How to Be Anti-Semitic and Get Away With It

[PatrickforB]

53. Beg to differ. Someone should also tell the Likud party and Netanyahu that their systematic

economic oppression of Palestinians over the past 20 years or so has created conditions that cause terrorist acts such as what we saw Oct 7.

It is an utter tragedy that so many innocent Jewish people, as well as so many innocent Palestinians have died.

Everybody's got an agenda and it doesn't help everyday Israelis or everyday Palestinians.

1. The MIC rakes in mega-bucks every time something like this happens, and since by legal doctrine publicly traded companies doing business in the USA hold shareholder profits as more important than workers, consumers, the environment and human life itself, it is in the best interests of shareholders in these arms manufacturing companies to promote conditions that give rise to violent acts because that increases demand, which increases profits.

2. Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, as well as China and Russia, have an interest in creating the maximum chaos in the western liberal democracies for various reasons from religious zealotry to the desire to resurrect old empires.

3. Netanyahu and his Likud party, like our Magats, are introducing fascism to fool their respective masses into thinking they will get what they want without actually giving it to them. That is the best definition of fascism I've ever seen, by the way. I'm thinking but cannot prove that Netanyahu is trying to pursue the war of attrition until he achieves a sort of 'Israel against the world' bunker mentality in hope he will be able to dodge the increasing number of charges against him, as well as the potential gross incompetence arising from the legitimate question of whether he and his cronies knew about this attack beforehand, or perhaps how much they knew. Because there have been reports that suggest criminal negligence. A bunch of Israelis and Palestinians are trying to work together for peace, and many want to oust Bibi from power and put in a sane government.

In the meantime, civilians are hurt, rendered jobless, are killed and maimed, children die and hate is ratcheted up to a fever pitch. Look at my signature line - the main question to always ask is cui bono. I mean, look at Kissinger. He was supposedly a great statesman who engaged in 'shuttle diplomacy,' and 'realpolitik' on behalf of Nixon and Ford. Some called him great, but if you are Cambodian, Vietnamese or virtually anyone else in the world, he was a devil and war criminal.

So, I'd say the only thing that is pellucidly clear here is that children, old people and other noncombatants on both sides are dying in senseless tit for tat violence. Wars of attrition are among the most terrible atrocities our species can commit against our fellows, and that is what the Netanyahu government is presently waging in spite of increasing protests from the rest of the world.