Three weeks of Israeli terror caused about 1400 deaths, over 5500 injured (many seriously), vast destruction throughout Gaza, and Physicians for Human Rights warning that large numbers of wounded may die because hospitals are overloaded and lack basic supplies. Yet Palestinians endure. Their spirit is unbowed and unbroken. Hamas is more popular than ever, and world outrage sustains them. FULL ARTICLE
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“All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche
First of all as I have commented on earlier postings from this author as well as others as I see alot of Isreal bashing, which to some folks could have the smakings of anti-semitism…I am Not saying it does. And yes each of us here has the right to “potificate’ all we desire if i understand this web sites policies correctly. With that said let me go on record to say the following:
1. While i am college educated, i did not study or read or took up the philosophies of many or any of those you here write or name…never heard of many of them. Just because anyone who reads or posts responces here isn’t able to quote from those who ever…doesn’t mean they can’t see or smell when something is not right or balanced in a larger world view context.
2. i have challenged several of those who have posted what i see, understand and feel are “anti Isreal” articles to also post and publish the names of groups or person’s from any and all of the Arab nations, who have all but killed themselves protesting at the UN or at the world court with proof that for and say the last 3 years, those persons and Arab league nations have or did spend millons repeatedly on getting food, clothing, material and medical supplies to the peoples of the west bank,Gaza. and No one here seems to either know, understand or refuses to answer my or others who ask such questions and I see that as not being “accountable” for giving Both sides of the issue fair & equal air time.
3. While i am new politically speaking to what being a “populist” is all about, doesn’t mean i am so politically inept, that i don’t know or understand when we, the people are getting screwed and screwed over. i am nothng more than a 60 year old wasp, who was blessed enough to get a decent education to be able to do his chosen profession. My education did not include the ability to be able to stand up in front of political scholars who are there to debate wether, the dicotomy of free speech as understood by Ben Franlin is just as relivant today as it was in Franklin’s time. I a 60 year old WASP, who is from the streets…if you are going to talk to me or anyone else like me, then please keep it simple, to the point ( which I too need to work on by the way) But i forgot, that even here that too may,could or would be seen as being “narrow’ minded.
So in conclution…I ask again respectfully of the author to please post/publish the names of the Arabs states and nations who are pulling their hair & beards out trying to get the seemingly disposable “palistinian” peoples what they need. As it is my understanding that the “officals ” of Hamas do not and have not lived there for many many years. So Hamas, where is the victory ? Having local area leaders handing out a few euros in front of the liberal world press just isn’t good enough for the residence of gaza or “palistine” . but i’m an old guy, what do i know ?
Hi Steve,
Another good article, as far as I am concerned. I don’t understand why everyone forgets that oppressed peoples fight back. The more hopeless the cause, the harder they fight.
If Israel would truly remember the Warsaw ghetto, they wold realize they are barking up the wrong tree. A handful of young Jews, using any weapon they could improvise or steal, held the Wehrmacht off for quite a while, until they finally sent in overwhelming force which killed most of them off. The rest were sent to the death camps.
I fear that the lesson Israel learned was the Nazi lesson. If you can kill enough of them, and use overwhelming force, eventually there won’t be enough left to cause you any problem.
In Nazi occupied territories, resistance groups continued to fight, despite massacres, torture, starvation, etc., until the Axis finally fell.
Israel has been dealing out wholesale death for six decades, yet the peoples who have been attacked and brutalized still fight back, even though it may be knife against rocket armed drone.
Think for a moment what three billion per year in humanitarian aid could do. If we have to give our life blood to Israel, why not put strings on it that that aide must be used to mend fences, build schools, mosques, synagogues, hospitals, power grids, refurbish ports. Set up international universities.
Sadly, I don’t see that happening. Instead of scholars meeting, I see that three billions going as it always seems to, to more surveillance, more “smart” weapons, more repression, walls, starvation.
When a people has hope, it will be less likely to fight. For the ones with no hope, no job, no chance to securely house their family, perhaps much of their family already killed, there is little to keep him from strapping on a gelignite vest and taking a few with him.
Steve Osborn, some very good points here. People will fightback when oppressed. We should know that from history. But maybe, sometimes, these countries at war want just that. Like Orwell said (I think!), the objective for war is not to win, but to keep fighting. Sometimes that goes for all sides of a conflict too.
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