(July 27, 2025 at 11:02 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: So I don’t think Israel can simply stay in Gaza killing a few dozen people every single day and make us all watch these atrocities.
Sad to say, they can and they will. Or actually it's not "a few dozen" any more. It's closer to 100.
Both Israel and the US have given up all pretense that this is about self-defense, or any other morally justifiable purpose. This is evil, about taking what belongs to other people, and everybody who's paying attention can see it.
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I am also tired of this “Promised land” idea. My only vision is that it is OK for each ethnic group on this world to have a piece of land they can call “my own”. But I don’t think that, having just said that, I have brought my self in a problem that is impossible to solve. Netanyahu like people are the ones claiming “that there is no solution” so that they can keep doing what they are doing.
More Israelis are openly talking about "Greater Israel." This is the goal of taking over all that land that was originally promised to Abraham in Genesis 15:18.
This is bounded on the west by the Nile, and on the East by the Euphrates. It includes all of Palestine, all of Lebanon, and parts of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. This helps explain why Israel is bombing Lebanon and Syria with impunity, destroying whole villages which pose no threat.
There has been some increase in awareness among Americans and others who used to be more obedient to the propaganda. Not that long ago if you said something radical like "Israeli snipers shouldn't shoot toddlers," the obedient drones would reply "HamAS! HaMAs!!@ Muslim TeRROr!!!!" Decades of propaganda have worked wonders. But these days there is a little more acknowledgment that, for example, starving a huge number of people, and then announcing where food will be distributed, and then shooting people who go to the distribution point, is perhaps not quite sporting.
The strange thing to me is that so many Americans still justify this unqualified evil. For example, atheist extraordinaire Sam Harris, though of course he opposes any sort of biblical justification for political actions, makes an exception for Israel.
So the answer is: it will go on as long as America says it can go on, and there is no indication that America will ever make it stop. Trump recently announced that any city or state which boycotts Israel will not receive any federal funding.
It's another nail in the coffin: America is letting everyone know that it's the greatest cause of terror in the world. As every country turns its economy toward China, America makes itself a military economy with a third-world population attached. What Bush did in Iraq was clear enough, but now America's support of genocide shows what it's really made of.
