I H Watinsky

Free Thinker, IT, Langs, History, admirer JFK/RFK, FDR, MLK, H.D.Thoreau, Winston Churchill, Sophie Scholl, Julian Assange, Alexei Navalny. Detest hypocrisy.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Public endemic corruption, lies, lobbyists, identity politics, incivility, (visa scams/schemes replacing American workers), (failed/inaccessible education/workforce training), student debt, violence, lack of healthcare prevent us ALL moving together forward to pursue our dreams.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Why don’t these hospitals train and support education/training for more diverse American nurses? Why do you think Americans cannot perform nursing jobs and why do you feel smug in replacing Americans with cheaper foreign workers?

The immigration system is broken to the extent it supports massive cheap labor schemes like H-1B benefiting foreigners at the expense of American workers and their families.

It’s actually the American education system which is broken being a debt servitude scheme rather than being a system designed to educate Americans for high-skilled careers like nursing.

Indian interests gain more and more control over US immigration, education, and employment everyday and that’s destroying our country one job lost forever at a time.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Agree Ambassador, and I would add that your latter point is not just about ethics, morality, and compassion, but also about politics.

Hamas is evil but Hamas benefits politically each and every time Israel or individual Israelis including settlers engage in indiscriminate or indifferent or careless or improper force against civilians or in the case of settlers actions outside the rule of law.

If one opposes Hamas then one must be mindful of the political realities and not engage in any action which is needlessly unfair or irresponsible regarding Palestinian civilians who must be given an assumption of innocence even if they are not all innocent and even if it not easy or sometimes emotionally convenient to do so.

There must be a civil space of safety in which Palestinians can oppose Hamas.

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[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Hamas is a terrorist organization and a dictatorship.

Israel should take much greater precautions to stop killing non-combatants in Gaza.

It should be easy to embrace both of these positions and not just one of them.

If you can't, please rethink.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

“We are fighting for our lives, for our future, and mostly for the future of our children.”

Arab-Israeli TV anchor @lucyaharish interrupted rolling coverage of Hamas’s atrocities against Israelis to make this heartrending appeal to the world.

Please listen and share.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Proposed steps to move forward to peaceful resolution of Israeli/Palestinian conflict:
. Hamas entirely resigns ending their ‘administration’ of Gaza.
. PM Netanyahu resigns ending his divisive tenure.
. An Israeli bombing/offensive pause is put in place immediately, contingent on release of all hostages and Hamas relinquishing total control of Gaza to UN authorities.
. All rockets or other instruments of violence from Gaza or West Bank must cease.
. All Israeli/foreign hostages are released and accounted for.
. All missing Palestinians are accounted for—excavations conducted as necessary assisted by Israel and international partners.
. Israel releases all Palestinian prisoners provided they commit to non-violence.
. All settler violence is required to cease.
. All Palestinian terrorism is ended.
. Oslo process is rebooted with PA but this time requiring continuous, daily, irreversible ‘confidence building measures’ by both sides at every step of the way including both Israelis and Palestinians.
. Israel and Palestinians must work together in required mandate to repair all of the damage done since 10/07/23 including repairing all the Kibbutz and other buildings in Israel but also including damage to the West Bank and Gaza funded in large part by international donors.
. The rule of law will prevail over the rule of the mob or any form of violence. The law must be fairly applied.
. Judges which must include some Palestinian jurists adjudicate infractions of any violence by any party including all armed groups even the IDF and PA.
. Israel and Palestinians working together commit themselves to building housing and communities in the West Bank primarily for Palestinians including some returnees provided agree to non-violence.
. Israel and Palestinians are required to meet at least daily and ask in regards to any and all issues and opportunities for progress, for joint symbiotic efforts and concrete actions to improve the welfare of both Israelis and Palestinians so as to live peaceful and productive lives.
. The ‘educational’ curriculum in both Israel and Palestine must be reformed and renewed to strive for excellence, tolerance, and the rule of law.
. Hate speech or incitement to violence will not be tolerated by any individual or group either Palestinian or Israeli.
. After five years time a referendum to be held on Palestinian statehood which must include democratic norms and a renunciation and cessation of all violence. (An underground tunnel may be built to connect the two Palestinian territories.)
. Israel must likewise commit itself to ending all violence and abuse against the Palestinians.
. Both sides must be totally committed to bringing any violators of ‘the end of violence agreement’ to account consistent with the rule of law to be decided by impartial and fair joint Israeli/Palestinian judges whose rulings must be respected and if needed be enforced jointly by both the respective parties to the agreement and conflict.
. The leaders of both Israel and the Palestinians commit themselves to leading their people in this challenging endeavor of ‘the rule of law and cessation of violence’ in good faith.
. The United States, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the PA, the UN and other international partners will commit their good offices to making this plan successful assisting all parties to the agreement and conflict in every way possible to move forward.
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I would add that this plan is likely to be vehemently opposed by the extremists on both sides but they cannot be allowed to prevent this reasonable, comprehensive, and detailed plan from being discussed then moving forward for the benefit of both parties, their citizens, and the international community. I.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Proposed steps to move forward to peaceful resolution of Israeli/Palestinian conflict:
. Hamas entirely resigns ending their ‘administration’ of Gaza.
. PM Netanyahu resigns ending his divisive tenure.
. An Israeli bombing/offensive pause is put in place immediately, contingent on release of all hostages and Hamas relinquishing total control of Gaza to UN authorities.
. All rockets or other instruments of violence from Gaza or West Bank must cease.
. All Israeli/foreign hostages are released and accounted for.
. All missing Palestinians are accounted for—excavations conducted as necessary assisted by Israel and international partners.
. Israel releases all Palestinian prisoners provided they commit to non-violence.
. All settler violence is required to cease.
. All Palestinian terrorism is ended.
. Oslo process is rebooted with PA but this time requiring continuous, daily, irreversible ‘confidence building measures’ by both sides at every step of the way including both Israelis and Palestinians.
. Israel and Palestinians must work together in required mandate to repair all of the damage done since 10/07/23 including repairing all the Kibbutz and other buildings in Israel but also including damage to the West Bank and Gaza funded in large part by international donors.
. The rule of law will prevail over the rule of the mob or any form of violence. The law must be fairly applied.
. Judges which must include some Palestinian jurists adjudicate infractions of any violence by any party including all armed groups even the IDF and PA.
. Israel and Palestinians working together commit themselves to building housing and communities in the West Bank primarily for Palestinians including some returnees provided agree to non-violence.
. Israel and Palestinians are required to meet at least daily and ask in regards to any and all issues and opportunities for progress, for joint symbiotic efforts and concrete actions to improve the welfare of both Israelis and Palestinians so as to live peaceful and productive lives.
. The ‘educational’ curriculum in both Israel and Palestine must be reformed and renewed to strive for excellence, tolerance, and the rule of law.
. Hate speech or incitement to violence will not be tolerated by any individual or group either Palestinian or Israeli.
. After five years time a referendum to be held on Palestinian statehood which must include democratic norms and a renunciation and cessation of all violence. (An underground tunnel may be built to connect the two Palestinian territories.)
. Israel must likewise commit itself to ending all violence and abuse against the Palestinians.
. Both sides must be totally committed to bringing any violators of ‘the end of violence agreement’ to account consistent with the rule of law to be decided by impartial and fair joint Israeli/Palestinian judges whose rulings must be respected and if needed be enforced jointly by both the respective parties to the agreement and conflict.
. The leaders of both Israel and the Palestinians commit themselves to leading their people in this challenging endeavor of ‘the rule of law and cessation of violence’ in good faith.
. The United States, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the PA, the UN and other international partners will commit their good offices to making this plan successful assisting all parties to the agreement and conflict in every way possible to move forward.
—-
I would add that this plan is likely to be vehemently opposed by the extremists on both sides but they cannot be allowed to prevent this reasonable, comprehensive, and detailed plan from being discussed then moving forward for the benefit of both parties, their citizens, and the international community. I.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Civilian casualties:

The argument is put forward is that if one is fighting per ‘the rules of war’ then whatever force considered beneficial can be applied to a military target not withstanding civilians as the military necessity takes precedence over civilian casualties as long as the military target’s value is commensurate.

Unfortunately, this argument is fallacious reasoning as it doesn’t give any weight to the political dimension, which will likely be enormously affected by large numbers of civilian casualties.

Moreover, a false analogy is made to WWII, for example the bombing of France by the allies as part of Normandy landings.

The difference is that while some French civilians were likely killed in these bombings, the allies would never have considered high civilian casualties of the French to be politically acceptable, responsible, or prudent.

That’s the problem with both Hamas and the current Israeli leadership is that there is no level of civilian casualties which is too high as the civilians are all considered to be ‘enemy non-combatants’ or even combatants.

This ‘thinking’ is fundamentally, morally wrong and has multiple logical fallacies.

Moreover, there are other and more advantageous means of capturing or cornering high value targets then blowing up entire villages or hospitals even if enemy bunkers are below them, but one has to see the paramount necessity of making that arduous effort to save civilian lives while still pursuing justified military objectives and one will simply not see any benefit in doing so if one considers all civilians to be enemy combatants—even children.

The stupidity is that there are likely many Gazans who are sick of Hamas, but Netanyahu/Israel is totally incapable of offering them anything better…and is in fact offering them worse.

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[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Civilian casualties:

The argument is put forward is that if one is fighting per ‘the rules of war’ then whatever force considered beneficial can be applied to a military target not withstanding civilians as the military necessity takes precedence over civilian casualties as long as the military target’s value is commensurate.

Unfortunately, this argument is fallacious reasoning as it doesn’t give any weight to the political dimension, which will likely be enormously affected by large numbers of civilian casualties.

Moreover, a false analogy is made to WWII, for example the bombing of France by the allies as part of Normandy landings.

The difference is that while some French civilians were likely killed in these bombings, the allies would never have considered high civilian casualties of the French to be politically acceptable, responsible, or prudent.

That’s the problem with both Hamas and the current Israeli leadership is that there is no level of civilian casualties which is too high as the civilians are all considered to be ‘enemy non-combatants’ or even combatants.

This ‘thinking’ is fundamentally, morally wrong and has multiple logical fallacies.

Moreover, there are other and more advantageous means of capturing or cornering high value targets then blowing up entire villages or hospitals even if enemy bunkers are below them, but one has to see the paramount necessity of making that arduous effort to save civilian lives while still pursuing justified military objectives and one will simply not see any benefit in doing so if one considers all civilians to be enemy combatants—even children.

The stupidity is that there are likely many Gazans who are sick of Hamas, but Netanyahu/Israel is totally incapable of offering them anything better…and is in fact offering them worse.

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[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Civilian casualties:

The argument is put forward is that if one is fighting per ‘the rules of war’ then whatever force considered beneficial can be applied to a military target not withstanding civilians as the military necessity takes precedence over civilian casualties as long as the military target’s value is commensurate.

Unfortunately, this argument is fallacious reasoning as it doesn’t give any weight to the political dimension, which will likely be enormously affected by large numbers of civilian casualties.

Moreover, a false analogy is made to WWII, for example the bombing of France by the allies as part of Normandy landings.

The difference is that while some French civilians were likely killed in these bombings, the allies would never have considered high civilian casualties of the French to be politically acceptable, responsible, or prudent.

That’s the problem with both Hamas and the current Israeli leadership is that there is no level of civilian casualties which is too high as the civilians are all considered to be ‘enemy non-combatants’ or even combatants.

This ‘thinking’ is fundamentally, morally wrong and has multiple logical fallacies.

Moreover, there are other and more advantageous means of capturing or cornering high value targets then blowing up entire villages or hospitals even if enemy bunkers are below them, but one has to see the paramount necessity of making that arduous effort to save civilian lives while still pursuing justified military objectives and one will simply not see any benefit in doing so if one considers all civilians to be enemy combatants—even children.

The stupidity is that there are likely many Gazans who are sick of Hamas, but Netanyahu/Israel is totally incapable of offering them anything better…and is in fact offering them worse.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

So what’s the problem in thinking or with the thinking of both sides:

On Israeli side:
. Some Arabs including some Palestinians tried in 1948 to drive us into the sea after UN partition.
. Palestinians desires haven’t changed.
. Therefore, ALL Palestinians want to drive us into the sea and murder us—forever…even the children.
. Peace can only be an ilusion.

On Palestinian side:
. Some Jews in 1948 drove many of us from our then homes and lands.
. Israel is led by Zionist Jews and their desires have not changed.
. Therefore, ALL Israelis want to drive all of us from all of our homes and lands—forever…even the children.
. Peace can only be an ilusion.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

So what’s the problem in thinking or with the thinking of both sides:

On Israeli side:
. Some Arabs including some Palestinians tried in 1948 to drive us into the sea after UN partition.
. Palestinians desires haven’t changed.
. Therefore, ALL Palestinians want to drive us into the sea and murder us—forever…even the children.
. Peace can only be an ilusion.

On Palestinian side:
. Some Jews in 1948 drove many of us from our then homes and lands.
. Israel is led by Zionist Jews and their desires have not changed.
. Therefore, ALL Israelis want to drive all of us from all of our homes and lands—forever…even the children.
. Peace can only be an ilusion.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

So what’s the problem in thinking or with the thinking of both sides:

On Israeli side:
. Some Arabs including some Palestinians tried in 1948 to drive us into the sea after UN partition.
. Palestinians desires haven’t changed.
. Therefore, ALL Palestinians want to drive us into the sea and murder us—forever…even the children.
. Peace can only be an ilusion.

On Palestinian side:
. Some Jews in 1948 drove many of us from our then homes and lands.
. Israel is led by Zionist Jews and their desires have not changed.
. Therefore, ALL Israelis want to drive all of us from all of our homes and lands—forever…even the children.
. Peace can only be an ilusion.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Unfortunately, Ghazi Hamad, Hamas foreign minister, has his Israeli counterparts who may even include Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

I would argue, despite the media narrative to the contrary, that ‘the struggle’ is not between Jews and Arabs, but rather between those who favor civility, compassion, personal responsibility, and the rule of law as compared to those who favor the ‘rule of the mob.’

Ghazi Hamad is a cruel and cynical rabble rouser leading a criminal mob which denies the humanity and rights of all of those on the opposite side.

The question then is Netanyahu really all that much different? Netanyahu participated in a demonstration calling for Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination which assassination happened a short while later and Israel hasn’t been the same since.

A politician who leads by demagoguery isn’t leading a country or people to anywhere which is good.

A mob to get in front of or a population to educate then lead somewhere productive and symbiotic?

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Unfortunately, Ghazi Hamad, Hamas foreign minister, has his Israeli counterparts who may even include Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

I would argue, despite the media narrative to the contrary, that ‘the struggle’ is not between Jews and Arabs, but rather between those who favor civility, compassion, personal responsibility, and the rule of law as compared to those who favor the ‘rule of the mob.’

Ghazi Hamad is a cruel and cynical rabble rouser leading a criminal mob which denies the humanity and rights of all of those on the opposite side.

The question then is Netanyahu really all that much different? Netanyahu participated in a demonstration calling for Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination which assassination happened a short while later and Israel hasn’t been the same since.

A politician who leads by demagoguery isn’t leading a country or people to anywhere which is good.

A mob to get in front of or a population to educate then lead somewhere productive and symbiotic?

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That this happened here is beyond reasonable doubt. The only question is how common it is.

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Unfortunately, Ghazi Hamad, Hamas foreign minister, has his Israeli counterparts who may even include Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

I would argue, despite the media narrative to the contrary, that ‘the struggle’ is not between Jews and Arabs, but rather between those who favor civility, compassion, personal responsibility, and the rule of law as compared to those who favor the ‘rule of the mob.’

Ghazi Hamad is a cruel and cynical rabble rouser leading a criminal mob which denies the humanity and rights of all of those on the opposite side.

The question then is Netanyahu really all that much different? Netanyahu participated in a demonstration calling for Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination which assassination happened a short while later and Israel hasn’t been the same since.

A politician who leads by demagoguery isn’t leading a country or people to anywhere which is good.

A mob to get in front of or a population to educate then lead somewhere productive and symbiotic?

[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Some ‘parties to the conflict’ are both unreasonable and deceitful and almost never accept personal responsibility for their actions and impacts.

Ghazi Hamad, Hamas foreign minister, stands out as singularly nefarious, but one should ask if he has any opposing counterparts on the Israeli side who are almost equally myopic in their wrongly held ideas?

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[I H Watinsky @watinsky]

Some ‘parties to the conflict’ are both unreasonable and deceitful and almost never accept personal responsibility for their actions and impacts.

Ghazi Hamad, Hamas foreign minister, stands out as singularly nefarious, but one should ask if he has any opposing counterparts on the Israeli side who are almost equally myopic in their wrongly held ideas?

[Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie @BMWE_]

It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.