Subject: The oppressors wrong
Watching the latest video stories out of Gaza I am reminded of the warnings from friends and family about the bias in the video clips I received watching Aljazeera.
It was the same warnings from believing BBC footage from people who people had come to label as ‘Woke’ ie too soft in its reported news about Gaza and the coupling of that with the imagined terror we have of illegal immigration and the fear they bring of co-opting our culture.
The visual picture of doctors working amongst the bombed out ruin of a hospital and the subsequent arrest and disappearance of more than one of these doctors invokes a Kafkaesque picture into the mind of the Israeli defence force. Why would they allow their leaders to be apparently without mercy especially since the horror of the concentration camps is still within living memory.
The need to survive is a deep human resource, fight or flight is instinctive and therefore Israel's stated fear of being defeated and overrun by the Arab is paramount but the thoroughness of the destruction of Gaza must point to a biblical blindness, on both sides which obscures any sort of humanitarian sense of proportion.
The Germans thought the Jews subhuman the Jews appear to think the same of the Arab, it’s an anomaly that only humans could assume normal but then normality plays little importance when survival is at stake.
The feral child comes to mind, their concept of life normality lends us to walk carefully when blaming them for their actions. A feral nation is a different proposition in the assumption that people in that society have an effect on the potency of retribution. A nation is measured by the humanity it shows in dealing with its enemy’s. The Germans are remembered for their harsh treatment of opposition in the towns and villages who rebelled against the authority of the German state. A nation of great composers and philosophers could condone the dreadful practices which went on in Auschwitz.
I watched a film made in Germany depicting family life whilst living in the shadow of the camp. The Commandant walking to work each morning emerged in his plan to improve the industrialised killing whilst showing his own family great tenderness. That these two grotesque alternate concepts could coexist in the brain of a man illustrates how we compartmentalise so many things as part of a survival mechanism.
As the world trends it’s way towards more confrontation with the frightening result of global extinction trough nuclear war or man induced climate change we are also contemplate carrying on much as in the past. The alternative is too grim and knowing that the odds of winning the lottery are tiny, we still buy a ticket, and rather would shuffle off the contumely of modern life.
It was the same warnings from believing BBC footage from people who people had come to label as ‘Woke’ ie too soft in its reported news about Gaza and the coupling of that with the imagined terror we have of illegal immigration and the fear they bring of co-opting our culture.
The visual picture of doctors working amongst the bombed out ruin of a hospital and the subsequent arrest and disappearance of more than one of these doctors invokes a Kafkaesque picture into the mind of the Israeli defence force. Why would they allow their leaders to be apparently without mercy especially since the horror of the concentration camps is still within living memory.
The need to survive is a deep human resource, fight or flight is instinctive and therefore Israel's stated fear of being defeated and overrun by the Arab is paramount but the thoroughness of the destruction of Gaza must point to a biblical blindness, on both sides which obscures any sort of humanitarian sense of proportion.
The Germans thought the Jews subhuman the Jews appear to think the same of the Arab, it’s an anomaly that only humans could assume normal but then normality plays little importance when survival is at stake.
The feral child comes to mind, their concept of life normality lends us to walk carefully when blaming them for their actions. A feral nation is a different proposition in the assumption that people in that society have an effect on the potency of retribution. A nation is measured by the humanity it shows in dealing with its enemy’s. The Germans are remembered for their harsh treatment of opposition in the towns and villages who rebelled against the authority of the German state. A nation of great composers and philosophers could condone the dreadful practices which went on in Auschwitz.
I watched a film made in Germany depicting family life whilst living in the shadow of the camp. The Commandant walking to work each morning emerged in his plan to improve the industrialised killing whilst showing his own family great tenderness. That these two grotesque alternate concepts could coexist in the brain of a man illustrates how we compartmentalise so many things as part of a survival mechanism.
As the world trends it’s way towards more confrontation with the frightening result of global extinction trough nuclear war or man induced climate change we are also contemplate carrying on much as in the past. The alternative is too grim and knowing that the odds of winning the lottery are tiny, we still buy a ticket, and rather would shuffle off the contumely of modern life.
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