Israel on a Path of National Suicide

"Friends" of Israel are leading her to a path of national suicide. By providing impunity, and by denying the rights of Palestinians for 76 years, Israelis must come to the conclusion that they are right. But since they are NOT, as certified by hundreds of UN resolutions - since they continue to occupy, oppress, dispossess, ethnically cleanse and murder Palestinians, while stealing their land and water, humiliating them, caging them in an apartheid regime, denying them citizenship or rights, erasing their history and pretending that they don't exist and had never existed.

Now, if you were a Palestinian under these deplorable conditions, you would resist and revolt. Come what may. Israel has only one response, more violence, killing, demolition and dispossession. In the words of Soffer, Israeli demographer and geostrategist:

"We have to kill and kill and kill, all day, everyday." https://www.jpost.com/features/i-didnt-suggest-we-kill-palestinians

In the "Mowing the lawn" practice, every round of pogroms brings more death and destruction than the last, until there will come a point, where the whole world will rise, unable to tolerate the slaughterhouse any more.

Inside Israel, people are led to believe that Palestinians are terrorists who love violence and hate Jews more than they love their children. No mention of Nakba or Palestinian land and lives stolen. No apology or attempts for reconciliation. So, many Israelis cheer and ask for more and more killing of Palestinians and now demand genocide. The progressives demand ethnic cleansing as used starting 1948 and thereafter.

This spiral has one end. It's like being on a runaway train going downhill. The end is not goin to be pretty for anyone including friends and even bystanders.

What can be done now?

Try to stop the runaway train if you dare to and reverse course.

Arms embargo. No-fly zone. Sanctions. Full accountability. Arbitrated (not negotiated) settlement imposed. Let's just hope that train can be stopped.

In response to:

https://x.com/FareedZakaria/status/1746902924851048686?s=20

Also See:

Haaretz Editorial | Israel's Path to National Suicide

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-05-20/ty-article/.premium/israels-path-to-national-suicide/00000188-3ad4-d7fa-a1dc-badff8b80000

Uprising of the Mud - Ahmed Matar

 Uprising of the Mud

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They placed me in a pot

And asked me to adapt

I'm not a water bud

I am created of heaven's mud

And as the pot minds the growth 

of what matters

It soon shatters

They asked me to choose

Between life and death

Between dancing on a tightrope

Or dancing below a tightened rope

I chose to live on

I said: let me be hanged

Smother the parrot with your rope

And grant me an ever-screaming silence

State Dept Spox Can't Find Evidence of Israeli War Crimes - but where is He Looking?

 

A Study of Ob*scene

The Independent's cartoon (bottom) 

 

Great cartoon - reminds me of something I have seen recently ... wait - it's this one (top image): - posted Feb 18th 2024- it's a collage with a poem (below - under the cartoons) ... 

@Independent

 https://twitter.com/WaelNawara/status/1759350155730440199

A Study of Ob*scene **** As men, women and children choke on their own blood, world leaders rush to the murder scene. . But to everyone's horror, they go past those being massacred, to the assist of the killers with a fresh bullet magazine.

Citizens United

 

Money and lobbies had always been a bad influence on democracy. But then came #CitizensUnited :(

New York Lies

 

Decolonizing ChatGPT is Far Easier than Dezionizing the Congress!

Congress Conflates the State of Israel with Patriarch Israel/Jacob!

I am always amazed to see congress members conflating the State of Israel with biblical Israel/Jacob. Watch this video!

“Washington DC isn't the center of the universe, Jerusalem is”. 

RepRickAllen asks @Columbia President:  

Do you know Genesis 12:3 “If you bless Israel, I will bless you. If you curse Israel, I will curse you”.   He then asks: “Do you want Columbia (University) to be CURSED by God, of the Bible?!”

To me, the State of Israel is an administrative, political, military and economic structure, among other things. The State of Israel is currently being tried for plausible genocide before the Interntional Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ . So, it can't be biblical. I decided to ask ChatGPT!

Initially, ChatGPT Conflates the 'Nation of Israel' with Israel/Jacob

ME: 
According to the Bible, who was meant by Israel in 'he who blesses Israel will be blessed'?

ChatGPT: 
The phrase “he who blesses Israel will be blessed” is derived from the promises God made to Abraham in the Bible. In Genesis 12:3, God says to Abraham, "I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."1 This verse is often interpreted as God’s promise to bless those who bless Abraham’s descendants, the nation of Israel.

In the context of the Bible, “Israel” refers to the Jewish people or the descendants of Jacob, who was later named Israel. The nation of Israel, therefore, is seen as the collective descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The blessing implies that those who show favor and kindness to Israel, both the people and the nation, will themselves be blessed by God.

ME:
This is wrong - because the State of Israel is not a descendant of anyone - it is a State, a political structure, and conflating it with the Jewish people can be harmful and antisemitic.

ChatGPT Admits that the Conflation between Israel and the Jewish People is Wrong and Can be Potentially Harmful

ChatGPT:
Thank you for pointing that out. You’re correct that the modern State of Israel is a sovereign nation established in the 20th century and is not a descendant in the biological sense. The term “Israel” in the Bible originally referred to the individual Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, and by extension, his descendants, known as the Israelites.

The interpretation of biblical references to Israel can vary widely, and it’s important to distinguish between the ancient biblical context and the modern political entity. The conflation of the two can indeed lead to misunderstandings and potentially harmful rhetoric. It’s essential to approach such topics with sensitivity and awareness of the historical and contemporary implications.

Decolonization of AI

Conclusion: When ChatGPT gives an answer which is based on Hasbara, CORRECT it. This is how it can learn.

This is one of the ways to decolonize AI. 

But apparently decolonization of ChatGPT is nowhere as difficult as getting the memo to the US Congress.