Indioheathen normally doesn't blog about major conflicts outside of Turtle Island (the Americas), but I'll make an exception this one time about the Middle East where different tribes and nationalities have been warring off and on with one another for centuries, especially since Russell Means, whom I have tended to agree with more than disagree with overall over the years, has been making YouTube videos of late in defense of the Palestinians, which has included old leftist rhetoric such as, "We are all Palestinians" and remarks about the "Zionist conspiracy".
When the concept of a State of Israel was first drafted in the form of a crude map drawn with a pen on a paper napkin by Winston Churchill and Harry Truman, the only mistake they made was not including the proposition for an official Arabic State of Palestine in the region as well. But now the Palestinian Arabs have their autonomous territories of Gaza and the West Bank--the latter run by the more (currently) civilized Palestinian Authority.
Gaza is run by Hamas--a bunch of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists intent on destroying as many Israeli Jews as they can, even though it's not realistic. The only reason they got elected to power by the majority of Gazan voters was because of all the goodies they gave to Gazans beforehand. "Goodies" sometimes equal various forms of "bribes".
Start firing explosive rockets, no matter how crude or inaccurate, from your back yard into my back yard, and I ain't gonna wait around to see if that unprovoked initiation of force against me and my property is just eventually going to fade away.
I give the Israelis credit for putting up with it for so long before finally retaliating. Kick me in the ass and I'll kick you back ten times as hard until you quit!
Nothing new to Indigenous Americans. The Battle of Little Bighorn was a historically prime example.
Unless someone ends up nuking the region, neither Israel and its Jews and Zionists nor Palestine and its Muslims are ever going to go away. Although easier said than done, they just need to make room for one another and live with it in peace, which Israel has done in recent years by removing their own people from "settlements" they set up in Arab Palestinian territory.
Ideally, it would be better for their and all dogmatic sin-inventing religions with wrathful gods to just vanish from the face of Mother Earth.
As for the two societies in general, I would rather live in Israel than Palestine. The former is more liberal and tolerant overall--so much so that gay Arab Palestinians, for instance, often take up with gay Jewish Israeli partners in Israel to escape rampant Islamic homophobic persecution in the Arab Palestinian territories, particularly in Gaza.
Jews have been disliked and persecuted disproportionately over the centuries because they have largely consisted of a nomadic ethno-religious culture that places a lot of emphasis on high achievement and success wherever they settle. Many nativist gentiles resent Jewish high achievement and success when it becomes too collective and thus a threat in relation to power within the nation, which all boils down to jealousy of and cowardice towards Jews.
And when cowards are the majority, instead of fleeing from what they fear, they implement mob rule and react hostilely, violently, or discriminatory institutionally towards the feared minority that is the perceived threat. In the case of Jews, it is what is commonly but not quite accurately referred to as "anti-Semetism". I say not entirely accurate because in most cases, it does not apply to the other Semitic ethnicity known as "Arab". Thus the more precise term in the context of prejudice towards Jews is simply "anti-Jew".
Jews have been disliked and persecuted disproportionately over the centuries because they have largely consisted of a nomadic ethno-religious culture that places a lot of emphasis on high achievement and success wherever they settle. Many nativist gentiles resent Jewish high achievement and success when it becomes too collective and thus a threat in relation to power within the nation, which all boils down to jealousy of and cowardice towards Jews.
And when cowards are the majority, instead of fleeing from what they fear, they implement mob rule and react hostilely, violently, or discriminatory institutionally towards the feared minority that is the perceived threat. In the case of Jews, it is what is commonly but not quite accurately referred to as "anti-Semetism". I say not entirely accurate because in most cases, it does not apply to the other Semitic ethnicity known as "Arab". Thus the more precise term in the context of prejudice towards Jews is simply "anti-Jew".
Here is a link to a good, brief history of the Israel/Palestine region with illustrations:
"Jamás", pronounced the same as "Hamas", is the Spanish term for "Never!", and is somewhat synonymous with "Enough!".
3 comments:
Personally, I couldn't care less about the people in the middle east. The only problem is globalization and the issue with intercontinental ballistic missiles, which I would hate to to find flying into my backyard.
It's almost laughable to see how f*cked up Muslims get over Jews, while they are actually just followers of a gross corruption of the exact same religion. Too bad it's only aggressive religions that prevail...
I don't care what goes on over there either. But as previously indicated, my commentary is basically a response with some counter positions to the rantings of Means over the situation.
And by-the-way Diederick and everyone else: Profanity is permitted on this blog. It's not necessary to bleep them out partially:
http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=bj0yr_TuDp8
:)
Thanks for your comment.
Great vid. Always my pleasure.
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