Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Channel 4 News"
channel.
-
134
-
134
-
133
-
‘Total victory’? Get a grip, Benji.
If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (i.e. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
130
-
130
-
129
-
If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (i.e. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
126
-
125
-
I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov)
Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
121
-
114
-
112
-
110
-
110
-
109
-
109
-
108
-
103
-
If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years, just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a boxing match, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable, given the history. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end. This is just obvious to anyone without intrinsic skin in this game. Of course, even in a 2-state solution, there will still be Hamasesque groups wanting the destruction of Israel, but that doesn’t invalidate the basic principle for the vast majority of ordinary Palestinians.
96
-
96
-
95
-
94
-
89
-
88
-
88
-
87
-
86
-
85
-
85
-
84
-
83
-
82
-
81
-
81
-
Personally, I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; however, you don’t need to be Nostradamus to see that it was obvious that it would be more or less permanently targeted from day 1 after its 1948 creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. Isaac Asimov nailed this: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.
81
-
80
-
79
-
79
-
78
-
78
-
77
-
As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (majority South Slavic Serbs v majority Kosovan Albanians), religion (majority Eastern Orthodox Christianity v majority Muslim) and language (majority Serbian v majority Albanian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
77
-
77
-
77
-
77
-
77
-
75
-
74
-
72
-
72
-
72