{barf alert} The double standard with Israel and Palestine leaves us in moral darkness

The Guardian ^ | 11th October 2023 | Mousdtafa Bayoumi

[Cronos]

The reflexive identification with Israel, by both US media professionals and politicians, always obscures the fuller picture of what’s happening between Israel and the Palestinians. On 7October, the National SecurityCouncil spokesperson Adrienne Watson stated that the US “unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians”. Every one of us must stand up and denounce the killing of every civilian, Israeli or Palestinian or otherwise. But Watson’s use of the word “unprovoked” is doing a lot of work here....

What exactly counts as a provocation? Not, apparently, the large number of settlers, more than 800 by one media account, who stormed al-Aqsa mosque on 5 October. Not the 248 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 4 October of this year. Not the denial of Palestinian human rights and national aspirations for decades. One can, in fact must, see such actions as provocations without endorsing further murderous violence against civilians. But if you watched only USnews, you would be likely to presume that Palestinians always act while Israel only reacts. You might even think that Palestinians are the ones colonizing the land of Israel, no less. And you probably believe that Israel, which holds ultimate control over the lives of 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and yet denies them the right to vote in Israeli elections, is a democracy.

.... We are very likely entering another long and painful era where armed struggle and violent domination become increasingly and mutually dependent on each other for survival. Yet neither can win. The Palestinians will remain. They cannot be eliminated. Israel too will continue to exist. The future is full of unnecessary and horrific bloodshed all around. Desperate western attachment to morally bankrupt double standards bears a large portion of the blame.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

What exactly counts as a provocation? Not, apparently, the large number of settlers, more than 800 by one media account, who stormed al-Aqsa mosque on 5 October. Not the 248 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 4 October of this year

Smug and snug in his enclave in our country, this muzzie scumbag neglects to address the tiresome reasons for those numbers of killed and injured as it's ALWAYS the result of Israelis necessary ventures into their ghettos to weed out Hamas cockroaches - even as they suffer the idiot youth throwing rocks. Most are injured back by the rubber bullets shot back. Expel these pedantic azzholes from our country and universities and regard them as the autistic butchers they are. Even the peace loving Muslims have no business to be in this country - even if most are simply apostate phonies. The fight will be within our so called borders soon, but for now, I pray Isreal creates new beachfront property.

[hanamizu]

Not, apparently, the large number of settlers, more than 800 by one media account, who stormed al-Aqsa mosque on 5 October

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Yes, the spokesthing for Hamas made reference to this as a justification for the slaughter. Was the mosque damaged by the storming or was it ‘defiled’ by the mere presence of Jews near or in it?

Yes the condemnation of the beheading of babies is a ‘double standard’.
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[Verginius Rufus]

He forgot to mention the Israelites’ massacre of the Amalekites.

[daniel1212]

. But Watson’s use of the word “unprovoked” is doing a lot of work here.... What exactly counts as a provocation? Not, apparently, the large number of settlers, more than 800 by one media account, who stormed al-Aqsa mosque on 5 October. Not the 248 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 4 October of this year. Not the denial of Palestinian human rights and national aspirations for decades.

Not the attacks by Muslims like Hamas breeds against Jews from 1948 to now.