How can the world stand aside and watch the destruction of PALESTINE.
Have we all become so desensitised with the amount of violence we consume daily that we no longer care providing it’s not us on the receiving end we turn a blind eye.
How can we allow a people to be killed by another group of people just because they live in or on a strip of land called Palestine.
If we give up on humanity we give up on a future.
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The human race has always carried both beauty and grief in the same breath.
However these days our young generation’s are not fodder to stop or start wars that can no longer be won by human sacrifice – world war 1 & world war 11.
Israel was and still existence because of terrorism. To have religion as the bases of who owns what in the twenty century is absurd.
Hamas is only twenty years old.
Weaponising religious beliefs seems to be a Jewish art .
Any form of fundamentalist should be is unacceptable in the twentieth century.
It leads to indoctrination of young minds to a state of brain washing.
However if we’re to have a world worth passing on to the next generation we must come together to redefine what it is that makes any of have a real value during our short time on earth.
This question is thundering down the tracks in the form of climate change.
What is important is that the next generation is educated before it becomes a void of moral values.
Israel will learn that life cannot be terminated without consequences and history will not just condemn those who commit the crimes but those who remain silent.
If you want to understand what’s happening in Israel listen to the below.
It’s an inherent System of Living ones Life, which has enabled us to produce Economies, Art, Laws, systems of Government, religions, music, etc.
It’s a form of communication, of connection, in order to understand each other, eye to eye, without smartphones violence, and wars.
Yes each language shows the world in a different light, however civilisation is the foundation of society, without it we return to tribal survival.
Now days because of Ai creating Social Media we are forgetting our history that shaped civilisation.
We forget that civilisation remains fragile even if it accepts all humanity and all its innovations.
We won’t save ourselves because we believe in the right things.
Take Climate change.
It won’t give two hoots whether we civilised or not.
When we watch a GENOCIDE taking place right in front of our can we call ourselves civilised?
Ok course we now have AI and it doesn’t care whether we civilised or not.
The ongoing degeneration of civilisation by un regulated Artificial Intelligence’s might not concern you, but the AI of today is all ready changed civilisation.
It could be said that we are entering a period of isolation.
“I am all right JACK”
We have all spoken to a computer and it’s spoken back to you in a civilised accent.
The day will come when it will not just be taking back, but ruling your life, not in a civilised humanistic manner but in a dictatorial manner.
It’s difficult to imagine.
But when you think that your brain is a biological computer, which can be copied by AI, where will and what will we be calling Civilisation then.
AI is the greatest Challenge to civilisation as we know it.
This change will happen in the next ten years
What does one do in such a world?
Where the foundation of SOCIETY is no longer ruled by human values. Where AI has no need to listen to anyone or anything.
Tell me !
This path is not understood in society and there is no language to describe it.
This is happening faster than you think.
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THERE IS NO FUTURE UNLESS WE WAKE UP AND GET RID OF THE PRESENT WANKERS THAT THINK THEY ARE RUNNING OR RULING THE WORLD.
REPLACING THEM WITH LEADERS THAT HAVE VISION NOT GDP.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IF YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT BUY A HOUSE, CANNOT EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN FOR FREE, CANNOT EARN A LIVING, CANNOT ASPIRE TO UTTER THAN BEING DIGITAL CITIZEN FEED BY SOCIAL MEDIA.
THERE IS NO FUTURE DRIVEN BY CAPITALISM CONSUMPTION, CONSTANT WARS, OR WALL STREET PROFIT FOR PROFIT SAkE.
INFINITE GROWTH ON A FINITE PLANET IS NOT POSSIBLE.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN 10% OWNING THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN IGNORING CLIMATE.
LIVE IN A NOW AND NOT YET LIFE.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN ALLOWING UNFEELING GENERAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO RULE THE WORLD.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN TURNING A BLIND EYE TO GENOCIDES – RWANDA AND NOW PALESTINE.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN AMERICA FIRST.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN SEE EIGHT YEARS OLD PEOPLE BEING ARRESTED AND CLASSIFIED AS TERRORISTS BECAUSE THEY ATTENDED A MARCH SUPPORTING PALESTINE.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN DEPORTING REFUGEES.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN A WORLD WHERE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND IDOLS GOVERN SOCIETY.
THERE IS NO FUTURE UNLESS WE OVER COME THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF AGI VERSUS HUMANITY.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN ADVERTISING THAT IS BECOMING PERSONALISED.
THERE IS NO FUTURE IN ALLOWING SMARTPHONE AND PLATFORMS CREATE AND SPREAD FALSE INFORMATION.
THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT ALL THAT STILL LIVES ON THE PLANET.
THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT CLEAN AIR, UNPOLLUTED FRESH WATER AND CLEAN ENERGY.
THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS. GRAB IT WHILE YOU CAN.
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From one human to another I acknowledge that you as a person and that your nation had the right to defend its self.
However to starve and kill innocent children, and people is not what any decent person or any race has the right to do.
Whether they believe they are the chosen ones or not.
Surely with history, you of all peoples in the world should be abhorred at what is and now happening.
It can only be described as mass murder.
History no matter who or how it is written will never let you forget this repugnant war that has in the eyes of the world turned into a genocide.
Surely it can no longer make sense creating more enemies for the future of your Nation. There are no walls or bar wire fencing, bombs or military might that can keep a country safe.
It’s written in all Biblical texts including the THORA that taking a life is a desecration of God name.
My country spent 700 years under an occupation, suffering a famine, a civil war and recent war and is still not united because of religious beliefs.
In all my travels the only person to threaten me with extinction was a young Jewish soldier full of hatred on holidays. At the time I ignored his threats and presumed he was not a typical Israeli.
To live in peace, there is no solution other than tolerance of one another.
This can only be achieved by sharing and ensuring that all what ever their beliefs can be expressed without fear in a society of equality understood by all with a written constitution.
If you want a safe country for you and generations to come. Israel must be come one with its Arab population and neighbouring countries.
I am not asking that you surrender or to lay down your arms.
I am asking that you don’t go down in history as your oppressor Hitler did.
If you don’t stop this genocide war Hitler will have won.
I call on all Jews to up hold the sanctity of life.
ARMING A COUNTRY TO COMMIT A GENOCIDE IS REPUGNANT ENOUGH, TO SAY THE LEAST.
TO LIE ABOUT IT IS POLITICAL TERRORISM.
THIS IS WHAT DONAL TRUMP AND HIS ARSE LICKING COMPATRIOTS – SIR KIRE STARMER AND THE REST ARE DOING.
SPENDING TRILLION ON WORTHINESS ARMS.
The truth.
HOPEFULLY they will be held to account for the consequences of their atrocities of their lies and their hypocrites beyond belief.
When it comes to describing terrorists the SLIPPAGE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW must be brought to a halt.
People supporting PALESTINE are not terrorist.
All so in the light of undisputed evidence that a Genocide is being committed worldwide corporations that support Israel must be brought to account.
As our world organisations can only pass resolutions that are worthless we must boycott Israel from participating in any competitions, and stop buying any products produced by Israel, by stopping supporting any corporation that supports its genocide.
Why?
Because their actions demand that we do so.
If it was not for Hitler there wouldn’t be an. Israel.
It is obvious that only a political solution will resolve the present day situation.
Most solutions are a two nation model. It is obvious when the present war ends that there will be no two nations to agree on anything.
THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE SOLUTION. ONE NATION WITH A NON RELIGION AGREED WRITTEN CONSTITUTION GRANTING EQUALITY TO ALL
Why?
BECAUSE POWER IS NO LONGER ARMS BUT TRUTH.
AND THAT TRUTH IS.
THERE IS NO LONGER ANY SUCH THING (WITH COMING AI AND CLIMATE CHANGE) AS SOVEREIGNS NATIONS. IT WILL BE ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL
History will never forget what is happening in GAZA.
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We now have abject dehumanisation of the Palestinian people, dying silent upon live TV, reducing them to statistics instead of receiving world support we stand by and watch as one group of humans called Jews slaughter another group called Palestinians.
While the free world expect them to die in silence, rest assured it will pay the price one way or another.
It’s time that this monster Israel created by the west is band from United Nations.
What Israel is doing in any language is repugnant .
It remarkable to see the verbal coming out of the mouth of Netanyahu to justify it.
Unfortunately it seems humans are incapable of living in peace.
Investing in nuclear weapons might create employment but only until some future idiot uses them.
Why is one country ok to have nuclear weapons and another not ?
Every country has the ability to persuade nuclear power. Whether it develops a nuclear boom or not is up to god knows what.
We have Dog eat dog world.
With war mongers called NATO knocking on your door. The Ukraine/ Russia war is because of its very existence.
Ukraine wanted to join NATO ( which is an American military run organisation) however Putin won the war in the first 7 days because the Ukraine dropping its demand to join NATO.
With Donald Trump these days to be an enemy of the USA is dangerous but to be a friend is faithful.
Keith Starmer thinks he can sort out the shambles of the UK by supplying more and more weapons to both Ukraine and Israel, opening arms manufacturing plants, ordering fighter jets and nuclear submarines, when in fact his country is crying out for investment into its basic infrastructure, mental health, not to mention its health system, education, housing.
Any country boasting food banks needs to look at itself and get its values right.
Let’s ask the question.
Are we all mentally incapable of understanding what we are presently doing to our world ?
By ignoring what climate change and Artificial Intelligence has in store over the next twenty years. ( All for the sake of short term profit) It’s going to be a rocky ride in more ways than one whether Iran has a nuclear weapon or not.
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Vast numbers of AI with their development advancing to the point of no return are being deployed in the current wars with AI in control.
This military race to equip drones on swarm footing is going to cause a war.
Instead of wars conducting a wars it will be AI decided where it goes, who to targets and who to kill, a recipe for disasters.
If you give a self learning algorithm a target it will automatically complete its missions with a preemptive strike.
However just like acknowledging the reality of climate change the threat of a global war does not tell us what to do about it.
There are always options, unfortunately with a future developing subject to artificial intelligence, these options are dissipating at a faster rate than we can imagine.
There is no option when it comes to either the Climate or AI both must be brought under control.
Not tomorrow not in twenty years, it’s now or never.
Never is winning the race as the truth is being hidden or distorted. We can choose what we want but on the other hand we should not deny the true consequences and meaning of our choice.
Only the representative of the people should be able to declare wars.
You might think that people power is expressed in populism. Far from it. Populism strips democracy of any authority with AI self learning algorithms are doing the work as you read this.
It’s not the Putin’s the Donal Trump’s the Xi-Jin Ping’s or Kim Jong Un’s that will decided who win’s, it is the visual power of the truth that holds this power whether you like it or not.
One only has to look at the pathetic support the USA is giving Israel to relinquish all hope of a peaceful world.
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The word genocide is not new, the concept is ancient.
On the historical heels of the physical and cultural genocide of North American indigenous peoples during the nineteenth century, the twentieth century writhed from the near- complete annihilation of the Herero’s by the Germans in Southwest Africa in 1904; to the brutal assault on the Armenian population by the Turks between 1915 and 1932; to the implementation of Soviet manmade famine against the Ukrainian Kulaks in 1932–1933 that left several million peasants starving to death; to the extermination of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust of 1939–1945; to the massacre of approximately half a million people in Indonesia in 1965–1966; to genocide or mass killings in Bangladesh (1971), Burundi (1972), Cambodia (1975–1979), East Timor (1975–1979), Argentina (1976–1983), Guatemala (1980s–1990s), Sri Lanka (1983–2009), Iraq (1987–1988), the former Yugoslavia (1992–1995), and Rwanda (1994).
Genocidal death rates worldwide— 7,700 per 100,000—were an eight-fold increase over the previous 69 centuries. Close to 170 million civilians were done to death by their own governments in the twentieth century.
It is clear that genocide cannot be confined to one culture, place, or time in modern history. Even the most restrictive of definitions estimates that at least 60 million men, women, and children were victims of genocide and mass killing in the past century alone.
The reality—for genocide IS THAT it is a human problem and, as such, has a human solution.
It is not a problem that came to us from another world or was ingrained in our behavioural genetic repertoire. At its root, genocide happens because we choose to see a people rather than individual people and then we choose to kill those people in large numbers and over an extended period of time.
It is often assumed that genocide must be caused by extraordinary psychological processes – processes that are outside of or defy the logic of normal human functioning and that cannot be easily understood.
Dehumanization is central to every genocide.
We know from the Holocaust, Cambodian Genocide, Rwandan genocide and many other cases that victim groups were labelled as vermin, cockroaches, rats or snakes.
The decision to exterminate a group of people is the extreme end of a continuum that lies beyond proclamations that they cannot live, worship, or love as they see fit and beyond decisions to ghettoize them or force them out of your country.
However, while it is certainly beyond our imagination what it means to experience, witness, or perpetrate genocide, the psychological processes that lead up to that point and enable people to engage in “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group” (as genocide is defined in Article II 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide) are not.
Genocide is not a qualitatively distinct category of human behaviour – it follows ordinary principles of human cognition, affect, and behaviour that certain societal and political conditions (such as political upheaval, prior genocide, autocratic rule, and low trade openness) allow to escalate into more and more severe violence.
However, dehumanization does not only occur during genocide, or what we officially recognize as genocide. This blatant dehumanization predicts several violent outcomes such as support for torture and bombing of civilians, drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or detention and solitary confinement of undocumented immigrants.
Exclusionary ideologies are one of the main predictors of genocide
Deep inequalities that are a source of oppression and violence. People become desensitized to violence they are exposed to; and participating in violence makes us more likely to engage in future violence
We should therefore never give in to the illusion and optimistic bias—which also helps explain some behaviours of victim groups in times of genocide that reduce their survival, as well as the likelihood of resistance—that we are immune to the risk of genocide.
Genocide can take rightful claim as the most pressing human rights problem of the twenty-first century.
We can make another choice; We can find constructive, rather than destructive, ways to live with our diverse social identities.
For decades, Israel, aided and abetted by the American empire, has sought to politically erase Palestine from the map. Over the past few days, Palestinians have proved, once again, that they won’t easily give up their indigenous claim to and sovereignty over the land stolen from them.
From the deep, non-utilitarian connection between a people and their ancestral land – a connection that renders meaningless all other political impositions.
This is exactly what the Israeli state has long been seeking to erase.
Palestinians have, for decades, tried to put under a global spotlight the violence Israel has been inflicting on them on a daily basis.
Even if they are wiped off the have of the earth they have recorded all the killings, the torture and the abuse, so people from across the world will continue to see their struggles reflected in the Palestinian struggle, ensuring that Palestine as a political story, a political vision, and as a revelation of the current political conditions and systems of power, will never be erased from the hearts and minds of people the world over.
What are we in the free world doing about it.
As Israel intensified its efforts to erase Palestine and Palestinian people from Arab and global consciousness, we have international Verbal diarrhoea voiced support, repeatedly and loudly, for Israel abiding and abetting Israel’s colonial oppression and basically encouraged it to intensify its efforts to expel Palestinians from their remaining lands and erase Palestine from history and global politics.
No state or actor in this current system can gain enough authority and power to ensure its safety and dictate its will on the global community by merely speaking of higher ideals.
In fact, higher ideals are proclaimed in this wretched world order only to conceal the brutal violence required to gain and maintain any authority whatsoever.
they are going to be made worse by the ongoing actions of the Israeli state, which is determined, regardless of how Palestinians resist, to erase Palestine and officially create what they already achieved in practice: exclusive Israeli-Jewish sovereignty over the entire land of Palestine.
The reality is that Palestinians have been dehumanised to such an extent, that even when they hold up their murdered children in front of cameras and display them to the world, there are those who will still say they are responsible for their own children’s deaths. But make no mistake, what we are seeing in Gaza is an unfolding genocide and Palestinians are showing the world what it looks like in real time.
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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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As global attention has turned to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, many Israelis are on a parallel warpath to convince the world they are victims, not aggressors.
Indeed any country has the right to defend its self but not to extent that it creates a genocide.
The slogan Yachad Nenatzeach!, Together We Will Win!, is everywhere in Israel:
Once there is no more Muslim land in the land of Israel … after we make it the land of Israel, Gaza should be left as a monument, like Sodom.
Of all forms of human error, prophecy is the most avoidable.
Israelis’ sense of security has been undermined.
The fear among Israelis is that if Hamas can do it once they can do it again.
By moving methodically through the Strip, Israel slowly pushed over a million Gazans into Rafah along Gaza’s southern border. It is only now poised to take Hamas’s last remaining stronghold, with international opposition, even among Israel’s closest friends, reaching a verbal fever pitch, the UK/USA are breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel.
The UK government does not directly supply Israel with weapons, but does grant export licences for British companies to sell arms to the country.
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When people fight a war that begins with a murderous genocidal attack by one side on the other, the side that was attacked is less inclined to be empathetic towards its enemies.
However the demolition of much of Gaza will make it difficult for Israel as a society to function.
“More of the same”
Continuation of a war in the Gaza Strip, albeit at a diminished intensity, dragging on for an extended period, turning into a protracted war of attrition, resembling the eighteen-year Israeli presence in the security strip in southern Lebanon or the Soviet engagement in Afghanistan aligns well with the alt-right’s so-called Decisive Plan.
While everyone’s attention would remain fixated on Gaza, where the primary efforts of the regular army would continue to be concentrated, local settlement guards or militias functioning as irregular or semiregular units, akin to paramilitaries, could turn the West Bank into hell on Earth.
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Is there a way back from the hardness of Israeli hearts in the face of hundreds of thousands of people who because of our war are fighting like animals for pieces of food, a safe place where their children can lay down their heads, medicine, clean water and dignity? The answer is probably yes, but its going to take generations.
On the current trajectory of Israel’s attacks from the air, sea and the ground, Gaza looks set to be an enclave with 2.3 million people essentially living in rubble.
The fear among Palestinians is that Israel wants a “second Nakba”. Palestinians use the word Nakba — Arabic for “catastrophe” — to refer to the estimated 750,000 Palestinians who were forced to leave — or fled in fear – upon the formation of Israel in 1948. Many Palestinians believe the reason Israel is bombing Gaza so heavily is to make it unliveable so that eventually the majority, if not all, of the citizens, facing starvation, will force their way into Egypt.
The 1948 expulsion remains an animating force in Palestinian identity, and it changed the demographics of Israel.
The Jerusalem Post — has carried a prominent opinion piece advocating the emptying of Gaza. That in itself is extraordinary — the most read English-language newspaper for Jewish communities around the world running the argument that the new home for Palestinians in Gaza should be Egypt.
Flattening the whole strip so it becomes an empty museum like Auschwitz.
Joel Roskin, an academic from Israel’s Bar Ilan University, said that the major portions of Gaza were now considerably incapacitated and cannot be simply fixed. “Rather, the damaged and destroyed structures must be completely torn down. The tunnelled – and consequently exploded and bulldozed — soil must undergo extensive environmental and engineering rehabilitation … the facts demonstrate that the northern Sinai Peninsula is an ideal location to develop a spacious resettlement for the people of Gaza. Its open areas, along with the existing infrastructure, can easily host large-scale development projects that, if led by the Chinese and supported by local labour, for example, can easily mature in just one to two years.” Bull shit!
Writing in Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Sfard questioned who Israelis would be after the war, asking “how many tons of coldness and indifference have settled inside us in order for us to turn high-rise buildings into dust, promenades and plazas into ruins and a million and a half people into displaced people who have nothing?
“And what will become of a society whose media outlets, which provide it with information about its deeds, have refrained for over 10 weeks from bringing even a single interview – a single one! – with a resident of Gaza to tell what’s happening to them; who censor the pictures of the dead children and the weeping mothers, the children that we killed and the mothers whose bereavement we caused? The Israeli TV channels are shaping our collective perceptions not only by means of what they show, but also, and perhaps mainly, by means of what they’re hiding from us.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects any suggestion of ethnic cleansing, insisting that the primary aim of Israel’s military action is to “destroy Hamas”.
It’s debatable whether this can actually be done — Hamas is in part an ideology and idea, it’s also one of many groups whose aims are “resistance” to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and, along with Egypt, its blockade of Gaza.
Hamas, in turn, makes no secret of its ultimate aim – its charter commits it to the eradication of the state of Israel.
The longer term issue for Israel is that an entire new generation of young Palestinians could be radicalised by seeing their homes and sometimes their families destroyed.
At this crossroads, neither Israel, Iran nor Hezbollah wants an all-out war that would have terrible consequence for all of them. But no side seems ready to stop the slide towards it.
That Israel must, instead, finally agree to a two-state solution under which Palestinians have their own state is a grave mistake.
WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT WILL NEED MORE THAN WIRE FENCING OR A WALL TO MAKE IT SECURE IN THE FUTURE.
There will be a profound shift in Israel’s concept of security: many believe they must now protect themselves.
Several proposals have been put forward to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas with the U.S., Egypt and Qatar pushing to de-escalate in phases. But major sticking points about who should govern Gaza are blocking progress as Israel doesn’t want to govern and is against the top contender, the Palestinian Authority. So why is coming to a consensus for a ceasefire or peace deals so difficult?
There’s now only a one state solution.
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As the conflict with Hamas bleeds across borders, is wider violence inevitable?
Even if the Gaza war winds down, Israelis are shifting their gaze toward their northern border, preparing themselves for a potential new war — with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Iranian-backed group is better armed than Hamas, with long-range missiles that could paralyze the country.
Historical precedents abound: paramilitary groups of this kind take orders from local commanders or charismatic political figures and are loyal only to them, not directly beholden to the central authority.
Israel’s war with Hamas has served to energise already existing tensions.
Without an end in sight, at present – the war is in danger of creating its own dynamic. And for now at least, the reality of the cross-border exchanges has a greater clarity than the rhetoric enfolding them.
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What sort of country will Israel be after this war? And will Gaza be liveable, or will its 2.3 million citizens be forced to move to the Sinai desert in Egypt?
No body really knows how this is going to end.
Even if the Israel pushes what remains of the Palestinians into the Sinai Desert and succeeds in dismantling Hamas as an organized military force in Gaza, it will survive as “a terror group and a guerrilla group.
Even if Israel changes it leader there is little room for wishful thinking here.
The likelihood of a left-wing government materializing due to internal protests appears scant. Far more probable is that Israelis will be drawn to a hawkish leader exemplifying strength and authority, typically a retired general with a distinguished military career, with a capacity to assume responsibility and navigate intra-Jewish divides.
Any withdrawal by Israel, including under a hostage deal, would create a vacuum that Hamas would do everything it can to fill as it emerges from its tunnels.
Those measures might assist in holding off Hamas in the coming months, but Israel still needs a long-term solution. That means actively replacing Hamas while it is still underground.
Discussing a plan for the future governance of Gaza brings with it political complications.
Who will replace Hamas?
Gaza will become an area in deep crisis.
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It’s time for Israel’s allies to say: ‘Enough’
To stop selling arms.
When is a war crime not a war crime? Answer: when it’s done by an allied nation.
This will only happen when western governments, whose history of hypocrisy that fill many pages of history’s sad story of human exploitation, decide the political cost to them of ignoring the Palestinian deaths inflicted by their own weapons is higher than the cost of the current policy.
Key actors—Palestinian, Israeli, regional, and global—have staked out very different, often antagonistic positions on critical questions. UN interference is necessary, and it should take the shape of an interim, multinational peacekeeping force similar to the one that was tasked to facilitate the transition to an independent East Timor in 1999 or the NATO-led force deployed to Kosovo in the same year.
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The world we live in is changing at an astonishing pace. New technologies and ways of thinking are rapidly altering the way that human beings live, do business, communicate and interact with other. In just 40 years we have gone from rotary dial phones to 5G smart devices capable of accessing the collective knowledge of humanity. And the field of warfare is no exception.
Approaches to warfare that 30, 20 or even five years ago would have guaranteed success on the battlefield have now been made redundant. It can no longer be assumed that because a tactic worked in a previous conflict that it will work today. As the current Ukrain war with Russia shows modern day warfare does not require solders on the ground.
Today’s conflicts can also extend to the domains of cyber and space.
In the cyber domain, orchestrated hacking campaigns conducted on the behalf of nations can disable and shut down key pieces of civilian infrastructure and institutions, leaving nations in a state of panic and vulnerable to attack.
New technologies are also constantly rewriting the rule book for warfare – AI – Drones.
It seems likely that the coming years will see a major focus on soldier systems that ‘declutter’ the battlefield for soldiers by providing information on threats and targets as they are needed.
The decision on whether what that soldier sees is a friend or a foe comes entirely down to their own judgement and discretion. Making the decision can be extremely difficult in a confusing battlefield environment. To make life easier for soldiers, future weapons may have electronically flags popping up in the sight, telling them whether they’re aiming at a friend. Prior to firing, the weapon would send a small electromagnetic pulse at the target. If no response is received back from a friendly transceiver, the soldier will know they are not aiming at their own troops and will be able to confidently proceed.
So, while modern conflicts are being waged in the most complex environments in history, are there solutions to bring clarity to the minds of both soldiers in the field and leaders. NO.
We see something terrible and then it disappears.
What are the rules of war?
It’s a timely question in the wake of attacks on civilians, aid workers and hospitals in conflict zones around the world.
However enforcing out of date rules can be difficult.
For example, the five veto-holding permanent members of the Security Council — the U.S., China, Russia, the U.K. and France — must vote unanimously to pursue a resolution that might call for an investigation, refer a case to a court for trial, threaten sanctions or propose another motion. But often one or several of these countries has a vested interest in the conflict in question.
You would be more than naïve if you do not realise by now that Israel is not currently using AI. Indeed its has a program called Lavender choosing targets to bomb. An artificial intelligence tool developed for the war, marked 37,000 Palestinians as suspected Hamas operatives.
Mistakes were treated statistically. SUCH AS THE RECENT KILLING OF SIX INTERNATIONAL AID WORKERS.
We need to keep saying that these protections are valuable, they’re worthy, and they speak to our common humanity.
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