Israel's new norm give me your arms and we'll test them
Leunig changed the one Mike Carlton posted to get it past the LOBBY. Today and then that one was closer to the mark.
Dutton Sends Delegation to North Korea to Study Glorious Patriotic National Day Celebrations
The IDF instructions on white flags is clear. Yes a Clear and Present Danger to be eliminated immediately.
Relatives of Hala Khreis, who was with her grandson and waving a white flag, relive the moment of her ‘execution’.
Shot in ‘cold blood’: Killing of Palestinian grandmother sparks outcry
StoryJan 12, 2024 There is no such thing as Israeli Democracy. Speak up slapped down and removed. Free will we are the HIVE the HIVE is Israel
“They Want to Silence Us”: Knesset Member Ofer Cassif Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case
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Re: "Dutton Sends Delegation to North Korea to Study Glorious Patriotic National Day Celebrations" ...
I'm definitely no fan of North Korea's Rocketman, totalitarian rule and domestic oppression. Still, there’s a presumptive concept of American leadership as somehow, unless directly militarily provoked, being morally/ethically above using nuclear weapons internationally.
While Ronald Reagan postulated that “Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong,” who can know what may have historically come to fruition had the U.S. remained the sole possessor of atomic weaponry.
Cannot absolute power corrupt absolutely?
After President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur as commander of the forces warring with North Korea — for the latter’s remarks about using many atomic bombs to promptly end the war — Americans’ approval-rating of the president dropped to 23 percent.
It was a record-breaking low, even lower than the worst approval-rating points of the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.
Had it not been for the formidable international pressure on Truman (and perhaps his personal morality) to relieve MacArthur as commander, Truman may have eventually succumbed to domestic political pressure to allow MacArthur’s command to continue.
Today, it seems the U.S. still expects the international community to accept that an American presidency would never initiate a nuclear-weapons exchange. But how can that be known for sure, especially with U.S. foreign-policy history?
Re: "Shot in ‘cold blood’: Killing of Palestinian grandmother sparks outcry" ...
Palestinians seem to be considered disposable life. But then maybe Israel and Westerners in general, including our legacy news-media, have been getting accustomed to so many Palestinian deaths over many decades of Palestinian/Hamas-Israel warring.
For quite some time, maybe even decades, Palestinians have been perceived thus treated as not being of equal value to those within Israel.
Therefor their great suffering and deaths are somehow less worthy of our actionable concern as otherwise relatively civilized nations. Atrociously, the worth of such life can/will be measured by the overabundance of protracted conditions under which it suffers.
The general western corporate news-media’s ‘coverage’ of the Israel-Hamas-Palestine conflict particularly reveals how ethically challenged they have allowed themselves to become.
This includes their reporting on the current and past violence but especially their shameful non-reporting on the consequential anti-Palestinian social injustices that continue in between every military flare up over decades of Israeli occupation. Palestinian suffering and deaths in their entirety need to matter as much as that of Israelis.
Re: "'They Want to Silence Us': Knesset Member Ofer Cassif Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case" ...
The end justifies the means. The most frightful example of that philosophical justification is the pogrom, the primary implementers of which know they’re committing mass murder yet still genuinely perceive it all as part of an ultimately greater, moral good.
Meantime, although some identifiable groups have been brutally victimized throughout history a disproportionately large number of times, the victims of one place and time can and sometimes do become the victimizers of another place and time.
I once heard a philosophy professor say that all people should avoid believing, let alone claiming, that they are not capable of committing an atrocity, even if relentlessly pushed. Contrary to what is claimed or felt by many of us, he said, deep down there’s a tyrant in each of us that, under the just-right circumstances, can be unleashed; and maybe even more so when convinced that, God's on my/our side.
Human beings can actually be consciously or subconsciously perceived and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations.
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