Sand Thrown In A Bully's Eyes

The bully in the playground was sucker-punched and sand was thrown in his eyes. It had never happened before. His humiliation and shame at the offense he will avenge and in his rage, no one will be spared.   

Loss of face -  a public humiliation that shames and disrespects an individual, particularly within the social confines of the eastern world. On a global scale, imagine the humiliation Israel is experiencing by their attack from Hamas - an invasion, rocket attacks, killings and kidnappings from a small 'guerilla' group against a heavily armed, first-class military backed by the US government. The shame of their defective intelligence is at a global level. Israel was caught off guard and humiliated in front of the world. As a result of this public degradation and loss of face, the punishment will be all out of proportion. No Palestinian will be safe anywhere, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, regardless of the humanitarian rhetoric. The bully ran to his protector for help and now under their shield the sandbox, and everyone in it, is going to be completely obliterated. 

To podcast shills who defend Israel and who know embarrassingly little about the history of the Middle East, such as Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro, you have to ask: how many dead Palestinian bodies will satisfy your revenge? How many buildings destroyed? How many lives ruined? How much darkness? With the complicity and support of the US, who threatens any that would seek to help or interfere, we helplessly stand by sickened as we watch in horror this obscene display of blatant murder. This is not war. This is slaughter.     

It's clear the Israelis would like to see the end of not only Hamas, but all Palestinians in the occupied territories. This has been their goal for years - to be rid of Palestinians through oppressive and stifling laws and lack of freedom. Men, women and children - all gone. Pushed into the Sinai desert with no right of return, as cumulatively millions of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria have experienced. The irony is, the Israelis created the very organization they're now fighting, Hamas, in order to counterbalance Arafat's PLO. Fighting what you created is called blowback. 

The collective oppression, mistreatment and murder of Palestinians has been successful due to propoganda slogans created at Israel's inception.  'Never again' and 'we have a right to protect ourselves' are slogans with which the world has been shamed for decades on the back of the genocide of World War II. Every incursion into the West Bank or Gaza by the Israeli military has been prefaced with those words to justify their actions and curtail  discussion of legality or rights. Likewise, any criticism of Israeli actions comes with protestations of anti-semitic.  

The invasion and appropriation of Arab land has been the norm for Israelis, with illegal settlements strategically intersecting the West Bank.  Israelis, protected by the military, move in and build houses and build their own roads called Sterile Roads which Palestinians cannot drive on. Israelis can drive anywhere without restriction, with the hundreds of checkpoints manned by the Israeli military for Palestinians only. At the same time, settlers throw garbage, sewage and racist epithets at the Palestinians and their children, whose land they have stolen. 

The world is at a moral precipice, watching as more than two million people are killed and wounded by psychopaths and it gets bleaker, darker and more terrifying as the days pass. How is it that not one person can stop maniacal Netanyahu from this destruction. Well, no one could stop Hitler. Why is that? 

Palestinians are as despised by the Israelis as the Jews in Germany, where Hitler once opined 'you will curse me every Jew I don't kill.'  Netanyahu is muttering the same towards his nemesis. 

'What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size' - Carl Jung. This sudden explosion of violence has been building for the past 75 years - the night raids, the beatings, the arrests, the bulldozing, the bombing, the imprisonment, the torture and the list of atrocities commited by the Israelis against the Palestinians is too long to consider here. George Santayana said 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' Perhaps : We remember the past only to repeat it.