The recent events in Israel have been horrific.
I remember 9/11 very clearly. I was in the UK, at work, in a large open-plan office with maybe a hundred other people. We watched the horror of that day unfold with a kind of numb shock, not quite believing what we were seeing as videos and reports came in over the internet. Not a lot of work was done that afternoon. I can only imagine we were feeling but the merest fraction of what the citizens of the US were feeling on that day.
As I learned more about the events unfolding in Israel on 7th Oct I had much the same response. Numb, sick, and filled with dread. This could well be a kind of 9/11 moment for Israel.
I don’t understand the history or the politics of the region well enough to make out who’s the real “bad guy” in the conflict’s history. I don’t think either side has exactly covered themselves in glory over the years to be honest, but the actions of Hamas on 7th Oct do not, and cannot, have any kind of moral justification.
Who knows what actually goes on in the “minds” of people who can do such unspeakable evil, but I suspect Hamas’ main goal here is to provoke Israel into a massive reprisal. I think they will get their wish. If this is indeed their goal then they’re using the Palestinian people as a kind of sacrifice to make Israel look bad, because many more innocent lives will be lost when Israel stirs into action. I fear it will be overwhelming, brutal, and bloody.
The actions of Hamas ought to be condemned. Without question. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the last 75 years or so, there is nothing that justifies what Hamas did in any way whatsoever.
But what we’ve had is the sickening spectacle, as if the actions of Hamas weren’t sickening enough, of the ‘progressive’ types appearing to celebrate the evil perpetrated by Hamas.
This I cannot fathom, or reconcile within any recognizable moral framework. What kind of morals do these people have?
Some people have said things along the lines of the following :
“What did you think decolonization was about? Just words and protest?”
They have described the actions of Hamas as “resistance to colonialism”.
If this is “decolonization”, then I want none of it.
Here’s just one such Tweet :
A day of celebration?
Dear God, what kind of human being are you - able to witness the loss of innocent life and to celebrate?
There’s something deeply wrong, and sick, in the minds of people who can celebrate such evil.
You can side with Palestine and paint Israel as terrible oppressors but still be appalled at the actions of Hamas you know. You can still support Palestine and retain some humanity.
For some, it seems, any action is justified and, indeed, celebrated, in the name of fighting oppression and colonialism.
I was sickened by my fellow human beings when they called for the exclusion of the unvaccinated from society, when they called for the withdrawal of medical services from the unvaccinated, and when some even argued for the internment of the unvaccinated in camps, but they’ve upped the ante with the celebration of the loss of innocent life.
No doubt such comments will be buried in a flood of whataboutism but, yes, those things were awful too - none of it justifies the actions of Hamas.
Surely, we ought to be able to condemn the loss of innocent life wherever it occurs?
But one thing’s very clear; if this is decolonization then it’s not something I can support at all, much less celebrate.
It's very simple: people who attack music festivals, slaughter noncombatants, kidnap civilians, rape women, spit on their corpses, and parade them around to cheering crowds back in the hometown...
Those are not the good guys.
Not every conflict *has* good guys. But if you're siding with those guys, you need your head examined.
The hidden hands on the strings of Hamas ....CIA?, MI6?, Rothschilds and similar powers? I do not know who they are, who was involved, but it does seem to have several possible planners.
I'd say 9/11 the real 9/11 (not the hijackers with box cutters and pilots who could hardly fly a single engined plane somehow doing what the Organisation Pilots for 9/11 Truth say was an utterly impossible thing to do, flying the plane into the pentagon, or the group known as Architects and Engineers for truth said happened to building 7 , the 3rd building to collapse at freefall speed into its own footprint on that day) is not as good a comparison as say Pearl Harbour. Pearl Harbour was allowed to happen ( Opporation Octopus) The result was the war expanded as the USA, now with outraged citizens could be easily taken into the global conflict.... resulting in the first Nuclear war against a nation. The killing of 250 innocent music concert goers ...... which is nothing other than wholesale murder, is enough to create outrage on a scale that will allow the Israeli government to commit equal if not greater numbers of murders of innocent civilians. Righteous murder is still murder, and it will create more Righteous calls for more of the same. This could be the start of the 3rd world war and war gives the hidden powers all the excuses they need to finally bring about total global collapse and the solution of a one world government/ currency/ passport (internet and travel) The next few months is going to be very interesting..... will they ramp up the war drums via the media, will the major powers take sides? My bet is the 3rd world war started on saturday.