The world needs Israel's help

10/16/24 We have plans made for our friends and family in Israel to stay with us or nearby. Thanks to Israel's stupid government we have lost touch with our dear friends on the Palestinian side and don't know if they are alive. I wish to sincerely "thank" Netanyahu and his shitty minions. Guess civilian casualties aren't as big a deal to some of the Israeli people as they once were. WTF. If Israel goes under y'all know who you are, and I hope you get your "rewards" in full. Sarcasm is understated.

5/28/24 Gloves off. You wanna hear what I really think? If you do not live in Israel or the surrounding regions, or even if you do and you aren't directly affected by the conflict, and you think it's a great idea to paint one side or the other as the bad guy, or worse try to incite some kind of supposed "activism" without both knowing the details and being qualified to intervene without causing harm to the innocent, guess who's damn near directly responsible for all the innocent people dying over there? YOU. You. Get off your high horse and stop it before more kids die. I do mean on every side of this pointless conflict I despise you and you richly deserve it.

12/29/23 So I hear that Israel has recovered 65,000 pages or so of Hamas documentation. Would be a reaaalll shame if Anonymous or some government or other posted the entire version of it in the original, complete, uncensored Arabic so the entire Arab-speaking world could read it at will on the Internet. A reaalll shame. ;) [of course if this actually happened, Hamas would then claim "no that's not it, here's the "real" version" so be prepared for that eventuality]

11/3/23 Adding to this section not only for Israelis but all innocent civilians in the region. Might want to read this, it's important. A little historic background for you: Israel, as far as I have known, has long prided itself on minimal civilian casualties in an effort to not be like the Nazis (edit: and all the other people that have historically hated Jews without bothering to actually know one). If the United States and Biden himself are saying that Israel needs to stop killing civilians on the other side, then they are. If Israel continues, and the US pulls its support as Biden has said it would, EVERYONE innocent in the region needs to get the fuck out pronto. The Middle East will explode, even after all the Israelis are long gone. Make your plans now. Find family or friends or sponsors in safe countries just in case. I hope it's not needed but damn, to the best of my knowledge Israel's never done this before, all the bad press notwithstanding. 11/17/23 You hear about Hamas? Yeah they really have been using civilians in the Gaza Strip as their meat shields basically since they began. Where do I hear about this? Family and friends in and from Israel. What I said about how it's evil to hate someone you don't know have never met and never care to meet is absolutely exemplified in Hamas. Watch and learn, world. Don't be like them. 11/19/23 SHIT. Refer to first part of this paragraph. 12/1/23 Here's an idea no one is going to like but it's necessary to figure out what the hell is going on over there: everywhere the Israeli military goes, the United States military should go. I mean every single operation, every routine and mundane shift and task, every barracks, every unit. Everything. Why? 1. To remind both Israel and the United States why we are allies in the first place, 2. To actually have some insight into the kind of shit that goes on there, 3. To strengthen ties between two countries - or if things have gone to shit in Israel's culture, to at least let the US know where we stand, 4. To reassess the entire situation in the Middle East from a strategic viewpoint that's a lot closer to where things are going wrong, and 5. To help Israel (hopefully) prove to the world what news is real versus what news is fake. It's a win win all around and if Israel doesn't agree to this, they are suicidal. 12/8/23 Get this. I'm personally involved in this because I have friends and family in Israel. However, I am still not qualified to properly judge or assess the situation because I don't know all the details. There are people out there who, I'm sure, are all "Palestinians/Arabs bad" or "Israel bad" because "they're just bad" and clearly the solution is "simple." And you know what? Those people are the kind of people who would gladly "solve" the conflict in Russia and Ukraine by pushing the button and causing total nuclear armageddon. Details. Are. Important.

11/24/23 Okay then, someone protested at the Macy's Day parade with a "genocide then, genocide now" banner, after assaulting cops. Play time is over kids, I'll tell you about some history that you probably didn't learn in school.

11/24/23 Now that we have looked at that lovely majesty of a meme, you get to learn that is really how it's gone down for years at this point. How do I know? Family and friends live there. Usual news from them is "we got bombed today." There is more to this story. Let's start at the beginning: Holocaust happened. How do I know? Holocaust survivor family. I've told y'all about this. Here's the bit most people aren't aware of: Jews were killed not just in Europe but escaped pogroms in Russia and the United States turned away Jewish refugees at that time also. Canada was also not welcoming. They actually had nowhere else to go but the area now called Israel and Palestine. So they went there, and pre-WWII there was no eternawar between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Then the British got involved. They used a policy of "divide and conquer" and created the original two-state "solution" that wound up in endless war. Every nation around Israel declared war on it when it was formed and it fought a war to make itself a country. So Israel wound up getting a draft for everyone, men and women, over the age of 18. Meanwhile, for whatever reason (12/4/23 edit, what I meant was "for whatever reason, people in Palestine have lived THERE of all places"), over the years people in Palestine lived their lives. Some virtuous and innocent, some anything but. The unique thing about the Palestinian lifestyle is simple: terrorists there such as Hamas really have been using civilians as their meat shields for decades now, building bunkers under hospitals and such. I do not have anything againt Palestinian civilians. Hardly. But you have to wonder if/when any of those folks are going to realize that when laying down with pigs it's hard to get clean. Regarding Israelis, the "genocide then" statement is incorrect. Unfortunately in a war of self-defense I'm certain some civilians on the sides opposite Israel died and that's the nature of war. The alternative was getting Israel wiped off the map, and I would not be here typing this if that was the case. You should also know that everything I told you on this page and/or bunchofideas about Israel's military policies of ensuring as few civilian casualties as humanly possible really were in place, at least when my parents were in (and they were pacifists! Drafts suck!). These days however? Well, fuck Israel's government for making the bad press finally have truth to it. They're the true traitors to the state of Israel and I hope they go to jail. I'm not even sure Israel is going to still be viable as a country if its people do not fix the government and instill a real democracy instead of the sham they have going now. Finally, I'd like to point out that the two-state solution has already been proposed, by Israel. Also proposed in the past by Israel: Israeli citizenship for every innocent Palestinian civilian. Both were denied, and peace talks died, because the Palestinian authorities at that point insisted only the extermination of every citizen of Israel would be enough. I don't think the former (two-state "solution") would work, but the latter (Israeli citizenship for all innocent Palestinian civilians) could because nowadays I think things have changed for the better enough - but I don't really know for sure.

MFW I hear some diehard Christian wax rhetorical about Jerusalem o_O ***(thought bubble: it's literally Israel's Compton, wtf are you on about)

Just an FYI, in the United States, my family and like 90% of the people from the Middle East we've talked to (IRL, not on the internet, most people from the Middle East work damn hard and actually have a life) have been like "oh God the conflict, just make it stop." Stop trying to recruit me for one side or the other please, I'm not in the mood to hate people for no reason other than they got born in a certain place. That's fucking stupid, stop it.

Message to everyone who hates Israel, particularly younger generations: the more you hate it, the more important it is that you visit. Preferably for at least a month and maybe two. Some Kibbutzes allow you to work there and pay for your stay via working. Because the amount of fact-spinning, complication of truth, and even outright fake news about Israel is extraordinary. Go there. See things for yourself. Make your call afterwards but not a moment before. And tell the rest of us what you see. I'd say to visit the surrounding areas as well to get an even take on what's going on but there is a distinct possibility of getting killed in any of the surrounding areas, with or without being a resident of the country in question (yikes!). Things are bad in most of the surrounding countries afaik, and they like to blame all of their problems on Israel, but alas, it's not that simple. Nonbiased reporters visiting each of those countries and Israel too would make the whole situation have a clearer picture to the outside world, but there's no such thing as nonbiased reporting these days except for steady.substack.com *11/17/23 Steady hasn't been reliable for more than a year. I'm sorry. Things are changing so fast I can't make every portion of the site keep up.* Maybe someday. Oh, and anyone who lives either within Israel or in the countries who surround it, you might like to know my family considered immigrating to Canada or Australia first, but wound up in America because despite everything, the immigration process turned out to be easier. Really. And it's underrated to take the pressure off a place (the Middle East) by emigrating elsewhere! "but war good" are you fucking serious?! I'm sure there are a lot of you in these countries who are already like "this war is stupid and pointless," and the other side of the coin is that if you stay there and fight tooth and nail (intelligently) to change things within your country to make the madness stop, you're the only ones who can really make a difference. (If you try to fix things, that is, which doesn't seem to be happening enough in any country; it's not just "the stupid" that's the problem but apathy and "not my problem" or worse "I can't do anything anyway" - yeah right) Too many like you leaving and the whole thing goes to shit. So it's not an easy choice. Best of luck to you no matter what you choose.

Notes For Everyone Within The Middle East And Outside Of It (section added 1/3/24)

Within Israel it's tough to see things from a bigger picture but I am on the outside looking in, with an Israeli family. And I see several ways Israel as a government, as charities within Israel, and as people within Israel, can help the whole world. If you or family live there then I ask you to please think about this and talk about this and see what you personally can do.

From The Outside Looking In

Actions individual Israelis can take

Actions the Israeli government can take, though it's so deluded I don't think it'll do anything worthwhile for the next ten years

Actions Israeli charities can take

Actions any or all of the above can take

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