They are Anti-War, Stupid
Reuters says the students are protesting the war in Palestine. The students say that they are protesting the war — the killing of innocents. Still and yet, the U.S. media doesn’t get it — says that the protesters are pro-Palestian, or anti-Semitic. Seems it is about the narrative.
To be clear. Netanyahu and ultra-orthodox Jews wanted this war. They wanted Gaza, the occupied territories. An observer over the years might envision caged Palestinians being poked with a stick.
Israel is being led by men of millennials ago, men bringing ancient mythology, ancient conflicts, to bear on this, the twenty-first century. Turns out that time travel isn’t us going back in time or forward in time. That the Putins, Xis, Netanyahus, Talibans, the ultra-orthodox Jews, … — only people from the distant past — get to be time travelers.
Now, the population of Israel wants to punish the Palestinians for what Hamas did. How is it that this is so? Did the Hamas attack justify killing 30,000 innocent Palestinians? How can this be justified?
Here, in the US, esteemed Jewish writers like the Washington Post’s Marcus and Rubin can’t get out of their skins, can’t condemn the murder. This time, most of the rest of the world has.
And, the US is complicit. Furnished the weapons and the intelligence. How can Biden extricate himself?
Long now, to be a politician in America is to fear AIPAC. Today, to head a university in America is to fear the Bill Ackmans of America. How can this be when Jewish Americans represent less than 3% of the population?
Appears that much of the rest of the world is beginning to understand that claims based on belief, on mythology, can no longer be allowed to dictate policy, any longer be accorded legitimacy.
US and Israel have a common perspective on “security” both use any threat as justification from mass, industrial strength murder, aka precision bombing and mass artillery with limitless collateral damage.
Insecurity justifies unrelenting military attacks.
The outcome looks like genocide in the confines of Palestine.
Calling opposition to Palestinian genocide is life asserting, not anti semitic
Who Are the Semites?
Semites are a group of Near Eastern and African peoples descended from Shem. Called the father of the Semites, Shem was a son of Noah. He and seven other members of his family entered the ark, escaped the flood, and lived to repopulate the earth. Through Shem passed the line of descent to the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Shem’s great-grandson Eber was the father of those who were eventually called “Hebrews,” including Abram (see Genesis 10 and 11 for more on Shem’s line).
I have to find Barkley’s comments on this and I will add to this.
More to the point of your commentary . . .
As reported:
Sketchy real estate empire nepo baby Jared Kushner looks at the devastation in Gaza and sees one thing: dollar signs.
Kushner praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s beachfront property during a talk at Harvard University earlier this month, and essentially advocated for ethnic cleansing so Israel could develop the region.
“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner told his interviewer, Harvard’s Middle East Initiative faculty chair Tarek Masoud, on March 8.
“It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner continued. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.”
Kushner said Israel should focus on displacing civilians from the southern city of Rafah, which has been under renewed bombardment and threat of an Israeli invasion. Kushner suggested moving those people “with diplomacy” into Egypt, on an entirely different continent.
The little prince discussing moving Palestinians out of the Gaza. How about he goes there and does it?
Apparently one of trump’s toady senators has called for nuking it
< 3% so how can this be ?
A majority of US supporters of Israeli expansion/ Likud are fundamentalist Christian biblical literalists who think God gave the Jews Israel (explicitly including some territory East of the Jordan river).
Some (more than 3% of the population) think Jesus will return when biblical Israel is reestablished.
Jewish Americans are divided (as are Israelis) with many supporting 2 states (and quite a few participating in demonstrations).
I think a key issue is islamaphobia and arabaphobia (often people who think all Arabs are Muslim and even that all Muslims are Arabs). Not pro Israel but anti Palestine.
Also there are non-Orthodox even secular Israeli ultra hawks
Robert:
Thank you for explaining this. You were in the trash. I assume that was not on purpose. It is a good comment.