I don’t disagree at all, especially with your statement “The number of civilians in Gaza who are not active supporters of the intended New Holocaust is miniscule.”
One of the most revealing books about this mindset in the Middle East is “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” by Brigitte Gabriel.
She is a remarkable woman. She gave a talk at a Portuguese Club in my home town, an extremely small venue with probably 50 people, and even there, she had a great big armed body guard who stood an arms length away from her the entire time.
There is no doubt they would love someone to murder her. No doubt. She is stylish, good looking, extremely outspoken, and knows them intimately. Which they hate.
Her book “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” is impactful, and a great read if you haven’t read it. It is remarkable that, as a Maronite Christian, she was fully immersed in the venomous hate of Jews and Israel that the Lebanese population she lived in...including the Christians indoctrinated everyone in.
She was a Christian, and had all of those terrible slanders indoctrinated in her as a young girl leading up to the 1975 civil war in Lebanon. The believed them, and was terrified of the Israelis.
She lived as a young girl with her parents in a bombed out wreck of a cellar for seven years when her mother was severely injured by a muslim artillery shell. Her only recourse was to take her mother over the border to Israel for help...the bloodthirsty, evil Jew Israelis that she hated.
What she found was people who took her in, cared for her mother, gave her food and clothes, and treated her as well as they treated each other. She was astonished to find that everything she had heard about them were lies.
It is quite a story. So, she understands them all too well.
So your statement is, I think spot on. Sadly.
What happened last month tells us that “Never Again” has been overridden by “Death to The Jews” and there seems to be a lot of people in this world who are just fine with that.
I have never understood anti-semitism. I just do not get it. All I can guess is that weak-minded people are susceptible to it.
I have not read the book but I have read an extensive discussion of it and of the memoirs of some others. I lived in Istanbul for my primary school years and though When I was there I was but a bairn, as I grew older I studied much about Turkiye and Ataturk and the Ottomans and, of course, the Armenian and Greek massacres. I remember well the anti Greek riots of the mid fifties and the departing of the last of the Greek merchants in Istanbul. I have as part of my interest in things Turkish read Turkish and Saudi translations of the Koran. I reached the conclusion by the time I was in college that there is no making peace with Moslems no matter how westernized they have become. There will be no peace in countries that allow them to immigrate once they reach a significant ratio in the population, say 9 or 10% which is inevitable once there are communities of Moslems. They outbreed host populations by 3 or 4 to one.
When societies begin to unravel the people look increasingly desperately for a scapegoat and the Jews are the traditional one. They and the Han Chinese are higher IQ on average than the rest of us and unlike the Chinese the Jews are innovative and the upper reaches of industry and finance tends# to have a larger proportion of Jews than other ethnicities, thus all sorts nefarious activities are imputed to them by people whose livelihoods and sureties are slipping away in developing chaos.
book:
https://www.amazon.com/Live-Fight-Survive-Shaun-Pinner/dp/0241668077
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PS Brigitte Gabriel bttt