Thursday, March 21, 2024

Being Human(e)

JUST TO BE CLEAR, I am non anti-Semitic. I am not anti-anybody, race, ethnic group, religion, whatever. If anything, I am anti-human, across the board. An equal opportunity human detractor. Bertolt Brecht said it best, in his poem "Concerning Poor B.B.":..."I make friends with people...and I wear a derby on my head as others do . I say: 'they are strangely stinking animals'. And I say: 'no matter,I am too'"... No, my problem is not anti-Semitism. My problem is human history, past and present. The impending destruction of all life on Earth. The constant wars, violence, and needless suffering, inflicted by ourselves upon ourselves. With regard to the thousands of religions in the world, I don't like any of them, including Judaism. For me, my own religion, which I invented, will do just fine. I have never been a big fan of the modern nation os Israel, for geo-political rather than religious or ethnic racial reasons. A close, historical examination of the precise manner in which it was founded in 1948 clearly revels that its founding was accomplished only with extreme suffering on the part of the Palestinians, and only as a result of western imperialism, i.e., British and American. Arguably, the world would have been and would be a far better place now had European powers and the North American power refrained from meddling in the rest of the world, trying to control it, for hundred of years. Arguably, the people now living in the area now occupied by the nation of Israel and the surrounding areas where Palestininas live in large numbers would be far more stable, peaceful and happy had nothing changed in 1948. Either that, or the "two state solution" should have implemented in 1948, at the founding of mmodern Israel. That Netanyahu and Israel's conseratives oppose this is reason enough why they should not be governing Israel now, why elections should be held soon. The nightmarish carnage and bloodshed now being visited upon the Palestinian people by the Israeli "defense forces" is the direct result of the horribly mismanaged birth of Israel in 1948. It is not yet "genocide", but it could fast become gnocide; more than thirty thousand murdered civilians, mostly women and children, qualifies as a good start to genocide. Let's call it "mass murder". It is certainly not standard warfare, in any sense understood by history or the international community. It is barbaric, inhumane, and the international community must stop it. It is obvious that Netanyahu will not. The Israeli government under Neyanhayu has turned the nation of Israel into a criminal, terrorist organization, no better than their terrorist enemy Hamas. The nation has lowered itself to that level. In America, it seems to be the progressives who are expressing outrage at this wanton slaughter of innocent civilians by Israeli forces. From American conservatives, not so much. It is not too late to greatly improve the situation by implementing a plan for nationhood for Palestine, a plan more than seventy five years late. And, just to be clear, what Israel is doing now has nothing to do with "defending itself".

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