Well said, Eleanor. Palestine really is a Pandora's Box for the west. When you see the truth of what's going on, you see so many other truths, and lies that we've been led to believe.
I was not a reader that believed the magic wand as I started your essay, but I’m glad to have found it and read it. There’s still a sense of relief (I think?) in finding people illuminated by the truth of Palestine. Because Kamala in that white suit was not that long ago. So I’m hopeful there will be more and more that question their programmed beliefs. Syria for sure. The havoc done in Latin America.
That is the truth of the Palestinian cause. They are the light.
Politicians are, for better or for worse, those in whom the citizenry have vested power and trust. When that trust is openly breached and betrayed, each individual politician, each individual political representative is responsible for their part in that betrayal. There is no hiding behind party lines, no appealing to ideology or group politics. The crimes are clear and every word of justification or support for them must be accountable. Individual political responsibility is not up for negotiation. If you are in a position of political authority, and you justify or support in any way these clear war crimes, this open genocide, you are as guilty as those who were tried at Nuremberg.
If we are ever to move away from a world in which the most horrific crimes committed against civilians go unpunished, a world we have unfortunately manufactured for ourselves, there has to be full accountability among those in whom we have vested power and authority. There is today a hardness and corruption of politician’s hearts and minds, among those that can witness crimes of the most horrific type and intensity and yet do all they can to ignore public outcry and their own constituents in order to allow the crimes to continue unabated. A low point in political misbehaviour has been normalized.
And the justifications for this misbehaviour issue forth from the President and the White House and the media, all of whom carry forward an insane genocidal war against a trapped population of mostly women and children, accompanied with lies and self-delusion and rationalizations no less pernicious than those that once, so long ago, came out of the mouths of the German Reichstag and Adolf Eichmann.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment Irshaad. You’re right, and this is exactly why our politicians are so worried about these protests, because they know they are as guilty as you say and fear prosecution.
For the west, it's the last colonial project standing, and the imperialists of centuries that died still want to maintain imperialism in any form. They want to keep justifying "interventionism" of Kissinger, and the ability to meddle in every country as they wish. Africa almost kicked France of its borders, after centuries, and this will come too in Palestine..
The Egyptian sociologist Abdelwahhab Elmessiri said: "The more the colonialists become violent, the nearer they become to their ends..". This is what we hope..
This war didn't shatter my view that the West was moral because as a fringe thinker I never held that view
I was always cast out by normies for seeing plainly that the West and its ecocidal, anomically hyperindividualistic pathological extractive consumerism, was never wholesome, just, or rightful
But you, Eleanor, the West has just betrayed you. It constitutes some politicians you stood for, the employers you worked for, the landlords you paid extortion to, the insurance firms you paid premium to
I deliberately, and often illegally, avoided participating in any of these aforementioned Western societal constructs^ for nearly a decade now
That's why, Eleanor ; though we are both avid r/Collapse and Antonio Melonio readers ; we find ourselves arriving at this gross exposure of hypocritical Western complicitness, and systemic, culturally decadent reprehensibility ; from two different ends of ideological background
It is quite ironic that people can thus now begin to see in a new light exactly why all those far-right ideologues were so adamantly obsessed against increasingly hard to ignore semitic interests and concentrations of wealth, power & influence behind the scenes
(Of course this doesn't condone the far-right's politics. They're mentally & morally fraught & bankrupt in many ways otherwise still)
You had staunch faith in the West and in reform
I never did
Neither does Antonio, nor Vegetaman, nor Vile Cult of Shapes and countless other extremely thoughtful posters
You are as intelligent and appreciated as they are, I assure you Eleanor. Which is why it is my wistful hope that you actually manage not to simply ignore this admittedly challenging commentary -- challenging from a good place
I hope this reply finds you well Eleanor, and that even thru your tumultuous weary life you nonetheless find within yourself the strength & character to answer my comment with however much countercriticism as you like to, if so happens. I highly recommend turning your reply into a blog post entry of its own at your discretion, increasing what you get out of the effort
Well said, Eleanor. Palestine really is a Pandora's Box for the west. When you see the truth of what's going on, you see so many other truths, and lies that we've been led to believe.
I was not a reader that believed the magic wand as I started your essay, but I’m glad to have found it and read it. There’s still a sense of relief (I think?) in finding people illuminated by the truth of Palestine. Because Kamala in that white suit was not that long ago. So I’m hopeful there will be more and more that question their programmed beliefs. Syria for sure. The havoc done in Latin America.
That is the truth of the Palestinian cause. They are the light.
Thanks for giving attention to this issue.
Politicians are, for better or for worse, those in whom the citizenry have vested power and trust. When that trust is openly breached and betrayed, each individual politician, each individual political representative is responsible for their part in that betrayal. There is no hiding behind party lines, no appealing to ideology or group politics. The crimes are clear and every word of justification or support for them must be accountable. Individual political responsibility is not up for negotiation. If you are in a position of political authority, and you justify or support in any way these clear war crimes, this open genocide, you are as guilty as those who were tried at Nuremberg.
If we are ever to move away from a world in which the most horrific crimes committed against civilians go unpunished, a world we have unfortunately manufactured for ourselves, there has to be full accountability among those in whom we have vested power and authority. There is today a hardness and corruption of politician’s hearts and minds, among those that can witness crimes of the most horrific type and intensity and yet do all they can to ignore public outcry and their own constituents in order to allow the crimes to continue unabated. A low point in political misbehaviour has been normalized.
And the justifications for this misbehaviour issue forth from the President and the White House and the media, all of whom carry forward an insane genocidal war against a trapped population of mostly women and children, accompanied with lies and self-delusion and rationalizations no less pernicious than those that once, so long ago, came out of the mouths of the German Reichstag and Adolf Eichmann.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment Irshaad. You’re right, and this is exactly why our politicians are so worried about these protests, because they know they are as guilty as you say and fear prosecution.
Well said! 👏👏👏
Why Palestine?
For the west, it's the last colonial project standing, and the imperialists of centuries that died still want to maintain imperialism in any form. They want to keep justifying "interventionism" of Kissinger, and the ability to meddle in every country as they wish. Africa almost kicked France of its borders, after centuries, and this will come too in Palestine..
The Egyptian sociologist Abdelwahhab Elmessiri said: "The more the colonialists become violent, the nearer they become to their ends..". This is what we hope..
Well articulated.
This war didn't shatter my view that the West was moral because as a fringe thinker I never held that view
I was always cast out by normies for seeing plainly that the West and its ecocidal, anomically hyperindividualistic pathological extractive consumerism, was never wholesome, just, or rightful
But you, Eleanor, the West has just betrayed you. It constitutes some politicians you stood for, the employers you worked for, the landlords you paid extortion to, the insurance firms you paid premium to
I deliberately, and often illegally, avoided participating in any of these aforementioned Western societal constructs^ for nearly a decade now
That's why, Eleanor ; though we are both avid r/Collapse and Antonio Melonio readers ; we find ourselves arriving at this gross exposure of hypocritical Western complicitness, and systemic, culturally decadent reprehensibility ; from two different ends of ideological background
It is quite ironic that people can thus now begin to see in a new light exactly why all those far-right ideologues were so adamantly obsessed against increasingly hard to ignore semitic interests and concentrations of wealth, power & influence behind the scenes
(Of course this doesn't condone the far-right's politics. They're mentally & morally fraught & bankrupt in many ways otherwise still)
You had staunch faith in the West and in reform
I never did
Neither does Antonio, nor Vegetaman, nor Vile Cult of Shapes and countless other extremely thoughtful posters
You are as intelligent and appreciated as they are, I assure you Eleanor. Which is why it is my wistful hope that you actually manage not to simply ignore this admittedly challenging commentary -- challenging from a good place
I hope this reply finds you well Eleanor, and that even thru your tumultuous weary life you nonetheless find within yourself the strength & character to answer my comment with however much countercriticism as you like to, if so happens. I highly recommend turning your reply into a blog post entry of its own at your discretion, increasing what you get out of the effort