We Need to Teach Ourselves Disciplined Hate, and Never Forget it
Because a second mass extermination event is being permitted and encouraged in two years in the same part of the world by the same people and the same political and cultural forces
A second genocide in two years, prescribed and protected by Western powers, and perpetrated by Western-aligned forces in the Levant.
Western powers have given Israel permission and the backing to slaughter everyone Israel accused of being associated with Hamas - including infants, neighbors, and passers-by, resulting in indiscriminate killing and a Palestinian holocaust.
They have authorized the extermination of medical staff and journalists en masse; they have authorized all forms of torture; they have defended all of that relentlessly, persecuting and intimidating people who opposed the clearly visible, heavily documented in real-time genocide.
They - the same countries and forces - are doing this again in Syria.
They have authorized the extermination of Syrian minorities - the well-documented in real-time mass extermination of innocent people.
In Palestine, the broad umbrella term meant to legitimize mass murder is 'Hamas'. In Syria, it is 'Assad supporters'.
In both Palestine and Syria, the slaughter of innocents, the respective genocide, has been organized, armed, and enforced internationally by Western countries that have no historical or geographical link to the Levant.
Both genocides are genocides of preference and convenience for cold political calculation and the spread of Western domination. These are not spontaneous outbursts of uncontrollable popular rage; these cold-clooded, calculated genocides, planned strategically and performed mechanically by people whose only link to the Middle East is their desire to control it.
We must remember this, and, when the ride shifts and the balance of power changes, each of the individuals who planned and enabled this must pay the price for their actions. They must stand trial and have all their crimes detailed and exposed in full.
The culture that breeds such monstrosity can only and will only be hated and detested by the rest of humanity and we need to teach ourselves and our children to hate Western culture; it is a culture of fake and cold-blooded murder. There is absolutely nothing else to it.
As a complex trauma survivor born and raised in western culture and approaching my mid 70s, I will no longer carry hate in my heart, Alon. I have witnessed, in my own life, how the victim becomes the perpetrator, resulting in the justification of even more violence… and now, how the victims of a holocaust carry out a genocide.
I do have rage however, for IsRaHell and the US. ISRAMERICA! This fuels my continued activism and the courage to show up in my community as an advocate for Palestinian liberation, as well as sending funds directly to families in Gaza struggling to survive during this blockade.
"There is absolutely nothing else to it". A culture unable to see what there really is, tries and fails repeatedly to fill the gap. "Cold-blooded murder" is a systemic side effect of this, unfortunately. Even worse, it infiltrates the non-West so that there is no longer a clear line. The situation demands constant alertness. The work of independent observers and commentators like you helps right there.