Just a regular person. Light is the only counter to darkness. Love is the counter to hate. If we lower our light or love we simply make more dark & hate.
I envy the Israeli left.
Not their politics. Their freedom.
They march through Tel Aviv calling their own country an apartheid state. They go on CNN and call the IDF war criminals. They write op-eds in Haaretz comparing Israel to the worst regimes in history. They join NGOs funded by hostile governments to produce reports designed to delegitimize the Jewish state.
And then they go home. Sleep in their beds. Send their kids to school the next morning. No one threatens their family. No one disappears them in the night. No one drags them from their home.
Zero consequences.
Now imagine, just imagine, if Iranians had 1% of that freedom. If an Egyptian columnist could criticize Sisi the way Gideon Levy criticizes Netanyahu. If a Palestinian in Ramallah could call Abbas corrupt on live TV and walk home safely. If someone in Gaza could have held a sign saying "Hamas does not speak for me" without being executed.
The Middle East would be unrecognizable.
The great irony is that the people who enjoy more political freedom than virtually anyone else in the region use that freedom to paint Israel as a tyranny while the actual tyrannies they're silent about would imprison or kill them for doing the same.
You're not brave. You're spoiled. You mistake comfort for conscience. You scream "genocide" into a microphone the state itself protects, then sleep soundly in a democracy you spend your days trying to destroy, while millions across this region would trade everything they have for five minutes of the freedom you use to spit on your own country.
@ginnydmm@Abel_van_Afrika@PhantomXMusic69@steenekampcarl If we all really wanted change it would be mass civil action: a bugs life was profound when they said what can puny ants do and demonstrated that a million can do lots
@Mish_K_@Recon1_ZA@DanBurmawy I understand your point but reading everyone’s points doesn’t amount to bias if u take all as opinions. It’s when the opinions match up with more empirical evidence that a more factual picture emerges. It’s easy to make a claim harder if a carbon dated relic supports a view.
@Arfness@RenaldoGouws Israel is mentioned about 2200-2500 in the Old Testament (Torah) and many prayers say next year in jerusalem which is both spiritual and referring to the hope of the temple in Jerusalem. It’s pretty much impossible to divorce Judaism from Israel.
This is what happened when 20 random people were shown what UNRWA funded schools teach in the Palestinian Authority.
You don't know just how bad it is.
@tim_meh87 You cannot separate Israel from Judaism. Its no coincidence that Israel is mentioned approximately 2200-2500 times in the Old Testament. Call it what you will but its clearly a case of not wanting to play Jewish children in a sport.
@grootvlei@davidshap4711 If they want to be Jew haters own it and don’t lie. If you think you can separate Judaism from Zionism you dreaming. Israel is mentioned approximately 2,200 to 2,500 times in the Old Testament and is a fundamental element in a Jewish school.