Israel and Gaza

I cannot stand what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza. It is simply immoral and reprehensible. And so I cannot stand the fact that my government continues to support Israel. What Israel is doing is diametrically opposite to what Americans supposedly believe. But our government goes on its merry way in spite of what it supposedly believes. It's been doing this almost as long as I can remember, and now I am fed up with it. 

I have supported the Democratic Party all my life but I see little difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to these issues of foreign relations. Hence, I condemn both. I will vote for neither in the coming elections.

Gaza is little more than a concentration camp. People are trapped there and the Israelis are bombing them quite literally to pieces. Israel says that they must be allowed "to defend themselves". Do they really expect us to believe this trash? They have already killed more than 1500 people in Gaza and they have lost fewer than 50 of their own. 

So how does this relate to the Holocaust? Israelis seem to think they can do anything because of the Holocaust. But what they are actually doing is proving that they are little better than Hitler himself. 

They have asked our government for more ammunition, and we will undoubtedly give it to them. But as a citizen of the US, I do not want to be responsible for this slaughter.

Killing

Why is it that human beings like killing other human beings so much? Other species don't do this sort of thing to each other. Why do we?

Other species kill species other than their own for food; humans are no different in that regard. We kill huge numbers of fish and other animals. The only difference is that it is all industrialized, sanitized --- no blood on human fangs. Oh, there is one other difference --- waste. Humans waste enormous amounts of what they kill for food. In the natural environment, there is little waste. Whatever predators leave is picked on by smaller kritters. Almost nothing remains at the end of the chain.

Yet we take enormous pride in who we are and tell ourselves (and anyone else listening) that we are superior to the animals --- actually we don't think we're animals at all, but divinely created species of a different kind. How ridiculous.

Consider the Second World War. In that regard, consider thousands of men dying on beaches along the French coast or on Pacific Islands --- thousands in just a single day of mayhem. Can you imagine horses waging war of that kind against other horses? Lions vs other lions?

Actually, the history of humans killing humans goes way back farther than writing. It doesn't seem to have diminished; it has simply gotten more efficient. Technology has blossomed with the fruits of massive destruction. At Hiroshima we proved that we can kill thousands of people with just one instrument, and we have spent the intervening time developing more destructive weapons and better delivery systems. If we got together and synchronized attacks, we could actually blow up the world and destroy the human race entirely. I suspect that we will do that one day but we still seem to be a few years distant from that last example of human insanity. 

I'm not sure that 'like' is the correct word, but how else should we say it. If we don't like it why do we do it? Let's face it. If we really do not like doing it, wouldn't we do something about it? We claim to be the most intelligent beings on the planet, but this may demonstrate that "intelligence" isn't really a survival trait.

I'd like to hear what other people think about this.