Puncturing a lot of the lies about Gaza, Hamas and Israel.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
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Israel shouldn't be singled out.
ReplyDeleteWhile the violation of human rights is the norm rather than the exception in the Arab world, the spotlight is focused on Israel. The claims of racism, ethnic cleansing, etc. are a most effective part of a campaign to play on Western guilt and to condition hatred for Israel. While it is true that there are some things wrong in Israel, the facts are sensationalized and distorted. A cheap political campaign is to get Muslim and well-meaning Jewish liberal votes (such as Sam's) is being run by using the Jewish "racist regime" in Jerusalem as a unifying issue.
Contrary to popular belief, the Jews did not take the country from the Arabs. When the Zionists arrived, they found a barren, largely unpopulated land. They built a dynamic society there.
Contrary to myth, the "Palestinians" were never run off their land. When the Zionists came, the Arabs had no technological knowledge and no cure for infectious diseases. The economic activity organized by Jews drew Arabs out of their tribal ways into the modern economy and Yeretz Israel.
Sam claims that she wants a better life for the people of Palestine. She thinks that Zionism will never provide a decent life for the millions of gentiles who live under it.
Yet Arabs in Israel possess one of the highest living standards in the Middle East. Although their living conditions cover a wide spectrum, the best is unequalled anywhere else in the region. Few Arab states can boast such heights. Education his highly valued, in contrast to the worship of the military in the Arab countries. The prosperity of Arabs in Israel is rarely mentioned.
The Arab states have disintegrated into political, social, and economic nightmares. The ones that don't produce oil are beggar states, despite their agricultural pasts and manpower. Adding to their problem, the Middle East's population is mushrooming. They are headed for mass war and starvation.
Some of them had one man, one vote - but only once. Those elections, as in Syria or Libya, were followed by one-party rule or military dictatorships. Across the Arab world, it is impossible to vote the top leaders out of office. Any opposition always somehow just seems to disappear. The people are absorbed by the institutions of the ruling party.
There are few checks on arbitrary action by rulers, and corruption generally prevails because some of the major guarantees against public malpractice - a strong opposition and a free press - are largely absent. Such is the case with George W. Bush's friends in Saudi Arabia, who have run an absolute monarchy since establishing the kingdom.
There are endless lists of human rights violations - mounting atrocities of Arab against Arab. There is torture in Algeria. There are hundreds of thousands of slaves in Qatar and the UAE. ISIS is known for torture, in many cases until death. The list goes on and on, and yet it never seems to get the attention of the media or the anti-Israel campaigns.
Palestinians from the West Bank work in Israel because their own Arab-ruled economy cannot support them. Their wages provide much needed money for them.
Israel is, however, a useful tool for the Arab countries to marshal outside support for their efforts to achieve "equality." There is in fact a direct relationship between the destablization propaganda on the part of the "Palestinians" and the responsiveness of the world in giving them aid.
The western world closes its eyes to the true situation in Africa. All the hand wringing over Israel turns to hand washing when it comes to condemning the Arabs. The West soothes its conscience by giving the "Palestinians" aid. Nobody seems to have noticed that despite the aid, the situation keeps getting worse.
I think "Joseph Kerr" is trying to make a fool of you.
ReplyDeleteFirst, Joseph Kerr is an alias of the Joker in Batman.
Second, the number 58008 is a well-known reference to "Boobs."
Finally, look at the first sentence in the last paragraph - what does Africa have to do with the situation?
So I googled the sentence, and the first link to come up was this:
South Africa Shouldn't be Singled Out, by Anne-Marie Kriek in the October 12, 1989, edition of the Christian Science Monitor.
Read the article, and reread what "Joseph Kerr" wrote. Kerr just plagiarized an article defending apartheid and changed the pronouns.
I think you've been had.
It was pretty obvious that his reply was a cut & paste job from somewhere. And you'll note that nobody responded to it.
ReplyDeleteHamas won 46% of the vote in the 2006 election, the last that they allowed. They ran on an anti-corruption campaign, promising that unlike Fatah they wouldn't funnel most foreign aid into their own pockets. They formed a coalition government, then executed their coalition partners and seized power at gunpoint. They have not allowed an election since, because they would *lose*, because a) they turned out to be even more corrupt than Fatah, and b) most Palestinians just want to live in peace, just like everybody else everywhere else, and rather than the kindly charitable Hamas that was promised, Hamas turned out to be brutal to the point that even Amnesty International has attacked them for their violations of fundamental human rights of Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteHamas did this brutality against Israel in order to distract people from the fact that they are utterly detested by 90% of the Palestinian people and were on the verge of being pushed out of power in Gaza despite having an enormous arsenal and tens of thousands of fanatical fighters. They're hoping to goad Israel into killing enough Palestinian civilians that Palestinians forget that Hamas is evil and focus attention back on the notion that Israel is evil.
I was worried that they might succeed, but it appears that Israel is doing a reasonably good job of hunting down Hamas rather than slaughtering people who hate Hamas. We'll see. One thing that you, I, and the vast majority of the Palestinian people agree on is that Hamas is evil and just needs to die, already.