Again, thanks so much for the whole article and your combination of precision and passion, it is enlighten and inspirational. What we are living today is so overwhelming, so far beyond imagination and nightmarish, that words seems poor tools not only to describe, but to "touch" another person trying to comunicate the ignominy.... It is a multidimensional perversion. The bombs and snipes are there, devastating our brothers and sisters in Gaza (increasingly in the West Bank too), but the blast of the concrete bombs expand to the whole world, erasing the weakened remaining moral and empathy of so big swaths of people lost in the virtuality of the MSM and the lazzyness to continuing going on in a misserable and destroyed "normality", following the narratives, accepting the orders and illegal laws to restrict dissent, trying poorly to defend a system who betrayed every one, imposing aberrations as the common thing in daily life, imposing a callous indiference to the suffering of others, reducing the perception of war crimes to numbers (another expression of the globalist maniacal digitization of life itself). Just a couple of years ago we were trying to elucidate a silent global pharma-militar genocide (whose blast is still going on) did in a secretive way under a brain-washing campaign to immerse the global population in a fictional "new reality", estigmatizing dissent as well, with the same strategy to confuse the language (the same "nazi", "conspiracy", "dissinformation", "anti-vax", that we suffer now as with the "anti-semitic", "holocaust deniers", "terrorist supporters", and so on), to immerse us in an sturming ocean of emotions without the chance to use the language to establish a secure minimal land for our conscience and to comunicate our experiences.
The depravity and corruption of the (miss) leaders is astonishing. And, if we obey and consent their directives, our stupidity is astonishing as well.
Gaza Holocaust is not only a boot in our faces: it can be too a beacon of rebellion, to enlight our consciousness, to guide us to go ahead for our dignity and rights who are intertwinned with them there.
I don’t know that it’s unique. It’s just MORE. More destructive, more unashamed, more self-obsessed. What’s depressing is that when I wade into that sewer which is my X feed, is not that the accounts that make excuses and justifications for Israel are mendacious and manipulative, it’s that they genuinely believe that never again is now and that though they knowingly lie their actions are righteous.
I agree with you that in an absolute sense, no genocide is "unique." My intention here was more to draw attention to 2 things: implicitly, the way in which the memory of the Holocaust (often described as "unique") is being abused to cover for this Israeli-fascist-Zionist genocide of the Palestinians (and not only, of course). And explicitly, to highlight that "more" that you also note, as well as "simply" the enormous criminality of the perpetrators and suffering of their victims.
Yes there seems to be cognitive dissonance occurring with defenders of Israel - which is described in clinical texts as the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes-in this instance to be against genocide in one specific circumstance but at the same time being for it in another) . They react to this unsettling contradiction by lashing out at critics of Israeli actions with even more fury -as spreading "blood libel" for example, reaching back way beyond the Holocaust to the lies propagated about European Jews in medieval times.
I haven't read the main text yet and will do so now. I'm sure it will help put this horror into better perspective, though the mass psychosis of Israeli society (and its US backers) is difficult to even contemplate. Regarding the means of carrying out this Israeli genocide, humanitarian organizations have stated (don't have the citations in front of me) that the deliberate infliction of starvation and disease may ultimately surpass the use of massive "dumb" bombs in causing deaths among the trapped people of Gaza. As there is no safe place from the unrelenting US-provided bombs, nor any escape from the ravages of disease and starvation, truly every life in Gaza is at great risk - every one in this prison could be killed unless some force (God knows what that could be at this point) stops it.
I agree: in the long run, which the Israeli perpetrators clearly want to make happen, starvation and promoting diseases are likely to be even more murderous than the mass bombing. I see only one way out: military intervention against Israel, as the Genocide Convention really demands. I know how unlikely that is, for now.
I agree that it seems only force can stop this horror. International organizations and courts continue to be passive bystanders, offering only words of outrage and a trickle of aid trucks -all while their courageous workers have been killed at an unprecedented scale by Israel -with its usual impunity. One of the lawyers representing South Africa at the ICJ hearing today, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, who made the most eloquent and impassioned (in a decorous way of course) remarks of all the distinguished advocates I thought, said the following about the future relevancy of international law in the context of the unfolding Gaza genocide:
"The imminent risk of death, harm and destruction that Palestinians in Gaza face today, and that they risk every day during the pendency of these proceedings, on any view justifies — indeed compels — the indication of provisional measures. Some might say that the very reputation of international law — its ability and willingness to bind and to protect all peoples equally — hangs in the balance."
Again, thanks so much for the whole article and your combination of precision and passion, it is enlighten and inspirational. What we are living today is so overwhelming, so far beyond imagination and nightmarish, that words seems poor tools not only to describe, but to "touch" another person trying to comunicate the ignominy.... It is a multidimensional perversion. The bombs and snipes are there, devastating our brothers and sisters in Gaza (increasingly in the West Bank too), but the blast of the concrete bombs expand to the whole world, erasing the weakened remaining moral and empathy of so big swaths of people lost in the virtuality of the MSM and the lazzyness to continuing going on in a misserable and destroyed "normality", following the narratives, accepting the orders and illegal laws to restrict dissent, trying poorly to defend a system who betrayed every one, imposing aberrations as the common thing in daily life, imposing a callous indiference to the suffering of others, reducing the perception of war crimes to numbers (another expression of the globalist maniacal digitization of life itself). Just a couple of years ago we were trying to elucidate a silent global pharma-militar genocide (whose blast is still going on) did in a secretive way under a brain-washing campaign to immerse the global population in a fictional "new reality", estigmatizing dissent as well, with the same strategy to confuse the language (the same "nazi", "conspiracy", "dissinformation", "anti-vax", that we suffer now as with the "anti-semitic", "holocaust deniers", "terrorist supporters", and so on), to immerse us in an sturming ocean of emotions without the chance to use the language to establish a secure minimal land for our conscience and to comunicate our experiences.
The depravity and corruption of the (miss) leaders is astonishing. And, if we obey and consent their directives, our stupidity is astonishing as well.
Gaza Holocaust is not only a boot in our faces: it can be too a beacon of rebellion, to enlight our consciousness, to guide us to go ahead for our dignity and rights who are intertwinned with them there.
Today we are all palestinians.
I don’t know that it’s unique. It’s just MORE. More destructive, more unashamed, more self-obsessed. What’s depressing is that when I wade into that sewer which is my X feed, is not that the accounts that make excuses and justifications for Israel are mendacious and manipulative, it’s that they genuinely believe that never again is now and that though they knowingly lie their actions are righteous.
I agree with you that in an absolute sense, no genocide is "unique." My intention here was more to draw attention to 2 things: implicitly, the way in which the memory of the Holocaust (often described as "unique") is being abused to cover for this Israeli-fascist-Zionist genocide of the Palestinians (and not only, of course). And explicitly, to highlight that "more" that you also note, as well as "simply" the enormous criminality of the perpetrators and suffering of their victims.
Yes there seems to be cognitive dissonance occurring with defenders of Israel - which is described in clinical texts as the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes-in this instance to be against genocide in one specific circumstance but at the same time being for it in another) . They react to this unsettling contradiction by lashing out at critics of Israeli actions with even more fury -as spreading "blood libel" for example, reaching back way beyond the Holocaust to the lies propagated about European Jews in medieval times.
I haven't read the main text yet and will do so now. I'm sure it will help put this horror into better perspective, though the mass psychosis of Israeli society (and its US backers) is difficult to even contemplate. Regarding the means of carrying out this Israeli genocide, humanitarian organizations have stated (don't have the citations in front of me) that the deliberate infliction of starvation and disease may ultimately surpass the use of massive "dumb" bombs in causing deaths among the trapped people of Gaza. As there is no safe place from the unrelenting US-provided bombs, nor any escape from the ravages of disease and starvation, truly every life in Gaza is at great risk - every one in this prison could be killed unless some force (God knows what that could be at this point) stops it.
I agree: in the long run, which the Israeli perpetrators clearly want to make happen, starvation and promoting diseases are likely to be even more murderous than the mass bombing. I see only one way out: military intervention against Israel, as the Genocide Convention really demands. I know how unlikely that is, for now.
I agree that it seems only force can stop this horror. International organizations and courts continue to be passive bystanders, offering only words of outrage and a trickle of aid trucks -all while their courageous workers have been killed at an unprecedented scale by Israel -with its usual impunity. One of the lawyers representing South Africa at the ICJ hearing today, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, who made the most eloquent and impassioned (in a decorous way of course) remarks of all the distinguished advocates I thought, said the following about the future relevancy of international law in the context of the unfolding Gaza genocide:
"The imminent risk of death, harm and destruction that Palestinians in Gaza face today, and that they risk every day during the pendency of these proceedings, on any view justifies — indeed compels — the indication of provisional measures. Some might say that the very reputation of international law — its ability and willingness to bind and to protect all peoples equally — hangs in the balance."