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                                                            June 29, 2021

                                                      Improve the name, eh?

  When Netanyahu was stirring the shit
  in a desperate attempt at drumming up
  some political support-- there's little
  serious doubt that's what he was up to,
  whatever people like to pretend-- he
  came up with the rather heavy-handed move
  of raiding mosques in Israel during
  Ramadan.

  Israel responded to the inevitable
  rockets from Gaza with it's usual
  ten-fold plus damage.


  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/briefing/israel-hamas-conflict-fighting.html

  David Leonhardt provided us with a lengthy
  analysis of the situation where he traced         I like to suggest
  the outbreak of war to rockets from Gaza.         that people consider
  He made no mention of the attacks on mosques.     how many churches
                                                    they would watch
      "The current conflict did not                 invaded at Christmas
      escalate into something                       before they would
      approaching war until shortly                 start thinking about
      after 6 p.m.  last                            indulging in some
      Monday. That's when Hamas                     "terrorism".
      launched missile attacks on
      Jerusalem's civilians."
                                                    SEEMS_LIKE_OLD_TIMES


   Oh, I see, he "provided context" in his
   first sentence with a link to another
   story:

     "The latest conflict between
     Israelis and Palestinians had             Those "specific sparks":
     its own specific sparks."
                                               "Twenty-seven days before the
                                               first rocket was fired from
                                               Gaza this week, a squad of
                                               Israeli police officers
                                               entered the Aqsa Mosque in
                                               Jerusalem ... "

                                               https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/world/middleeast/israel-palestinian-gaza-war.html

Reading through this Leonhardt piece,
it's pretty clearly a mess of anti-
palestinian/pro-Israel bias--
or rather its clear *if* you're someone         "Hamas, which is backed by Iran,
whose learned to see it.                        has now fired at least 3,350
                                                missiles toward Israel."
A typical American who hasn't thought
about this much and would rather not
have to think about it is unlikely to
notice the problems--

And taking the trouble to point all of them out
one at a time is a mugs game: you'd either think
it's obvious already, or you'll think I'm
overreaching and displaying my own biases.

  "But just as important as those sparks
  is a larger reality: Both sides in the
  conflict are led by people who are            I would say the "larger
  relatively uninterested in compromise."       reality" is the fact that
                                                Israel is an invading,
There we go, it's time for a game               occupying country.
of "both sides".
                                                    And expecting someone to
                                                    compromise with a thief is
                                                    classic (always give a
                                                    pick-pocket half of your
                                                    wallet or you're just being
                                                    unreasonable).
       ON_THE_HAMAS_SIDE
                                                    There's plenty of other
                                                    goldie oldies here too,
                                                    like the old "human
                                                    shields" bit.  We've gotta
                                                    kill those civilians,
                                                    there's bad guys right next
                                                    to them.




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