Canary Mission is a despicable, modern McCarthyite-style of effort to legitimize a form of control over what individuals are allowed to express and the types of movements that are to be deemed acceptable
"Canary Mission documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond. Canary Mission investigates hatred across the entire political spectrum, including the far right, far left and anti-Israel activists."
"Canary Mission believes that we all have the right to know if an individual has been affiliated with movements that routinely engage in anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions, promote hatred of Jews and seek the destruction of Israel."
Here are examples of the hate-filled monsters that the group makes it a mission to call out, spending their time mostly scanning social media pages and topic-related threads in search of "anti-Semites" to add to their list, "because the world should know," as their slogan goes.
The descriptions and faces aren't quite in line with what I'd expect to find in a list purporting to show dangerous hate-pushers and anti-Semites. These young people have been targeted for showing any interest in groups or positions that oppose Israel. Anyone with links to Students for Justice in Palestine, for example, is seen as having expressed interest in terrorists and/or partaking in the demonization of Israel. The same applies to anyone daring to support or promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and its objective "to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations under international law, defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and 'respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties'"
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Nothing; is measured or reasonable, fair or honest as far as Israel's expectations, demands go. ditto its treatment of Palestinians.
Time to get your head out of your arse, to stop obsessing over your asinine anti-Woke obsessions over issues you create yourself with your Woke obsessions, and to make a real efforts toward understanding what's really going before reverting back to puerile judgments that showcase your idiocy. just a thought.
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