I think Yawah Sinwar had some idea, at least to the viciousness of the Israeli response. The decision of his life was to revolt, knowing the wanton depravity of the Israelis would claim countless Palestinian lives, or do nothing, to allow his people to live not much more than biological existences, with no life prospects, all at the hands of the Israelis, basically to live living deaths, while the world at large continued blithely along its way, unaware of the stark, horrid, hasbara-stoked reality of Israel. Of course in this I speculate, but I don’t think I’m far off, fractionally imagining myself in his shoes, after his imprisonment and other abuses and indignities and inhumanities by the Israelis.
I also think he had some expectation that the world would awaken, would do something to put an end to the barbarity. It was a bitter awakening for him that instead of ceasing military aid to Israel, this country sent more munitions with which to kill his people.
It remains to be seen what the import of Oct. 7th will be, whether after incalculable, unfathomable death and inhumanity the stain upon the human record of the Zionist project will finally be historically, temporally limited yet still forever indelible; or whether the malignity of it, encompassing this and other countries’ complicity, will be a triumphant Zionist legacy of nihilism for the world, that fundamentally nothing matters in this cosmic phenomenon of human existence.
While knowing that Netanyahu/Mileikowsky stoked the outbreak attack and did much of the subsequent killing that day - both of the Music Fest attendees and in some of the kibbutz/villages nearby - to "justify" his genocide from that date onwards (already prepared for it - as he and his monster IDF mobsters were).
Oh, Cara - some of us did - even if the question beginning each line is really just a rhetorical device of challenge. It took almost no time to understand that the rapes and beheaded babies were standard hasbara from evil attackers: Belgium in the early stages of the Great War; Bahrain in 1991; just two springing to mind - designed to evoke bloodthirstiness in our own responses! But how splendidly stated - the case for identifying the uglies in this matter. I don't know if you are familiar with the Australian US commentator Caitlin Johnstone - but this style you have employed here and the theme, too - could have been one of her posts! Brava!
I so loved reading this. So sadly true - and well said.
I think Yawah Sinwar had some idea, at least to the viciousness of the Israeli response. The decision of his life was to revolt, knowing the wanton depravity of the Israelis would claim countless Palestinian lives, or do nothing, to allow his people to live not much more than biological existences, with no life prospects, all at the hands of the Israelis, basically to live living deaths, while the world at large continued blithely along its way, unaware of the stark, horrid, hasbara-stoked reality of Israel. Of course in this I speculate, but I don’t think I’m far off, fractionally imagining myself in his shoes, after his imprisonment and other abuses and indignities and inhumanities by the Israelis.
I also think he had some expectation that the world would awaken, would do something to put an end to the barbarity. It was a bitter awakening for him that instead of ceasing military aid to Israel, this country sent more munitions with which to kill his people.
It remains to be seen what the import of Oct. 7th will be, whether after incalculable, unfathomable death and inhumanity the stain upon the human record of the Zionist project will finally be historically, temporally limited yet still forever indelible; or whether the malignity of it, encompassing this and other countries’ complicity, will be a triumphant Zionist legacy of nihilism for the world, that fundamentally nothing matters in this cosmic phenomenon of human existence.
While knowing that Netanyahu/Mileikowsky stoked the outbreak attack and did much of the subsequent killing that day - both of the Music Fest attendees and in some of the kibbutz/villages nearby - to "justify" his genocide from that date onwards (already prepared for it - as he and his monster IDF mobsters were).
The juxtaposition of the dandelion and the horrors so poignantly described
Oh, Cara - some of us did - even if the question beginning each line is really just a rhetorical device of challenge. It took almost no time to understand that the rapes and beheaded babies were standard hasbara from evil attackers: Belgium in the early stages of the Great War; Bahrain in 1991; just two springing to mind - designed to evoke bloodthirstiness in our own responses! But how splendidly stated - the case for identifying the uglies in this matter. I don't know if you are familiar with the Australian US commentator Caitlin Johnstone - but this style you have employed here and the theme, too - could have been one of her posts! Brava!