Hating to Belong
To have an identity
To be a member
To be a tribe
Is natural, as long as Belonging is Hate
But such a strategy
In the long run
can get you killed
By the other
Finally
And you can enjoy the accused
Free of the very
Justice
You deserved in your idyll
Gerard
History may not repeat, but it rhymes, as the saying goes.
Circa 2030 (or 1930) – Some truly believed in 2024 (or 1945) that the beliefs of extremists were just words and nature, but that reason and integration and appeasement would eventually lead level headed leaders to avoid calamity and aggression. That believed one could avoid war of immense destruction
Gerard
I meant
Circa 2030 (or 1945) – Some truly believed in 2024 (or 1930)
Gerard
Genocide by the numbers
Est. – 30000 civilians killed **
** note – Gaza Health Ministry – a “reliable” Gaza ministry led by Hamas
Gerard
Just think of how a nuclear armed Iran, aligned with other illiberal powers, might act in ways that echo history.
What will the western people then say of Hamas, Hezbolah, and other Iran backed proxies, and Iran’s lunatic religious fundamentalists
Gerard
You fear what is to come when the only liberal democratic country in the region is besieged with calls to arrest the leaders, knowing that the next ten years will see a nuclear arms race that includes Ayatollahs at the helm of the most dangerous country of the region, that is part of a pact sympathetic to ISIS and a caliphate.
And by then everyone will have stopped talking about crimes of genocide by the Israelis of course. By then the accusations will be hurdled at those who would like to return to an order born out of the first two world wars, an order that was imperfect, but far less scary than what is to come
Gerard
There is a moment when you realize you have truly entered a new moment in time, when the rules have truly changed. And you anticipate the next moment. How long will it be before those who believe Islam to be just another faith in the world will come face to face with all it demands, including fear of challenging the 2 billion on Earth who nod to fatwas and martyrdom and such
@Gerrard
Time to take your meds.
Hating to Belong
To have an identity
To be a member
To be a tribe
Is natural, as long as Belonging is Hate
But such a strategy
In the long run
can get you killed
By the other
Finally
And you can enjoy the accused
Free of the very
Justice
You deserved in your idyll
History may not repeat, but it rhymes, as the saying goes.
Circa 2030 (or 1930) – Some truly believed in 2024 (or 1945) that the beliefs of extremists were just words and nature, but that reason and integration and appeasement would eventually lead level headed leaders to avoid calamity and aggression. That believed one could avoid war of immense destruction
I meant
Circa 2030 (or 1945) – Some truly believed in 2024 (or 1930)
Genocide by the numbers
Est. – 30000 civilians killed **
** note – Gaza Health Ministry – a “reliable” Gaza ministry led by Hamas
Just think of how a nuclear armed Iran, aligned with other illiberal powers, might act in ways that echo history.
What will the western people then say of Hamas, Hezbolah, and other Iran backed proxies, and Iran’s lunatic religious fundamentalists
You fear what is to come when the only liberal democratic country in the region is besieged with calls to arrest the leaders, knowing that the next ten years will see a nuclear arms race that includes Ayatollahs at the helm of the most dangerous country of the region, that is part of a pact sympathetic to ISIS and a caliphate.
And by then everyone will have stopped talking about crimes of genocide by the Israelis of course. By then the accusations will be hurdled at those who would like to return to an order born out of the first two world wars, an order that was imperfect, but far less scary than what is to come
There is a moment when you realize you have truly entered a new moment in time, when the rules have truly changed. And you anticipate the next moment. How long will it be before those who believe Islam to be just another faith in the world will come face to face with all it demands, including fear of challenging the 2 billion on Earth who nod to fatwas and martyrdom and such