Yes me too. I am confused. But my wife says its my normal state of mind. The default position on the Gaza genocide is that its a genocide. Its not a war its a genocidal war. Now i am not a language expert so i dont know how to debate the meanings of the word. But i have seen pictures of the survivors of what i read was genocide at places said genocides were said to have taken took place. But i suppose the meanings of words change with time. And if we hear constantly that a genocide is taking place then that is what must be happening. And if a jewish person a survivor maybe, says that Israelis are the new Nazis well i need to support this idea. I am already thinking that those Hamas dudes are resistance heros not jihadi killers because so m a ny people are embracing them . I need to take up this new thinking. On top of all that what am i to think about the Druze situation . Help me with solving my confusion.
A couple days ago, the IDF blamed "technical error" for yet another of their smart-bomb ooooppsy moments that — yet again — resulted in multiple Palestinian non-combatants, including many children, waiting in line for rationed drinking water. The IDF must have inadvertently set the bomb's targeting system to 'indiscriminate genocide mode'. ...
Indifference towards the continuing mass suffering via starvation and slaughter inflicted upon helpless Palestinian non-combatants — mostly consisting of Palestinian children — will only have further inflamed long-held Middle Eastern anger.
The actual provision by the U.S. (and to a lesser degree, Britain) of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s ongoing bombing raids will likely have turned that anger into lasting hatred seeking eye-for-an-eye redress. Perhaps even another attack on the scale of 9/11. ... There’s an increasingly apt expression I've come across in the media: "God damn America!"
Quite simply and seriously, human beings are being perceived and treated as though they are literally disposable and, by extension, their great suffering and numerous deaths are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones (i.e. for 10+ years) and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
It clearly is an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’. ... With each news report of the daily death toll, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
This is exactly what they are hoping for, " desensitization and resignation."
I have been on the case for decades but as we saw before, fighting Apartheid in South Africa, we can win in the end for others rights and freedoms, it is a long haul destination I'm afraid. I look on it as the Starfish Effect. Remember the Starfish Story? It is wearying, but battle on we must.
Yes me too. I am confused. But my wife says its my normal state of mind. The default position on the Gaza genocide is that its a genocide. Its not a war its a genocidal war. Now i am not a language expert so i dont know how to debate the meanings of the word. But i have seen pictures of the survivors of what i read was genocide at places said genocides were said to have taken took place. But i suppose the meanings of words change with time. And if we hear constantly that a genocide is taking place then that is what must be happening. And if a jewish person a survivor maybe, says that Israelis are the new Nazis well i need to support this idea. I am already thinking that those Hamas dudes are resistance heros not jihadi killers because so m a ny people are embracing them . I need to take up this new thinking. On top of all that what am i to think about the Druze situation . Help me with solving my confusion.
A couple days ago, the IDF blamed "technical error" for yet another of their smart-bomb ooooppsy moments that — yet again — resulted in multiple Palestinian non-combatants, including many children, waiting in line for rationed drinking water. The IDF must have inadvertently set the bomb's targeting system to 'indiscriminate genocide mode'. ...
Indifference towards the continuing mass suffering via starvation and slaughter inflicted upon helpless Palestinian non-combatants — mostly consisting of Palestinian children — will only have further inflamed long-held Middle Eastern anger.
The actual provision by the U.S. (and to a lesser degree, Britain) of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s ongoing bombing raids will likely have turned that anger into lasting hatred seeking eye-for-an-eye redress. Perhaps even another attack on the scale of 9/11. ... There’s an increasingly apt expression I've come across in the media: "God damn America!"
Quite simply and seriously, human beings are being perceived and treated as though they are literally disposable and, by extension, their great suffering and numerous deaths are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones (i.e. for 10+ years) and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
It clearly is an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’. ... With each news report of the daily death toll, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
This is exactly what they are hoping for, " desensitization and resignation."
I have been on the case for decades but as we saw before, fighting Apartheid in South Africa, we can win in the end for others rights and freedoms, it is a long haul destination I'm afraid. I look on it as the Starfish Effect. Remember the Starfish Story? It is wearying, but battle on we must.
Israel is a Terrorist State. Cancel it. *1 State Palestine*.