Somjot Posted September 5 Posted September 5 Just a general thought: Many of us are siding with Israel, because we're used to. Because for decades we've been told that Muslims are bad and evil. Because we're used to being lied to by our governments, that a few 1000 terrorists are hiding in one country, or the leader of another country is producing weapons of mass destruction. And this gives us the right to attack these countries, kill hundreds of thousands of their civilians, who don't know who is hiding in their country, what their leaders are up to not to mention, that they could do nothing about it, if they knew. We call them insurgents, kill them by the Thousands and deny the captured opponents any rights, because we declare them as combatants, not soldiers, which again gives us the right to torture them. And we applaud our soldiers, because they are “out there” for all of us, forgetting that “out there” is another person’s home, where he lives, works and raises his children. We condemn Putin for his attack on the Ukraine, where within two years about 500 children have been killed, while at the same time Netanyahu is getting standing ovations in the US Congress for lying in their faces by saying - just to name one example - only 2 dozen civilians have been killed in Gaza, despite everybody in the room knew that his army has murdered more than 14,000 children in less than one year. What is wrong with us? There is one fundamental truth: There can't be any double standard in justice Whenever you apply double standards, it will lead to aggression and sooner or later to catastrophe - on both sides. This is inevitable. It is understandable that some people feel comfortable and safe with double standards, as long as they are on the side of the oppressing group. But this is a very dangerous Mindset. Because once the oppressed group has been eliminated, the oppressing group will look for new victims and sooner or later will do so within its own ranks. And before you know it, you end up being some kind of “Palestinian” yourself. Happened in Nazi Germany all the time. There can be only the same justice for everybody. 2
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