I agree. Arab countries too. They will of course all be deemed to be the financera if Hamas, just like South Africa is called Hamas’s lawyer…but at this point, who cares. But that is the problem isn’t it…information think the Arab countries or Russia or China actually care. Only Lebanon and Yemen (by their militant factions) have shown any support at all.
I think you’re talking about the Arab countries. I was impressed by their restraint too. But I don’t see how this ends without more violence. Israel won’t stop, any more than Germany would stop in WW2. And it’s not going to stop in Gaza. It will go on on throughout Palestine and into Lebanon and Jordan and Syria and Egypt. The Israelis have already talks about clearing out miles of Lebanon for their security.
Arab countries know this. So do western ones.
Nobody wants WW3. But who wants a world where Israel gets to eliminate whatever people they want? In 1939 and later in the 40s western counties said enough. But that was when Europe was under threat. No it’s wanted WW2 either. But Hitler didn’t leave many options…it was war or fall to Nazi occupation.
Now we are to believe its nuclear war or Israeli occupation.
There must be some alternative to WW3 that is not leaving the Palestinians to languish and die and Israel unpunished .
If not, is this world worth saving? And, if our leaders can’t come up with any l’alternative, then that sort of leadership will lead to the world’s demise sooner or later…if not through war, through climate catastrophe.
The time for real leadership is now.
I don’t see it coming from the west. I hope and pray it comes from the east and global south. We need it from wherever we can get it.
And let us not forget vengeance. Hundreds of thousands of German speaking civilians were shot, starved or otherwise murdered after the war by the citizens of the former occupied countries. Anyone thinks that this will not blow back upon us and the Israelis is ignorant.
Vengeance is a human reaction. But so is the will to contain it. It’s the internal battle between good and evil. We’d love to think those things are external, but I don’t think so. It’s in every one of us. We each have to decide which way we go. To be good is not so easy….i think it hurts a lot.
It may not be about "caring." It may be because many are relatively small, not backed by comparable Military-Industrial Complex Force or nuclear weapons, and have seen what happens to Middle Eastern and African countries with oil & resources who don't cooperate with U.S./Britain/Israeli/Western aims and "national interests" (for oil, natural gas, oil & weapons "pipelines," and other resources), like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, now Gaza, etc. etc..... As Jenny points out, if BRICS nations step in, couldn't that trigger WWIII? And it's surely obvious to them who would most suffer.
Also, those so-called "oil rich countries" are no longer so oil rich after a full century of gradual (and not so gradual) Western take-overs by U.S., Britain, Canada, NATO, Chevron, BP, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, etc. Those underdeveloped countries did not have the means and equipment to extract their own oil, so they naively or under threat made "bargains" that cost them their freedom - with OPEC, with the above nations/ oil industry conglomerates, becoming saddled with debt to the IMF, being swept into the U.S./Britain/France/Germany/NATO weapons pipeline as part of those deals. Basically, the Middle East has been "Balkanized" and divided, endured regime changes, destabilized, set against one another and live in fear that they might be next. These are just a couple of articles. There are many:
The Balkanization of our own minds by politically driven media and cultural controls is more subtle and pernicious and what we all need to stay vigilant to. Othering, not just the newest "terrorist," but that WE are more human than some, any, current OTHER. National structures of power are not the ordinary human beings who live and work, have gardens, farms, pets graduations, professions, dreams; who have lives just as we do within those national structures. And many of those unstable structures, again, like Israel and Palestine, or North and South Yemen, are the deliberate product of ongoing Colonialism that purposefully created and fomented tribal hatreds and national structures at odds with the populations they contain.
These deliberate distorted divisions the U.S. et al have perpetrated on the world are already coming back to bite us. "Divide and conquer" increasingly comes home as the rich become super-rich and the poor get poorer and more disenfranchised. The immigrants who put the food on our tables turned upon, modern slavery thriving under cover of prisons, ethnic groups especially brown and black skinned, and non-so called "Christian" religions targeted, the police increasingly militarized, merging with ICE, and hatreds fanned, the political take-over of women's creative bodies..... And we have two corrupt corporate political parties, represented by two sociopaths, Biden and Trump, and their chosen media outlets that fill the airwaves and our minds daily with incessant garbage designed to divide and inflame families and friends, cultivating tribalism, Us against Them.
I personally think most people are not so much capable of initiating true intentional Evil, which is its own category at the far reaches of the Human spectrum, relegated to those last two circles and the frozen pit of hell in Dante's vision, as they are of being traumatized and caste under spells, caught in sticky webs of lies and obfuscations, some starting in early childhood, that are a major tool of the forces of Power and Greed. Delusion and ignorance are more primary - it is no accident that increasing numbers of books are being banned, what can be taught in schools curtailed, and that we now have a stacked Supreme Court. Yes, those caught in these webs can be used by Power, but they are also more capable of transformation and waking up.
Can other major governments like Russia or China make up UNRWA’s budget shortfall? I mean what’s a billion or two for these powers?
Let us, we the people, support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate
Thank you for the link ❤️
I agree. Arab countries too. They will of course all be deemed to be the financera if Hamas, just like South Africa is called Hamas’s lawyer…but at this point, who cares. But that is the problem isn’t it…information think the Arab countries or Russia or China actually care. Only Lebanon and Yemen (by their militant factions) have shown any support at all.
mary.
I am impressed with these countries you mention. They are holding back mainly I believe because they see a WW3
Not every country thinks like the US.
I think you’re talking about the Arab countries. I was impressed by their restraint too. But I don’t see how this ends without more violence. Israel won’t stop, any more than Germany would stop in WW2. And it’s not going to stop in Gaza. It will go on on throughout Palestine and into Lebanon and Jordan and Syria and Egypt. The Israelis have already talks about clearing out miles of Lebanon for their security.
Arab countries know this. So do western ones.
Nobody wants WW3. But who wants a world where Israel gets to eliminate whatever people they want? In 1939 and later in the 40s western counties said enough. But that was when Europe was under threat. No it’s wanted WW2 either. But Hitler didn’t leave many options…it was war or fall to Nazi occupation.
Now we are to believe its nuclear war or Israeli occupation.
There must be some alternative to WW3 that is not leaving the Palestinians to languish and die and Israel unpunished .
If not, is this world worth saving? And, if our leaders can’t come up with any l’alternative, then that sort of leadership will lead to the world’s demise sooner or later…if not through war, through climate catastrophe.
The time for real leadership is now.
I don’t see it coming from the west. I hope and pray it comes from the east and global south. We need it from wherever we can get it.
Our leaders are a bunch of 'chicken shit' pompous gasbags. I truly am disgusted that so few have come forward.
Why is it the so many people are horrified and not politicians.
This will come back to haunt them all.
And let us not forget vengeance. Hundreds of thousands of German speaking civilians were shot, starved or otherwise murdered after the war by the citizens of the former occupied countries. Anyone thinks that this will not blow back upon us and the Israelis is ignorant.
Vengeance is a human reaction. But so is the will to contain it. It’s the internal battle between good and evil. We’d love to think those things are external, but I don’t think so. It’s in every one of us. We each have to decide which way we go. To be good is not so easy….i think it hurts a lot.
It may not be about "caring." It may be because many are relatively small, not backed by comparable Military-Industrial Complex Force or nuclear weapons, and have seen what happens to Middle Eastern and African countries with oil & resources who don't cooperate with U.S./Britain/Israeli/Western aims and "national interests" (for oil, natural gas, oil & weapons "pipelines," and other resources), like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, now Gaza, etc. etc..... As Jenny points out, if BRICS nations step in, couldn't that trigger WWIII? And it's surely obvious to them who would most suffer.
Also, those so-called "oil rich countries" are no longer so oil rich after a full century of gradual (and not so gradual) Western take-overs by U.S., Britain, Canada, NATO, Chevron, BP, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, etc. Those underdeveloped countries did not have the means and equipment to extract their own oil, so they naively or under threat made "bargains" that cost them their freedom - with OPEC, with the above nations/ oil industry conglomerates, becoming saddled with debt to the IMF, being swept into the U.S./Britain/France/Germany/NATO weapons pipeline as part of those deals. Basically, the Middle East has been "Balkanized" and divided, endured regime changes, destabilized, set against one another and live in fear that they might be next. These are just a couple of articles. There are many:
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East.
https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/99/1/208/854761
Yemen’s Tragedy: War, Stalemate, and Suffering
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/yemen-crisis
The Balkanization of our own minds by politically driven media and cultural controls is more subtle and pernicious and what we all need to stay vigilant to. Othering, not just the newest "terrorist," but that WE are more human than some, any, current OTHER. National structures of power are not the ordinary human beings who live and work, have gardens, farms, pets graduations, professions, dreams; who have lives just as we do within those national structures. And many of those unstable structures, again, like Israel and Palestine, or North and South Yemen, are the deliberate product of ongoing Colonialism that purposefully created and fomented tribal hatreds and national structures at odds with the populations they contain.
These deliberate distorted divisions the U.S. et al have perpetrated on the world are already coming back to bite us. "Divide and conquer" increasingly comes home as the rich become super-rich and the poor get poorer and more disenfranchised. The immigrants who put the food on our tables turned upon, modern slavery thriving under cover of prisons, ethnic groups especially brown and black skinned, and non-so called "Christian" religions targeted, the police increasingly militarized, merging with ICE, and hatreds fanned, the political take-over of women's creative bodies..... And we have two corrupt corporate political parties, represented by two sociopaths, Biden and Trump, and their chosen media outlets that fill the airwaves and our minds daily with incessant garbage designed to divide and inflame families and friends, cultivating tribalism, Us against Them.
I personally think most people are not so much capable of initiating true intentional Evil, which is its own category at the far reaches of the Human spectrum, relegated to those last two circles and the frozen pit of hell in Dante's vision, as they are of being traumatized and caste under spells, caught in sticky webs of lies and obfuscations, some starting in early childhood, that are a major tool of the forces of Power and Greed. Delusion and ignorance are more primary - it is no accident that increasing numbers of books are being banned, what can be taught in schools curtailed, and that we now have a stacked Supreme Court. Yes, those caught in these webs can be used by Power, but they are also more capable of transformation and waking up.
Because they don't want WW3. Which could go nuclear. They are taking their time but unfortunately this means more people will die.