Wednesday, January 1, 2025

We Are All Complicit

There are still many who both turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and justify israel's atrocities as mere self-defence. If you believe that fiction, all I can say is your critical-thinking skills are grossly deficient. 

But even if we are rightfully appalled by those atrocities, most of us, in our own ways, are complicit in them. We do not openly protest the carnage; we do not write letters decrying it; we continue to elect people who will only worsen the genocide; we do not demand that Canada stop being an echo chamber for American Middle East policies that only enable and embolden the destruction of countless lives.

The following is very, very difficult to watch. If you choose to view it and are subsequently still staunch advocates of Israel's actions, I don't know what to say to you.


Today is the start of a new year. I wish it were a new start for humanity as well, but I suspect that is not in the cards.


4 comments:

  1. Israel has played the anti-Semite card very well .
    Netanyahu and others such as Trump have played on our emotions to keep themselves in power.
    TB

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    1. The truly represent the worst in so-called democratic leaders, TB.

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  2. I'm sure you have seen this.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/antisemitism-israel-gaza-war-right

    TB

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    1. An excellent article. I had not seen it. Thanks for the link, TB.

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