US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”
Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”
There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.
That’s possible, but the argument from everyone so far has been “its not the religion!”
Hypocritically, when some dick shoots up a school or nightclub they insist that its the guns and not the ideology of the people doing the shooting
Well my argument is more than just saying “it’s not the religion!” I’m saying that it’s more than that. Religion is an effect, not a cause. The distinction is important because it helps us know what to do about it, and trying to eradicate religion isn’t it. That’s just like the “war on drugs” or the “war on terror.” It’s a fight that you can never win and that only causes more harm.
So what is the rational argument against “one of our people paid a few sheckels 4000 years ago so that land is rightfully ours and we have the Divine Right given by God to kill every single fucking man, woman, and child on it!”?
If it isnt the religion, what is it?
There isn’t a rational argument for that. I’m not defending religion or even private property, I’m simply pointing out that religion is not something you can eradicate because it is an idea that emerges spontaneously from human psychology. Even if you murdered every follower of religion it will eventually re-emerge in a new - but still familiar - form. In addition, the idea of private property is not exclusive to religion. Religion just provides a convenient framework for justifying it.
Like I said, the underlying problem is greed and lust for power. There is no easy solution.