Worshipping Dirt and Death
Who started it, who has a right to exist, who doesn't who's God is the true God.......
The only thing that matters is human life. People are slaughtering each other over land. What is land? Dirt. Worthless. No piece of dirt is worth dying for, worth killing children for. If I had the power I'd evacuate the entire region and then have it irradiated so that no-one could ever live there again.
The forces driving this endless conflict are nationalism and religion, both illusory concepts. Nationalism is dirt worship, religion is death worship. The concepts of home and God are comforting but what use is having a home if you are dead? If your children are dead? And what use is a God that allows this to happen? Both ideologies cheapen life and both are being used to manipulate ordinary people into destroying life. If people would cherish a strangers life the same way they would cherish their own or their children's..........
Yes I'm slipping into peacenik delusions. Must be all that dope I smoked. There's no hope really in the Middle East, only the inevitability of more death in the name of dirt and God and good old revenge.
The only thing that matters is human life. People are slaughtering each other over land. What is land? Dirt. Worthless. No piece of dirt is worth dying for, worth killing children for. If I had the power I'd evacuate the entire region and then have it irradiated so that no-one could ever live there again.
The forces driving this endless conflict are nationalism and religion, both illusory concepts. Nationalism is dirt worship, religion is death worship. The concepts of home and God are comforting but what use is having a home if you are dead? If your children are dead? And what use is a God that allows this to happen? Both ideologies cheapen life and both are being used to manipulate ordinary people into destroying life. If people would cherish a strangers life the same way they would cherish their own or their children's..........
Yes I'm slipping into peacenik delusions. Must be all that dope I smoked. There's no hope really in the Middle East, only the inevitability of more death in the name of dirt and God and good old revenge.
posted by Ben at 2:00 pm
6 Comments:
Land is home to some people. Some people don't have anywhere to go when they are terrorised and oppressed in their own homes. You and I can flee. My grandmother could flee the Nazis, because she had the money and the connections. The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto probably didn't have anywhere to go.Nor did black South Africans in Apartheid SA. Nor do most Palestinians. Nor do most Lebanese. Nor, ideed, do many poor Israelis in Northern Israel.
Whether we should fight for our land is a matter for each of us to decide upon. I don't think we can judge those who choose to fight when they have nowhere else to go.
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My point is that life is the only thing worth fighting to defend. Behind the violence between Israel and its neighbours is the idea that certain areas of land are exclusively meant for certain people. If this idea was abandoned, if each side recognised the others right to exist there would be no need for fighting. There is room enough for both.
I'm not attacking people who are fighting to survive, I'm attacking the racist and religious mind sets that force them to. For instance I would never say that the world was wrong to fight the Nazis, but I would condemn the racism and nationalism and religious conditions that brought Nazi Germany into existence.
I know this is akin to saying "why can't we all just get along?" but that is the way I feel. In practical terms I'm immensely pessimistic about these things
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I agree they could live together in peace-I'm one of the flower power brigade too! However, at the moment, it's not simply a case of two sides hating each other (though there are certainly those on both sides who do), but rather a case of the Israeli government and military oppressing a stateless people, ie. the Palestinians. When Israel claims all the Palestinians need to do is stop rockets and recognise Israel that's bollocks. Hamas came out of the Intifada, ie. the resistance. Hamas today is democratically elected, and has made diplomatic moves towards Israel. Israel continues incursions into Gaza and the West Bank, continues to terrorise Palestinian civilians, and lets settlers stay indefinitely in the West Bank. The ball is squarely (ironically!) in Israel's yard.
One day, I hope there can be a multiethnic and multifaith state in the place of Israel-Palestine. Maybe it will be called Israstein (-;
I hope so too. Maybe one day.
I think you're right - if Israel would comply with international law and withdraw to its original borders the chance for peace would be much higher.
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