More than 40,000 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in a violent Israeli rampage that at times has been aided by the Palestinian Authority.
(Dropsite News, March 6)
After 16 months of genocidal warfare in the Gaza Strip, Israel has turned its attention to the West Bank with the same objective: expel or exterminate the Palestinian population and illegally annex the territory.
At the beginning of the war, there was discussion among integralists, including myself, on this site about October 7 and the Israeli response. Since then I have seen no further conversation about it. How come? It’s no longer a pressing issue? Those who defended Israel in the beginning are now too embarrassed to revisit the topic? I challenge those defenders of Israel to come back to this site and tell us where you stand on the issue now. In particular I would like to see Corey Devos and Mark Fischler conduct a webinar on what an appropriate Integral assessment of the current situation would look like.
Outrageous as it may be, I don’t think anyone is going to go to war to protect Taiwan, Ukraine, or Gaza, and nothing is going to stop Netanyahu short of that. When it comes to security, Isreal is Blue, and Blue steals whatever adjacent territory it can, and permanetly eliminating the threat of Gaza and its Palestinian residents is the end game. In the end, my answer is that no one really cares about 40,000 Arabs (other than to post some stuff on the internet about how unfair it is). And it is unfair.
Outrage is considered one of those “moral emotions,” being a combination of surprise, anger, and disgust. My sense is that people are no longer subject to the surprise factor, given the history now, and perhaps anger has given way to disgust. And what’s the typical reaction to a disgusting thing, but to turn away. Maybe also for some, ontological sorrow is the primary feeling, humanity’s separation from the Wholeness/Spirit, and from itself.
Nice, LaWanna. I want to add to your combination of emotions, “helplessness,” and the helplessness of helplessness. The “turning away,” for me, comes insidiously, not knowing how to carry such things inside. Becomes a process of navigating grief, sorrow, mourning … being human, a messy business…