You mention the movie that recently won an Oscar and why, in some instances, people who should be for “bridging the divide” are reacting negatively “automatically” instead to the movie and it’s director and/or message. This one I can explain: many Jews and “Zionists” (people who believe that Jews should have their own ancient homeland, I…
You mention the movie that recently won an Oscar and why, in some instances, people who should be for “bridging the divide” are reacting negatively “automatically” instead to the movie and it’s director and/or message. This one I can explain: many Jews and “Zionists” (people who believe that Jews should have their own ancient homeland, Israel, as a legitimate country without people trying to kill them or kick them out of the land of Israel) had a very nasty wake-up call on October 7th, 2023. 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians and families including children and babies, were slaughtered. No other word for it really, because while they were murdered, they were murdered in such a way that can only be described as slaughter. It made a lot of people who would have previously “bought” into the “narrative” (lie) that all Palestinians want is peace and to “bridge the divide.” But they don’t. The Israelis pulled all Jews (including cemetery bones!) and all IDF forces out of Gaza in 2005, and a year or two later Palestinians elected Hamas, knowing what they were, what they wanted, and what they would do to get it. They bluntly stated so many times including in their own charter. They only recently “changed” it for appearances sake, when enough people caught on and started to point it out more and more. We have a problem not being able to read Arabic, and not trusting “the opposition” especially if it is represented as the “oppressor”, to truthfully translate it for us. So someone more “reliable” was beginning to make noises about it, so apparently they changed it. However, on Arabic-language tv like Arabic Al Jezzera (not English language Al Jazzera) they freely state they will not stop until they have killed all the Israelis and taken over the land again, and kill all the Jews and ifidels everywhere. Any few Palestinians that are not raised from cradle-to-grave on Jew-Hate, Israeli-hate, Infidel-hate, like watching Arabic Sesame Street that actually tells toddlers to hate Jews & infidels, and manage to want peace or cooperate at All with Israelis, are murdered. Yaya Sinwar even made a Hamas member whose brother was believed to be a “traitor” bury his own brother alive. Yaya Sinwar also said he had murdered people by strangling them with his bare hands. When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Many of the young people killed at the concert in the desert that day were not only Jewish, but peacenicks. So too were many of the people living near the Gaza wall/border, the ones who were brutally murdered, burned to death, raped, and or taken hostage into Gaza; like the Bibas baby & toddler who were strangled to death. I agree with you that people are behaving immaturely, believing simplistic things that simply aren’t true or aren’t the totality of truth. But remember, this is a “post-truth” world now, so the only reality that matters to most people is “my reality”, or if objective truth still matters to them, there are so many voices on so many platforms, most mature honest people have a harder time finding out what is really true. And you are right that mainstream journalism has been co-opted a long time ago. I remember back in the early 1990’s (no later than ‘93) meeting a journalism major in college at a party. She said she was being taught that people didn’t want dry dull facts and didn’t have the time or capacity to “digest” the news, so it was the job of the new kind of press and journalist to make news more accessible by “pre-digesting” all those pesky facts and sources into a more palatable “narrative” that read better (like entertainment/novel.) I think that was also a part of some kind of long march through the institutions started sometime in the 1969’s but beyond the first (& genuine) civil rights movement. Someone piggybacked off that success to take things even further to “the left” or just towards communism/collectivism in a much more subtle way. Hard to explain, harder to see. I’ll try to go into it in my own posts sometime. Interesting subject for conversation you have here. I like your Substack, it’s conducive to conversation and learning.
You mention the movie that recently won an Oscar and why, in some instances, people who should be for “bridging the divide” are reacting negatively “automatically” instead to the movie and it’s director and/or message. This one I can explain: many Jews and “Zionists” (people who believe that Jews should have their own ancient homeland, Israel, as a legitimate country without people trying to kill them or kick them out of the land of Israel) had a very nasty wake-up call on October 7th, 2023. 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians and families including children and babies, were slaughtered. No other word for it really, because while they were murdered, they were murdered in such a way that can only be described as slaughter. It made a lot of people who would have previously “bought” into the “narrative” (lie) that all Palestinians want is peace and to “bridge the divide.” But they don’t. The Israelis pulled all Jews (including cemetery bones!) and all IDF forces out of Gaza in 2005, and a year or two later Palestinians elected Hamas, knowing what they were, what they wanted, and what they would do to get it. They bluntly stated so many times including in their own charter. They only recently “changed” it for appearances sake, when enough people caught on and started to point it out more and more. We have a problem not being able to read Arabic, and not trusting “the opposition” especially if it is represented as the “oppressor”, to truthfully translate it for us. So someone more “reliable” was beginning to make noises about it, so apparently they changed it. However, on Arabic-language tv like Arabic Al Jezzera (not English language Al Jazzera) they freely state they will not stop until they have killed all the Israelis and taken over the land again, and kill all the Jews and ifidels everywhere. Any few Palestinians that are not raised from cradle-to-grave on Jew-Hate, Israeli-hate, Infidel-hate, like watching Arabic Sesame Street that actually tells toddlers to hate Jews & infidels, and manage to want peace or cooperate at All with Israelis, are murdered. Yaya Sinwar even made a Hamas member whose brother was believed to be a “traitor” bury his own brother alive. Yaya Sinwar also said he had murdered people by strangling them with his bare hands. When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Many of the young people killed at the concert in the desert that day were not only Jewish, but peacenicks. So too were many of the people living near the Gaza wall/border, the ones who were brutally murdered, burned to death, raped, and or taken hostage into Gaza; like the Bibas baby & toddler who were strangled to death. I agree with you that people are behaving immaturely, believing simplistic things that simply aren’t true or aren’t the totality of truth. But remember, this is a “post-truth” world now, so the only reality that matters to most people is “my reality”, or if objective truth still matters to them, there are so many voices on so many platforms, most mature honest people have a harder time finding out what is really true. And you are right that mainstream journalism has been co-opted a long time ago. I remember back in the early 1990’s (no later than ‘93) meeting a journalism major in college at a party. She said she was being taught that people didn’t want dry dull facts and didn’t have the time or capacity to “digest” the news, so it was the job of the new kind of press and journalist to make news more accessible by “pre-digesting” all those pesky facts and sources into a more palatable “narrative” that read better (like entertainment/novel.) I think that was also a part of some kind of long march through the institutions started sometime in the 1969’s but beyond the first (& genuine) civil rights movement. Someone piggybacked off that success to take things even further to “the left” or just towards communism/collectivism in a much more subtle way. Hard to explain, harder to see. I’ll try to go into it in my own posts sometime. Interesting subject for conversation you have here. I like your Substack, it’s conducive to conversation and learning.