What a magnificent article! Which, among an abundant literature, single-handedly and exhaustively summarizes the roots, development and projections of the dramatic events we are witnessing! Many thanks to the author for this summary of History, its moral rigor and its clarity!…
Break not brake... funny how the smallest tings get to SOME OF us !..... when older . :)
But agree totally with "Hachemi Hadjoudj" ... excellent article; thank you.
PS I would not trust Egypt, one little bit ... I think this is part of the globalist elitist scumbag's agenda... and it will not end well for Palestine, The Lebanon, Syria (for now in the ME) or UK and Europe in the "near future to 2030" - we are being played.
The World is a stage and most are the dumb audience... thanks to people like you, many of the ignorant masses are "awakening"....
Here I re post a comment I used to reply to a comment deleted by a troll which goes by the alias of “michigan.rob”, which attacked me for using the term Genocidal war, called all Hamas fighters terrorists and than blocked himself making the. Moments and my reply apparently visible to others but not me.
Anyhow, I feel I should not let my long replay to his comment go to waist so here it is.
“
Yes calling a Genocide “war” is incorrect, but this is what it is.
A genocidal army armed with the most devastating weapons of mass destruction on one side, and partisans and freedom fighters armed with stones and home made fire weapons and exploding devices made from unexploded ordinances on the other, exchanging blows.
Obviously the blows from the one side cannot be compared to the ones inflicted by the other, nevertheless, beside the Genocide unleashed on the innocent population, war of some kind is definitely taking place.
One more consideration, if we want to use the term Genocide in the correct way, than we should make it clear that Genocide in Palestine is taking place not from October the seventh, but from 1948 as the term includes among other, the forceful transfer of a population.
Regarding Hamas being a terrorist group, I think that like everything in life, it would be incorrect to say that they are all one bunch or that they are all terrorists.
Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza which were fed up with the Fatah and with being sold out by the PLO and its later PA.
I agree to the fact that members of Hamas had been for decades used as a tool for Genocide and that some of them have been working for zionists ever since the establishment of their group , but for what I know, things had drastically changed after 2011, time in which after the fall of Mubarak, and the closing down of the tunnels, a cleanup of its institution took place.
I can also tell you that Hamas was said to be doing a better job in protecting the people of Gaza, than the Fatah the PLO or the PA ever did with the Palestinians living in the rest of Palestine.
This was confirmed to me by peace activists and humanitarian workers which had been to Gaza before and after Hamas.
In their words, Hamas had transformed Gaza into a beautiful place with roads, universities, hospitals, schools sanitation, DRINKING WATER, and social services which were never existing before them.
Surly the group had been infiltrated from its start, but so did every other group of armed partisans ever since 1948, or perhaps from even before then.
Until October the seventh 2023, israel, the US, the UK,and the EU, were said to have has many as 2000 spies in Gaza.
This spies are at large comprised of Palestinian people which are blackmailed, threaten and forced to spy on their own people, this in turn, makes nearly every association or group in Gaza and indeed in Palestine for many aspects, a tool in the hands of the zionists. hence calling the entire Palestinian resistance Hamas or calling all of Hamas fighter terrorists, in the end would be wrong.
One more consideration which I think you should make, is that after close to 18months of Genocide, no one of the Hamas fighter which worked for Israel is likely to be left in Gaza.
Surly many new israeli spies may have tried to infiltrate the resistance and succeeded, but once again, after almost one and half year fighting, I don’t think that the Palestinian which affiliate themselves with Hamas, well knowing what we know “plus some”, would so easily allow spies or “the real terrorists” from join their ranks.
One thing is for sure, only the Palestinians can decide who they want to have as representatives, and only they, will in the end, tell us about facts which till now, we can only assume or speculate on.
Anyhow thank you again for your support for the Palestinian cause.”
It should be obvious by now that they have all their puppets sitting in power also in practically every other Arab and Muslim country .
War is their ultimate tool for distracting the public and getting reed of the opposition that is why the puppets of the west continue to push for war and the ones in the East “aside from betrayed people of Lebanon and from Yemen” , are all rolling in the grass as they are being whipped.
This insanity has gone on for way too long and as their crimes are getting heavier and heavier, the rubber band they are hanging on is bound to snap.
One more thing is for sure, even if many pretend to be a sleep, they are not and can see what is really going on.
Dystopian movies are movies, reality is a different thing , the change is already here, the countdown has already started.
OK, but...a “genocide” is not a “war.” This is an error in semantics, where your term “genocidal war” is effectively a contradiction in terms. A genocide is “the systematic and widespread extermination of a national or ethnic group” (Oxford Eng. Dict.). Informally, it is a mass killing of everyone in the line of the unopposed murdering force, the key word there being “unopposed.” A war, by contrast, is a prolonged conflict between two OPPOSING armies that are typically equal or nearly equal in number (at least at the beginning of the conflict). Hence, the “prolonged” nature of it. Otherwise, who is the opposing army? In La-La land, it can only be “Hamas.” But as you seem to indicate in your article, you already know that Hamas is an utter fiction, a made-up “terrorist” group, like Al Queda and ISIS/ISIL, used as a pretext by the Israelis (following the fake terrorist group’s so-called “invasion” and “killing” of innocent Israelis) to engage in ACTUAL mass slaughter.
We know Oct. 7 was another total fabrication by these usual lying suspects who, via their control of the propaganda, told us Gaza was “invaded” by a bunch of guys in t-shirts on paragliders (lol) flying undetected and then unopposed over the border of the most protected airspace on the planet. The story of course is ludicrous. This same scary battalion paragliders-turned-motorcyclists are now assumed to be bumpitying over the land terrorizing innocent Israelis and, what?, opposing actual genocidists? Again, that’s impossible, because genocidists, by the very nature of the act of mass killing, are an UNopposed force. So there is no “war.”
Given the Zionist penchant for lying, it’s also very likely that no Israelis were killed in the Oct. 7 “attack.” Their grand lies usually begin with falsely proclaiming themselves “victims” of something to which a military response is then said to be required (by which they then get their American cuckolds to illegally fund).
Finally, we know that not only did the Israelis invent terrorism, they continue to make-up so-called “Muslim terrorist“ groups. “Hamas,” it’s been confirmed, is an Israeli creation, which means the Zionists have total control of the “narrative” surrounding the “activities” (real or made-up) of this group. And so again, there is no "war." It's all Israelis, all the time.
Thank you for sharing your opinion, with which in great part I agree.
Yes calling a Genocide “war” is incorrect, but this is what it is.
A genocidal army armed with the most devastating weapons of mass destruction on one side, and partisans and freedom fighters armed with stones and home made fire weapons and exploding devices made from unexploded ordinances on the other, exchanging blows.
Obviously the blows from the one side cannot be compared to the ones inflicted by the other, nevertheless, beside the Genocide unleashed on the innocent population, war of some kind is definitely taking place.
One more consideration, if we want to use the term Genocide in the correct way, than we should make it clear that Genocide in Palestine is taking place not from October the seventh, but from 1948 as the term includes among other, the forceful transfer of a population.
Regarding Hamas being a terrorist group, I think that like everything in life, it would be incorrect to say that they are all one bunch or that they are all terrorists.
Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza which were fed up with the Fatah and with being sold out by the PLO and its later PA.
I agree to the fact that members of Hamas had been for decades used as a tool for war and that some of them have been working for zionists, but for what I know, things had drastically changed after 2011, time in which after the fall of Mubarak, and the closing down of the tunnels, a cleanup of its institution took place.
I can also tell you that Hamas was said to be doing a better job in protecting the people of Gaza, than the Fatah the PLO or the PA ever did with the Palestinians living in the rest of Palestine.
This was confirmed to me by peace activists and humanitarian workers which had been to Gaza before and after Hamas.
In their words, Hamas had transformed Gaza into a beautiful place with roads, universities, hospitals, schools sanitation, DRINKING WATER, and social services which were never existing before them.
Surly the group had been infiltrated from its start, but so did every other group of armed partisans ever since 1948, or perhaps from even before then.
Until October the seventh 2023, israel, the US, the UK,and the EU, were said to have has many as 2000 spies in Gaza.
This spies are at large comprised of Palestinian people which are blackmailed, threaten and forced to spy on their own people, which in turn, makes every association or group in Gaza and indeed n Palestine for many aspects, a tool in the hands of the zionists. hence calling the entire Palestinian resistance Hamas or calling all Hamas fighter terrorists, in the end would be wrong.
One more consideration which I think you should make, is that after close to 18months of Genocide, no one of the Hamas fighter which worked for Israel is likely to be left in Gaza.
Surly many new israeli spies may have tried to infiltrate the resistance, but once again, after almost one and half year fighting, I don’t think that the Palestinian which affiliate themselves with Hamas, well knowing what we know “plus some”, would so easily allow spies and terrorists to join their ranks.
One thing is for sure, only the Palestinians can decide who they want to have as representatives, and only they, will in the end, tell us about facts which till now, we can only assume or speculate on.
Anyhow thank you again for your support for the Palestinian cause.
Look, I appreciate your attempts at serious journalism. Research and writing are hard, I know. But language matters. “War” implies an enemy combatant of equal or near-equal strength and numbers. A few Palestinians on the ground throwing “stones and fire weapons” at the 3rd largest military in the world (where the latter simply plows through them and anybody else in the way – albeit slowly for appearance’s sake) clearly does NOT constitute an “enemy” of equal strength, and thus the whole thing cannot ever be called a “war.”
The use of the term “war” – as I said from the very start of this fake conflict (when my idiot neighbor on Oct. 8, 2023 asked me, “So how about this war in Gaza?”, to which I then asked, “They’re already calling it a ‘war’?!”) – is pure PROPAGANDA (a false “pretext” used by the Zionists) to immediately convince those captured by the mainstream lies that the Israelis are in some kind of “struggle for their existence” (they're not) and thus require moral and financial support (they don't). The use of “war,” especially when repeated a thousand times by the MSM, is yet another way to get people to avoid asking the primary question: is there even an opposing side that requires a response of ANY kind, military, diplomatic, whatever? It effectively gets the gullible news junkies and dupes like my neighbor to commit a begging-the-question fallacy and, if not to instantly side with Israel, to believe there’s a “conflict” about which endless discussion is then required.
It’s similar to when the stupid “origin” question concerning fake “Covid” was immediately presented by the mainstream as something to consider and NOT whether there was even a “virus” to begin with (spoiler alert: there wasn’t).
To repeat: “war” implies two EQUAL or NEAR-EQUAL enemy combatants. That is clearly not the case here. So using the term “war” to describe what is clearly NOT a “war” is incorrect. “War” also contradicts “genocide,” which, by definition, is ONE-sided.
Please consider not using the term “war” at all and simply call it what it is.
Yes I agree, This is Genocide, if you scroll back my articles, you will see that I was one of the first here n Substack making this exact same points that you are pointing out too.
Mind I wrote this in December 2023 and never finished correcting my typos.
Nevertheless, I was already then making the same point as you are making here.
Indeed this is a Genocide and indeed we should not define it as war, nevertheless it is a Genocidal aggression and Genocide can indeed occur during a war.
Read the Genocide convention to learn the official use of the term.
Note also Dictionaries are not reliable, as they change definition of words whenever it suits them.
If you like to find the original definition of the term, you should find a dictionary printed around the time of the adoption of the convention,, cause Im quite sure that just like the changed the definition of a pandemic, they have most likely done the same with the one of Genocide.
What we should make more clear, is the fact that israel has completely lost its cover, and that now more than ever before can no longer claim that what is doing should be somehow considered “self defense” .
Oh my God, it’s like I’m talking to my Aunt Sylvia here. Do we really need official dictionaries to help us define STANDARD words commonly used in the English language? Who gives a #^* whether the evil psychopaths change the “official definitions” of words so that people like you can then point to them and say, “See, the meanings keep changing, so we can’t ever use those terms as we know them.”
We use the terms here, in this little discussion, as they’ve ALWAYS been used, OK?, using their COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD meanings. How would YOU, as a seemingly intelligent person, define “war” and “genocide”? To repeat for the umpteenth time: “war,” as long understood, is defined as a prolonged conflict between two or more enemy combatants of equal or near-equal strength in numbers. Call that the official or unofficial definition, doesn’t matter. It’s the basic DEFINITION of war, and we don’t need dictionaries to define the word for us. Basic intelligence is all that’s required. Likewise with the word “genocide.” Very easily defined. It is the mass extermination of a large number of INDEFENSIBLE people, meaning no “army” and thus NOT an enemy combatant in a “war.” “War” vs. “genocide.” Incompatible terms. Not the same. Cannot be used together in phrases like “genocidal war.”
So, No, Genocide cannot occur in a “war”! Ask the indefensible people of Dresden whether they were fighting a “war” when their city was devastated by firebombing by the Allies in February, 1945 and their population massacred (i.e., genocided) to the tune of some 25,000 to 100,000.
What’s occurring in Gaza right now is a “widespread” (meaning the ENTIRE region) extermination of all Palestinian inhabitants. Those people are not being defended by ANY army large or small. It’s why it’s called a “genocide.”
No offense, dude, but you’re simply not qualified to write at this level. I saw this from the start when I noticed your semantic and other grammatical/spelling failures in this piece (see your subtitle, among others). If you can’t even understand these basics about the language (semantics and the use of words according to their standard meanings), then I’m wasting my time here. Please use the language correctly, be more mindful in your writing, stop with all these silly nuances that you think are valid (they’re not), and edit your mistakes. Just telling you straight.
Hey, this is so powerful and full of outrage (well-deserved!!!) and all the truth and substance you have employed to describe this insanity of Israel and Netanyahu embody -- well done!!! Full of passion, as well it should be.
If you would like some assistance with spelling and other editing, I'm a skilled copy editor. This deserves to be widely shared, so I'd like to help clear up some spelling and such! xo xo
My articles are not made for commercial purposes and are free for use and sharing.
As you know English is not my first language so, spelling mistakes and typos actually helps me in the end to better formulate my sentences.
I usually read and correct the text for days after publishing it and my usual readers are aware that I always correct most of the misspellings and typos I first publish.
I also deliberately choose not use electronic editors or to share my work with programs and algorithms before publishing them, and to go full analog with my writing.
Anyhow Thank you for your offer, feel free to correct and republish them “just let the readers know the source of the article and that it was edited by you.”
If you do it, remember to wait at list 48 hours after I publish, to give me the time to make the most needed clarifications and corrections to text before you start editing it.
Oh, I wouldn’t do it without us working together. I’m very, very good at it, but it’s not a NEED. I charge very small fees, because most SS peeps write a LOT of stuff and can’t afford too much. But if you change your mind, let me know. And I did know English isn’t your first language, and I don’t judge people by their grammar, anyway. :) Your writing, your THINKING, is excellent.
What a magnificent article! Which, among an abundant literature, single-handedly and exhaustively summarizes the roots, development and projections of the dramatic events we are witnessing! Many thanks to the author for this summary of History, its moral rigor and its clarity!…
Thank you very much for the kind words and above all, for your support and stand for the Palestinian people and cause.
My apologies for the typos, I will correct them and add more links as soon as I can.
Break not brake... funny how the smallest tings get to SOME OF us !..... when older . :)
But agree totally with "Hachemi Hadjoudj" ... excellent article; thank you.
PS I would not trust Egypt, one little bit ... I think this is part of the globalist elitist scumbag's agenda... and it will not end well for Palestine, The Lebanon, Syria (for now in the ME) or UK and Europe in the "near future to 2030" - we are being played.
The World is a stage and most are the dumb audience... thanks to people like you, many of the ignorant masses are "awakening"....
Thank you Bob
"...the smallest tings..." :) I'm almost perfect at catching them all. lol
Here I re post a comment I used to reply to a comment deleted by a troll which goes by the alias of “michigan.rob”, which attacked me for using the term Genocidal war, called all Hamas fighters terrorists and than blocked himself making the. Moments and my reply apparently visible to others but not me.
Anyhow, I feel I should not let my long replay to his comment go to waist so here it is.
“
Yes calling a Genocide “war” is incorrect, but this is what it is.
A genocidal army armed with the most devastating weapons of mass destruction on one side, and partisans and freedom fighters armed with stones and home made fire weapons and exploding devices made from unexploded ordinances on the other, exchanging blows.
Obviously the blows from the one side cannot be compared to the ones inflicted by the other, nevertheless, beside the Genocide unleashed on the innocent population, war of some kind is definitely taking place.
One more consideration, if we want to use the term Genocide in the correct way, than we should make it clear that Genocide in Palestine is taking place not from October the seventh, but from 1948 as the term includes among other, the forceful transfer of a population.
Regarding Hamas being a terrorist group, I think that like everything in life, it would be incorrect to say that they are all one bunch or that they are all terrorists.
Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza which were fed up with the Fatah and with being sold out by the PLO and its later PA.
I agree to the fact that members of Hamas had been for decades used as a tool for Genocide and that some of them have been working for zionists ever since the establishment of their group , but for what I know, things had drastically changed after 2011, time in which after the fall of Mubarak, and the closing down of the tunnels, a cleanup of its institution took place.
I can also tell you that Hamas was said to be doing a better job in protecting the people of Gaza, than the Fatah the PLO or the PA ever did with the Palestinians living in the rest of Palestine.
This was confirmed to me by peace activists and humanitarian workers which had been to Gaza before and after Hamas.
In their words, Hamas had transformed Gaza into a beautiful place with roads, universities, hospitals, schools sanitation, DRINKING WATER, and social services which were never existing before them.
Surly the group had been infiltrated from its start, but so did every other group of armed partisans ever since 1948, or perhaps from even before then.
Until October the seventh 2023, israel, the US, the UK,and the EU, were said to have has many as 2000 spies in Gaza.
This spies are at large comprised of Palestinian people which are blackmailed, threaten and forced to spy on their own people, this in turn, makes nearly every association or group in Gaza and indeed in Palestine for many aspects, a tool in the hands of the zionists. hence calling the entire Palestinian resistance Hamas or calling all of Hamas fighter terrorists, in the end would be wrong.
One more consideration which I think you should make, is that after close to 18months of Genocide, no one of the Hamas fighter which worked for Israel is likely to be left in Gaza.
Surly many new israeli spies may have tried to infiltrate the resistance and succeeded, but once again, after almost one and half year fighting, I don’t think that the Palestinian which affiliate themselves with Hamas, well knowing what we know “plus some”, would so easily allow spies or “the real terrorists” from join their ranks.
One thing is for sure, only the Palestinians can decide who they want to have as representatives, and only they, will in the end, tell us about facts which till now, we can only assume or speculate on.
Anyhow thank you again for your support for the Palestinian cause.”
Zionism: A Beneficiary of the Massacre of Syria’s Minorities
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/zionism-a-beneficiary-of-the-massacre-of-syrias-minorities/
How Syria’s Fall Brought Lebanon’s New US Puppet President Joseph Aoun to Power
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/how-syrias-fall-brought-lebanons-new-us-puppet-president-joseph-aoun-to-power/
Thank you for the links.
It should be obvious by now that they have all their puppets sitting in power also in practically every other Arab and Muslim country .
War is their ultimate tool for distracting the public and getting reed of the opposition that is why the puppets of the west continue to push for war and the ones in the East “aside from betrayed people of Lebanon and from Yemen” , are all rolling in the grass as they are being whipped.
This insanity has gone on for way too long and as their crimes are getting heavier and heavier, the rubber band they are hanging on is bound to snap.
One more thing is for sure, even if many pretend to be a sleep, they are not and can see what is really going on.
Dystopian movies are movies, reality is a different thing , the change is already here, the countdown has already started.
Thank you for sharing Carina and Errico
That rubber band needs to BREAK NOW.
I can't believe how utterly atrocious this is... I'll never be the same.
Yes, It is already broken.
Regarding Egypt
there is a video at the link that I am unable to post in comments.
Sinai Human Rights Foundation documents military cargo planes over Sinai heading to “Israel”
https://en.ypagency.net/351914
Sickening, I guess we have reached the maximum point of over stretch.
I would have never believed or thought possible that Yemen would have become the protector of life and dignity of the planet.
That goes to show that miracles do happen and that things are always very different from what we were taught in school or by the medias.
I hope some day to be able to see and meet this courageous and beautiful people.
The only one thing which I would like to tell them beside thank you for standing up, is, please, yes stop but don’t sink oil tankers.
For the rest, Blessing to those who stand up to protect the weak.
I love Yemen and have been following them for quite some time, documenting the attack on them since 2015. I should have married a Yemeni 💚.
I do not think they will sink oil tankers. They are well aware of the environmental dangers.
Thank you Sol, God help us all ✊🇵🇸
Evil is as evil does.
Dear Raymond, evil is a misconception and a sickness which can be cured. Understanding of it is the cure.
Here something I wrote some time ago. “ if you can survive my typos and read it through”
https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/how-to-overcome-and-erase-evil
OK, but...a “genocide” is not a “war.” This is an error in semantics, where your term “genocidal war” is effectively a contradiction in terms. A genocide is “the systematic and widespread extermination of a national or ethnic group” (Oxford Eng. Dict.). Informally, it is a mass killing of everyone in the line of the unopposed murdering force, the key word there being “unopposed.” A war, by contrast, is a prolonged conflict between two OPPOSING armies that are typically equal or nearly equal in number (at least at the beginning of the conflict). Hence, the “prolonged” nature of it. Otherwise, who is the opposing army? In La-La land, it can only be “Hamas.” But as you seem to indicate in your article, you already know that Hamas is an utter fiction, a made-up “terrorist” group, like Al Queda and ISIS/ISIL, used as a pretext by the Israelis (following the fake terrorist group’s so-called “invasion” and “killing” of innocent Israelis) to engage in ACTUAL mass slaughter.
We know Oct. 7 was another total fabrication by these usual lying suspects who, via their control of the propaganda, told us Gaza was “invaded” by a bunch of guys in t-shirts on paragliders (lol) flying undetected and then unopposed over the border of the most protected airspace on the planet. The story of course is ludicrous. This same scary battalion paragliders-turned-motorcyclists are now assumed to be bumpitying over the land terrorizing innocent Israelis and, what?, opposing actual genocidists? Again, that’s impossible, because genocidists, by the very nature of the act of mass killing, are an UNopposed force. So there is no “war.”
Given the Zionist penchant for lying, it’s also very likely that no Israelis were killed in the Oct. 7 “attack.” Their grand lies usually begin with falsely proclaiming themselves “victims” of something to which a military response is then said to be required (by which they then get their American cuckolds to illegally fund).
Finally, we know that not only did the Israelis invent terrorism, they continue to make-up so-called “Muslim terrorist“ groups. “Hamas,” it’s been confirmed, is an Israeli creation, which means the Zionists have total control of the “narrative” surrounding the “activities” (real or made-up) of this group. And so again, there is no "war." It's all Israelis, all the time.
Thank you for sharing your opinion, with which in great part I agree.
Yes calling a Genocide “war” is incorrect, but this is what it is.
A genocidal army armed with the most devastating weapons of mass destruction on one side, and partisans and freedom fighters armed with stones and home made fire weapons and exploding devices made from unexploded ordinances on the other, exchanging blows.
Obviously the blows from the one side cannot be compared to the ones inflicted by the other, nevertheless, beside the Genocide unleashed on the innocent population, war of some kind is definitely taking place.
One more consideration, if we want to use the term Genocide in the correct way, than we should make it clear that Genocide in Palestine is taking place not from October the seventh, but from 1948 as the term includes among other, the forceful transfer of a population.
Regarding Hamas being a terrorist group, I think that like everything in life, it would be incorrect to say that they are all one bunch or that they are all terrorists.
Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza which were fed up with the Fatah and with being sold out by the PLO and its later PA.
I agree to the fact that members of Hamas had been for decades used as a tool for war and that some of them have been working for zionists, but for what I know, things had drastically changed after 2011, time in which after the fall of Mubarak, and the closing down of the tunnels, a cleanup of its institution took place.
I can also tell you that Hamas was said to be doing a better job in protecting the people of Gaza, than the Fatah the PLO or the PA ever did with the Palestinians living in the rest of Palestine.
This was confirmed to me by peace activists and humanitarian workers which had been to Gaza before and after Hamas.
In their words, Hamas had transformed Gaza into a beautiful place with roads, universities, hospitals, schools sanitation, DRINKING WATER, and social services which were never existing before them.
Surly the group had been infiltrated from its start, but so did every other group of armed partisans ever since 1948, or perhaps from even before then.
Until October the seventh 2023, israel, the US, the UK,and the EU, were said to have has many as 2000 spies in Gaza.
This spies are at large comprised of Palestinian people which are blackmailed, threaten and forced to spy on their own people, which in turn, makes every association or group in Gaza and indeed n Palestine for many aspects, a tool in the hands of the zionists. hence calling the entire Palestinian resistance Hamas or calling all Hamas fighter terrorists, in the end would be wrong.
One more consideration which I think you should make, is that after close to 18months of Genocide, no one of the Hamas fighter which worked for Israel is likely to be left in Gaza.
Surly many new israeli spies may have tried to infiltrate the resistance, but once again, after almost one and half year fighting, I don’t think that the Palestinian which affiliate themselves with Hamas, well knowing what we know “plus some”, would so easily allow spies and terrorists to join their ranks.
One thing is for sure, only the Palestinians can decide who they want to have as representatives, and only they, will in the end, tell us about facts which till now, we can only assume or speculate on.
Anyhow thank you again for your support for the Palestinian cause.
Look, I appreciate your attempts at serious journalism. Research and writing are hard, I know. But language matters. “War” implies an enemy combatant of equal or near-equal strength and numbers. A few Palestinians on the ground throwing “stones and fire weapons” at the 3rd largest military in the world (where the latter simply plows through them and anybody else in the way – albeit slowly for appearance’s sake) clearly does NOT constitute an “enemy” of equal strength, and thus the whole thing cannot ever be called a “war.”
The use of the term “war” – as I said from the very start of this fake conflict (when my idiot neighbor on Oct. 8, 2023 asked me, “So how about this war in Gaza?”, to which I then asked, “They’re already calling it a ‘war’?!”) – is pure PROPAGANDA (a false “pretext” used by the Zionists) to immediately convince those captured by the mainstream lies that the Israelis are in some kind of “struggle for their existence” (they're not) and thus require moral and financial support (they don't). The use of “war,” especially when repeated a thousand times by the MSM, is yet another way to get people to avoid asking the primary question: is there even an opposing side that requires a response of ANY kind, military, diplomatic, whatever? It effectively gets the gullible news junkies and dupes like my neighbor to commit a begging-the-question fallacy and, if not to instantly side with Israel, to believe there’s a “conflict” about which endless discussion is then required.
It’s similar to when the stupid “origin” question concerning fake “Covid” was immediately presented by the mainstream as something to consider and NOT whether there was even a “virus” to begin with (spoiler alert: there wasn’t).
To repeat: “war” implies two EQUAL or NEAR-EQUAL enemy combatants. That is clearly not the case here. So using the term “war” to describe what is clearly NOT a “war” is incorrect. “War” also contradicts “genocide,” which, by definition, is ONE-sided.
Please consider not using the term “war” at all and simply call it what it is.
Yes I agree, This is Genocide, if you scroll back my articles, you will see that I was one of the first here n Substack making this exact same points that you are pointing out too.
https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/stop-calling-it-a-war
Mind I wrote this in December 2023 and never finished correcting my typos.
Nevertheless, I was already then making the same point as you are making here.
Indeed this is a Genocide and indeed we should not define it as war, nevertheless it is a Genocidal aggression and Genocide can indeed occur during a war.
Read the Genocide convention to learn the official use of the term.
Note also Dictionaries are not reliable, as they change definition of words whenever it suits them.
If you like to find the original definition of the term, you should find a dictionary printed around the time of the adoption of the convention,, cause Im quite sure that just like the changed the definition of a pandemic, they have most likely done the same with the one of Genocide.
What we should make more clear, is the fact that israel has completely lost its cover, and that now more than ever before can no longer claim that what is doing should be somehow considered “self defense” .
Anyhow thank you for the reminder.
Oh my God, it’s like I’m talking to my Aunt Sylvia here. Do we really need official dictionaries to help us define STANDARD words commonly used in the English language? Who gives a #^* whether the evil psychopaths change the “official definitions” of words so that people like you can then point to them and say, “See, the meanings keep changing, so we can’t ever use those terms as we know them.”
We use the terms here, in this little discussion, as they’ve ALWAYS been used, OK?, using their COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD meanings. How would YOU, as a seemingly intelligent person, define “war” and “genocide”? To repeat for the umpteenth time: “war,” as long understood, is defined as a prolonged conflict between two or more enemy combatants of equal or near-equal strength in numbers. Call that the official or unofficial definition, doesn’t matter. It’s the basic DEFINITION of war, and we don’t need dictionaries to define the word for us. Basic intelligence is all that’s required. Likewise with the word “genocide.” Very easily defined. It is the mass extermination of a large number of INDEFENSIBLE people, meaning no “army” and thus NOT an enemy combatant in a “war.” “War” vs. “genocide.” Incompatible terms. Not the same. Cannot be used together in phrases like “genocidal war.”
So, No, Genocide cannot occur in a “war”! Ask the indefensible people of Dresden whether they were fighting a “war” when their city was devastated by firebombing by the Allies in February, 1945 and their population massacred (i.e., genocided) to the tune of some 25,000 to 100,000.
What’s occurring in Gaza right now is a “widespread” (meaning the ENTIRE region) extermination of all Palestinian inhabitants. Those people are not being defended by ANY army large or small. It’s why it’s called a “genocide.”
No offense, dude, but you’re simply not qualified to write at this level. I saw this from the start when I noticed your semantic and other grammatical/spelling failures in this piece (see your subtitle, among others). If you can’t even understand these basics about the language (semantics and the use of words according to their standard meanings), then I’m wasting my time here. Please use the language correctly, be more mindful in your writing, stop with all these silly nuances that you think are valid (they’re not), and edit your mistakes. Just telling you straight.
Hey, this is so powerful and full of outrage (well-deserved!!!) and all the truth and substance you have employed to describe this insanity of Israel and Netanyahu embody -- well done!!! Full of passion, as well it should be.
If you would like some assistance with spelling and other editing, I'm a skilled copy editor. This deserves to be widely shared, so I'd like to help clear up some spelling and such! xo xo
Thank you for the kind words and offer.
My articles are not made for commercial purposes and are free for use and sharing.
As you know English is not my first language so, spelling mistakes and typos actually helps me in the end to better formulate my sentences.
I usually read and correct the text for days after publishing it and my usual readers are aware that I always correct most of the misspellings and typos I first publish.
I also deliberately choose not use electronic editors or to share my work with programs and algorithms before publishing them, and to go full analog with my writing.
Anyhow Thank you for your offer, feel free to correct and republish them “just let the readers know the source of the article and that it was edited by you.”
If you do it, remember to wait at list 48 hours after I publish, to give me the time to make the most needed clarifications and corrections to text before you start editing it.
Thank you for sharing.
Oh, I wouldn’t do it without us working together. I’m very, very good at it, but it’s not a NEED. I charge very small fees, because most SS peeps write a LOT of stuff and can’t afford too much. But if you change your mind, let me know. And I did know English isn’t your first language, and I don’t judge people by their grammar, anyway. :) Your writing, your THINKING, is excellent.
Thank you again for the offer, I will keep it in mind, keep mind also mine.