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Most of the people I follow on YT & social media - with similar views to me about the Russo-Ukraine war, more sympathetic to the Russian side - are now equally (more!) rabid about the poor oppressed Palestinians (who have taken every opportunity since 1948 to do whatever they can to destroy Israel, and have likewise ignored every opportunity to negotiate, improve their own lives, and live in peace).

What horrifies me is the attempt to justify this atrocity: eg "Can we really call it terrorism when people are trying to fight for their homes?"

-there is no understanding that cold-blooded face to face murder of civilians, including of children, is quite different from the collateral killing of civilians in a bombing attack - even though the mass murder of war is also something we should not condone or celebrate (IMO).

We are in a world where being able to claim the biggest degree of victimhood is itself power - and the Palestinians are doing best in this regard.

This weekend, there are pro-Palestinian rallies scheduled all over Australia. This has become even more inflammatory than any of the other issues of the past few years - and likely to only get worse.

While the official position of the Aussie government is to support Israel (because the US tells us who we have to support) it is almost amusing to see the mental contortions performed by the government, trying to reconcile their usual leftie policies with the official position of supporting Israel.

Israel is now in a no-win situation, because the media will keep pushing this one-sided view that the Palestinians are the good guys and being treated unfairly.

Not only the Holocaust, but also the fear of nuclear war seems to have been forgotten by this new generation. The US is strengthening its military presence - which may or may not help Israel, but all I can say is, Heaven help Israel if they are having to rely on Joe Biden for their continuing survival. (The US will continue to support Israel, as their outpost in the Middle East - but the interests of the US and Israel are not always aligned.)

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Some of the anti-semitism we are seeing today, at least among the alternative groups I hang out with, has to do with the concept of (Jewish) evil bankers, in particular the Rothschild family, who do seem to have large control over the banking cabal who rule the world, and are trying to bring in the NWO. Some are now specifying these people as the "Khazarian mafia", and distinguishing them from "real" Jews - which doesn't really help to stop the blame game, as it includes the Ashkenazi Jews and many other ordinary people. And it is true, there were (and are) globalist interests behind the Zionist movement and the creation of the state of Israel.

But it all comes down to the blame game, the need to "other" an identifiable group of people who are supposedly responsible for whatever current troubles we are experiencing.

It's ironic that the very people who are protesting that it is unfair to punish the entire Gaza population for the evils of Hamas can't see that the opposite also applies: what does it accomplish to brutally murder Israeli civilians - and demonise those who support and mourn them - because of the actions of the Israeli government?

Yes, there are globalist forces behind the current Israeli government (as with our own country, Australia, and with most other Western countries too). But there are also the Israeli civilians who want peace for themselves and their communities, and are inadvertently caught up in the political power plays.

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