Not everyone believes the bible is a property conveyance. You can convert to being a Jew. Can you convert to being Palestinian? I hear all this talk about solutions being ephemeral. Nonsense. We have just been brainwashed to think we do not have the capacity for reasonable and just solutions. Not everyone will be happy, but that does not mean the solutions are not just.
Please dear editor, Allow me one correction to your opinion piece. You state, "The reprisals, with Gaza crushed by the Israel counteroffensive, has been equally shocking." While you also state that this whole issue did not begin on Oct. 7. Anyone who has taken the time to study apartheid, recognizes that Israel has imposed apartheid on the Palestinians. Therefore, I would argue, as do many others, that this action by Hamas was the counteroffensive, in the context of being held captive in what most honest observers call an open-air concentration camp. Israel's illegal occupation of Gaza, imposing it's unqualified cruel assault on civilians and collective punishment as defined by the highest courts in the world, is the first offensive. Hamas, as anybody who is dignified would do, fought back. Context is not an excuse. However, nobody in their right minds,would submit, or subject themselves to Israel's unarguable dehumanization campaign against an entire population. So, Israel did not launch a counteroffensive. They launched another offensive against the freedom fighters who are literally fighting for their lives, against a totally immoral army and government. Imagine the German government and people speaking like the Israeli's do. Imagine hearing German children singing about killing Jews, while the Holocaust was being committed. It's hard enough to imagine how the German people allowed the holocaust to happen. At least there was a plausible deniability, since they didn't have the technology available at that time. Today, we are witnessing a genocide by any reasonable definition, while the world stands by and has meetings. Pretty sick, hey?
Let's try this., Dawes Watch today's Democracy Now! program in entirety. Listen to the doctors speak. Now, tell me we are members of a decent world. Tell me we are civilized, and have the right to make comments as if we are qualified to do so, while this shit continues. Humanity has doomed itself. We are all members of a losing team. All of us. While this carnage and slaughter goes on, who among us is blameless?
A complete and immediate ceasefire or not? Watch Democracy Now! today for a different perspective than the mainstream media would like you to believe. Israel and the US has drug the world to new lows. While some continue to say Israel is justified in this slaughter. I am tired of the lies and brainwashed westerners
Lack of humility. To drive around in a luxury car while the country you are in charge of doesn't have reliable electricity, water, internet and phone service. Pretending we are a 1st world country while all reasonable metrics suggest a banana republic. If we needed proof that our leaders are out of touch with the people, is there a better example than this?
It is not a question of hate. Hamas has a right to break out of their "open air concentration camp", as described by all reasonable and decent humans. And yes, I fall into the no Israel camp as the experiment of giving another person's land away by an imperial power does not jibe with my sensibilities. No hate, no injustice, just give the Palestinians their land back, as most of the reasonable, decent world citizens have agreed. And, the UN has stipulated. But, the US and Israel continue to support the expulsion of native peoples from their historic land. Zionist Israel was, and is based on total lies. God was not a real estate agent. One cannot convert to being a Bahamian. Would DNA support the idea that Jews came from the "holy land"? Why use a completely different set of criteria for establishing ownership and heritage of land? Many in the west, The Bahamas included, have succumbed to the barrage of lies coming from mass media surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel. It was not a land without people. It was not another colonial country's choice to give it away. If there is guilt over the holocaust, let those who perpetrated these crimes pay for it with their land and resources. The Palestinians were not involved in the holocaust, were they? This is nothing more than a power grab and a geopolitical chess move that moves humanity closer to the brink of extinction. Sadly, it has nothing to do with Judaism, since all decent Jews are protesting this situation, along with the countless millions of other decent people around the world. Political Zionism has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism. Israel has nothing to do with Judaism. If this isn't clear, we've failed miserably in our stated educational objectives. The world is opening its eyes. Israel and the US will soon be irrelevant. Are we prepared here? Or, do we even acknowledge it is happening? Or, did you miss the recent UN votes? What nations are willingly standing with the US and Israel? Because they are jealous, or because they see the US and Israel as bullies? Time to be honest.
Porcupine says...
Is it time to realize that no Bahamian government cares about The People?
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Porcupine says...
Not everyone believes the bible is a property conveyance.
You can convert to being a Jew. Can you convert to being Palestinian?
I hear all this talk about solutions being ephemeral.
Nonsense. We have just been brainwashed to think we do not have the capacity for reasonable and just solutions. Not everyone will be happy, but that does not mean the solutions are not just.
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Porcupine says...
These are pretty strong accusations themessenger.
With which I wholeheartedly agree.
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Porcupine says...
Please dear editor,
Allow me one correction to your opinion piece.
You state, "The reprisals, with Gaza crushed by the Israel counteroffensive, has been equally shocking."
While you also state that this whole issue did not begin on Oct. 7.
Anyone who has taken the time to study apartheid, recognizes that Israel has imposed apartheid on the Palestinians.
Therefore, I would argue, as do many others, that this action by Hamas was the counteroffensive, in the context of being held captive in what most honest observers call an open-air concentration camp.
Israel's illegal occupation of Gaza, imposing it's unqualified cruel assault on civilians and collective punishment as defined by the highest courts in the world, is the first offensive.
Hamas, as anybody who is dignified would do, fought back. Context is not an excuse. However, nobody in their right minds,would submit, or subject themselves to Israel's unarguable dehumanization campaign against an entire population.
So, Israel did not launch a counteroffensive.
They launched another offensive against the freedom fighters who are literally fighting for their lives, against a totally immoral army and government.
Imagine the German government and people speaking like the Israeli's do.
Imagine hearing German children singing about killing Jews, while the Holocaust was being committed.
It's hard enough to imagine how the German people allowed the holocaust to happen. At least there was a plausible deniability, since they didn't have the technology available at that time. Today, we are witnessing a genocide by any reasonable definition, while the world stands by and has meetings.
Pretty sick, hey?
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Porcupine says...
Let's try this., Dawes
Watch today's Democracy Now! program in entirety.
Listen to the doctors speak.
Now, tell me we are members of a decent world.
Tell me we are civilized, and have the right to make comments as if we are qualified to do so, while this shit continues.
Humanity has doomed itself.
We are all members of a losing team.
All of us.
While this carnage and slaughter goes on, who among us is blameless?
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Porcupine says...
A complete and immediate ceasefire or not?
Watch Democracy Now! today for a different perspective than the mainstream media would like you to believe.
Israel and the US has drug the world to new lows.
While some continue to say Israel is justified in this slaughter.
I am tired of the lies and brainwashed westerners
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Porcupine says...
House of........................?
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Porcupine says...
Lack of humility.
To drive around in a luxury car while the country you are in charge of doesn't have reliable electricity, water, internet and phone service. Pretending we are a 1st world country while all reasonable metrics suggest a banana republic.
If we needed proof that our leaders are out of touch with the people, is there a better example than this?
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Porcupine says...
This government seems to have moved from outrageous to committing suicide.
Are their any thinking people left in Parliament?
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Porcupine says...
It is not a question of hate.
Hamas has a right to break out of their "open air concentration camp", as described by all reasonable and decent humans.
And yes, I fall into the no Israel camp as the experiment of giving another person's land away by an imperial power does not jibe with my sensibilities.
No hate, no injustice, just give the Palestinians their land back, as most of the reasonable, decent world citizens have agreed. And, the UN has stipulated. But, the US and Israel continue to support the expulsion of native peoples from their historic land.
Zionist Israel was, and is based on total lies.
God was not a real estate agent.
One cannot convert to being a Bahamian.
Would DNA support the idea that Jews came from the "holy land"?
Why use a completely different set of criteria for establishing ownership and heritage of land?
Many in the west, The Bahamas included, have succumbed to the barrage of lies coming from mass media surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel. It was not a land without people. It was not another colonial country's choice to give it away. If there is guilt over the holocaust, let those who perpetrated these crimes pay for it with their land and resources. The Palestinians were not involved in the holocaust, were they? This is nothing more than a power grab and a geopolitical chess move that moves humanity closer to the brink of extinction.
Sadly, it has nothing to do with Judaism, since all decent Jews are protesting this situation, along with the countless millions of other decent people around the world.
Political Zionism has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism.
Israel has nothing to do with Judaism.
If this isn't clear, we've failed miserably in our stated educational objectives.
The world is opening its eyes.
Israel and the US will soon be irrelevant.
Are we prepared here?
Or, do we even acknowledge it is happening?
Or, did you miss the recent UN votes?
What nations are willingly standing with the US and Israel?
Because they are jealous, or because they see the US and Israel as bullies?
Time to be honest.
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