Human beings have a "single villain" problem. Watch two kids in a fight, interrupted by their mother. The whole issue is to find out who started this, or, "who's to blame." It's simpler that way. One side is good; the other is evil. So you have pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian backers. AND early on, Palestinians won the propaganda war beca…
Human beings have a "single villain" problem. Watch two kids in a fight, interrupted by their mother. The whole issue is to find out who started this, or, "who's to blame." It's simpler that way. One side is good; the other is evil. So you have pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian backers. AND early on, Palestinians won the propaganda war because a whole bunch of European movie stars, most notably Vanessa Redgrave, backed the Palestinians. For Jews, the "origin" of the problem is being blamed for the death of Christ. For Palestinians it really became with the Russian pogroms in the 19th century, which prompted Theodore Herzl to theorize Zionism, the creation of a Jewish homeland. The next major event was the Balfour Declaration by the British which, in 1917, backed the creation of a Jewish homeland. But that flew in the face of the Dar-al-Islam (land of Islam) vs. Dar-al-Harb: a very early Islamic theory that *once land belongs to Muslims, it can never be taken back. So anyone who subsequently controls it is an OCCUPIER.* This is why Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri always called Spain by the name Andalucia: as far as he was concerned as once the eastern Iberian peninsula was ruled by the Muslim Moors--when it was Andalucia--that was it: that's Muslim ground forever. The problems began the SECOND the Balfour Declaration was signed, for in the Palestinian Corridor, now with a heavy Muslim population and only a tiny Jewish minority, this violated the concept of Dar-al-Islam v. Dar-al-Harb and was, for all intents and purposes, the outright theft of Muslim lands. Then, with the 1967 and the Israeli annexation of the West Bank and Gaza, Muslims had lost all their previous lands and wound up destitute castaways. Almost the entire upper echelon of HAMAS are men (no women, of course) who were born in packed refugee camps where their parents lived in the most desperate poverty. Meanwhile, it is a tragedy to see a state formed by people whose families had been robbed of everything, blamed for everything, and exterminated by the millions allow their corrupt governments to treat people as they treat the Palestinians. I have a friend who is a black female rabbi. She went to Jerusalem and was shocked. She said she'd rather be a black in America any day than be a Palestinian anywhere in the State of Israel. She found the same used for Palestinians as were used for the Jews by the Nazis: vermin, claims they are sub-human, blamed for everything. This lies in contrast, of course, to the 40% of Jews in Israel who are secular Jews and runs completely against their wishes. Moderates, who make up 20% don't do that, either. But the conservative 20% are really vicious. However, even the moderates and liberals in Israel were so shocked by October 7th that they are in favor of the COMPLETE removal of HAMAS. And HAMAS, actually, sees their funerals in their eyes, for the #1 demand in all negotiations for the end of this war is made by HAMAS: that their LEADERS won't be put to death for what they've done -- that they won't be held accountable for anything, brought to trial, jailed, or executed for the murders of more than 1,200 people. And until they have that assurance, as far as HAMAS is concerned, Palestinians can die to the last man, woman and child because for HAMAS, Palestinians exist to serve their political and religious egos and the value of their lives is ZERO. Israel has behaved horribly for years. And HAMAS is a terrorist organization. And neither should be trusted with the welfare of the Palestinian people.
Human beings have a "single villain" problem. Watch two kids in a fight, interrupted by their mother. The whole issue is to find out who started this, or, "who's to blame." It's simpler that way. One side is good; the other is evil. So you have pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian backers. AND early on, Palestinians won the propaganda war because a whole bunch of European movie stars, most notably Vanessa Redgrave, backed the Palestinians. For Jews, the "origin" of the problem is being blamed for the death of Christ. For Palestinians it really became with the Russian pogroms in the 19th century, which prompted Theodore Herzl to theorize Zionism, the creation of a Jewish homeland. The next major event was the Balfour Declaration by the British which, in 1917, backed the creation of a Jewish homeland. But that flew in the face of the Dar-al-Islam (land of Islam) vs. Dar-al-Harb: a very early Islamic theory that *once land belongs to Muslims, it can never be taken back. So anyone who subsequently controls it is an OCCUPIER.* This is why Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri always called Spain by the name Andalucia: as far as he was concerned as once the eastern Iberian peninsula was ruled by the Muslim Moors--when it was Andalucia--that was it: that's Muslim ground forever. The problems began the SECOND the Balfour Declaration was signed, for in the Palestinian Corridor, now with a heavy Muslim population and only a tiny Jewish minority, this violated the concept of Dar-al-Islam v. Dar-al-Harb and was, for all intents and purposes, the outright theft of Muslim lands. Then, with the 1967 and the Israeli annexation of the West Bank and Gaza, Muslims had lost all their previous lands and wound up destitute castaways. Almost the entire upper echelon of HAMAS are men (no women, of course) who were born in packed refugee camps where their parents lived in the most desperate poverty. Meanwhile, it is a tragedy to see a state formed by people whose families had been robbed of everything, blamed for everything, and exterminated by the millions allow their corrupt governments to treat people as they treat the Palestinians. I have a friend who is a black female rabbi. She went to Jerusalem and was shocked. She said she'd rather be a black in America any day than be a Palestinian anywhere in the State of Israel. She found the same used for Palestinians as were used for the Jews by the Nazis: vermin, claims they are sub-human, blamed for everything. This lies in contrast, of course, to the 40% of Jews in Israel who are secular Jews and runs completely against their wishes. Moderates, who make up 20% don't do that, either. But the conservative 20% are really vicious. However, even the moderates and liberals in Israel were so shocked by October 7th that they are in favor of the COMPLETE removal of HAMAS. And HAMAS, actually, sees their funerals in their eyes, for the #1 demand in all negotiations for the end of this war is made by HAMAS: that their LEADERS won't be put to death for what they've done -- that they won't be held accountable for anything, brought to trial, jailed, or executed for the murders of more than 1,200 people. And until they have that assurance, as far as HAMAS is concerned, Palestinians can die to the last man, woman and child because for HAMAS, Palestinians exist to serve their political and religious egos and the value of their lives is ZERO. Israel has behaved horribly for years. And HAMAS is a terrorist organization. And neither should be trusted with the welfare of the Palestinian people.