These Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of Deir Yassin. Tell me the moral difference between Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern gang and Hamas. I fail to see one. Full Story »
Posted by Gregory Kruse
Pacivism and militarism are cooperative in bringing about violence and slaughter. So says Chris Hedges in agreement with Kant, Niebuhr, and Freud. The one maintains denial about the nature of humanity, and the other maintains that this nature must be allowed to rule human life. This article is too deep for the New York Times, or any of our other MSM outlets. It's too difficult to talk to your enemies when they offend you, or stand up to them when they threaten you with extinction. We would rather pretend that violence doesn't solve any problems until we have a problem we can't seem to solve, then we use violence. Hedges' argument for negotiations between Israel and Hamas for the end of occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and our withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan is unassailable except through denial or violence.
No one knows where we are or where we are going. People who use the idea of God to justify the slaughter of their fellow travellers out of fear are in double-blind denial. I hope that God actually does exist, and in some sense believe that it is impossible that God doesn't exist, but I don't pretend to know God's intentions or level of involment in human affairs. It's time we put away childish things, and that includes deference to God for support of our all-too-human desires.