Posted on 03/22/2024 7:26:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Among the heart-breaking scenes from the Middle-East are video reports showing civilian casualties of the current war. In the West, we cringe at those images, especially the ones showing small children — dead, grievously wounded, or orphaned.
In Gaza, there seems to be little reciprocity of sympathy. Newsmax reports that more than seventy percent of Gazans approve of the October 7 attack on Israel, in which more than 1,200 Israelis were killed, many by unspeakable torture. More than eighty percent deny that the atrocities were committed, even after watching the videos sadistically, and boastfully, recorded by the terrorists themselves. This reminds us of the self-contradiction that might be stated as “We did not commit the crimes, and we are glad that we did.”
This is a case of not cognitive dissonance, but rather moral depravity. It is lethal hypocrisy. In seeking to justify acts of evil, the evildoers soon discover that neither have they justification for them, nor do they need it.
Antisemites declare that every Jew should be killed. The rest of us do not have that same genocidal fervor toward Palestinians. While antisemites insist that there are no innocent Jews, sane people recognize that some Palestinians are indeed innocent of terrorism. I recall a news item from years ago in which a Palestinian immigrant to the U.S. explained his reason for leaving his homeland: the people there are crazy, he said, and worse, they demand that all Palestinians join with them in their insanity. We do not want that for our children. We want them to live.
Unfortunately, the crazies in Gaza are in the majority. There is no limit to their depravity. Even as Hamas’s policies impoverish the Palestinians, and worse, result in making rubble of their homes, and result in the deaths of their children
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I’d like to see as few as possible.
Unfortunately the same can probably be said about those Israeli hostages.
“About those innocent Palestinian civilians: There may be fewer than you think.”
This has been PROVEN every time Israel defends itself. The media doesn’t care, as that is not how they operate.
RE: Unfortunately the same can probably be said about those Israeli hostages.
Can you please elaborate.
“About those innocent Palestinian civilians: There may be fewer than you think.”
That’s too many.
My fear is after all this time that most if not all of the remaining hostages are now dead.
You mean the 99% Muslim Palestinians who for years have and still support Hamas...
I'd like that number to be as close to zero as possible. Add Biden and his lunatic cabal to their number. His trying to force Bibi's hand has me BOILING mad. How dare he dictate to a sovereign country and ally that they should allow an enemy to rearm and resupply? Let's throw him into a live volcano and see how good a swimmer he is.
There are none. I still recall seeing the video of random crowds on street outside a hospital cheering has Palestinian HAMAS rockets flew over on their way to Israel.
Only infants. Turn them over to orphanages so parents cannot corrupt.
Treat all the rest as Rome treated Carthage.
The punchline in this madness:
Antisemites declare that every Jew should be killed. The rest of us do not have that same genocidal fervor toward Palestinians. While antisemites insist that there are no innocent Jews, sane people recognize that some Palestinians are indeed innocent of terrorism.
RE: While antisemites insist that there are no innocent Jews, sane people recognize that some Palestinians are indeed innocent of terrorism.
Challenge: How do you identify these “innocents” and how do you fight a war that prevents them from being casualties when Hamas HIDES behind them while shooting back at you?
that is the only reason ham ass allowed these people to exit amongst them... whatever innocents they may be... to ham ass they are nothing but valuable human shields.
same with the wives, women and children who they hide behind or sick old folks at the hospital... who are human shields while they live and breathe... and propaganda live actors when they are killed intentionally by the combat methodology of their Islamist, jew hating husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons.
The same innocent human garbage that cheered 9/11? Burn every last POS.
Even the children are trained psychopaths. They would need serious psychological intervention and a new environment to have a chance at not being monsters.
They (ordinary Gazans) were dancing in the streets and sharing in the abuse and torture of kidnapped hostages when they were brought back by their men the day of the attacks. The militants let people freely approach and mix with them as they returned with prisoners, because they knew the public was fully supportive of them. And now they pretend that it didn’t happen and they weren’t cheering it on and participating?
There are always innocent victims in war. They exist in Ukraine and Iraq and Israel including Gaza. Innocent victims are a result of allowing an evil government to exist. There is an evil government in Gaza, its called Hamas. And it is fueled by other larger evil governments in the Middle East.
Israel is not the government of Gaza. Israel is like a big brother trying to hold the hands of a crazy little brother who just wants to kill someone. Hamas has no problem killing innocents. Not as a casualty of war. But more as a marketing strategy. On October 7th Hamas did not try to take any military advantage. They did not try to kill soldiers. They did not try to disable tanks or planes. They did not even try to take territory. There was no military reason for October 7th. The strategy was to kill as many innocents as possible. That was it.
Candice Owens does not understand the middle East. She does not understand Israel. She just reads the news which is very biased both ways. The news tells you about the extremes from both sides. And it avoids any information about the huge middle. There are millions of Palestinians living productive fruitful lives in Israel side by side with Jews and other ethnic people. And there are Jews in Israel who advocate for Palestinians, even protesting their own government on the streets of Jerusalem.
Gaza voted in Hamas once. And then elections stopped. Hamas is why Gaza is a slum. Gaza gets plenty of aid money. The money does not get to the people. The slums of Gaza are not like the slums of New York or the Slums of Calcutta. Gaza has its own government. They can do what they want if not for Hamas. The strong arm of Israel stops at the wall that surrounds Gaza. Gaza is a city state that runs itself. And only when it threatens Israel does Israel’s IDF get involved.
October 7th was a money making venture. Hamas was slowly loosing mind space in their benefactors priorities. The money they were getting from the world and the Muslim brotherhood of nations was shrinking. So they lashed out at Israel to get themselves in the news cycle. Russia was complicate as it keeps America occupied and the middle East in Russia’s orbit. Iraq, and a few Sunni countries no doubt were also complicate as well. A simple attack that costs less than a million dollars has now cost America and Israel tens of billions. And no doubt Hamas is being rewarded with billions worth of aid, even from America.
If Candice Owens wants to know what is wrong with her arguements, she can go to Israel right now. And spend 5 days in Acre, a mostly Palistinian city, and 5 days in Jerusalem a moslty Jewish city with a very large Muslim population, as I did a few weeks before October 7th. Then spend ten days each in Libia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Candice will notice that Israel is the most inclusive, best run, freest and safest of all the Arab Mediterranean countries. Women and most relegions flurish there. But a very strong force lurks in plain sight securing the peace and freedoms. Might makes right is the law of the land in every country. But its most evident and most required in Arab countries. Candice does not understand this. She just understands that Israel is stronger than Gaza.
Ben Shapiro is also wrong. He says any criticism of Israel is antisemitic. It’s not. Criticism of Israel is valid just as criticism of America is valid. It may not be correct. But the right to criticism is valid. And Jews in Israel often criticize their own government, sometimes even siding with Palestinians.
Ben is a smart guy. But he and his kind are outrageously stupid as well. When it comes to public opinion Ben would have a hard time being accepted into a remedial class. He keeps saying antisemitic over and over again. But Palestinians and Germans are two different situations. They are two very different peoples. Israel is very different than the Jews of Germany. Israel is not the victim here even when they are the victim. The people with the fire power don’t get to play the race card. People around the world do not understand the situation in Israel. They do not understand that most Palestinians are living peacefully within Israel. They don’t understand the funding Gaza gets. They don’t understand the corruption of Hamas.
Ben should get a little introspective. He should ask himself why such an obvious atrocity against Israel is being interrupted as a genocide by Israel. Why doesn’t Ben’s antisemitic card work anymore. How has his big brain and Harvard education failed him. Ben and Israel have made terrorists look like the sympathetic good guys. How stupid is that. Ben had better figure out a better way to tell the Israel story. Yelling antisemitism and hiding under America’s skirts is not cutting it. In the court of public opinion Israel is losing a battle they should easily win. Candice Owens is not the problem. She is a symptom of Ben’s inabilities to defend Israel to the world.
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