I struggle to understand why an average person would embrace living in a state of perpetual grievance. I can’t fathom why a conscious decision would be made to choose rancor as a lifestyle if options are available during the limited days each of us are allotted on the planet.
Seems like a poor use of time.
I do however understand that some people aren’t given much of a choice in the matter, and that circumstances beyond their control have placed them in a situation where animus is inevitable. I think for example, that I can understand a perpetually pissed off Palestinian. Not just because they have a history of being victimized, which they do, regardless of the opinions of the pro-Israel people, but because they are currently being isolated, deprived of life essentials, and bombed.
So, I find it difficult to not determine that the Palestinians have a claim to grievance. Being abused for a couple of generations prior to their current situation also then gives them claim to add perpetual as a valid grievance descriptor.
Although the news hasn’t offered any real updates on what’s happening lately in Gaza. It seems like the Israeli’s are taking a break from aerial bombardment of both Gaza and Iran, and I’m assuming that jet fuel and missiles are a supply issue for them as well as the Americans. No sense wasting your AI-targeted loitering munitions on a target that’s contained, when you can do the job with ground forces and blockades.
Speaking of Benny and the jets.
It’s odd that the Americans aren’t screaming from the rooftops about Israel pretty much fucking off and handing an Iranian problem to the United States. Seems like the kind of thing that Donnie would be bitching about given his rage over the Europeans not behaving like his idea of allies. But, if any strategy exists at all in the Trump administration then perhaps some consideration is being given to the idea that as winter arrives that the Europeans may debate the value of becoming oillies.
But apparently Donnie is cool with the situation. Even though from my vantage point it reminds me of a little brother talking a big brother into helping to fight another kid in the neighborhood, and then grabbing an energy drink and a lawn chair and chilling until he see’s how things work out.
I’m not really surprised by the lack of American reaction to Israel quietly withdrawing from the war in Iran. The Israeli’s have a special relationship with America that’s based on a couple of tested assumptions. The first is that Americans in general have been educated to automatically believe that any war against brown Muslims is a fine idea. The second assumption the Israeli’s have grasped is that it’s a good idea to lobby American politicians with a bag of campaign support money discretely tucked in beside the papers in your diplomatic pouch.
And maybe, just maybe, a quiet reminder that the Mossad is in possession of some video.
Amnut ha’aska.
What I find ironically interesting is that the current situation the Palestinians are enduring is seemingly a direct result of the second war situation the Jews endured. The irony being that victims become victimizers and don’t seem to grasp the absurdity.
At the conclusion of the second world war the Western nations still considered the Jews as a problem. Not the same way the Nazi’s viewed the Jewish problem, but still as a problem. After the Nazi’s rounded up as many Jews as they could find, the people who were their non-Jewish neighbors happily acquired their land and possessions and after the war ended were not willing to return what they’d taken. As a result a new lost tribe was wandering around Europe without anywhere to call home. Britain was in the best position of all the European countries because the land war had never reached them and they weren’t a transitioning government that had other problems to deal with other than returning Jews.
The British straight up called the situation a problem. What the British did have was Palestine, and in short order the concept was formed that the Jews and the middle East had a historical and biblical connection, and so Israel take two was born, and the lost tribe of Europe became the lost tribe of Israel.
It was easier than trying to sort out land and property claims in Europe, and it was a great solution for everyone except the people that occupied the land that became Israel.
It sucked for those people, and it still sucks for those people.
And so an entire country was created with people who had a serious attitude problem. Then a shitload of other Jews with an attitude problem supplemented the European Jews with an attitude problem. The supplemental Jews mostly came from Arab countries that had been abusing the shit out of them. Not Nazi abuse but basically government and religious sanctioned discrimination. Then when the U.S.S.R. packed it in another wave of Soviet Jews headed for the holy land and brought their attitudes with them to supplement the new Israeli attitude.
I’m not suggesting the Jewish attitude problems weren’t legitimate.
They were.
But what I am saying is that when you gather together a group of people who have been seriously abused in large enough numbers, what you get isn’t a healing circle or group therapy. What you get is a determined attitude to prevent the abuse from recurring.
So, that means once you’ve determined that they aren’t going to stop fucking you over unless you forcefully prevent them, then your only alternative is to become stronger than your abusers. And from the look of things, that transition from docile and abused, to aggressive and non-abused means you dabble in becoming an abuser yourself.
Of course the abuser label is entirely dependant on what role you’re playing in the situation. I think that the Israeli’s have sort of learned to read the signs of Judenfrage being debated by gentiles, and have decided to be proactive about the situation. I’m actually surprised it took this long considering that Europe has been labelling the Jews as a problem since somewhere around 1750, but I guess that Hitler deciding on his brand of problem solving was the catalyst for an alteration of a Jewish response.
And the response is Israel and Israeli policy.
And Israeli policy is aggressive.
I think though that what people miss is that the Israeli aggression isn’t limited to Arab and Persians. I think the attitude is aimed at everyone in one fashion or another. Granted Israeli jets aren’t bombing Lebanon Pennsylvania, but the Mossad and Israeli lobbyists are extremely busy influencing American foreign policy to ensure an outcome they find favorable.
Basically I think the Israeli’s have decided they can’t completely trust anyone. So they operate on the premise that given the opportunity that the other countries of the world will screw them over again as soon as they get the chance. So, it’s necessary to spy on those other countries to understand what they’re up to. and then use whatever means at your disposal to influence their governments to prevent the screwing from happening.
Very wealthy Jewish citizens is a logical place to start if you’re in the business of purchasing votes in whatever the halls of governing are called in those countries the citizen calls home. Senate, Parliament, Dumas, or whatever. Doesn’t matter to the Israeli’s. They simply deploy whatever tool works best in that specific country to serve Israel’s interests. Sometimes those interests are patriot missile systems and fighter jets, and sometimes those interests are a vote in the senate tabling continued financial aid.
I suppose I could be completely off track here. But I really think the Israeli mantra is to be aggressively pro-active. And I think that mandate to be aggressive very often dispenses with ethics, because history provides the Israeli’s the rationalization for the end to justify the means..
Plus some religious nuts and Zionism helps to keep things tense, because I’m guessing that tension is inevitable when you claim your people are chosen by God, and preordained to own the unholy land wholly.
I think at the conclusion of the second world war that the Jewish survivors had already transformed themselves into people whose only goal was to survive another day. I think that when a day became a week, and a week became a month that they still believed their survival was as tenuous as it was when they sought to see only another day.
I think that mindset has been passed on to subsequent generations. Some of that inherited paranoia is because of a determination to keep a tight grip on the memory of the holocaust, but the rest of the paranoia is because they’ve geographically placed themselves into the middle of a region that still views them as the Jewish problem.
And some of the governments of that region, and Iran in particular have stated clearly that their official policy is the destruction of Israel, and genocide of it’s people.
So, given the mindset of survival adapted to proactive instead of reactive, then I understand the Israeli goal of convincing America to attack Iran.
They just had to wait for the right moment and the right president.
And so through their actions the Israeli’s have not absolved themselves of their perpetual grievance. Instead they’ve done everything they can to nurture that grievance, and in the process created a mirror image of grievance in their Muslim adversaries.
I really can’t see a solution unless Iran and Israel both decided that nuclear weapons and mutual destruction is a more acceptable outcome that one side prevailing. That would sort of solve the problem I guess.
Burn it all down and let the infidel gentiles look somewhere else for oil.