My paternal grandmother, Alice Maher, was Jewish. I just want to put that out, in the public forum, before anything else. She may have been a lapsed Jew, but London, before, during and after, the Second World War wasn't as safe a place for Jewish people as you might imagine. It wasn't Germany, but they faced as much hate and segregation from some quarters as any Jews in Germany, Poland, Hungary or France. The plight of the Jewish people has, it seems, always been a struggle.
Imagine being mainly white and yet persecuted for being a religion that for many centuries has been a label to detest? Yet, here we are in the 21st century and the same thing appears to be happening to the world's largest organised religion. Muslims, especially since the turn of the century, have become the race and religion to be treated with distrust; to be sceptical about, to make up all kinds of bullshit about to reinforce people's beliefs. In the USA, there are white Christians murdering anyone, with high powered assault weapons and yet the American people are incapable of coming up with a solution to stop it and simply offer their hopes and prayers that 'God' will eventually stop the senseless killings.
The Republic of Ireland is an independent country apart from the bit at the top, which is part of the United Kingdom. It has been part of the UK for 800 years, when the British invaded Ireland and decided it was theirs. For centuries it was ruled by the British and it wasn't until 1921 when they finally escaped their captors and forged their own independent country, apart from the bit at the top...
Imagine, if you will, that island of Ireland. Imagine that despite the Republic gaining its independence, the North decided that the area of land it had wasn't big enough, so gradually over the decades it took bits and pieces; starting with, say, Donegal, which is also at the top and to the west. Then it moved onto Louth and then Monaghan and then by the 1950s it took Cavan and Leitrim. Not content with having all of North Ireland, the British then took Connacht and moved down the west coast of Ireland 'repatriating' it and returning it to British rule until in 2000 when all that was left of an independent Ireland was Dublin, Wexford, Munster and most of Kerry - the rest were called the British Ireland Territories and the British weren't content; they still wanted lots of what was left.
Imagine this happening and it getting the full backing of the United States, and all the major European countries and as a result any dissenting voice coming out of Independent Ireland was either silenced or isolated so it sounded like feeble excuses, especially given that the Irish Liberation Organisation had been labelled a terrorist organisation and were not recognised by anyone apart from those crazy Irish people, who seem to have elected the political wing of these 'murdering terrorists' who have the audacity to challenge and fight the invading British armies...
This scenario is essentially what has happened in the Middle East since the Balfour Declaration in 1917, when the British acknowledged the right of the Jewish people to have a Middle Eastern homeland and from that point on, especially after World War Two and then the Six-Day War in 1967. In fact since that short-lived Arab-Israeli war in 1967, the Israeli governments have slowly but surely driven the Palestinian people out of their homeland and 'settled' in areas that they believe was their ancient home and their birth right to regain. While this has happened, the West has steadfastly ignored everything the Israelis have done and whenever the region gets into the news it's because Palestinians - either the PLO or now Hamas - have dared fight back against the oppression they have suffered since 1948. The example I gave you above about Ireland is essentially what has happened in the Middle East; Israel was smaller than Palestine in 1948, by 2023 there's probably going to be a region comparatively the size of Yorkshire in the UK that is for Palestinians, everywhere else has been 'settled' by the Israeli people and they do this with the full backing of the USA, the UK, most of Europe and a large percentage of 'important' countries in the world.
A fantastic example of the bubbles we live in can be found if you trawl through social media and the comments sections of all the major UK newspapers. We have been indoctrinated so well over the last 50+ years that we now think of Palestinians as 'Muslim terrorists' even if they're just young children and we also think that Israel has an almost God given right to annihilate them; almost as if they're really just an infestation rather than being the indigenous race. Everywhere we look or listen to it's about the poor Israelis and how they're suffering. It's pure indoctrination, the same way that the west has demonised left wing politics as communism or how socialism is a bad thing and like anti-Muslim rhetoric, the sheep will believe what they're told by those with a vested interest in people believing them.
What Hamas did on October 7th was a heinous and cowardly act of aggression, probably akin in many ways to a mass suicide bombing. Palestine was going to be assimilated inside the next 20 years anyhow; the Israeli government have been looking for an excuse to raze the place to the floor to make occupying it much easier and allow other countries to come in and rebuild it for them, thus cementing the brilliant relationship between Israel and its Western allies. What Hamas did was essentially sacrifice its own people so that the world would start to look at Israel in a different way. The problem is despite the hundreds of thousands of people who have marched in protest last weekend, the rest of the world doesn't care. We've had 22 years of constant bombardment from the press about wicked, extremist or bonkers Muslims, so in many eyes around the world this is just pay back for all the terrorism caused by Muslims - which, of course, represents less than 10% of all actual terrorism caused since 11th September 2001, but why let facts get in the way of hatred?
The unbelievable silence from world leaders about the mass murder of women and children in Gaza, dismissed away by the flimsiest of excuses, 'there were Hamas fighters in that hospital' and the acceptance that anything the murderous IDF or the Nazi Likud party tells us and the scepticism from the same world leaders at the amount of women and children who have died in Gaza is reprehensible; it's like anathema against Palestine because they exist and it would be far more convenient if they didn't.
However, if you look at social media or news media or newspaper comments sections you will see that if you support Palestine you're the enemy - you're anti-Semitic - as well; because people don't see other people, they see terrorists and if children die it's one less future terrorist for their own children to worry about. If Israel says that a hospital bombing killing hundreds of people was caused by a rogue Hamas missile that malfunctioned and landed in the courtyard which as well as containing 1000 refugees also has a explosives dump, then people will believe that flimsy excuse because people will believe that Palestinians sleep with their missiles as pillows. They don't believe that Israel is capable of committing the kind of atrocities that the Nazis committed against them, despite extreme Zionists stating in their holy book the Talmud that no gentile (non Jew) is important and their lives don't matter.
Social media and comments section show that most people support Israel, despite there apparently being 78% of the population supporting an immediate ceasefire on humanitarian grounds; the problem is half of that number want a ceasefire because they're fed up with Palestine filling up the news and current affairs programmes; they're fed up with it being all over their newspapers and on-line, just the same way as people have almost already forgotten the Ukraine crisis - out of sight, out of mind. People don't really care; especially not when there's a cost of living crisis, or when there's a zombie government doing nothing for them but seemingly raising interest rates, food prices and everything else while turning a blind eye to the profiteers wringing their last drops of profit out of people before the Labour Party come into power and might possibly stop that (which they won't). People don't care. They didn't really care when they put Ukrainian flags on their Facebook pages; the gammons in this country were happy for Ukrainians to come here as refugees because a) we weren't having that many and b) they weren't brown and didn't worship a God they were unfamiliar with. People don't really care and they regard the actual people that do as 'woke' or 'lefties' - that is how numb a large part of humanity has become to the lives of people who are dying.
If the UK allowed Palestinian refugees, which it probably wouldn't, how long before they get labelled 'economic migrants' or are pilloried because they have mobile phones or Nike trainers? How long before the faux fascists in this country start supporting the eradication of all Palestinians, in the same way that many of them felt we should shoot asylum seekers in the channel and let the French clean up the bodies? Saying you care is a whole lot different than actually caring. We live in a country where people don't even like their own neighbours and have been indoctrinated with a 'shop they neighbour' mentality, especially if they feel their neighbours have something these ignorant heartless bastards don't have.
But I'm getting away from the point - no country has any justification to target children or hospitals regardless of what they believe, especially not with missiles against a country that doesn't have a navy, an air force or an existing proper army. Yes, Hamas might be bankrolled by Iran, who we regard as our enemies, but Israel have state of the art weapons technology, sold to them by the UK and the USA, which they are using to kill children and then when challenged they feign incredulity and get angry that gentiles could be so harsh by criticising their right to defend their stolen country.
But what's the point of telling you this; of explaining the actual facts of the situation and the reasons for why this has happened when most of you simply don't care? Maybe we need to be under threat before people start to realise that our leaders allow genocide as long as it suits their political aims and purposes. Maybe it's time people started to look at the bigger picture, explore the history, ask why this has happened rather than shout angrily at some 'rag head' or 'wog' they don't want to understand or sympathise with. The human race is lauded for its humanity, so where is that humanity when innocents are dying?
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