It is dangerous for the US to enslave its foreign policies to what the lobby wants.
It is dangerous for Israel to keep being pushed to the ruling of rightists.
It is going only to get worse for both!
As you read the previous two parts, you should realize the disconnect we have from the corruption and crimes our governments are committing while preaching about noble values. The ultimate hypocrisy. This is why I cannot stress more the role of intellectuals in exposing lies, promoting truth, abandoning propaganda and help the whole society elect officials from bottom up who really care about our developments and needs. If you look at the US, it wouldn’t take much reflection to realize the amount of insanity and hypocrisy, but here are couple of points:
- How come our president still supports lies that got exposed multiple times about the vicious crimes Israel is committing in Gaza and West Bank? Regardless how many countries in the UN voting against Israel and towards ceasefire, US use Vito to suppress them.
- how come the only choice we have of people to be elected for presidency are those above 75 years old? Does this really make sense for the most developed country on earth. Compare this with the energetic leaders of successful US corporates.
- How come you walk in the downtown of San Francisco and Los Angeles and you see the amount of homelessness. You just walk in one of those cities to realize from the smell the disaster about drugs and people’s life. Why our tax money are not used to help US people out of their misery?!
You can reflect over and over, but at some point we need to help raise awareness and participate in electing people differently. We need to think about our representation differently and make sure that we at least play our role instead of being very passive and just focus on the limited scope of our own careers.
Unfortunately I don’t see a short-term solution in the horizon given the mutual arrogance of both US/Israel government and the amount of lobbying that will bring both to hell if we don’t wake up and support justice and insist to get our knowledge from academicians and historian to project the future instead of submitting to our media lies.
I added some resources below, but encourage everyone to:
1) check the disaster happening in Gaza and West Bank and read the history from reliable resources
2) do not think that we are far from this tragedy. This tragedy – and how the west and US deals with it- exposes a real disease and cancer within our countries
3) Listen to other sides and check their arguments and filter facts from lies or exaggerations
4) Prioritize basic human values when making judgments. No one should accept a war where a kid gets killed every 10 minutes.
5) Do your part in civic engagement and encourage everyone to do so. Participate in peaceful protests and write letters or call your representatives.
6) Give
Resources (please check any middle East political scientist in the US)
Prof. Norman Finkelstein
https://youtu.be/te1y7ahp2LQ?si=17eJq-HgmeLIeoa9
Prof. John Mearsheimer
https://youtu.be/MuDstZvaGbE?si=OwWHApM_elyZmkHf
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
https://www.youtube.com/live/brT0RZRpBEg?si=LG4P4aJUXSTZh1Rw
Prof. Noam Chomsky
https://youtu.be/kSxAMBJor2U?si=ob-fFoh3Uv2RIoGK
Prof. Ilan Pappe
Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/karen-kwiatkowski/a-government-of-cowards/
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