It should baffle the mind as what is going on in Israel and Palestine, especially in terms of media coverage, and how politicians of all hues are applying two standards to human rights and the much overused concept of international law. The not so hidden Israeli End Game is more than just cold blood murder, shoot to kill is carte blanch for Israel to eliminate once and for all any hope of a two-state solution. The Hamas enemy can be applied to anything that moves, or in proximity—collateral damage.
They are all running scared, and the recent visits of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and he even when he made a surprise visit to Baghdad after a similarly unannounced trip to the West Bank. This form of shuttle diplomacy is more like running from side-to-side of a sinking ship to plug holes, with a reduced number of fingers – supposedly, Blinken is making his rounds in visits Middle East, including Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, as he tries to contain the fallout from Israel’s direct and America’s proxy war against Hamas.
In reality, it is to save US face and cling on to hope for Biden and his team in next year’s US election. The result is likely predictable, especially if a quick defeat is not in the cards for Israel and its unconditional and turn-a-blind-eye-to-war crime-friends. Of course, the motivation is obvious, even as reported by the NYT, Blinken is sending a message to Iran with such unannounced Mideast Meetings
But who is listening?
But for most in the region, including NATO member Turkey, the US has bought a ticket on the same sinking ship, and it is not the Exodus bringing Jews to Palestine, as made famous by the bestselling 1958 novel by Leon Uris, Exodus tells the story of an immigration ship of full illegal Jewish refugees, holocaust survivors.
The Ship of State, Israel is taking on water, its captain, is delusional as to his ability to stay afloat in a rough sea of Muslim States who have woken up to the plight of the disenfranchised Palestinian people. Many lessons can be learned, for the sake of Palestinians, and even with the threat of suicide of children in order for the doomed passenger’s to be allowed to land in the Promised Land.
In short, the story of the Exodus is to compare Gaza to the plight of its passengers, giving rise to self-determination, and opening the way for the hope of a new life in their own State for the Palestinians.
The inhabitants of Gaza, like the former passengers of the Exodus 1947, have a shared experience, like the Jewish survivors, the journey may ltimately pay off when people came to realize that the Jews were aren’t going to be free, and now with the Palestinians not going to be safe and free until they have their own independent homeland, and not be treated like IDPs, internally displaced person or passengers on the Prison Ship, Gaza 2023
Many comparisons can be made, in terms of bad PR for the British, the resolved of a depressed people between Exodus 1947 and Open Air Prison Ship, Gaza 2023. Palestinians ought to take the lessons to heart of another disenfranchised people, the Jews – as they too will prevail in the end – as international public opinion shifts in their favor, as two wrongs can never make a right.
A bit of Palestinian tenacity might go a long way, especially now that the world is waking up a bit. However, The Netanyahu government’s complete disinterest in the hostages is an unmistakable sign of a slave society in imminent danger of collapse. Within a year, Israelis will be shooting Israelis. Probably sooner than that, a lot less.
The Israelis apparently heard of where one hostage was being held, and they worked a careful plan and tactfully moved in and rescued her. She’s now home with her family. They know that the hostages are in the many underground tunnels, sounds a bit like the Warsaw Ghetto, and Polish Jews making their last stand.
It is not going to be a straightforward mission to just waltz in there and collect Israeli hostages, without complications. As a born again Christian, who supports Israeli, right or wrong, wrote me.
Did you know that in one house where the evil men entered actually put a little baby in the oven and turned on to high!!! They tied the father up and brutally raped the mother in front of him over and over, then shot them both! Hamas live-streamed it ALL and left the scene as they left it to show that they actually did this. They cooked a baby live! That’s pure evil. If they, in fact, do have the right to the land, then do it like everyone else does it, put in a land claim with proof of this claim! Don’t cook a baby to death!
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! But who created the monster Hamas? Was it not Israel and the CIA to weaken both Fata and the PLO.
So who benefits from cooking the baby? You sent Not Hamas, but the evil mind that created Hamas. When I shared that comment, the response was to be expected:
“I’m done I just can’t be your friend anymore, as you are truly heartless, I will be blocking you. I told you about the baby because it’s a clear example of pure evil, but you turn it around and tell me it’s not their fault? It is their fault they knew that putting the baby in the oven and turning it onto full was going to torture that innocent baby! I don’t like how you think!”
Now you’re going to tell me that the Jews going to the gas chambers was their own fault! Shame on you for being a Jew, you’re a disgrace to the name
I responded to the point, and you can be the judge yourself, “You sent Born Again Types are more rabid than most Zionists!”
Oh, it’s awful! FOX News is cheering the IDF advances, but if Russia did one 1/10th, then it is a war crime. They are saying if you don’t support Israel, you are anti-Semitic. That is BS … I have three close Jewish friends, besides my own heritage, and we all oppose what is happening.
Keep in mind those who like to label anyway who takes a minority opinion as being anti-Jewish, and It is the same ones who say if you don’t support all the warmongering, you hate America. Yes, whoever did that torture and murder is pure evil. The evil minds that created Hamas are who benefits from their evil crimes.
The Isaiah 5:20 verse is a good one, as the saved ones want to believe everything and fall for everything, totally clueless and unaware.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
They use reverse speech all the time and don’t know it. They’re getting the woes of that Isaiah verse. They believe lies as truth, and think truth is fiction. Up is down, down is up, black is white, white is black, male is female, female is male…. Roles are switched
That’s exactly how people think now. Americans especially call good evil and evil good. They call darkness light and light darkness. They call black white and white black. Up is down, down is up. Night is day, day is night, etc. It seems that everything is bass ackwards.
All semites are no longer Semites. Only Jews are semites … But only Zionist Jews are real semites.
Seth Ferris, investigative journalist and political scientist, expert on Middle Eastern affairs, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.