Gaza Matters

Money matters more though until body bags come home

If the ethical is the essential element in civilization, Schweitzer writes in the Decay and Restoration of Civilization, decadence changes into renaissance as soon as ethical activities are set to work again in our convictions and in the ideas which we undertake to stamp upon reality. The attempt to bring this about is well worth making, and it should be world-wide. Only an ethical movement which can rescue us from the slough of barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. The final decision as to what the future of a society shall be depends not on how near its organization is to perfection, but on the degrees of worthiness in its individual members. The most important, and yet the least easily determinable, element in history is the series of unobtrusive general changes which take place in the individual dispositions of the many.

Gabriel Marcel writes “The most scandalous aspect of the present state of affairs, for anybody who reflects at all, is precisely the intolerable contradiction between these principles of human right which nobody has quite the courage to make a formal argument against and the systematic violation of the most elementary actual rights. Our most serious problem is that of discovering how such a contradiction is possible—possible as a matter of actual experience, not as a mere mental notion.”

https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/the-true-purposes-of-the-state-terrorism-of-israel-against-the-gaza-strip-people/. I want to clarify what are in my opinion the two strategic objectives that Netanyahu’s government intends to achieve through the current military operation:

The first is the objective of freeing the Gaza Strip from the entire Palestinian population, civilians, and terrorists, also handing over this territory to the state of Israel and taking over the entire coastal strip.

The second objective is to finally be able for Israel to claim full rights over the Palestinian territorial waters where the Gaza Marine natural gas fields are located. Which already belong to a virtual, hypothetical, and fictitious Palestinian ”State”. In fact non-existent as I have already argued in my other articles, being in reality a sort of large refugee camp or sort of Indian reserve from of 19th century West. https://iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves/

And of course the West Bank as well, The above article speculates Egypt has been set up to host the forced migration. Others think US and Western Europe will absorb them—again absolutely crazed given two million people have to git out before the sun goes down or else nuclear weapons backed by killdozers and hired mercenaries will do the job. How much carbon will these flights emit? Will they be around the clock? What about the Ukraine taking in say 500,000 combat aged males? Reuters—CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Israeli forces pounded central Gaza by land, sea and air and Palestinian authorities reported dozens more deaths, with the U.N. health agency saying thousands of people were trying to flee the fighting. The Israeli army said that the Israeli soldiers' death toll in the ongoing ground operation in the besieged Gaza Strip had risen to 164.

Israeli military action has killed 21,110 Palestinians since Israel began its campaign against Hamas on 7 October, according to figures released on Wednesday

“Characteristic of our age,” Berdyaev writes, “and this is more astonishing since it is displayed at the very peak of human refinement, where modern conceptions of sympathy, it would seem, have made impossible the old, barbaric forms of cruelty.”  As the Grey Lady reports out for some reasons -too many deaths perhaps?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-bomb-investigation.html

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