I agree with your thoughts Patrick. I truly believe that if people in the "the west" were educated about the formation of the Israel state,the Nakba and the fact that the Palestinian people are treated as non citizens,in thier homeland the vast majority of people would have empathy for thier struggle. The western mainstream media frames the Israelies as 'the good guys andthe Palastinians as "the bad guys'. Its a cliche but one mans 'terrorist' is another mans "freedom fighter'. I wonder what Americans would do if the UN decided to give all of thier country to say the Australians and move the US population to Alaska? Of course there would be resistence! Israel is only 70 odd years old. The Jewish people havent been there for nearly 2000 years. Israel has failed to embrace multiculturalism and is possibly the most racist State I am aware of! I recently discovered that it is illegal for a jew to marry a non jew in Israel! That is nuts! I have no problem with the jewish people but I think that the Israeli State is a Fascist state and the west has normalised the subjugation of the arab Palastinians. I was horrified by the massacre at that rave and the taking of hostages by Hamas but I am equally horrified by the bombing of Gaza where innocent women, children and men are being murdered. ,starved and injured. It does my head in when a people that suffered the genocidal murders by the Nazis have been systematically dehumanising ,imprisoning and killing Arabs since 1948. It feels like Israel has a genocide on thier mind now. If other Arab states come to help the Palastinians I feel that things could esculate to another world war. This is a very tense and troubling time and the loss of innocent lives of both Arab and jews breaks my heart.
I agree with your thoughts Patrick. I truly believe that if people in the "the west" were educated about the formation of the Israel state,the Nakba and the fact that the Palestinian people are treated as non citizens,in thier homeland the vast majority of people would have empathy for thier struggle. The western mainstream media frames the Israelies as 'the good guys andthe Palastinians as "the bad guys'. Its a cliche but one mans 'terrorist' is another mans "freedom fighter'. I wonder what Americans would do if the UN decided to give all of thier country to say the Australians and move the US population to Alaska? Of course there would be resistence! Israel is only 70 odd years old. The Jewish people havent been there for nearly 2000 years. Israel has failed to embrace multiculturalism and is possibly the most racist State I am aware of! I recently discovered that it is illegal for a jew to marry a non jew in Israel! That is nuts! I have no problem with the jewish people but I think that the Israeli State is a Fascist state and the west has normalised the subjugation of the arab Palastinians. I was horrified by the massacre at that rave and the taking of hostages by Hamas but I am equally horrified by the bombing of Gaza where innocent women, children and men are being murdered. ,starved and injured. It does my head in when a people that suffered the genocidal murders by the Nazis have been systematically dehumanising ,imprisoning and killing Arabs since 1948. It feels like Israel has a genocide on thier mind now. If other Arab states come to help the Palastinians I feel that things could esculate to another world war. This is a very tense and troubling time and the loss of innocent lives of both Arab and jews breaks my heart.