I’m afraid I lost my faith in humanity, and it’s from the last quarter I expected. I liked Joe Biden, I really did. He got us through the pandemic. Okay. But his blind obedience to the whims of Zionism opened a door that can never be closed.
i remember a time when Israel was the underdog. First there was Munich, which I was too young to understand except as something horrible that happened to those poor athletes. And then there was Entebbe — yay, they rescued the hostages and killed all the bad guys! Then Camp David. Lebanon in 1982 should’ve been a clue, but the bias, culturally and biblically, was too much to question. I was blind.
The mask is off. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve realized we’re dealing with insane people. It took me a long time to remove the rose colored lenses we saw the world through, maybe too long. I was in my church for 25 years, we were told one of the signs of the Last Days would be the restoration of Israel in the promised land. We’d sing “Israel, Israel, God is calling!”
Yeah, well if he’s calling it’s not to say, “well done, my good and faithful servant, well done!” If this is a god I’m going to respect, when Netanyahu meets St. Peter I expect him to say, “what in the F— are you doing? Have you lost your mind? Why are you killing your children?”
I’ve seen this too many times. Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Somalia, Darfur, Gaza. Children murdered, subjected to famine. They treat famine as a tragedy in the media, oh those poor starving children. They tend to gloss over the fact that every famine is man made. Every one.
I’m trying to shed my islamaphobia. That’s the only thing that makes sense about this so called war. It’s part of our holy crusade on behalf of Israel. Not the biblical state of old, I mean the current state mangling the values of Judaism as badly as evangelicals have mangled Christianity in the US. How else can you explain the ease with which we dismiss the lives of Palestinians, women and children?
I don’t think I can ever trust Democrats again, not until they show a little humanity, an actual spine. They can’t lecture anyone on human rights or the international order ever again. Republicans I expect inhumanity from, but this past election demonstrated there’s no difference between them when it comes to bending the knee to Israeli policy.
I don’t know where this is going to end in Gaza. I have only one certainty. Netanyahu has already failed. The Palestinians are scattered across the Middle East, from Jordan to Egypt and even the United States. Yes, I know that’s not in the Middle East, but the point stands. There are large populations everywhere. Maybe they’ll eradicate them from Israel, but their culture is alive, their literature, their children will survive in some form. The Palestinian people may continue as a refugee class, but they will still be alive. And someday, when saner heads prevail, they will come home.
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