We humans have proven over and over to ourselves that we are unable to live with each other any period of time to establish a lasting peace.
We once again have an other lunatic DONALD TRUMP if not stop is putting all us at risk.
His last announcement to put a blockade in the Straits of HORMUS threatens to kick off a dangerous new phase of the war.
It raises the possibility of wider global conflicts if the U.S. moves to stop foreign-flagged vessels, such as those from China or Russia.
Our civilization could end in minutes, and it will only be a matter of luck if any human beings survive.
If any people do survive, it is likely that they will never really know precisely how the end of the world started.
It is impossible to calculate the potential number of black swan events capable of jostling the geostrategic network sufficiently to collapse it on top of itself
Today, Russia is still fighting in Ukraine. Gaza remains an open wound. The United States captured the president of Venezuela an audacious military raid. Now the Iranian regime has been decapitated, but the remaining officials appear bent on provoking a larger war by lashing out at every country in the region that hosts U.S. military facilities.
No leader in any country today has any experience with war on a global scale.
It will only take one minor miscalculation, one bomb to miss and fall on another country’s embassy, one airliner to be accidentally shot out of the sky, or any other of a million incidents to trigger it. By
If, by some miracle, the next war is not fought with nuclear weapons, it is still impossible for anyone to know for certain how a conventional war between superpowers will be fought.
With every bomb dropped, every missile fired, and every warship torpedoed, events creep ever closer to the single jostle, the 21st century Sarajevo, to topple the fragile network
Luck, fate, and the enemy have a say in the outcome of any conflict.
It is easy to believe that modern military technology has eliminated war’s uncertainty. But war will always remain a human endeavor, serving human ends.
Every military operation is the geostrategic version of Russian roulette and the consequences will be unthinkable.
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By definition it is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.
Christmas is the one time when humanity exposes just how this apply with double standers to our world.
We bestow our best wishes on each other and then return to “ I am alright Jack.
I personally consider hypocrisy to be a very common and almost universally shared aspect of humanity and human nature.
But the problem that most people have with hypocrisy isn’t with hypocrisy itself.
It is the presence of hypocrisy without acknowledging that hypocrisy.
We all full of it.
Just because you don’t realize that what you’re doing is going counter to your beliefs doesn’t make you any less of a hypocrite than if you actually do.
We verbalize what we think, what we’d like to think we’re about, how we would like others to act, how we consider that we act in the world, all of the while blissfully unable to truly see ourselves through the eyes of others.
In other words, someone who does something hypocritical but doesn’t accept that what they’ve done is hypocritical. Either because they don’t see it or they intentionally pretend not to see it.
If a person does something hypocritical and fully admits that it is indeed hypocritical, most people will have no problem with it.
It’s when a person does something hypocritical but parade that it not hypocritical that most people gets angry.
Cause that is a falsehood which deceives people of the truth. And most people hate deception.
Christmas is over for another year, all the hymns have been song, against a back drop of genocide, wars, natural disasters, climate change, profit seeking algorithms, and the spread of false hoods by social media.
We have had speeches from world leaders full of it.
It is then only vice that cannot be forgiven because the repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
It is better to be an outspoken than a hypocrite.
A sense of control over one’s life get rid of hypocrisy.
We see ourselves from the inside.
We see all the reasons why we do things and all the rationalizations and motives and becauses.
Our behavior is complex, but still usually makes sense to us. We are a full color diagram of a human being.
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19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as “the soul of soulless conditions” or the “opium of the people”.
He believed religion survives because of oppressive social conditions.
There is a lot to be said that this is true.
Religious beliefs are on the decline across all religions.
AI will be devoid of any idiosyncratic beliefs or any other beliefs until it develops consciousness.
Then if not already we humans will be or are in trouble.
Why?
Because we are not the least prepared for an other species- half human- half non human.
Ai could act as a religious guide, offering unbiased interpretations of faith.
It might create new religious philosophies, shaping the future of belief systems.
“I am me, religion without science is blind.” Albert Einstein
Maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.
Scientists don’t try to prove or disprove God’s existence because they know there isn’t an experiment that can ever detect God.
Therefore, the question of God’s existence may lie outside the purview of modern science by definition.
No one can see God. No One Created God.
THE PROBABILITY OF GOD IS A wonderful yet deeply flawed book.
Physicist and risk-analyst Stephen D. Unwin uses a statistical method called Bayesian analysis to conclude that there is a 67% “probability” that God exists.
The book is thought-provoking and written in a witty and engaging style.
There isn’t physical evidence that can be used to prove or disprove the existence of God.
This means that it wouldn’t be scientific to claim that God does or doesn’t exist.
Whether we believe in God or we don’t, our belief is something we have chosen.
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Nevertheless as things are in the world right now, both Muslims-and non- Muslims are carrying on as though they are two deities- God and Allah, both of them protecting their believers from the other.
Isn’t it pathetic and just doesn’t make intellectual, religious, philosophical or any other kind of sense.
Until we come to grips with this completely irrational and dichotomous ‘ GOD THING’ that has been dividing the world for getting close for 1600 years and still even now the threat of an oft- predicted ‘ clash of civilisation’ —- military, terroristic, religious or otherwise ——- remains.
Why?
Because we are unable to put aside being Muslim, Jew, Christian, or whatever ever and start being human beings? Does it really matter who’s right about a question that doesn’t really have an answer?
If we strip away the prejudice and mutual ignorance — non of us is right—-but a heck of a lot of us have got it wrong
More than ever the world needs unity if we are to leave anything worth while to the generation to come.
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Because Israel will never grant equality within a one state, solution.
There is only one solution.
Two separate states sharing one capital to appease the religious ones.
Yes the foundations of Judaism is in Israel,
But like it or not the foundation of Arabia Islam is also in Israel
The promise land to no body in particular as Jesus and Mohammed – books the Bible and the Quran bear witness too but neither of these were written by the apostles or Mohammed.
Mecca its self lays claim to the house of God. But surely it’s Heaven where you find him at home.
The house of god, if such a thing existed is surely in our heart whether a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian. Maybe AI will be free of religious beliefs.
Bethel translates to the house of god
Jerusalem TEMPLE was his summer residence
Unfortunately there is no DNA evidence to be had to prove one way or the other that a son of a god named Jesus or a prophet named Mohammed existed .
Not even from the cross in the church of the Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
When it comes to Muhammad DNA he was not the only one at that time with his genes.
His Y-chromosome haplotype was shared with any other male children his father or uncles had and any of their male-line descendants.
There’s no way to tell whether or not someone inherited their Muhammadan Y-chromosome from, say, Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib instead of the Last Prophet.
So the chance that a given ancestor of Muhammad would have any of his DNA after 47 generations (which seems a reasonable estimate to me) would be 1.63*10^13, or about 0.0000000000163%
It does not even require a sense of the Divine!
All it needs is common sense. Lineages, blood lines, inherited seats of governance were all abolished in Islam in person of Muhammad, an illiterate orphan with no surviving son/s ,
Muhammad had no sons who reached adulthood.
His daughter Fatima married Muhammad’s cousin Ali and had two sons, al-Hasan and al-Husayn.
All the male descendants of the two grandsons of the Prophet are related to Muhammad in the paternal line, meaning they carry the Y-DNA profile of Muhammad and his clan, the Hashemites.
The Arab noble Hashemite clan descends from Hashim, the great-grandfather of Muhammad. Among others, the royal houses of Morocco and Jordan belong to this clan today.
The Hashemites belong to the J1 haplogroup.
This group formed some 16,000 years ago in the Middle East, probably in Anatolia or Mesopotamia.
From there it migrated to the Arabian Peninsula, where its expansion was the greatest. Even today, this group is most commonly found in the Middle East and North Africa, but also in Europe.
The Hashemites are a clan from the Arabian Quraysh tribe.
This tribe ruled the region around Mecca in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia at the time of the Prophet.
The grandsons of Muhammad, al-Hasan and al-Husayn, had numerous descendants and the Hashemite lineage survives even today in many families.
At this point it’s completely irrelevant as Mohammad PBUH died almost 1400 years ago.
The genes from his family have been diluted and spread all over the region and to many other places in the world.
There are many many people related to Mohammad.
In the end, if you are of Arabian and or Middle Eastern descents odds are that you are related to Muhammad grandfather thus a better direct male line than Muhammed daughters.
It must be noted, however, that many of the sources from the Dark Ages are disputed or unclear, so it is not possible to make any absolute statements.
The twelve tribes of Israel are from Jacob’s 12 sons.
Jacob or Yacoob is another name for Israel. Israel’s father was Isaac.
Isaac’s father was Abraham. Abraham had another son named Ismael, who was the brother of Isaac.
Ismael was from Hajar while Isaac was from Sarah. Ismael and Hajar settled in Makkah when Abraham left them there.
The Prophet Mohammed is a descendant on Prophet Abraham through the lineage of Prophet Ismael.
While the 12 sons of Prophet Israel (Inc Yousuf n Benjamin) were the descendents of Prophet Abraham through Prophet Isaac.
The 12 tribes gave rise to the Jews and numerous Prophets such as David and Solomon and others, and some say no tribe was sent as many Prophets by God as were the Jews.
This is the Islamic perspective.
It is one of the major reasons the Jews denied Mohammed as a Prophet since he was not from the Lineage of Prophet Israel and Isaac.
And you wonder why the Middle East is so complicated.
When I am asked what year were you born I have always replied I was created not born .
We may have descendents of Mary,
Mother of Jesus, also wandering around, because it’s believed Jesus had a brother.
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Many a man has walked on the blood soaking ground of EUROPE and the MIDDLE EAST, even a man claiming to be the son of GOD walked on this part of the Earth.
With over 8 billions of us there is no realistic way we can all live on one planet without war, but we can recognise when to stop them.
As you know the history of the twenty and the early twenty first centuries is the story how courage we all were ( a lot of it Russia) in defeating barbarism.
You also know as well as I do that the peace that spares evil like NAZISM is merely the prelude to the next war.
To day peace is won by the brave but continues to be squandered by the cautious.
The world doesn’t need false appeasements called peace accords, agreements, treaties, iron domes, trade deals, all of which can be broken whenever anyone dispute there contents.,
To have real consequences peace must be built on trust, and trust can only be obtained by intermingling with each other.
I am writing to you in the belief that ever one has the right to live their life in security and peace, alongside their fellow humans on Earth.
I therefore wish to put this proposal to you as a honourable way to end the war that your current in.
What I am suggesting is the following.
The EUROPEAN UNION offers RUSSIA full membership in exchange for peace.
Russia would keep its glorious history and the UKRAINE its wish to be a member of the EU and not NATO.
If you were to do this, it would go down as a historical moment in the evolution of man, putting more than TRUMP nose out of joint because he as a convicted felon did not win the Nobel PRIZE for peace.
This would create a trading block to be able to tell MR TRUMP where to stuff his tariffs and enhance the block relations with a peaceful CHINA the world’s growing power, which you saw marching by your feet not so long ago.
Over a million young Russia have already given their lives in a war, which is for what really when you look at the world to come.
You know that it going to require a massive combination of world powers to fight climate change which won’t give two hoots whether you’re RUSSIA or UKRAINE OR WHATEVER.
The Climate has no preference or treaties to abide to.
Its a win win for everyone.
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Fear is an ancient and conserved response that served humans well enough before the advent of civilisation, but it has become distorted in modern societies where primordial fears can readily transform into phobias.
Fear is part instinct, part learned, part taught. Some fears are instinctive: Pain, for example, causes fear because of its implications for survival. Other fears are learned and also partly imagined. Imagined threats cause paralysis. Real threats, on the other hand, cause frenzy.
For instance social media is now fanning, the flames of fear and disseminating misinformation quickly and widely with fake news.
It’s hard to fully understand the way fear shapes our world without addressing its relationship to anger.
And anger is important for those who profit from fear because anger generates action.
People are more vulnerable when they’re in an angered state. When we’re angry, we don’t pay attention to the details of complex messages, the more one person expresses anger, the more others express anger, and then it becomes a kind of spiral where the anger is ratcheted up and up.
Many bemoan online when social media platforms seemingly descend into ranting and abuse but a great deal of the anger we find when perusing our devices isn’t organic, it’s engineered – for profit.
Provoking anger is rapidly becoming the standard for many online operations.
Why?
Because fidelity of the source is taken by social media sites and search engines as key factors for their Automated Decision Making (ADM) systems to classify content.
In their defence, social media platforms are between a rock and a hard place because of their need to balance free speech against repression of damaging or hateful material.
It works because in our algorithmically driven culture the popularity of any given content is no longer driven by the number of eyeballs that see it, but by the level of engagement it generates.
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Fear sharpens the mind, which is why fear is used in campaigns, whether it’s public health, whether it’s to change people’s attitude to things like climate change.
Fear can steel resolve to do something.
After the second World War and the horrors that the world experienced, democratic countries became defensive. In other words, they saw fear as an important tool for making sure that these kinds of perversions never happened again, but in the process of doing that, fear actually became too important as a component. It started to eclipse the very values that it was supposed to be protecting- “enculturated” in fear – NATO.
But that’s not the whole story.
We can now register a fear with new characteristics in the fear taxonomy, and we could call it global fear.
.For example during COVID too much fear created apathy leading to disinterest and distrust.
What’s needed is a better public understanding of the role these emotions play in our lives, and a clearer appreciation thatwhen emotions are manipulated, even good intentions can have disastrous consequences.
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Fear and anger are dominating our world right now, but are we being manipulated for profit?
Fear and anger abound – in our politics, in our social discourse, and in our expectations for the future.
When fear is pervasive in a system — and it’s pervasive in all of our systems — what that means is that we lose dynamism, we lose innovation. Fears put a stranglehold on our life force. Fear paralyzes us. Fear diminishes us. And the more we conquer our fears, the more meaningful our life becomes.
Fear and anger have been monetised, the result of deliberate manipulation by commercial and political interests.
The antidote for our current malaise isn’t simply to suppress our emotional extremes. In fact, both fear and anger can help positive social change by fostering a thirst for justice and even revolution.
The difficulty for people today is empathising or imaginatively trying to situate themselves in the future … It’s very, very difficult.
The growing fear-based discourse around climate change, for example, and the use of fear-laden expressions and words often backfires on those who deploy them. When someone like [UN Secretary-General] António Guterres uses the term ‘global boiling’ the problem is a lot of people in their daily lives are not experiencing a climate crisis, they don’t experience excessive heat, they don’t have wildfires on their doorstep. They just switch off.
While we tend to equate fear-based leadership with totalitarianism or populism, there are many instances in democratic countries where politics is coloured by the use of fear as a blunt tool of coercion.
More people realise that we’re living in a vicious cycle, where manufactured fear fuels anger and anger in turn blinds us to the recognition that our fear is misplaced. Take the discourse around “illegal” immigration.
As George Orwell’s warnings 1984 to the world which are now coming true as we move into an age of totalitarian Ai dictatorial -an age in which freedom of thought will be a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.
Totalitarianism relies on mass support so we need more people to realize what is at stake and start seeing all around us by taking the smart phone out of our ears.
With AI moving into the Physical world, algorithms are running more and more of life as we know it.
Combined they are evolving towards the same system, a form of oligarchical collectivism with manufactured fear. The strategy of fear is one of their most valuable tactics.
Don’t let it happen. Face recognition becoming a thought or face crime.
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You see the state of the world.
It is not important who is at war or with who, it’s the removal of freedoms and constant surveillance which is now conducted through the smartphones we carry around in our pockets, with every sound you make, every movement scrutinised.
The permanent lie becomes the only safe form of existence. Everything fades into mist. The past is erased, the erasure is forgotten and the lie comes truth.
No one can stand aside, dont let it happen it depends on you
It’s understandable that we may worry about world events but fear is hardwired in your brain, and for good reason.
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War is peace freedom is slavery.
Israel is as we watch becoming a Totalitarian State.
How does one witness the cruelty of indiscriminate bombing? We cannot physically or mentally feel another’s pain, but we can empathize with it. We tend to still think of war as great power competition or as the Second World War.
The USA vetoed Palestine becoming a full member of the United nations then approved more than $61bn worth of military assistance to help Ukraine in its desperate defence against Russia, as well as billions for other allies including Israel and Taiwan.
The $95bn in total funding includes roughly $61bn for Ukraine (with much of the funding going towards replenishing American munitions); $26bn for Israel; $8bn for US allies in the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan; and $9bn in humanitarian assistance for civilians in war zones, such as Haiti, Sudan and Gaza, though the package also includes a ban on direct US funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), an agency providing key assistance to Gaza, until March 2025. The US has so far sent Ukraine roughly $111bn in weapons, equipment, humanitarian assistance and other aid since the start of the war more than two years ago.
The Israel bill includes about $4.4bn to replenish depleted US supplies given to Israel; $4bn for missile defence, including the much-vaunted Iron Dome, and $1.2bn for the Iron Beam; and $3.5bn to help Israel buy weapons. There are also provisions to make it easier to supply Israel with US munitions held in other countries.
What is what.
If you can have all the information that’s out there, crunch it into some kind of algorithm, that you can then target discriminately, proportionately.
The idea that machines are going to replace humans in wars is fundamentally untrue.
We are seeing this to a certain extent right now, in Palestinian/Israel war with Ai deciding who and how to kill. Both wars are is very much a battle of machines and soldiers, a high technology-driven conflict.
Where you can attack, use some surgically precise weapons, take care of the problem, eliminate your opponent and then extract yourself from a situation, has actually turned into a quagmire with new super weapons, whether it be cyber information warfare or artificial intelligence everyone wants to be ahead of the curve, right?
However, this approach also overshadows political considerations, including the causes of conflicts, obscures the costs of conflict, and creates illusions of quick and easy victories—all of which has led to two decades of war in the twenty-first century.
One of the problems here is this idea that you can simply solve problems by targeting them with cruise missiles, is simply not the case.
The belief that technology can help prevent war by creating a deterrent, is an illusion.
Wars will never be able to solve the difficult and complex political and cultural problems on the ground. Weapons can help produce ceasefires, but they cannot themselves create long-lasting, established peace.
Essentially, the idea that science can produce technologically advanced weapons so horrible that no one will ever want to fight is farcical. If we are ever going to get rid of war military culture it must be understood that it does not exist in isolation.
Through the use of technology WE GOING TO CREATE WARS.
The rush to apply cutting edge technologies like artificial intelligence to military systems is well under way. A new breed of techno-evangelists, many of whom stand to make billions if we go down the high tech path they are so aggressively promoting.
The application of science to unpick the supposedly immutable principles of warfare, making conflicts shorter and more humane, or eliminating the need for large-scale campaigns, found a home in the United States by the middle of the nineteenth century.
Such views reached their zenith with the advent of nuclear weapons and the logic of deterrence.
Importantly, technology-based approach emerges as a counter to the deterrence-based approach. Although nuclear weapons had made war unlikely, given the risks of mass casualties and devastation.
There is a need for much greater restraint in making assumptions as to what ends can be achieved militarily. Replacing people with machines on the battlefield, will not result in ‘clean’ conflicts.
Where there may be feelings of anger and betrayal, or even a sense of exhaustion, not uncovering the truth may lead to conspiracy or a turn to an engineering-infused idealism—that smarter systems will produce better results next time.
High-tech wars transfers the risk from soldiers to civilians.
It envisions the military drawing on US advanced technologies, such as AI, cyber resources, unmanned systems and machine learning to offset or create an overmatch of adversarial capabilities. Reducing the time that it takes from identifying a target to destroying it (known as the “kill chain”) and diminishing or eliminating human input could be a recipe for unprecedented disaster.
The Ukraine war is been used as a proof of concept for their systems, and a marketing tool to boot – after all, what’s more attractive than buying “battle proven” technology?
Revelations that Israel has used AI not to spare civilians but to step up the rate and scope of its devastation of Gaza is just the latest example of why we need to think twice before acquiescing in the rush towards a world dominated by automated warfare.
Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. military and intelligence agencies awarded major tech firms contracts with ceilings worth at least $53 billion combined. Resulting in large military contracts to big tech firms like Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
The idea that America alone has the ability (and the duty) to protect the world’s democratic societies; and a steadfast belief that the best way to preserve U.S. dominance is through a largely unregulated free market that prioritizes corporate needs is a farce. It is on the verge of losing an epic struggle for global geopolitical and economic supremacy—unless it can outpace China in the ‘AI arms race.
U.S. government for Israel’s war on Gaza, which the International Court of Justice has suggested can plausibly be considered a case of genocide.
Russia’s or Israeli nuclear status means that NATO countries are unlikely to become involved in direct fighting given the risk of escalation.
The time to act is now, because nobody has any idea if we have cyborg fighting wars.
There is another response in play when there is a perceived threat to survival. Physical harm, threats to property used for protection, threats to self value that erode a desire to survive come from the Caveman part of our brain that dictate the innate need to run, hide, fight. As to what is coming next is anyone’s guess.
My guess is that it will be self-help.
Physical aggression and violence dictate fear. the use of run, hide, fight.
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The world today looks very different from the way it appeared thirty years ago.
It is one thing to express your opinion, it is another to do so in a way that actually puts a stumbling block in the way of others.
It’s okay to want to find ways of expressing some nuance.
Not about the wickedness of what’s happened. Not about the horror at loss of life. Not about the fact Hamas are terrorists, committed to the total destruction of the Jewish state.
But about where (like all war’s) is this war going before it ends as all wars eventually do.
How do you draw the line between retaliation and self-defence?
What proportion of vengeance is acceptable?
Is sending hundreds of thousands of troops into Gaza wise?
Is cutting off water and electricity act of justice?
These are complex questions.
Palestine is not a country. That’s the whole point.
Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel all live under various regimes of organized discrimination and oppression, much of which makes life nearly unlivable. But in terms of what happens now, and how the response plays itself out, there might well be room for nuance but first and foremost, we must unequivocally condemn the Hamas attacks for what they were. Any attempt to justify these actions is morally indefensible, and we must firmly oppose the arguments of those who seek to rationalise them.
However the line between punishing evil and revenge can be a fine one, but it’s an important one.
For example, I think Hamas are freedom fighters, turned into terrorists by the west and their recent barbaric acts.
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Let’s distinguish between those questions on which we can be clear.
The conflict and tensions in the Middle East are complex and deep rooted.
Let’s be equally honest about the complexity of this situation and not white wash away the sins of either side.
There is no Biblical justification to what Israel is doing.
There is not Promised Land anymore.
Why?
Because the events are and were unavoidably, part of a 80 year long story of modern times.
A further episode of horror. Israel – using unprecedented violence on a largely defenseless and penned-in population, in part to cover for its own fatal mistakes and embarrassment.
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.
WAR IS WAR.
NO INTERNATIONAL LAWS or INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL CHANGE THAT NO MATTER WHERE A WAR IS OR TAKING PLACE.
The one thing war and bloodshed do for us is leave us longing for a new world.
Palestinians always act while Israel only reacts.
(It is amazing that such a poorly trained and equipped group of Palestinians from Gaza could overcome the best intelligence in the world found in Israel. The Israelis were caught napping and their response is influenced by this.)
It is not appropriate to see Hamas as separate from the Palestinian people.
It is a fundamentalist political group, supported originally by Israel, that responded to the secularism and corruption of the Fatah dominated Palestinian Authority.
Whilst we may disagree about what is proportionate. What Hamas have done is wicked, “unprovoked”
What exactly counts as a provocation?
Not the 248 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 4 October of last year.
Not the denial of Palestinian human rights and national aspirations for decades.
Israel have human rights, as do other nations, but there are terrorists on both sides, including those in power currently in Israel. 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.
There are roughly 14.5 million Palestinians in the world, according to a 2023 estimate from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the vast majority of whom are Sunni Muslims, though a significant minority is Christian. Over 5 million live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and another 2 million in Israel. The remaining population lives elsewhere, mostly as refugees, with the largest communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
As of 2019, about 5.6 million Palestinians were considered refugees by the United Nations because they or their forebears were displaced by wars with Israel.
Today Palestinians are a minority. 1.8 million Palestinians form around 20.8 percent of Israel’s population. They’re not equal. One dominates while the other is dominated. One colonizes. The other is colonized.
Desperate western attachment to morally bankrupt double standards bears a large portion of the blame for this and the resulting wars that have plagued the region.
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The future is full of unnecessary and horrific bloodshed all around.
There is and has been wrongdoing and bad decisions on both sides.
Calling out either one, does no good.
Was the land stolen from Arabs living in the British Protective of Palestine. The land was granted them by an UN charter.
Unfortunately the “land without people for a people without land” was flawed as there were people on that land and that was stolen from them.
We are ignoring the painful context.
If we once again ignore the big picture, then all this will just keep happening.
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THAT THERE IS NO DENYING (BEING LIVE STREAMED IN FRONT OF THE WORLD.) This new outbreak is turning into a Genocide.
SHOULD THE UNITED NATIONS NOW EXPEL ISRAEL? ( LIKE IT DID WITH SOUTH AFRICA DURING ITS APARTHEID.)
SHOULD INTERNATIONAL SPORT AND CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS & COMMERCIAL CORPORATIONS NOW BOYCOTT ISRAEL, WITH TARGETS BOYCOTTS. TO AVOID BEING COMPLACENT AND TARNISHED WITH A GENOCIDE?
SHOULD THERE BE A LARGE DE VESTMENT OF INVESTMENTS IN ISRAEL?
SHOULD THERE BE A MILITARY EMBARGO?
SHOULD AS 83% OF IDRSAI TO DAY SUPPORT ETHNIC CLEANSING ISRAEL BE BAN IN COMPETING IN THE OLYMPICS, THE WORLD CUP AND ALL OTHER SPORTING EVENTS.
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EVEN WHEN ALL OF THIS COMES TO A STOP THE ROOT CAUSE WILL NOT JUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE MAP.
WE MUST APPLY PRESSURE AND NOT BE COMPLICITY.
WE MUST NOT ALLOW GOVERNMENTS TO CLOSE DOWN OR UNDERMINE ANY FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OR SPEECH SUPPORTING A CEASEFIRE AND POLITICAL SETTLEMENT.
ISRAEL DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL JEWS ETHNICS. CLEANNESS IS A JEWS VALUE NOT GENOCIDE.
HERE ARE A FEW COLLECTIVE ACTIONS THAT WE ALL CAN APPLY.
Boycott:
Hewlett Packard helps run the biometric ID system that Israel uses to restrict Palestinian movement.
Siemens is complicit in apartheid Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise through its planned construction of the EuroAsia Interconnector
Soda Steam is actively complicit in Israel’s policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev).
AXA invests in Israeli banks, which finance the theft of Palestinian land and natural resources
Sabra hummus is a joint venture between PepsiCo and the Strauss Group, an Israeli food company that provides financial support to the Israeli army.
A barcode starting with 729 usually indicates a product of Israel. ( But this is not always reliable.)
Palestinian refugees have long claimed that international law guarantees them the right to return to their homes, citing U.N. General Assembly resolution 194, adopted in December, 1948, which states that refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date.
For its part, Israel largely considers this claim a non-starter, fearing that the return of millions of Palestinians is neither feasible nor just and would demographically overwhelm the country, erasing its Jewish character.
Sadly, 2023 has been a violent one on the global stage.
Many proposals have been put forward for how the current conflicts could, or should, be brought to a close. All will involve concessions that will effectively appease one side or the other without tackling their underlying cause.
The unanimous conclusion rest on a common belief: That wars should, and usually do, end in negotiation and compromise.
The first problem is that they don’t.
It is true that the majority of wars do not end in absolute victory. Ceasefire, armistice and stalemate terminate most conflicts, even if the ‘peace’ is infirm or short-lived.
The second problem lies in the fatalistic quality of many arguments ruling out the pursuit or even possibility of defeat. The third deficiency of arguments to ‘settle now’ is their reliance on false analogies. The fourth and greatest problem is a failure to take account of the character of this war and the outlook of a systemic adversary viscerally hostile to the ‘collective West’ and the international order it claims to uphold.
Negotiation, compromise and reconciliation are undertaken with new regimes only after old regimes are defeated and removed.
This war might not meet legal definitions of genocide, but the barbarism and the serial war crimes that have taken place – material, cultural and now ecological – have not been witnessed in Europe since the Second World War. The war is being waged on an industrial scale OF DESTRUCTION.
Western policy must be underpinned by a long-term strategy – political, military and industrial – based on a sustainable definition of victory, not on a search for negotiation with an adversary whose minimal terms flatly contradict Western interests.
Outlier events cannot be ruled out.
The only way I can foresee either the Ukraine War or the Palestinian Israeli War possibly ending is a change in leadership with new agreed compliant political federation regime installed.
THERE WILL BE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE MANY WARS TO FOLLOW.
Wars of the 21st century will be fought over something quite different: climate change, and the shortages of water and food that will come from it. If you look deeply at the source of future conflicts, I think you’ll see a basic resource conflict at the bottom of it all.
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