Issue313
2009-01-04, 17:45
I'm confused about this current middle east conflict.
If the Israelis have the means to kill the Palestinians, but the Palestinians don't have the means to kill the Israelis, doesn't that mean that the Palestinians have lost, and should surrender?
I don't see how anyone can support Hamas in its war, when they have already lost. The only thing stopping the Israelis from building malls and suburbs on the Gaza strip is some notion of human rights.
But anything you can do to a rat you can do to a human, and you can do a lot of things to a rat. In history human rights have only applied within civilisations, and when civilisations clash, human rights have ceased to apply. For instance I can't shoot my neighbour, much as I might love to, but when my country goes to war I am encouraged to shoot as many of the enemy as possible.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not a clash of nation states, but a clash of civilisations. In this situation 100% of the population of each civilisation is a target, as they contribute to the maintenance of their civilisation, thereby becoming a means of continuing the war.
We have to decide which civilisation to support in this war. For me the choice is clear, I support the more western, technologically advanced, liberal and slightly secular Israeli state. The Palestinian state is backwards, poor and extremely religious. We each need to choose a side based on rationality, rather than based on pictures of dead children shown on the nightly news.
If the Israelis have the means to kill the Palestinians, but the Palestinians don't have the means to kill the Israelis, doesn't that mean that the Palestinians have lost, and should surrender?
I don't see how anyone can support Hamas in its war, when they have already lost. The only thing stopping the Israelis from building malls and suburbs on the Gaza strip is some notion of human rights.
But anything you can do to a rat you can do to a human, and you can do a lot of things to a rat. In history human rights have only applied within civilisations, and when civilisations clash, human rights have ceased to apply. For instance I can't shoot my neighbour, much as I might love to, but when my country goes to war I am encouraged to shoot as many of the enemy as possible.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not a clash of nation states, but a clash of civilisations. In this situation 100% of the population of each civilisation is a target, as they contribute to the maintenance of their civilisation, thereby becoming a means of continuing the war.
We have to decide which civilisation to support in this war. For me the choice is clear, I support the more western, technologically advanced, liberal and slightly secular Israeli state. The Palestinian state is backwards, poor and extremely religious. We each need to choose a side based on rationality, rather than based on pictures of dead children shown on the nightly news.