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Hamas has done a disservice to the Palestinian people, even the last sympathy for the fate of the Palestinian is now extinguished. Every people has a right to a living space, but fanaticism and terrorism always lead to ruin. IS has shown that pressure leads to more pressure and even destruction. There is a reason of state which, no matter who challenges it, ultimately falls victim to it.
No matter how many poor and innocent civilians the terrorists of Hamas have brought into their power, it will be of no use to them.
reason of state
The principle of reason of state (the term comes from Latin: "ratio status" means "reason of state") had great significance in earlier centuries, when kings and princes ruled over states. It meant that the interests of the state were placed above all other interests.
The reality will be that the Israeli state will become even more defensive and no matter where you are and what you do one day it will hunt you down without mercy. You have publicly chosen to go from being hunters of people to being hunted. Your faces have now become part of a despicable crime and do not stand for freedom fighters as you assume but for war crimes.
The State of Israel will not tolerate this humiliation.
All those living in Gaza should be fully aware that no matter what happens now, they will no longer be shown any compassion. You are now living in a different world, thank those who have spoken for you in the name of violence.
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In my eyes, any human being who attacks defenceless civilians, no matter how shitty the ideological cause, is a criminal.
Whoever uses you will not pay in the end, it will be you and the Palestinian people. Well, and everyone will be watching, as in the hunt for Ben Laden.
I deeply regret that so many weak men have chosen this path of violence, but please do not expect understanding or compassion at the end, because you had none.
How stupid can one be to represent one's goals with violence? You have my personal contempt for sure whoever commits an offence against innocent civilians belongs before a war crimes tribunal. Welcome to the prosecution bench.
No matter what happens now, the Palestinian people's cause is buried in dust and will not be heeded for some time now.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
Yes, let's let these two quotes stand on their own and let them have an effect on what is happening right now.
One is one thing and the other is another and the two cannot be compared, no matter how much the oh-so-righteous world feels the need to relativise things.
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On a normal October day, innocent people who did not wish their neighbours and other people harm or even death were cruelly massacred, raped and murdered. They were cruelly confronted with the human abyss of hatred by inhuman terrorists on their national territory without any declaration of war and without warning and paid for it with their lives or were abducted under horrific humiliation and torture.
No matter what happened afterwards, this stands for itself and for the inhuman hatred of Hamas, which never had any intention of living in coexistence with Israel. The aim of this terrorist organisation is to wipe out Israel. Full stop!
As part of its reason of state, Israel cannot and could not leave this unanswered. You can't negotiate with terrorists, no matter which state is responsible for such atrocities. With the only logical goal of eliminating the threat to its inhabitants and for reasons of state.
Reason of state
Striving for security and self-assertion of the state by any means
The concept of raison d'état means the pursuit of security and self-assertion of the state by any means. According to Wolfgang Kersting, raison d'état represents a "rule of hierarchy for conflicts of interest and law". This usually refers to Machiavelli's classic trinity of "voluntas, necessitas and utilitas" ("will, necessity, utility") as the legitimising factors of state actions.
In this sense, reason of state is a rational calculation of a government's interests, regardless of the form of government, and is solely committed to maintaining the functioning of the state. A more recent interpretation of reason of state is the requirement that the state must successfully assert itself against crime in order to prevent blackmail and imitation, among other things
Why are you so uncompassionate when it comes to the victims of terrorists and have so much sympathy for the consequences caused by Hamas, which also affect innocent people?
Don't you wonder how a group of terrorists can live in Gaza uninvolved and with enormous money resources and if this hamas really wants the best for the Palestinian people then why is everyone living so precariously. It is not because of the size of the Gaza area even smaller areas where people live in confined spaces are social and economic success. So where does the money go year after year that hamas gets? Probably not in the general welfare of the Palestinian population but in modern war technology which has no benefit for the normal people.
If you look closely, you can see that other interests are being pursued here than peace for the Middle East. But that is not the issue now.
It is cruel and only we come to other things which are not comparable to the terrorism of hamas against innocent civilians.
The Palestinian people do not deserve to suffer the consequences of the reasons of state triggered by the atrocities of hamas. Human rights must be respected within the framework of the laws of war. Civilians are inviolable and this applies to both sides.
And yes, the conflict must be resolved, but I won't be making any friends. It has to hurt a lot before it gets better! In the Thirty Years' War, Catholic and Protestant warring parties killed and humiliated each other until everyone had had enough of the joint slaughter and then found peace together. The Peace of Westphalia, in which all atrocities were mutually forgiven and forgotten. This is the only way to live in peace.
Only those who recognise that it can only work together and do not see what they want, but see how far they can get away from the other so that we can live together successfully, have the solutions in their hands.
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On behalf of all those murdered, I stand here only as the face of a person whose life was far too short. Life is a human right that was denied to me.
In memory of the innocent victims
A brief history of Israel and my take on the conflict.
If you disagree and this post does nothing but make you angry, okay. Feel free to comment below. But if you want to discuss back and forth and want me to respond consistently, please message me b/c that's just easier to keep track of.
But just in case there are people out there who just don't know what they don't know, and their opinions might be changed with some facts, here are a few of those:
Israel is the ancestral land of the Jewish people. No group can trace its history back to Israel further than the Jews can. As far as human history can show us, they are the original indigenous people to the area.
Both the Quran and the Bible call the Jews, the "Children of Israel." There is documentation of a substantial and deep-rooted Jewish presence and nation-state in the Levant from long before there was an Arab state, and nearly two millennia before Islam was ever founded.
The land was occupied by foreign invaders, multiple times. The Jews were expelled and forced to wander in the diaspora, though some remnant always managed to stay behind, which is why there is a continuous Jewish presence in the land for thousands of years. The Romans ruled it as a vassal state which they renamed 'Palestine', meant as an insult to the Jews. Arabs eventually gained control from the Romans and ruled it in various groups and kingdoms.
Whenever Jews would return to the area, they quickly created financial and structural success. Poverty-stricken Arabs began to stream in from the surrounding Arab countries, hoping to join in the prosperity that the settled Jews were attaining. The Jews did not fight this, and instead did the best they could to live and prosper under the Ottoman Empire and then under the British.
But they wanted to be free to live in their land under their own rule. As antisemitism around the globe grew, the idea of a Jewish State in their historical homeland gained traction: Zionism. The Mandate for Palestine specified that the Jews could create a national homeland on both sides of the Jordan.
The Arabs complained. They too, wanted a state of their own within the Mandate. So the British carved away 78% of the Mandate, which they’d promised to the Jews, and gave it to the Arabs for their own national homeland, which was called “Transjordan” and later renamed “Jordan.”
The Arabs were still not satisfied with this plan. They wanted all of the land, even though they were being offered the massive majority of land. They wanted the Jews gone entirely. The UN came up with the Partition Plan. The Jews accepted this compromise. The Arabs did not and once again became violent.
The Jews declared statehood. Seven Arab armies attacked, hoping to annihilate the Jews and believing they could do it quite handedly. Before they attacked, they told the Arabs living in the land to leave for the duration of the war. The idea was that the displaced Arabs could come back once they'd successfully ethnically cleansed the Jews.
While peace was offered by the Jews, it was soundly and violently rejected by the Arabs, and the resultant chaos, displacement, and deaths that this led to is referred to as the 'Nakba'. The Nakba was the end result of the Arabs' continuous and unwavering opposition to any form of peaceful coexistence.
Since that time, the UN has granted refugee status to the Arabs who left Israel, and extended that status to apply to their offspring, although as mentioned above, many of these refugees left of their own free will, at the behest of the surrounding Arab nations. Once the Jews were wiped off the map, they were promised, they could return.
That didn't work out for them. The Jews won the war. Now, what has each side chosen to do with their time and money since then? It's not hard to spot the difference:
Since 1948, the Jews have accepted in the Jewish populations of Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, and more; because those countries don't want or accept Jews in their intolerant societies. Meanwhile, most of those countries have refused to accept in Palestinian refugees themselves.
The Jews have built a society where Arab Israelis are afforded equal rights, vote, serve on the supreme court, are elected into the Knesset, work as doctors, lawyers, etc.; and are allowed to openly practice their Islamic religion. Meanwhile in the surrounding Arab states and in Gaza/the West Bank, there is no such equality, and Jews are persecuted, if they are tolerated at all.
The Israelis have spent their money on improving their society with education, defense, and a vastly developed infrastructure; whilst the Arabs have spent their money on maintaining a rather consistently non-stop terror campaign. The Palestinians receive $1.15 billion of foreign aid a year - more than any other group in the world - but they squander it.
Given these differing choices, it is not hard to see why one group is doing quite well, whilst the other flounders.
Due to the Israelis defending themselves with intelligence, counter offensives, and the iron dome, they've managed to remain on the map.
Despite all of the Arab violence, Israel has tried to negotiate a peace settlement with the Arabs over and over and over again (1948, 1949, 1957, 1978, 1979, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020). But the Arabs have a firmly proclaimed "3 no's" policy of "no recognition," "no negotiation," and "no peace." They reject every single peace plan and instead constantly engage in terror attacks against the Jews.
At this point, antisemitism is deeply embedded in Arab culture of the Levant. Progressive Western values for things such as gay rights, women's rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and religious freedom are routinely accepted by the Israelis and routinely rejected by the Arabs, who's leaders continue to espouse intolerance, and continue to jail, torture, and execute dissidents - thousands of their own people.
Perhaps most tragically of all, the Arabs are led by Hamas - a terrorist group whom they elected into power and who have little if any interest in doing what's best for the Palestinian people. The priority of Hamas, as is openly stated in their charter, is to eradicate both Israel and all Jews worldwide. They use their own people as human shields, preventing evacuations and operating militarily out of areas such as schools, apartment buildings, and hospitals. The Gaza ministry is currently going on television and telling people of Gaza not to evacuate when they get the warnings. This is unconscionable.
Yet, the Jews are still willing to cede massive swathes of territory, to try to compromise over and over and over again, and to attempt to get along with people who are different from them. Meanwhile those same people refuse to settle for anything less than all the territory, Jew-free. The qualitative difference between these two groups and how they operate is glaring.
I do want to mention that while it is true that many Arabs living in the Levant are deeply and culturally antisemitic at this point, many of them are not! Many of them are just good people who have been unlucky enough to be born into an unfortunate conflagration of geography, religion, and culture, and cannot control that they are stuck living in the side that perpetuates death, terror, destruction, and intolerance.
These Arabs are victims, and they deserve to live prosperous lives free of terror, suffering and death. Unfortunately this will never happen so long as they are held hostage by an evil group like Hamas.
I'm not religious, but if you are, then:
Please pray for a short war and minimum civilian casualties.
Please pray for air strike warning notices to be heeded and evacuations facilitated.
Pray for Arabs to choose to govern themselves democratically and to spend their money constructively.
Pray for the Israeli forces to use good judgement and abide by the international rules of war while this conflict plays out.
Pray for Arabs to escape their Hamas oppressors and find safety and shelter as this war runs its course.
Pray for coexistence, and for religious tolerance.
Pray for the swift and utter destruction of Hamas.
Again, feel free to leave whatever comments you like below. I know a lot of people get furious when faced with opinions and facts refuting their own viewpoints. I welcome any arguments or counter evidence you want to link me to in the comments and promise I will read/watch it.
But if you want to engage in a back and forth discussion with me, messaging is just easier for me to keep track of it.
And please signal boost this post by reblogging! The point is to try and give some fact-based perspective to the pro-Hamas supporters.
Peace activist Vivian Silver killed in Hamas massacre on 7 October
The Israeli-Canadian peace activist Vivian Silver was killed in the attack on Israel by the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas on 7 October.
Peace activist Vivian Silver is dead.
Whoever murders the allies of the Palestinian civil society in Gaza is not the friend of the Palestinian people!
The 74-year-old's body has been found, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced. Silver was at times thought to be among the hostages taken to the Gaza Strip. She last lived in Kibbutz Beeri. The German ambassador to Israel, Mr Seibert, called the news of Silver's death "devastating".
Silver campaigned for peace with the Palestinians and was honoured with numerous awards for her work. She launched aid programmes for residents of the Gaza Strip and helped them to receive medical treatment in Israel. In 2014, she was involved in the founding of the peace movement "Women Wage Peace", which now has more than 45,000 members.
Her friends, family, and supporters all agree that Israel's current attack on Gaza is not what Silver would want.
Hatred is only the road to destruction.
Always remember not to confuse cause and effect..... whoever sows wind will reap storm.
Hamas is the enemy of Palestinian civil society in Gaza and of the Palestinian people.
Hamas has challenged Israel, what did you think would happen afterwards?
I don't really like what's happening but it's all caused in the name of what Hamas did.
But I am not playing a role here, time will judge what is happening, but what happened on 7th October has no room for interpretation, it is a crime against humanity in the name of Hamas. An atrocity equal to any war crime in the history of mankind.
Best of all, it has been very well documented by the hate-filled ideologically entrenched crimes of hamas and their helpers in their self-absorption. Welcome to the prosecution cell if you're lucky.
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The most important thing is not that the truth dies in war, but the battle for the sovereignty of interpretation of words.
To put it bluntly, what happened on 7 October cannot be legitimised by the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom, which had its final outcome in this event, as some would have the world believe.
Terrorism differs from resistance movements, guerrillas or national liberation movements less in its choice of weapons than in its choice of objectives: A national liberation or resistance movement is usually militarily expansive, whereas terrorism attempts to attract as much attention as possible with its acts of violence in order to undermine closed power structures and to exemplify the vulnerability of such structures and make them publicly accessible to the population.
Women, children and peaceful people who are unsuspectingly and bestially murdered, raped or cruelly abducted are only the targets of butchers and never the target of a freedom fight, no matter where in the world it takes place.
What took place on 7 October was a massacre of civilians like the Nazis started in the Second World War and cannot be weighed against the injustice that preceded the massacre.
But the strike against hamas, which was initially justified on the basis of reasons of state, has become a punishment of the entire Palestinian people and can no longer be legitimised.
Israel's legitimate self-defence has turned into a campaign of annihilation.
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Driving people from one side to the other in order to get a free field of fire and then in a kind of continuous loop where ultimately there are only temporary protected spaces for civilians contradicts every rule of civil defence. And can be regarded without reservation as an act against humanity.
However, the comparison with the genocide caused by the systematic extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis is not accurate. That would simply be wrong, even if the injustice being done to the Palestinian people is inhumane.
Yes, it is a crime, but it is not genocide. The systematic extermination of people is not the case here, no matter how much you want to make the comparison, it does not reflect the past.
On behalf of all those murdered, I stand here only as the face of a person whose life was far too short.
Life is a human right that was denied to me.
In memory of the innocent victims
What happened on 7 October stands alone and is a crime against humanity.
Stop relativising it and comparing it with the consequences it has triggered.
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International aid workers from World Central Kitchen killed in Israeli airstrike
A World Central Kitchen team has been hit by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip. Five people died, including helpers from Poland, Australia and the UK.
Israel had a right to self-defence, the key word being " had past tense".
What else must happen to the eternal back and forth chasing of the Palestinian civilian population for supposedly necessary measures or, to put it clearly, military attacks with more and more civilian deaths!
israel is doing itself a disservice with this strategy, it is creating even more terrorists and driving extremism in the arab countries even further.
Pressure creates against pressure physically law. It's only stupid if you have caused the waves that are coming your way.
The massacre on 7 October was cruel and despicable and represents the sick ideology of hamas and its contract killers. The murder, rape and kidnapping of innocent people is not a fight for freedom but a war crime.
Never forget who is responsible for the consequences - the murderers and those behind the hamas massacre.
However, retaliation on this scale is no longer justifiable and must be stopped immediately.
Stop the Gaza war immediately, it is against international law.
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The UN Security Council has been given a stark warning about the consequences of inaction in Gaza: in its latest report to the UN Security Council, the United Nations (UN) warns that at least 576,000 people in Gaza are at risk of famine as a result of the conflict.
The UN Security Council met under the auspices of Resolution 2417: representatives of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) presented the findings of their report. The report highlights how warfare, including the impact of the Israeli military blockade before 7 October 2023, is preventing people in Gaza from accessing food. This includes Israel's far-reaching restrictions on access and delivery of humanitarian and commercial goods, as well as targeted attacks on aid convoys. Humanitarian aid and access to the population across Gaza is also restricted due to the denial of security guarantees and the ongoing blockade of water and electricity and bombardments. The UN also emphasised the impact of the attacks on the food production infrastructure: due to the destruction of agricultural land and numerous forced displacements, fields have been abandoned and food production is limited.
While the entire population in Gaza does not have sufficient access to food, the situation in northern Gaza is particularly catastrophic. According to the WFP, one in six children under the age of two now suffers from wasting. 155,000 pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers do not have access to sufficient, nutritious food. Malnutrition has a devastating and intergenerational impact on vulnerable populations, including long-term effects on children's cognitive and physical development and well-being, as well as compromising their future quality of life.
Resolution 2417, adopted unanimously in 2018, is intended to prompt the UN Security Council to act when there is a risk of conflict-related famine for the civilian population. It strengthens existing international law, according to which starving the civilian population is a war crime. However, despite constant warnings of the risks and contrary to the UN Security Council's own resolutions, it remains inactive - as a result of the use of the veto power of the permanent members. At the beginning of the month, the United States vetoed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire for the third time.
The signatory non-governmental organisations are calling on the UN Security Council to urgently adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. This is the only way to curb the famine in Gaza and protect the civilian population, including by preventing a military operation in Rafah, which would have catastrophic consequences for the civilian population and bring relief efforts to a complete standstill.
At the same time, humanitarian aid for Palestinians must now be massively increased, which will be essential even if the fighting stops. This includes continuing to support the vital work of UNRWA and partner organisations to help the Palestinian civilian population survive one of the worst humanitarian disasters of our time. The role of UNRWA cannot be replaced. The approval and renewal of visas for humanitarian workers must also be accelerated.
The UN Security Council must ensure the implementation of the resolutions on Gaza, which call for unrestricted, rapid, safe and unhindered access for humanitarian aid organisations to all of Gaza. In addition, the UN Security Council has a crucial role to play in ensuring compliance with the judgement of the International Court of Justice and upholding the consistent application of international law.
One was the unimaginable act of massacre of harmless Israeli citizens carried out by the terrorists of hamas.
The other is the state's reasons to retaliate accordingly.
But what is happening right now is not in the name of state reasons, is a war crime.
And anyone who points this out and condemns it on the basis of destruction without resorting to dogmatic and propaganda means is a human rights activist who has the freedom and protection of life of all in mind.
And the propaganda club of: you are ani semites is ineffective and inappropriate in relation to the human rights charter.
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Everyone has the right to live in peace and security, even if terrorists are hiding among them. The mosad has completely failed and now the failure is being compensated for with the army and at the same time made even bigger!
The current state of Gaza suggests that a good breeding ground for new terrorists has been created under which the world is suffering.
How can anyone be so short-sighted? The issue will be on the agenda of world history for years to come. Pressure creates counter-pressure. Physical set.
Stop the war, reach out and see what the other needs to create a mutual win a situation for the future.