First, I want to say that in this war between Israel and Hamas, the battles are fought with actual weapons that can kill people and social media messages that distort and frame the debate for whichever side you’re on. I keep trying to encourage people to stay away from social media in this regard, especially because, as far as I can tell, it hasn’t advanced anyone’s cause unless that cause is to enflame and create harm.
What has not been made clear to the throngs of college youth and others who call for Palestinian 'liberation' "from the river to the sea," is that there are two distinct agendas, one receiving far more media play (for decades) than the other. "If it bleeds, it leads," for major respected news outlets (such as the NYT) just as it does for the tawdry tabloids. When was the last time you saw a major article about the many thousands of Israelis and Palestinians working on peace for decades. All non-profits out there with a tin cup and none of the megaphones that are given to the violent ones on both sides of the conflict. "If it bleeds, it leads," and it is indeed bleeding in Israel, Gaza and so many places on this globe. As all roads lead to OIL power for the last 125 years, whatever happens in the Mideast has sucked up all the oxygen in the room.
Two distinct agendas are as follows: In Our Lifetime (spin the letters around and they spell OIL) calls for the annihilation of Israel. It's that simple, no need to even 'read between the lines.' The second option has no central organization with slogans, or vile university professors more in love with abstract ideological tropes than with actual humans (that "Zionist Entity" stuff assigned even to Israeli infants is dehumanizing and disgusting), or massive numbers of college students who depend more on social media binary codes than on verified, peer-reviewed findings of fact and history.
That other option is (drum roll please): to FINALLY give voice and press to the myriad Jewish-Arab peace organizations working tirelessly even through this time of horror. Option #1 is impossible to consider. ANY attempt to annihilate Israel will result in mutual mass murder while those who cheer on the elimination of Israel yell and scream many thousands of miles away in safety where every 'micro-aggression' is made to be a federal case. These 'kids' and their murder-promoting professors ought to take their show on the road and go to Gaza to take part in the glorious Hitlerian outcome they pursue.
I wonder how many such young women, men and gay volunteers will still be Hamas cheerleaders when they see what this death cult looks like up close. As Hamas routinely sacrifices their own people (admittedly so) to the cause of 'liberation,' that is, elimination of any Jewish foot (or baby's head) on Islamic soil (read the charter), do they expect that Hamas won't also sacrifice them so they can blame it all on Israel? ONLY OPTION #2 allows for the continuance of life in the region.
FREE PALESTINE...FROM HAMAS and support all peace organizations seeking a solution that does not call for mutual mass murder. Should be simple, no? Yes, ceasefire now...with an international peace force to provide for and protect Gazans from the Hamas obsession that gets them killed. Hamas alone cannot be trusted to respect a ceasefire. They never have, always blaming errant rockets on Islamic Jihad. Hamas actually cannot control Islamic Jihad, even when it wishes to respect a ceasefire...for a while.
Where are you reading about Israeli Settlers in the West Bank killing Palestinians? I have not seen nor heard any credible reports of such acts. Please quote a reliable source, or please apologize for being MOTZEI SHEM RAH on Klal Yisroel. Thank you.
What has not been made clear to the throngs of college youth and others who call for Palestinian 'liberation' "from the river to the sea," is that there are two distinct agendas, one receiving far more media play (for decades) than the other. "If it bleeds, it leads," for major respected news outlets (such as the NYT) just as it does for the tawdry tabloids. When was the last time you saw a major article about the many thousands of Israelis and Palestinians working on peace for decades. All non-profits out there with a tin cup and none of the megaphones that are given to the violent ones on both sides of the conflict. "If it bleeds, it leads," and it is indeed bleeding in Israel, Gaza and so many places on this globe. As all roads lead to OIL power for the last 125 years, whatever happens in the Mideast has sucked up all the oxygen in the room.
Two distinct agendas are as follows: In Our Lifetime (spin the letters around and they spell OIL) calls for the annihilation of Israel. It's that simple, no need to even 'read between the lines.' The second option has no central organization with slogans, or vile university professors more in love with abstract ideological tropes than with actual humans (that "Zionist Entity" stuff assigned even to Israeli infants is dehumanizing and disgusting), or massive numbers of college students who depend more on social media binary codes than on verified, peer-reviewed findings of fact and history.
That other option is (drum roll please): to FINALLY give voice and press to the myriad Jewish-Arab peace organizations working tirelessly even through this time of horror. Option #1 is impossible to consider. ANY attempt to annihilate Israel will result in mutual mass murder while those who cheer on the elimination of Israel yell and scream many thousands of miles away in safety where every 'micro-aggression' is made to be a federal case. These 'kids' and their murder-promoting professors ought to take their show on the road and go to Gaza to take part in the glorious Hitlerian outcome they pursue.
I wonder how many such young women, men and gay volunteers will still be Hamas cheerleaders when they see what this death cult looks like up close. As Hamas routinely sacrifices their own people (admittedly so) to the cause of 'liberation,' that is, elimination of any Jewish foot (or baby's head) on Islamic soil (read the charter), do they expect that Hamas won't also sacrifice them so they can blame it all on Israel? ONLY OPTION #2 allows for the continuance of life in the region.
FREE PALESTINE...FROM HAMAS and support all peace organizations seeking a solution that does not call for mutual mass murder. Should be simple, no? Yes, ceasefire now...with an international peace force to provide for and protect Gazans from the Hamas obsession that gets them killed. Hamas alone cannot be trusted to respect a ceasefire. They never have, always blaming errant rockets on Islamic Jihad. Hamas actually cannot control Islamic Jihad, even when it wishes to respect a ceasefire...for a while.
Where are you reading about Israeli Settlers in the West Bank killing Palestinians? I have not seen nor heard any credible reports of such acts. Please quote a reliable source, or please apologize for being MOTZEI SHEM RAH on Klal Yisroel. Thank you.
Hi Herman. Haaretz regularly covers this and it has been tracked in a very detailed manner by Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights watchdog, among others