Thoughts on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Israel is still carrying out airstrikes in Gaza. As the fighting enters a second week, the death toll in Gaza rises to 212, and includes 61 children. Earlier, Hamas, the ruler of the Palestinian territory had fire rockets towards the Israeli cities of Ashkelon and Beersheba. Israel reported 10 dead, including two children.
Here are some humble views on this escalating situation.
For too long, we’ve been gaslighted with the 3 same old popular fallacies:
1. «Israel has the right to defend itself» is enough reason to legitimize whatever war crime, and self-defense is ethical to such extent that it may involve bombing civilians and innocent children. Should we believe all Palestinians are Hamas?
2. «It’s anti-Semitic to criticize Israeli policy». Should we believe all Jews back this policy? According to this theory, many Jews are anti-Semitic…
3. «Palestinian advocacy is defending Hamas» as if all Palestinians including women and children, were terrorists.
These 3 intellectual scams have long paralyzed even free thinkers, but now it has become obvious we must ditch those lies.
Palestinians deserve peace and security as much as Israelis do. And Israeli do deserve peace and security.
On January 12, 2021, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (@btselem) released a paper showing why Israel is an apartheid State and how occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations.
On April 27, 2021, Human Rights Watch published a report which explains, based on definitions from The Rome Statute of the ICC, that Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people «amount to the crime of apartheid»
The conflict didn’t start with Hamas launching rockets.
Colonization is all kinds of wrong and is unacceptable in the 21st century. Colonization is the root of this problem.
It is equally true that the existence and security of Israel cannot be threatened, by Iran or anybody else for that matter. Israel and Palestine do have men of peace, but they are all represented by madmen and bloodthirsty fanatics.
Their warmongering, unredeemable leaders are a pathetic excuse for human beings. They probably need this conflict to tighten their stranglehold on their respective institutions.
In the end, we don’t even have to pick sides. We’re not pro-Israel or anti-Israel, we’re not pro-Palestine or anti-Palestine, they’re all our brothers and sisters in the oneness and harmony of Humanity. We’re just pro-Peace and anti-murdering of an innocent child and innocent people no matter whose bomb or bullet murdered them.
It’s time for the US and European states to start building a new approach, based on equality, responsibility and accountability.
If your religion makes these murders acceptable to you, then maybe you don’t have a clear understanding of its essence.
