Monday 30 October 2023

From the news: on the war in West Asia [Content Warning - links to reports on bigotry/hate, violence including SA & CSA/abuse/war, genocide, language. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Reporting on recent and currently ongoing tragic events in this part of West Asia includes the following:

 

 

  • “Hundreds storm Russian airport to protest Israel flight”   https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/europe-news/2023/10/30/dagestan-airport-israel   “Russian news reports said people in the crowd were shouting anti-Semitic slogans ... Video on social media showed some in the crowd on the landing field waving Palestinian flags, protesters attempting to overturn a police car and others checking the passports of passengers who had arrived in Makhachkala”   



 


Note: as with other mass murderers, violent extremists crave publicity, so I refuse to give that to them - I will avoid using their names (which is a policy adopted by good law enforcement and media for other mass murderers), and I will not give them the satisfaction of being described with the T word. 

This is explained further in my post at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/10/from-news-on-war-in-west-asia-content_25.html, and discussed in part of the following: 

Dr Kaz Ross on Bannon, Gaza, fascists & freedom - Yeah Nah Pasaran!  
“This week we're joined by returning guest Dr Kaz Ross to talk about the far-Right response to the war on Gaza, as well as Melbourne n___s (we hate Melbourne n___s) and the vestiges of the Cooker movement.”
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/yeah-nah-pasaran/id1529396490?i=1000632770640   or at   https://www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran/episode/dr-kaz-ross-bannon-gaza-fascists-freedom  

My take on events, summarised at the start of this post (no apologies for the repetition), is:

A violent extremist organisation (I will neither give them the publicity of using their name nor describe them as anything but violent extremists) has destroyed themselves, Gaza, and the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories. (And where are they getting their rockets from? Gaza has no industry, so they are coming - and have come, and been hoarded - from somewhere ... )

IMO, Israel has, by falling in to their trap, destroyed any chance of peace in that area of the world for at least the next ¾ of a century. 

However, Jewish people, mostly outside Israel, who objected to falling in to the trap have saved Judaism from a similar opprobrium, and it is those Jewish and Palestinian people who have been working together - including in Israel - have kept the flame of hope alive. 

The move of voters towards authoritarianism - globally - in recent decades  (the last quarter of century is of particular concern) is also a major factor in this and other problems in the world, and the small-mindedness, fear, insularity, selfishness, amathia, and moral & intellectual cowardice & incompetence/ineptness of those voters, and the failures of progressive parties to take those voters with them, must be acknowledged and dealt with. Until we have a world that will not elect people like the 45th president of the USA and that sort of ilk, we do not have a safe world.

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

  • this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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