As the bloody conflict in Gaza rages, the more important war is the propaganda war, which Hamas is handily winning, thanks to the help of Western progressives, especially in the universities. Our Israeli correspondent MC sends his observations on these grim events.
International Law or Sordid Double Standards
by MC
Nobody applies ‘international laws, rules and standards’ to Hamas, and we must ask ourselves: Why not?
The first obvious answer is that Hamas is a terrorist group and just does not care about ‘infidel’ morality. Their standards are defined in the Koran, the Sunnah and the Hadith, not in anything coming out of Geneva.
In Europe prior to the Treaty of Westphalia, the whole of the continent was torn apart by religions which were, in fact, political entities, and which recognized no national boundaries. For each religious sect, Catholic and Protestant alike, the ends — i.e. absolute power over the other — justified the means used to get it. Forget do as you would be done by.
That had to stop, and the religious zeal (and personal ambition) eventually had to be tempered by biblical imperatives to ‘love your enemies’. In Christianity the central character was truly a man of peace. Trying to justify a barbaric war of mass extermination against another ‘Christian’ sect proved to be impossible, and the men of conscience finally prevailed.
Thus “Jaw Jaw, not War War” became important.
The wars of the 20th century dictators followed. WW1 was a war of trenches, machine guns and artillery, with a an act of gross stupidity at its beginning. Not so much the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, but the follow-up assumption that the Serbian government did it, and the terrible ultimatum issued by Austria-Hungary on the assumption of said ‘guilt’.
The WW2 was the result of the Central Powers failing to learn the lessons of the first war. The Nazis combined a sense of victimhood and resentment arising from WW1 with a schadenfreude of an immortal, undefeatable mythological Volk proclaiming the Germanic people’s right to rule, enslave, occupy and exterminate. To generally play god…
But Islam does not go by Christian norms, and the separation of mosque and state is not even contemplated.
Many people do not believe that the events of 7th October actually took place. I do; I was there. I heard the massacre in Sderot and I saw the aftermath. My son was about three minutes behind the pickup trucks loaded with AK-shooting terrorists.
He was in shock for a week.
Many blame nationalism for WW2, and have striven ever since for globalist socialism based on Marxist principles. But what if the ‘nationalism’ in National Socialism was actually benign, and that it was the ‘socialism’ part that caused all the problems and the huge death toll? It is only then we can suddenly understand that global Marxism is a catastrophe of epic proportions and that the utopia it is meant to bring is nothing but a cruel and impossible pipe dream.