Israel is what happens when you foster victim mentality
Right now Israel is shooting and maiming hundreds of Palestinians, including my own family, during the holiest 10 nights of Ramadan, while praying in the holiest Mosque of Islam, and Jewish settlers are marching through Arab streets caught live on camera chanting "Death to Arabs". The nation formed from the descendants of Holocaust survivors is now running rampant committing atrocities that while incomparable to the actual Holocaust still evoke the same tactics of dehumanization and militaristic jingoism and chauvinism that made the Nazis so notorious. All committed by the very descendants of the victims of the Nazis.
Only victims can, have and will always become like their oppressors if their victim mentality is not checked. Literally the entire point of books like "Animal Farm" was that those who may spearhead revolutions for a just cause to fight tyranny and oppression can become worse than their oppressors if they dont stop their victim mentality from going unchecked.
Jordan Peterson was right when he said that in the 20th century the biggest cause of genocides and human rights abuses were people who developed a victim mentality that went beyond just redressing wrongs but wanting to satiate base instincts of megalomania even at the cost of others' human rights.
Israel is not the only nation guilty of this phenomena; many nations, from India to China to Armenia to Burma, all were once victims of the worst atrocities in history yet upon liberation from their oppressors went on to commit atrocities that would make their former tormentors proud.
This post isn't my usual anti-Israel post, because right now given how barbaric and savage that pariah Apartheid state is acting anyone with eyes that can see and ears that can hear and an open mind already knows Israel is violating human rights in Palestine and that Israel's current atrocities and terrorism against the Palestinians during their holiest month is just proof that Israel has no compunction when it comes to how low it can stoop. Rather this post is about a more general topic, which is that anytime in history you tell a people they're the world's biggest victims and that everyone is out to get them, you get oppression and evil worse than the one formerly inflicted upon the oppressed.
This is why I condemn organizations like BLM. While that organization is right in seeking redress for the wrongs Blacks have faced, I fear that the movement if left unchecked will one day morph into a movement that will seek to seek retribution against whites for past wrongs and become worse than the oppressors they so hate.
Moral of the story? Humans are good and bad in every group. Telling one group that they suffered enough where they deserve to oppress others is wrong and is the cause behind most of the evil in this world today.
Before the Serbians massacred the Bosnians in their genocide their media inundated them with sensationalized accounts of Ottoman atrocities in the past and riled them into a genocidal frenzy
Before the Indians formed anti-Muslim lynch mobs they kept drumming up grievances of past Ottoman atrocities as a way to rile up their nationalists
Before the Germans orchestrated the Holocaust they brought up perceived wealth disparities between the Jews and white Germans to foment a victim mentality that the Jews were oppressing them, until the Germans though they were entitled to massacre the Jews who they claimed were leeches and unfairly rich at the expense of the Germans
Moral of the story? Dont let victim mentality fester lest you go from the most oppressed group in history to the most oppressive group in history.
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While I agree with your overall premise (that the oppressed group must be careful to never become the oppressor), I think the idea that BLM could ever become an oppressive entity is an unreasonable fear. Black Americans do not have the kind of structural power to do what the Israeli government does. BLM supporters do not have armies with tanks, helicopters, tear gas launchers, automatic rifles. BLM supporters do not have nuclear weapons. And more importantly, BLM doesn't want any of those things. The endgame of Black Lives Matter is the complete abolition of all the structures of oppression (i.e. the prison system, police, the military, predatory lending practices, etc.) All the things that are the colonizer's bread and butter.
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I completely understand your hatred of Israel, I've never understood why the U.S. and the rest of the world is letting Israel annex foreign territory, from a moral/ethical perspective.
That would be like if Denmark invaded a Swedish region and annexed it. I'm pretty sure our neighbours would be pissed and vice versa.
There's a lack of ethics and morality in apartheid-regimes, regardless of whether they are anti-black/white, anti-jewish, anti-muslim, anti-christian, anti-atheist or anti-something else (except anti-apartheid).
Just because the Jewish people were once persecuted, does NOT justify the behavior and illegal actions taken by the Israeli government.
I think the real reason Israel exists is because of U.S. support and alliance/Sphere of Influence, because the U.S. needs to deploy military in the middle east to safe-guard their interests. It's no different from Russia's alliance with Belarus, as the opposite example.
Every superpower needs colonies or spheres of influence around the globe.
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I understand. But it is not good in a thread about peace or any other thread, I try to be in peace and a mosquito (a bug) sucks my blood.
I have a deal with "Bug King" that mosquitoes stay away from my house. For approximately 5 years there has been none. The Police disbelieved. But the personell here respects me and my emotions.
The personell called me to dinner, peace
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While I agree with your overall premise (that the oppressed group must be careful to never become the oppressor), I think the idea that BLM could ever become an oppressive entity is an unreasonable fear. Black Americans do not have the kind of structural power to do what the Israeli government does. BLM supporters do not have armies with tanks, helicopters, tear gas launchers, automatic rifles. BLM supporters do not have nuclear weapons. And more importantly, BLM doesn't want any of those things. The endgame of Black Lives Matter is the complete abolition of all the structures of oppression (i.e. the prison system, police, the military, predatory lending practices, etc.) All the things that are the colonizer's bread and butter.
Salad never said BLM can become an oppressive govenment, he said "I fear that the movement if left unchecked will one day morph into a movement that will seek to seek retribution against whites for past wrongs and become worse than the oppressors they so hate. "I think terrorism/racial hit squads is what he had in mind but he can correct me if I am wrong". The closest precedent to that and not that close was the Black Liberation Army in the 70s. They never became more than a fringe group.
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Peace in Harmony With Love Yes i Agree...
The Loving Your Neighbor And Even
Enemy Part A Challenge Yet Possible too...
"If it matters don't mind,
if you mind it don't matter"
Great Advice by Tupac...
By the Way One of my
Best Friends Is A Muslim
Woman She Calls My Style
Of Writing Heaven on Wings...
i Have Many Other Muslim
Women FRiEnDS Who
Relate The Same
About my
Writing
Style...
Muslim
Men
Hardly
Any for
'SoMe ReaSon"
Usually The Same
Applies to Other Religions too...
Go Figure HeHe...
Other than
That
i Exist
And Breathe...
Have A Nice Day...
Actually My Post Was
About Peace Yet my Style And Truth iN DarK Thru LiGHT May
Be Hard to See And Hear For Some And That's Okay With me...
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A Believer is a word which come from the word (امن) so the person here is called (مؤمن) ... a Believer is essentially a Source of Peace and Security - Arabic/Polyglot
Peace in Harmony With Love Yes i Agree...
The Loving Your Neighbor And Even
Enemy Part A Challenge Yet Possible too...
"If it matters don't mind,
if you mind it don't matter"
Great Advice by Tupac...
By the Way One of my
Best Friends Is A Muslim
Woman She Calls My Style
Of Writing Heaven on Wings...
i Have Many Other Muslim
Women FRiEnDS Who
Relate The Same
About my
Writing
Style...
Muslim
Men
Hardly
Any for
'SoMe ReaSon"
Usually The Same
Applies to Other Religions too...
Go Figure HeHe...
Other than
That
i Exist
And Breathe...
Have A Nice Day...
Actually My Post Was
About Peace Yet my Style And Truth iN DarK Thru LiGHT May
Be Hard to See And Hear For Some And That's Okay With me...
i Exist... i Exist.. Riders in the Storm We All Are Let's Try to Get ALonG iN Peace..
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