Again we see the usual, monotonous rise in hostilities between the Palestinians and Israelis. As usual many people (maybe absorbed in western msm propaganda) rush to condemn the Palestinians. Too many others are so much bamboozled by the bible's narration of 'Israelites' as 'the people of God' selected to 'punish the wicked neighbours' . So unfortunately many people are blinded by the 'Israel' misnomer and the palestinians become the easier target of condemnation as the memory of the bible's 'wicked Israel neighbours', sometimes who 'needs to be exterminated' comes to minds!
Whether or not leaders are driven by religion is irrelevant. The relevant thing is that leaders do indeed tacitly use these Bible stories to mesmerize people into a blind support for Israel! Without the bible stories, so many people would condemn Israel that it becomes politically untenable for leaders to support Israel. So yes, demystifying the bible is necessary.
We leave in a dangerous times, where even the illusion that media is a reliable source of 'truth' is being shattered before our eyes! In the west, their rush to label everything that Russia says as 'propaganda' has backfired! Ironically, people have ended up doubting the western media for this, instead! What makes the western MSM so sure that Russia is using 'propaganda' in the war with Ukraine exept that this is what the MSM itself usually uses in the US etc wars? If you are so sure that your neighbour's husband is battering his wife when she does xyz, then it can most likely be due to the fact that you yourself batters your wife when she does xyz, and you think that 'everyone is like you'. So the things we accuse others of normally reveals something about ourselves! This is the situation that the western MSM has found itself! That is why leaders that are against the fuelling money and weapons to the 'bottomless bit' of Ukraine are being elected!
It is in such a toxic media environment that we must judge the acts now in middle east! We must be careful not to be unwittingly led by propaganda into seeming to think that one thing is right as done by one person, and the same thing is wrong as done by another person! That, for instance, it is right for Russia to fire missiles to Ukraine but wrong for Hamas to do the same thing on Israel! That it was right for US to invade Iraq but wrong for Russia to 'do the same'. That is was right for Kosovo to unilaterally secede from Serbia but is wrong for Zaphorozhye to do the same from Ukraine. That it is right for Israelis to kidnap the Palestinians, but it is wrong for vice-versa to happen! People end up getting this wrong because it all depends on their favourite propaganda outlet! The propaganda outlet itself tells you not the 'truth' but what they want you to believe in order to advance their interests, or the interests of their patrons. Of course is such a situation, consistency will be hard to achieve! It will only happen when being consistent serves their interests, then they tell you consistent things, then they form a consistent so called 'laws', be they international ones etc
Now so many countries, including Britain and US advances the so called 'two state solution' to Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What this one means is that these 'patron' countries do claim to acknowledge that both the Palestinians and the Israelis have a right to form a country, each of their own. So it is a 'neutral' solution where the end result doesnt (at least much) favour any group. However, in a stunning hypocrisy, they favour one side, arming it tooth and nail! How can you seek for a neutral solution via a biased procedure? If you do acknowledge that both the Palestinian and the Israeli equaly deserves to form a country, how does this translates into arming only one side in the conflict? Why doesn't the same logic for arming Israel apply to arming the Palestine?? Anyone genuinely advancing for a solution that creates two equal states MUST be neutral! Any one arming only one side actually either persues a 'one state solution' where the group he is arming completely overrules the other, or simply exterminates them in a genocide! There is no other option! The words speaks one thing, and the actions loudly speaks another thing!
It is not like they don't know how such 'arming' actually puts a spanner on the work. In the Russo-Ukrainian war, they say that 'they will negotiate latter'. Clearly, they are first waiting for the what happens in the battlefield to 'tilt in favour of Ukraine' before they can negotiate, and they think (maybe erroneiusly) that a flux of weapons delivered to Ukraine will help this! If we keep supplying weapons to Ukraine, they reason, then Russia might be led to believe that it cannot 'win the war'. This might lead Russia to be more interest with a negotiation. Since it will be Russia that desperately needs a negotiation, it will allow Ukrainian to dictate more on the terms, hence bringing obout an outcome that favours Ukraine more.
So pay a close look at the logic: If we arm the Ukraine, they admit, then the outcome of the conflict will be in favour of the Ukraine, against Russia. In other words Russia will lose as much as Ukraine think it can force Russia to lose, given the weapons it has! Apply the same logic to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we clearly see the un-stated mission! We seek a 'two-state solution', yes, but only through a negotiation that Israel dictates as much as it wishes! Combine this with the Jewish claim of the entire 'promised' land, and you can only guess that the unstated mission is actually to annihilate the Palestinians! What they want, actually is an unconditional surrender! No one can accept such, and the weapons are not as 'magical' as they believe. So the war simply becomes endless!
Think about trying to help Israel dictate as much as it wishes, having in mind that many in the west believe that Israel is already occupying some of the Palestinian land! You find masses who don't know what they are doing! You have many people in the west who actually believe that Israel is just like 'Russia' in that it is in 'occupation' of another land. However, they suggest opposite solutions for this same problem! 'Since Russia is the aggressor', they are convinced, 'we must leverage Ukraine so that the latter might dictate more in a future negotiation'. But in Palestine, they advocate arming the aggressor in a bid to achieve the same results as arming the 'victim' in Ukraine! If 'insanity' is 'doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results', then doing different things over and expecting the same results must be a square of insanity!
The same reasoning can also be applied to disarming and blockading Palestine. There are only three reasons for trying to prevent your neighbour from arming. One is cowardice, the other is genuine concern for your security, and the other one is seeking to maintain your own tyranny! Only the second is unshameful enough, but it demand some de-humanizing your neighbour! In order for Israel to convince the world that it is for the second reason that they, for instance, blockade Gaza, they must present the Palestinians as to be fundamentally different from them! The latter must be barbaric, blood thirsty etc. They must be totally irresponsible with arms! This is the usual colonialists narrative to justify trying to infringe on the native's right to bear arms! (Everyone and every group in this world have a right to arm themselves, and blockades done to deny that is unjustifiable).
In reality, a blockade to deny arms (even as you yourself are on arming spree), is as justifiable as storing the military equipments in civilian areas and then blaming the other side for 'bombing civilians' in a war! The thing is that the other side must be allowed to obtain proper arms that can properly target the military, rather than the civilians, before we blame them on civilian casualties actually due to usage of bad arms! Both cases involves risking leveraging the other side, but for the sake of safety of the civilians.
All this shows that it is not the second option that drives Israel to blockade Gaza. Rather, it is the mixture of the two other more shameful ones! Israelis are both coward and tyrannical! The Hezbollah never went into a runaway attacking of Israel and there is no blockade there! Hamas, on the other hand draws from the same script as Hezbollah, and so there is no more need to feer Hamas than to fear Hezbollah. What we see in Hezbollah case is that an armed Israeli adversary is realy not 'barbaric' against Israel. It just is capable of deterring Israel from anyhow aggression, and this is all what Israel don't like! Israel wants impunity, and this is their whole point. They want to enter any air space they wish, when they so wish, and bomb them as they wish! Against doing such, they don't want any deterrence from any group! This is their true intent in blockades etc! The other is cowardice! They can't handle a peer-to-peer competitor! For Israel to fight you, for it to keep entering your space with jets etc, you must first be armed with stones, otherwise, it seeks negotiations and friendships! So they dare not rub such giants as Russians etc the wrong way!