Nothing goes only one way in life, it's always and invariably a back and fourth way, an action and its reaction, thus the Palestinian cause and the effects of the Israeli actions and reactions.
So when we ask the Palestinian side to reframe and recreate a new leadership to govern their affairs within their enclaves, and vis-a-vis the world and more so Israel. Before we ask them for moderation and civic behavior and adherence to all international norms of human respect, and abandoning their resistance to occupation, apartheid, barbaric brutality, colonialism in its ugliest forms, and finally genocide. We ought to ask the other side for some civic behavior, some moderation, some actual measures to block apartheid and the ugly racist superiority of hundreds of thousands of settlers on the ground, as well as the Israeli armed forces, the Israeli police, and the entire Israeli political regime.
Does it not make sense that to eliminate Hamas from the Palestinian psych and minds, we need to counterpart it all with eliminating the Netanyahu/Ben Gvir/Smotrich/ Gallant/Gants type of government, ruling and injecting systematic hate and desperation and ugly racism and superiority among the entire Israeli population.
Sadly, the same exact situation and scenario is taking place on all fronts neighboring Israel, I'm thinking now of what is taking place and the escalation on the Lebanese borders between Hezbollah and the Israeli army and the civilian population stuck in between.
Shouldn't we when eliminating one evil side, ensure the elimination of the other evil side. Assuming of course that equalizing the conqueror with the conquered, the oppressor with the oppressed, the jailer with the jailed is a legitimate action, as they are both equally responsible for a certain situation, a very ugly situation indeed.
Concluding it all with a short article by Jeffrey Sachs criticizing Biden's foreign policies, mostly in regard of the Israeli ongoing genocide. It's entitled; "why Joe Biden is a foreign failure".
Yet Israel is led by violent zealots who make the messianic claim that God has given Israel all the land of today's Palestine, including the West bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. These zealots therefore insist on political domination over the millions of Palestinians in their midst, or their annihilation or expulsion.
Netanyahu and his colleagues don't even hide their genocidal intentions, though most foreign observers don't fully understand the Biblical references that the Israeli leaders invoke to justify their ongoing mass slaughter of the Palestinian people.
Israel now faces highly credible charges of genocide in the international court of justice in a case brought by South Africa. The documentary record presented by S.A. and others is as clear as it is chilling. Israeli politics is not the politics of pragmatism and certainly not the politics of peace. It is the politics of Judaic biblical apocalypse. To quote Jeffrey D. Sachs....
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