Bedfellows to Oblivion

“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.” Five Western military leaders.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Western rationality at its calculated finest:

We must stop others from having/using what we have – the ultimate means to literally holocaust massive numbers of people, totally destroy total environments and spread radiation for thousands of kilometers causing untold mutations and disease and eventual death.

How?

By using our weapons of mass destruction to literally holocaust massive numbers of people, totally destroy their total environment and spread radiation for thousands of kilometers causing untold mutations and disease and eventual death.

Nuclear annihilation to prevent nuclear annihilation. The use of weapons of mass destruction to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.

This passes for western reason? Western thought so bankrupt, so devoid of content that all it can muster up is massive killing to prevent the imagined future possibility of massive killing? But if this is what passes for western reason mustn’t that mean that western reason has past? I think it does. We’ve past ourselves by. We’re done with. We’ve nothing left to offer but rationales for the ultimate in destruction.

Western reason meets Judeo-Christian Zionism (because you just know where this is gonna play itself out right?): Bedfellows to Oblivion.

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Israel is Demented. Gaza is the Evidence.

Part I: Israel is Demented. Part II: Gaza is the Evidence.

Israel is Demented

Yes, atrocities occur elsewhere in the world: the populations of the Sudan, the Congo, Tibet, Iraq and Afghanistan all suffer under the blow of atrocities. And? And atrocities are committed almost daily by the Jewish State – Israel – against the Palestinian population. That is a fact. Don’t be intimidated away from a fact. Misplaced guilt has no place here either. Face it. It’s the truth.

The Jewish State is barbaric. This is not a fact. It is an interpretation or a characterization of Israel’s daily onslaught of killing, land theft and subjugation of the Palestinians. Whether or not you find this characterization apt, however, is likely related to your interest in learning the truth about these daily atrocities. Look into it yourself (e.g., Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; Foundation for Middle East Peace; Public Committee Against Torture in Israel; The Electronic Intifada). Alternatively, look to Part II (to follow).

The State of the Jews ought to protect its citizens, of course, including its Palestinian population (sadly this cannot go without saying). However, Israel might consider other more plausible means to achieving state security than the near daily murdering of Palestinians. It might want to rethink starving people (see also) as a military tactic. Or of imprisoning over one million Palestinians in an area a mere 360 sq. km. It might want to rethink the consequences of flat out stealing Palestinian land, bit by bit through the work of legal sounding policies and criminal-zealot-settlers – a truly disgusting lot these colonizers. Or polluting or stealing their water and other resources. Or bombing the Gazans only electrical power plant. Or withholding medical supplies. Or letting Palestinians die waiting at check points. This is the State of the Jews. These (above) are merely a gloss on the brutal facts. It is not hyperbole, empty rhetoric nor anti-Semitism to state it. It is willful blindness to deny it. It is inhuman to ignore it. It is morally right to actively oppose it.