Hamas, the de facto unelected government of Gaza, achieved the largest single massacre in the history of Israel since the Holocaust. While Hamas has not caused significant damage to Israel, it has clearly demonstrated its ability to repeat the Holocaust -- on a small scale. Under the nose of the Mossad, and paid by Israeli taxes, drinking Israeli water and running on Israeli electricity, a government was born that carried out this massacre. And Israel let it happen -- on a small scale.
Of course, the problem with the other Holocaust was that the government that carried it out was Germany, which was by some accounts, the strongest economy in the world at the time. In Germany, like in Israel today, ordinary people colluded with their hallucinating government and committed despicable crimes that targeted innocent people of a certain kind, i.e., Jews. Then the criminality was forcefully extended to the rest of Europe and to other kinds of people, e.g., after world war two, being educated or owning property was considered a crime worthy of being sent to Siberia for. I still have a letter that identified my grandparents as "poor peasants" and not worthy of being destroyed after they donated all their property to the state. War and bombs never brought peace or justice. They simply brought more attrocities.
Why?
Why don't we have schools to teach our people about government hallucinations, and protect us from a Holocaust? Why do we obey our governments, even when we think they are hallucinating?
What should Israel teach in the schools of Gaza for its people to not fire on civilians when told to do so? And to not join their government in a suicide mission when told to do so? Should Israel teach its own people to not fire on civilians when told to do so?
Gaza is 50% children under 18. The adults are 50% non-combatant women. Of the 25 % that are men above 18, not all will be combatants. Some will be bakers, some doctors, some beggars, some gay, some Jews... Among them is the family of our Scottish minister. Many of them are victims of Hamas. Every government has its victims and detractors. Not all Americans voted for Trump. Not everyone in Gaza voted for Hamas. They don't even bother with elections. So, it's important to keep in mind that like all wars, this war affects innocent people. Not Hamas. Hamas thrives on conflict. The people who die or are maimed are innocent. As are those who don't have water, food, medical care, etc.
Israel bombs in response to this massacre. Are they right to bomb them? Or, should they allow them to be educated and civilized instead?
Of course, under the leadership of Hamas, Gaza had the highest fertility rate outside Equatorial Africa until about 2007. If we were to civilize them, their birth rate would drop to align with the rest of the White World. That would decimate them. Far more than bombs ever can.
So... what shall we send? Books to educate them and reduce the babies that are yet to be conceived? Or bombs to set their blood and wombs on fire?
How should Israel respond? Is it reasonable to kill children in Gaza?
Israel has money and technology. Israel will first send in the drones and the tanks and the remote operated land vehicles. Israel will use material assets to "protect" its people.
Hamas is different. Gaza has children, but little tech. Thus, Hamas will hide behind children. Hamas will hide its guns in schools and let the children die before the guns get damaged. Decapitated children look better in press than cheap, old guns destroyed.
Is Israel right to obey Hamas wishes and fire through the bodies of the children of Gaza in order to damage the guns that killed Israeli children? What can Israel do for the children that survive today's carnage in Gaza to not want the Holocaust to happen again, and to not participate in a next Holocaust, if the future gives them the chance?
Half of the population of Gaza is under 18. Half is women. One quarter are men over 18. Many of the children are involved in the war -- either as soldiers of shields. Few of the women fight. They have 6 children each, on average. For them, breastfeeding is more important than shooting. Have these women and children given their valid informed consent to participating in the war?
Surely, the reign of Hamas must be over. Is Israel right to kill people who are involved in a war against their wishes, and without their valid informed consent?
How much money and how many Israeli lives (the lives of soldiers, who, often, are not much older than children) should Israel be willing to lose in order to kill fewer innocent people in Gaza?
Perhaps, the central question, is 'What is Gaza?' Is Gaza a state? Or a jail?
If Gaza is a state, perhaps, we have no business interfering with the internal operations of the state and its Hamas government. We can cordially advice Hamas that Holocaust is not ok, and, should they not obey, we can bomb their children and them into oblivion.
If Gaza is a jail, then it is full of innocent people. Even if we assume all the adults to be guilty of something sufficiently atrocious to warrant keeping them in jail, the children are innocent. The children are half of the population.
If, in this jail, we have a band of criminals -- Hamas and his minions -- who decide to terrorize both Israel and Gaza, it is, perhaps, our responsibility, as custodians and guards of the jail, to protect the inmates from harm caused by Hamas. Not only not harm them, but protect them. If a person is in jail, and they are harmed by another inmate, the prison authority is responsible, as the inmates have not chosen to be there.
What is the effect of the current bombing?
Hamas runs on very little money, compared to the Israel military and state. Hamas runs on people. Many, cheap destitute, desperate men who are willing die for very little reason. Many destitute women who have as many children as they can bear. The bombing of Gaza will make its population more destitute. Their response will be to have more children. Strangely, people have more children in hard times. Gaza and Afghanistan have the largest birth rates in the White World and Israel has the largest birth rate in the Western World.
The many children born in Israel are a reaction to the Holocaust and to terrorism like we have witnessed. Death often acts as a fertilizer for people. The more bombs fall, the closer people feel to death, the more children are born.
The children born in Gaza are the result of the Israeli war. Poverty, destitution, bombs and Hamas have pushed the birth rate of Gaza sky high. It is second only to Afghanistan in the world outside Equatorial Africa.
The more bombs we rain on them, the more children will be born, right next to Israel, where Israeli Arabs will soon outnumber other Israelis.
While governments around the world, from Europe to Asia and the Americas are fighting population collapse with very serious resources, Hamas is getting population growth. Shall, maybe, the people of Japan, Singapore and South Korea go to Gaza and maybe learn some lessons? Can we get some of the growth without the terror and without the bombs? The Amish have high natality while being peaceful. Perhaps smaller communities with leaders that have power locally, and, overall, a simpler life where we give back some of what we take from each other and from nature vs more bombs and more destruction are the solution when we have climate change to fight.
In spite of a warm year with storms, and earthquakes and the longest part over 1.5 C in recorded history, the number of small wars around the world is growing. Gaza has overtaken Ukraine for press coverage of attrocities. There is also unrest in Armenia, Serbia, Hong Kong, etc. Will these conflicts, eventually, unite in a third world-war? How soon? And what will the destruction be? we already have enough problems with climate change without more wars... Will we ever stop bombing innocent people and opt for education instead?
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