It’s very difficult to know what to say anymore! There have been many demonstrations to end the indiscriminate killing - nothing happens!! What will it take? Netanyahu has been declared a war criminal. Still nothing is done to stop him. He and his government are openly trying to kill as many Palestinians as possible and still nothing is done to stop him.
I've long been critical of the clear decades-long maltreatment (to put it mildly) of the region’s general Palestinian populace by the Israeli government and security/defense agencies — and, with few exceptions, the Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it.
By doing so, that media, whether they realize it or not, have done a disservice to its own reputation and even that of the general Israeli/Jewish populace itself (the road to hell, after all, is also paved with good intentions). Also, not widely publicized or criticized are the considerable fossil fuel reserves beneath long-held Palestinian land that are a plausible motivator for war.
Nevertheless, I was pleasantly surprised at reading the cutline below the large photo accompanying a June 26 story (headlined “UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide”) posted on the Middle East Monitor’s website:
“A young Charedi Orthodox Jew holds a placard during the demonstration. Orthodox Charedi Jews joined many thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors outside Downing Street accusing Israel and Zionists of genocide in Gaza.”
Seeing those beautiful people and their vocal humanity-first convictions were/are to me encouraging. Apparently applying a stereotype that Orthodox Jews would be the last to demonstrate with pro-Palestinian protestors and seemingly support their cause, I must admit I had negatively prejudged them.
It must be difficult for decent Jews/Semites with such a strong conscience when they publicly denounce Israel’s atrocities and are then denounced and referred to as “self-hating” by the extreme-Zionism powers, likely in large part to try shaming them into self-censoring.
Also, I read that there’s been an increase in the rate of suicide among younger or teenaged Jews/Semites since 10/7. I find it hard not to feel for them. They didn’t ask for what happened and especially the horrors currently happening. (This bothers me, even though I have neither Jewish/Semitic or Palestinian/Arabic heritage.)
Further concerning about all of the highly publicized two-way partisan exchanges of verbal fury, in particular via social media, is: What will young non-Israeli Jewish, and Palestinian, children living abroad think and feel if/when they hear such misdirected vile hatred towards their fundamental identity? Scary is the real possibility that such public outpour of blind hatred may lead some young children to feel very misplaced shame in their heritage.
Particularly with Netanyahoo’s IDF, on a mindbogglingly massive scale human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s even easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, or even systematic starvation, one can feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
All lives and needless suffering should matter to us all; however, that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform. And, although Israel's use of systematic starvation as a means of war and ethnic cleansing against innocent non-combatants, especially children, may occasionally be internationally 'condemned' as ‘intolerable’, the atrocities will ultimately be tolerated, if not implicitly encouraged, by those nations with any ability to hinder the Israeli state's crimes against humanity.
Ergo, such condemnations — which are relatively few when considering the seriousness and scope of the atrocities committed — are but paper tigers, if not simply the cruelest frauds.
It’s very difficult to know what to say anymore! There have been many demonstrations to end the indiscriminate killing - nothing happens!! What will it take? Netanyahu has been declared a war criminal. Still nothing is done to stop him. He and his government are openly trying to kill as many Palestinians as possible and still nothing is done to stop him.
I've long been critical of the clear decades-long maltreatment (to put it mildly) of the region’s general Palestinian populace by the Israeli government and security/defense agencies — and, with few exceptions, the Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it.
By doing so, that media, whether they realize it or not, have done a disservice to its own reputation and even that of the general Israeli/Jewish populace itself (the road to hell, after all, is also paved with good intentions). Also, not widely publicized or criticized are the considerable fossil fuel reserves beneath long-held Palestinian land that are a plausible motivator for war.
Nevertheless, I was pleasantly surprised at reading the cutline below the large photo accompanying a June 26 story (headlined “UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide”) posted on the Middle East Monitor’s website:
“A young Charedi Orthodox Jew holds a placard during the demonstration. Orthodox Charedi Jews joined many thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors outside Downing Street accusing Israel and Zionists of genocide in Gaza.”
Source: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/nasim/uks-largest-jewish-group-punishes-members-who-broke-silence-on-gaza-genocide/
Seeing those beautiful people and their vocal humanity-first convictions were/are to me encouraging. Apparently applying a stereotype that Orthodox Jews would be the last to demonstrate with pro-Palestinian protestors and seemingly support their cause, I must admit I had negatively prejudged them.
It must be difficult for decent Jews/Semites with such a strong conscience when they publicly denounce Israel’s atrocities and are then denounced and referred to as “self-hating” by the extreme-Zionism powers, likely in large part to try shaming them into self-censoring.
Also, I read that there’s been an increase in the rate of suicide among younger or teenaged Jews/Semites since 10/7. I find it hard not to feel for them. They didn’t ask for what happened and especially the horrors currently happening. (This bothers me, even though I have neither Jewish/Semitic or Palestinian/Arabic heritage.)
Further concerning about all of the highly publicized two-way partisan exchanges of verbal fury, in particular via social media, is: What will young non-Israeli Jewish, and Palestinian, children living abroad think and feel if/when they hear such misdirected vile hatred towards their fundamental identity? Scary is the real possibility that such public outpour of blind hatred may lead some young children to feel very misplaced shame in their heritage.
god... my heart aches. it's very difficult even to know what to say anymore.
may those souls rest in peace 🇵🇸
The deliberate targeting of the brightest Gazans is how the Israeli garbage enjoy their miserable
evil lives. It is another nail in Nazi Israels coffin, never ever give in.
Particularly with Netanyahoo’s IDF, on a mindbogglingly massive scale human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s even easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, or even systematic starvation, one can feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
All lives and needless suffering should matter to us all; however, that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform. And, although Israel's use of systematic starvation as a means of war and ethnic cleansing against innocent non-combatants, especially children, may occasionally be internationally 'condemned' as ‘intolerable’, the atrocities will ultimately be tolerated, if not implicitly encouraged, by those nations with any ability to hinder the Israeli state's crimes against humanity.
Ergo, such condemnations — which are relatively few when considering the seriousness and scope of the atrocities committed — are but paper tigers, if not simply the cruelest frauds.