It's pure willfulness. Reverse the terms Israel and palestine and you'll be swept off your feet by the speed with which they will claim it is genocide.
I hope you do start doing that. Maybe, even ask the person, and post their response, or 'Pending,' or failure to respond. All of us need to constantly be thinking of new ways to tackle this issue. Now framing, new concepts, new lenses, all of which are to expand the number of those who will at last, finally get it.
I like you, grew up believing that Israel was necessary, so necessary that no one ever questioned or even looked at their society, what they teach their children, how the government controlled the young military age group with mandatory enlistment for all. That to me says a tremendous mouthful calling out the complete psychological manipulation of the youth to hate, which they have been very successful at, until now. Now, because the world is holding up a mirror to their brutality, not a very big mirror, but a mirror which is expanding and getting brighter over time. To deny genocide, in my mind, shows that there are people who refuse to open their hearts wide enough, wide enough that their mind of reason has nowhere to go. They stop, report their rhetorical recordings of so many babies being murdered and the rest. I have a good number of Jewish students who I have been friendly with over the years, who fit snugly into this group. Instead of arguing, I just end communication. To deny the genocide of Gaza, Lebanon the West Bank, the war in Iraq, Syria, is a mark of not being human enough, not allowing oneself to feel the truth and join the Human Race. . . Thank you for your article.
OK,, I wasn't sure if I could comment at all. When I saw the headline I thought that perhaps the denial of the genocide of the Armenians would be mentioned. The idea of the denial of genocide is not something that ONLY happened after WWII (or during WWII when Stalin was simply kind Uncle Joe and hardly anyone knew about Ukraine). Then we have to mention the total denial of genocide when it comes to stories about the USA expanding beyond the 13 colonies. The indigenous people were seen as simply "in the way"! Manifest Destiny was a form of Lebensraum ideology long before any of the well known fascists of the 20th century were in grade school.
It's pure willfulness. Reverse the terms Israel and palestine and you'll be swept off your feet by the speed with which they will claim it is genocide.
Self image is the key.
At the end of an incomplete list of atrocities, along with a picture of the denier, put the word "Approved".
Then ask the denier: "May I post this with your endorsement?"
Just thinking there might be a road back to shame.
I hope you do start doing that. Maybe, even ask the person, and post their response, or 'Pending,' or failure to respond. All of us need to constantly be thinking of new ways to tackle this issue. Now framing, new concepts, new lenses, all of which are to expand the number of those who will at last, finally get it.
I like you, grew up believing that Israel was necessary, so necessary that no one ever questioned or even looked at their society, what they teach their children, how the government controlled the young military age group with mandatory enlistment for all. That to me says a tremendous mouthful calling out the complete psychological manipulation of the youth to hate, which they have been very successful at, until now. Now, because the world is holding up a mirror to their brutality, not a very big mirror, but a mirror which is expanding and getting brighter over time. To deny genocide, in my mind, shows that there are people who refuse to open their hearts wide enough, wide enough that their mind of reason has nowhere to go. They stop, report their rhetorical recordings of so many babies being murdered and the rest. I have a good number of Jewish students who I have been friendly with over the years, who fit snugly into this group. Instead of arguing, I just end communication. To deny the genocide of Gaza, Lebanon the West Bank, the war in Iraq, Syria, is a mark of not being human enough, not allowing oneself to feel the truth and join the Human Race. . . Thank you for your article.
OK,, I wasn't sure if I could comment at all. When I saw the headline I thought that perhaps the denial of the genocide of the Armenians would be mentioned. The idea of the denial of genocide is not something that ONLY happened after WWII (or during WWII when Stalin was simply kind Uncle Joe and hardly anyone knew about Ukraine). Then we have to mention the total denial of genocide when it comes to stories about the USA expanding beyond the 13 colonies. The indigenous people were seen as simply "in the way"! Manifest Destiny was a form of Lebensraum ideology long before any of the well known fascists of the 20th century were in grade school.
May I comment?