The War in the Middle East Brought to You by Dupixent
If anything the Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent war that is unfolding that strikes me is the tendency to view the issues in the Middle East as a game of oppressor vs oppressed. If you are pro-Israel, you’re routing for that country to fight back and defend the line; if you’re pro-Palestine, you see it all as the victims of marginalization striking a blow for long overdue justice.
The fact is that these two factions simply hate each others’ guts. For thousands of years. Sure, there were and are reasons for that deep-seated hatred but intentionally rooting for one team or the other has the effect of fueling rather than diffusing that hatred.
Worse is the drumbeat of almost unceasing stories on network news and media outlets regurgitating more and more regarding the attacks, the counterattacks, the protests for and against Israel all brought us by advertisements to sell us drugs and insurance and phones.
No. It is not worse than the carnage. It is not worse than the antisemitism. It is not worse than the 75 years of occupation and inability for these two religious nationalities to carve out a reasonable way to co-exist. It is, however, pretty grotesque.
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Anyone curious why trust in our news gatherers is at an all-time low, perhaps taking a look at the incessant reminder that the only reason we’re watching or reading the news is so companies can get their bullshit in front of our eyeballs in order to get us to buy stuff. Like being presented with a video of a kid’s head being lopped off on a soccer field briefly interrupted by a call to action involving Skittles. It’s ugly, it’s unnecessary, it’s exhausting.
By the way, the inability to simply and definitively condemn without equivocation the following …
Hamas broadcast what they did—what they are doing—in real time.
They took horrific videos to document and share it all. Videos of naked women; of a captured six-year-old-boy; of beheaded soldiers.
This young woman—her name is Mor—learned that her grandmother had been slaughtered because a terrorist took her grandmother’s cell phone, filmed her murder, and then uploaded the video to the grandmother’s own Facebook page, ensuring her family would see it.
Terrorists came to a music festival on paragliders carrying machine guns to start their slaughter. They raped women there next to the dead bodies of their friends.
Now they are threatening to execute the hostages they have captured on live television.
… then your ideology has blinded you from basic human empathy and common sense.
