1900
Palestine was a province of the Ottoman Empire. The Arab armies liberated the Middle East with the British Army, but the provinces were divided by two English Arab experts. Straight lines drawn in the deserts. Peace ruled the lands, but the West had plans for the Levant.
1937 Nakba when the British defeated the Palestinians and then armed the Zionists to create a homeland for the Jewish people after the Holocaust. The partition wasn’t in Germany, but the biblical kingdom of Judah which hadn’t rxisted for almost two thousand years.
Death camp survivors and Jews of the Diaspora emigrated to Palestine with the hopes of a place of refuge, except this safety came at the cost of the Palestinians; Muslims, Christians, Druze, Samaritans, and others, when the UN voted a oartition granthing one-third of the population two-thirds of the land.
Palestine shrunk with the loss of wars. 1948. 1956. 1967. 1972 and then the occupation. Israel a democracy ruling over an apartheid ghetto. People said those people were always fighting each other just like the Irish fighting the rule if the British.
Ugly.
The PLO Hamas and Hezbollah countered US billions, F-16s, and precision bombing with terrorist attacks, suicide bombing, and intifdas to no avail, then October 7. Hamas broke through the border walls to attack the desert communities in the Negev. On that day the IDF was asleep. Nearly 1109 Isrealis died in the assault. The majority civilians as had been the those killed by the constant raids of the IDF on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Hostages taken by Hamas. Accusations of rape. The only POV that of Israel.
Complete destruction of Gaza. Tens of thousands killed by revenge bombing. Hundreds of thousands wounded by the IDF. Millions homeless. Nowhere to run or hide in a repeat of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Netanyahu and the hardliners refusing to negotiate with Hamas or anyone. All they want is blood and death backed by billions from the West. $20 billion to kill 50,000 or more. And there’s more to come.
But there us only one answer.
Peace.
Shalom
Salaam.
But not with Netanyahu in power and no one asks why 10/7.
The date has no significance.
Why?
Ask who had to gain from 10/7?
Not Hamas. Not Israel. Only one person
Boris Putin.
After the 2024 Presidential election the Russians thought Trump would give them the greenlight to invade the Ukraine. He lost, but told Putin that he would take the White House by force. That coup d’etat failed, but Putin committed his military to the conquest of an ex-Soviet state. Failure. Before 10/7 the War in Ukraine was # 1. Now Israel Total War rules the headlines. My hunch is that the Russians learned that the IDF had relaxed the border security to deal with the pro-democracy demonstrations and Putin told this the the Iranians who leaked it to Hamas. October 11. Chaos. The Ukraine War invisible to the world.
Putin can attack Ukraine without too much attention, reapoing the value of Eternal War.
But one day Peace and I hope it’s soon.
Call a truce
Bring home the hostages.
Stop the war
