When the Wall Street Journal sniffs its disapproval.....
....By mid-December, Israel had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions and shells on the strip. Nearly 70% of Gaza’s 439,000 homes and about half of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed. The bombing has damaged [and destroyed] Byzantine churches and ancient mosques, factories and apartment buildings, shopping malls and luxury hotels, theaters and schools. Much of the water, electrical, communications and healthcare infrastructure that made Gaza function is beyond repair. Most of the strip’s 36 hospitals are shut down, and only eight are accepting patients. Citrus trees, olive groves and greenhouses have been obliterated. More than two-thirds of its schools are damaged.’...quoted at Unz
That's not the only disapproval.
Try this, from an Israeli-born US writer, Ilana Mercer:
...The country in which I was raised, Israel, is no longer. It is now “Little America on the Mediterranean.” By this moniker I mean to denote a country that is now run—and overrun—by diaspora-supported religious fanatics and neoconservatives, Jewish and gentile. A slick, monied American and immigrant Jewry and attendant gentile interests stateside have the run of the place, especially in the West Bank. (See “More U.S. Jews Moved to West Bank Settlements in 2021…”.)...
Yes, those would be the NeoCons who ran Bush the Dumber's foreign policy and created the Ukraine war for Joe the Babbler. Charlie Sykes is among them, kissing the ass of the Cruise-Ship Warrior Billy Kristol.
This is not a good place for the US to be. Period. Unless you are the NeoCon Pin-Up Girl:
Yup
ReplyDeleteThis scripture is applicable - greg
And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end. [Daniel 9:27]
When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand. [Matthew 24:15]
And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not: he that readeth let him understand: then let them that are in Judea, flee unto the mountains: [Mark 13:14]
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation. [Daniel 11:31]
And from the time when the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred ninety days, [Daniel 12:11]
“Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes. Military explosives rip human bodies apart. They burn people alive. They trap them under rubble where they die excruciatingly slowly in one of the most horrifying ways imaginable.
ReplyDeleteThe belief that these attacks should be considered less vicious and brutal because they are launched from a distance by people who won’t see their effects is as psychologically immature as a little girl who believes you can’t see her because she has covered her own eyes. An attack which kills and maims and tortures doesn’t cease to be brutal and vicious just because it looks like a blip on a screen to you. Human suffering isn’t made less acute or less significant by being far away”. – quoted from Caitlin Johnstone.
Is this not a quite civilized way to conduct war? Death and destruction with almost no personal risk, since the effects are safely distant from the people who caused them. It’s simply like using a remote to turn off a TV show you don’t want to watch anymore.
Publius Cornelius Scipio the Younger valued the lives of his soldiers and would have embraced aerial obliteration, had that technology existed in his 146 BC leveling of Carthage. That Mediterranean coast conquest being a large step forward in the rise of Rome with their up close and personal crucifixion technology. Mark78
Clumsy sidestep, Mark78
ReplyDeleteIt's not the 'distant control.'
It's that Israel is driving Gazans from their land. Recall that until 1948 that land was occupied by Palestinians, not Jews. Christ encountered Samaritans in Israel, too.
Let's not pretend, friend. This is Zionism writ large. And it is NOT the business of the US.
I fear you misread me Dad29. I should have used a sarcasm font for paragraph 3. What Israel is doing in Gaza is evil. The point Caitlin Johnstone was making, and that I agree with, is that the West is enamored with “distance control” of infrastructure destruction, both military and civilian. A corollary being the West is indifferent to the civilian suffering that follows their mastery of “distance control”.
ReplyDeleteIf I was truly good at side stepping I’d be a RINO “law maker”. Mark78
Oh.
ReplyDeleteNevermind! --Emily Litella