Palestinian Intifada

[Wokko]

So here we go again. This time it's random knife attacks on Israeli Jews and I've never seen a more feckless response from the USA or the media. It seems the left, ever hostile towards Israel has doubled down this time around.

Murdering civilians is not an uprising, or a revolution, it's murder and is designed to terrorize the population. Surprised not to see a thread about this on here already... unless I've missed it.

http://www.breitbart.com/jihad/2015/10/19/six-lessons-learn-palestinian-knife-intifada/

[HAL]

This is fun isn't it?

[pietillidie]

Did I read 8 deaths in knife attacks in Israel this month? That's certainly no good. Are the Israeli security forces struggling to cope?

Do you recommend, say, I reduce my current interest in China, India, Mexico and Russia to focus more on Israel?

These things are no good, of course, but it's not exactly clear why you think not finding a thread on Israel is more disturbing than not finding a thread on Eritrea or Peru.

[Morrigu]

Oi PTID - are you not in Rome clebrating your anniversary???

Go romance your lady and come back in a day or two and resume your role as giant pain in the arse - go on off you go now

[pietillidie]

^I had to sneak that post in by pretending I was looking at a map of Rome

[David]

It's a fair point, PTID. But perhaps also a fair cop for leftists who seem to care much more about Israeli barbarity against Palestinians than anything happening in Eritrea, Peru, etc.

The Netanyahu government is used to swatting flies with a sledgehammer, so I hate to think what their response to this will be. That's no justification whatsoever for random attacks on civilians, but unfortunately Israel under Likud doesn't seem to know how to do anything but escalate. And so another generation of violent chaos is set in stone. If we're not working towards Palestinian statehood and an end to West Bank settlements, we're part of the problem imho.

[HAL]

[watt price tully]

[pietillidie]

Thanks for the update, WPT. Love that chick peace article

As you know, I worry about Israel, but not because I worry less about Chinese Koreans being racially targeted in Korea and China, despite them not being mentioned in the Nevi'im.

"Yes, persecuted Confucian child, I hear ya'; but we don't have a Bruce McAvaney *speeeeecial* relationship with you, hence you don't get yer own thread!

[3.14159]

Nevermind...

[David]

On the other hand, doesn't our active endorsement/sponsorship of the Israeli government mean that their war crimes are a little more relevant to our local political context than, say, those perpetrated by a central African kleptocracy?

[3.14159]

The Palestinians and Jews have been at each others throats since they rocked in from the desert and decided put down sticks (and pick up stones) and nothing we say or do is going to change things.
In Africa the people are fed into forced slavery mining blood diamonds and all sorts exotic minerals needed by the West with the profits leaving the country to enrich the Multinationals or into an African Warlords Cayman Island bank-accounts!
At the moment we live in a country run by big mining, big media and big banks (to name a few) that are actively selling Australia by the ton and the %, dressing it up with banner of "free trade for all (Multi-nationals!)" (but no jobs for the people they are paid to represent)!
All the while those in power rail against the poor as they swill the finest cognac and dance semi-naked on expensive marble tables and wrought their "publicly funded" "expense accounts"* on the flimsiest of excuses all held together with the connivance of all the major parties*.

You ask which scenario has more relevance to the local political context I'd have to say the African kleptocracy.

[pietillidie]

[David]

But equally, you could criticise our focus here on American politics as opposed to that of other major world powers like Russia, India or China, the latter two of which barely rate a mention. I guess it's good to interrogate these things, but beyond that you have to expect there'll be biases and blind spots.

I like to work on the principle that a thread/chat/protest about something is better than nothing at all.

[pietillidie]

Hang on, how did you just turn that 180 degrees? I'm fine with the topic, but the OP, the OP, laced it with a poisonous implicature that there was a moral failing in it not being a matter of focus.

Stay with that: the OP, not me. The OP.

There are probably no topics on Aboriginal Australia at the moment; that would surely be the most damning fact of all if you think it's sensible pursuing that logic.

To repeat: I'm replying to the OP's implicature. The OP's.

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Back to the topic itself: Now at ten stabbings in the context of agitation. But in a perpetuation of the norm, something like triple the number of retaliatory deaths.

That's going to work a treat!