Warsaw
Gaza City
While Gaza Burns
(A different take on the Middle East)
Stephen Jay Morris
10/10/2023
©Scientific Morality
If you should come across two bears in the wild, fighting each other, you best run away as fast as you can. Regardless of which bear wins, you too will die, if you stick around.
This adage I heard many years ago. What does it mean? It means that when two evil forces are fighting each other, you don’t have to take a side. Let’s say that White nationalists are having a war with the Taliban. Would I support either of the two?
So, now—let me get this out the way, Okay? Fuck Hamas! Fuck Benjamin Netanyahu! Got it? Hamas wants to make Palestine an Islamic state. Netanyahu wants to make Israel a Jewish Theocracy. He wants to get rid of all Arabs living in Israel. He is a Jewish separatist; a lukewarm Rabbi Kahani.
As it stands now, Israel is a secular democracy. The Likud Party is a war mongering, right wing party, one of the many parties in Israel. That is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party. They are a bigger threat than Hamas. Ask the thousands of Israeli protesters who wanted him ousted as Prime Minister. He wants to weaken the Israeli Supreme Court. Essentially, he wants to be Israel’s dictator.
Meanwhile, in Gaza City. Hamas—the flunkies of Iran—is putting innocent Palestinians at risk by breaching Israel’s border and kidnaping Israeli women and children, beating elderly Jews, and raping female Jews. Oh, did you see the video of a jihadist trying to behead a Jew with a backhoe? He couldn’t get the job done. I guess he couldn’t find an ax. I saw this video on mainstream media. Man, Israeli propaganda is a ratings grabber! What about the videos on how when an Israeli bomb falls on a building in Gaza, it crushes the occupants to death. The B.B.C. might show you that one. Yeah, those videos shown on major networks are supposed to enrage you, to make you think, “Those Palestinians are vicious animals! Kill them all!”
Those videos don’t faze me at all. I know war propaganda when I see it. Doesn’t mean I am a heartless sociopath. I am just a cynical, 69-year-old with a callous heart after having seen how propaganda works.
Now I want to say a few words about the Authoritarian Left who support this Islamic group. Are you fucking nuts!?! The Left is supposed to be anti-religion, no matter whom they are! A lot of Tankies and Trots support Islamic groups because they represent oppressed, Third World people opposed to American Imperialism. Are you fucking stupid!? Islamic groups will oppress their own people! As an Anti-Authoritarian Leftist, I hate the religious Right, whether they be Jewish, Christian, Islamic or even Hindu!
You American, Right wing Chuds, are a hopeless case. Of course, you support Israel! In your Bible it says that Israel is where Jesus will be when he returns. It will be the headquarters of Christianity and Israel will become be a Christian state. Oh, speaking of Right wing dumbasses, Donald Trump couldn’t stand the fact that Israel was getting all the news coverage lately. So, he had to insert himself by jumping on the Congressional Republicans’ bandwagon and declaring that President Biden is at fault for inflaming the Israel/Palestine war. Shut up, Donald! Go away!
How will this conflict end? I don’t know! However, nothing good will come out of it, of that I am certain. Both sides will lose. Oh, one question I have: What happened to Israel’s Iron Dome? Somebody forgot to plug it in? I wouldn’t feel too sorry for Israel; they do have the Nuclear Bomb.
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Being Jewish is not my ideal race for being. I wish I had been born Italian; Irish; Shit! Even Polish Catholic! Am I self-hating Jew? No, not really. In the early 20th Century, in New York City, there were Jewish Anarchists’ newspapers written in Yiddish! That’s the Jewish identity I crave. Did you know there are more Jews in the United States than in Israel? There are 7,300,000 in the U.S. and 7,106,000 in Israel. I guess that this diaspora is too cool to Aliyah to the holy land of Israel. What does that mean? Look it up.
P.S. Dear Lefties: Stop calling Israel an Apartheid state! Palestinians are a nationality, not a race of people. Racially, Arabs and Jews are Semitic. As far as Indigenous Americans go, they were and are victims of American apartheid, as are Mexicans, Asians, and Blacks. But, Israel and Arabs? No such deal.
חופש לכל האנשים על פני כדור הארץ
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Where are all da primitivist radfems... I think me getting into primitivist ideology is what lead to my peaking TBH. I'm not even talking about like having an anarcho-primitivist society (I would like one, but that isn't my point)
I mainly mean like, general radfem ideals such as body neutrality, gender abolition, etc etc... All perfectly align with embracing your identity as primate. We are literally monkeys guys. Why do I never hear other radfems talking about monkeys I fucking love monkeys.
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This might be a hot take but we really need to stop acting like one form of bigotry and oppression is objectively worse than another. Racism, homophobia, sexism, anti-Semitism, ableism, you name it— all bigotry is bad and does measurable harm. Full stop. The practice of arguing over whose struggle is worst is a poison to social progress. If one person breaks their leg and another breaks their arm, what would be the point in arguing who suffered more? Both have been seriously hurt, both need and deserve help. Yes, there is such a thing as prioritization of issues, but that’s incredibly context-dependent.
I'm not talking about people who say, for example, "yes JKR's transphobia is bad, but you keep neglecting to mention the antisemitism present in Harry Potter, which also matters." That is a valid and important statement, as we can’t ignore one problem when addressing another. I'm talking about saying (or even implying), "homophobia is worse than racism/vice versa"
Say it with me: It. Is. Not. A. Competition. There is no gold medal for “least privileged.” We’re in this together, like it or not.
We can only repair our society's systemic injustice if we do so together. The powers that be want to sew dissent between us. They want to see us tear each other apart, so don’t let that happen. Reject attempts at creating division and employ critical thought to recognize propaganda. Make your voice heard and advocate for your people, because by all means, you should! But never silence someone else to do it. Only by lifting each other up and sharing our social power can we make true progress. Stop fighting over the mic and learn to pass it to your fellow man after you’ve spoken. The world is wide enough for all of us, I promise you.
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I’ve come to feel that there is no such thing as full consent.
I did not consent to exist. I did not consent to the body I exist in. I did not consent to these disabilities, and I did not consent to living in a world where there are very little treatment options.
However, I can work to reduce harm, and maximize help and joy. I can seek to make my reality more consentual. And I can seek to give others as much of an opportunity for consent as is possible.
I think harm is inevitable. Murder, consent violations, abuse, these are part of the experience of life. They cannot be eliminated, only reduced, and only made less egregious.
It is our role to decrease harm, and to increase help and joy. And all though harm is inevitable, deep emotional outrage is also inevitable, especially when someone chooses to increase harm and minimize joy by creating extraneous violations of consent
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crass' 1981 album, penis envy
crass were an english art and anarcho-punk collective formed in 1977 in epping, essex. they popularised the anarcho-punk movement, promoting anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement!! they have also been associated with avant-punk and art-punk.
1981's penis envy moved them away from their hardcore punk image, featuring more complex musical arrangements and female vocals (done by eve libertine & joy de vire). the album is marked by it's strong anarcha-feminist content, attacking marriage and sexual repression as well, of course, addressing feminist issues. This album would go on to be banned buy the retail hmv.
this album deserves so much love and gives an idea of what feminist punk was before the start of the well known riot grrrl movement in the greater pacific northwest. and i just wanted to infodump, crass is an amazing collective and made many amazing records before their breakup in 1984!!
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