“Humanitarian aid cannot be supplied as long as the indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population of Gaza continues. But the clear message of the massacre of October 7 was that Hamas do not regard Jews as human. It is hard to make peace with people who regard you as sub-human. And the suffering Palestinians feel the same - their human rights are not being respected.”
I noticed that you said “massace” vs “civillian bombing”.
You said “considered sub-human” vs “human rights not respected”.
The tragic reality of the situation and your not-so-implicit wording of the statement, is that much media coverage of an ongoing genocide serves to obfuscate, justify and confuse readers as to the actions of the Israeli state. The leaders of Israel have repeatedly massacred innocent people who they have repeatedly described as sub-human animals. The death toll now records 25 times as many murdered by Isreali authorities than were killed in the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th. Twenty five times as many people – mostly children.
Your statement also justifies “civillian bombing” of innocent Palestinians by appealling to the views and actions of Hamas, conflating the two groups of people.
Just as the killing of innocent Isrealis cannot be justified by conflating them with their goverment and blaming them for the actions of the IDF, you cannot imply justification of a Palestinian genocide in this way. It is morally corrupt.
I think you might need to vary your news consumption. The wording and framing you used to describe the conflict in your substack is concerning."
This person also took issue with the way I had characterised Ai Weiwei's tweet and I have changed the wording of that slightly.
Reading this was a great way to start my day, thanks Jax. Glad you resisted a joke about a a priest, a rabbi and an imam walking into an Abrahamic Family House.
I got this comment by email:
"When you said:
“Humanitarian aid cannot be supplied as long as the indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population of Gaza continues. But the clear message of the massacre of October 7 was that Hamas do not regard Jews as human. It is hard to make peace with people who regard you as sub-human. And the suffering Palestinians feel the same - their human rights are not being respected.”
I noticed that you said “massace” vs “civillian bombing”.
You said “considered sub-human” vs “human rights not respected”.
The tragic reality of the situation and your not-so-implicit wording of the statement, is that much media coverage of an ongoing genocide serves to obfuscate, justify and confuse readers as to the actions of the Israeli state. The leaders of Israel have repeatedly massacred innocent people who they have repeatedly described as sub-human animals. The death toll now records 25 times as many murdered by Isreali authorities than were killed in the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th. Twenty five times as many people – mostly children.
Your statement also justifies “civillian bombing” of innocent Palestinians by appealling to the views and actions of Hamas, conflating the two groups of people.
Just as the killing of innocent Isrealis cannot be justified by conflating them with their goverment and blaming them for the actions of the IDF, you cannot imply justification of a Palestinian genocide in this way. It is morally corrupt.
I think you might need to vary your news consumption. The wording and framing you used to describe the conflict in your substack is concerning."
This person also took issue with the way I had characterised Ai Weiwei's tweet and I have changed the wording of that slightly.
Reading this was a great way to start my day, thanks Jax. Glad you resisted a joke about a a priest, a rabbi and an imam walking into an Abrahamic Family House.
Thanks Tim, yes it’s a great backdrop for some of those jokes
What a fantastic piece - thank you again for your insight.
Thank you