Guest Mark Sleboda, Host Craig Jardula, Co-Host Kurt Metzger (jimmydore.com); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.)., Wisdom Quarterly
Is cheering on either side justified? Enslaved people (Palestinians) cheer that they bloodied the eye of their oppressors, and that's condemned. Jewish Israeli youth sing of genocide, bloodlust, and killing Gazan babies, making the strip a parking lot, and that's...justified because they're hurt, all destined for mandatory military service where they will get to enact their hatred and dehumanizing chants and celebratory songs? Someone dares sing of a moral high ground or justifiable ethnic cleansing? Revenge is "moral" when one group brought on violent retaliation with its disproportionately violent oppression? What kind of madness have the talking heads brought us to?
Did Israel know attack was coming? It had every reason to know. It was told. It was told by US and Egyptian intelligence agencies. And what did it do with that forewarning? Right wing Prime Minister Netanyahu moved troops away to the West Bank (the other concentration camp where Palestinians are imprisoned on a shrinking reservation). He left the kibbutz wide open and unguarded. So if he needed a pretext for war, it was on his way. And now the world looks the other way as it eradicates the natives, mows the lawn, knocks on roofs (tosses bombs to say deadly missiles are coming, so human beings better get the hint and run).
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