Comments by "Acid Joke" (@PWMoze) on "The (Much Extended) Agony of Israel and Gaza || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. An excellent and balanced assessment Peter. Your conclusion that things are about to 'crack and break' seems to be true both in the region and internationally. This conflict is radicalising, dividing and mobilising people in most of the Western democracies, and seems to be on track to continue that process. It is creating sectarian division, a political generation gap, civil and political unrest on a par with the anti Vietnam War/civil rights protests in the sixties. Perhaps the division at the moment is even worse thanbthe sixties because it involves sectarian division as well as political/social and cultural. In the UK, especially in London, we have seen the weekly protest marches create a system of two tier policing, with pro Gaza marchers being allowed to publicly voice support for Hamas, use hate speech, express violent anti semitism, deface monuments: while anti Islamist/nationalist marchers are treated much more ruthlesely by the police and also vilified in the media. We have also seen blatantly biased and inaccurate reporting of the conflict in the mainstream media with the BBC unable to even call Hamas terrorists. Media platforms have provided 'bad actors' with opportunities to spread disinformation and media coverage is often openly biased. We have had Parliament process derailed because MPS were being bullied by fanatics, MPs lives threatened forcing resignations and the subsequent rise of political Islamism in our local elections. We now have a whole range of politicians who believe they were elected to represent Palestinians rather than their constituents. Clearly this situation has enraged the right wingers and simultaneously radicalised and mobilised those who believe in Islamic political ideology. In general everyone has an opinion, usually poorly rearched and lacking historical accuracy, no one considers the other side moral or compassionate enough to consider debating with them in good faith and no one is seeking to find common ground. This conflict is influencing our general election, local politics and dividing opinion on a par with the whole Brexit debate. We now debate Israel more than our own domestic social/economic/political problems and are obviously unable to do a thing to to influence the situation either way. Things are indeed cracking and breaking.
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