Hi Ann: thanks for your cogent analysis! In my view we need to spark a peaceful revolution to create new social, economic, and political systems that place love at the center for our collective repair, justice and peace. We need a new global economic financial architecture that transforms our economies to be de-growth, circular, and sustainable. The collapse and crises you describe is our moment of opportunity! it’s go time!!
There is no genocide happening nearby. Hamas did that Oct 7th but since then Israel has been trying to hold Hamas to account for the brutal atrocities by Hamas and to reduce the likelihood of it happening again. Hamas and other Islamist extremists openly declare they will do October 7th “...again and again and again...” until Israel is annihilated. Hamas is genocidal.
Decades of suicide bombings (martyr operations according to Palestinians), rocket attacks and other jihadist activities were met with defensive activities but to no avail. The civilians who were raped, tortured, and kidnapped experienced war crimes by Israel. Israel does not do those kinds of things.
Building military tunnels at over 1 million dollars per km (with more than 500 km) under hospitals, schools and mosques are also war crimes. The money could have been used better.
Note also that the leadership is made up of billionaires living in 4 star hotels in Qatar where they keep their private jets. They are running a scam on the Palestinian people and the West that makes Trump look like an amateur. They brag about how they need the aid to keep flowing and large amounts need to be siphoned to them.
When Hamas committed the atrocities Oct 7th they were hoping to score hugely. But likely Israel and the IDF has stopped that. Just like police raids on Mafia figures sometimes lead to the deaths of their minions Israel is working to eliminate Hamas.
We humans are still quite tribal in our associations, although we have progressed somewhat to allow for diversity within the tribe, conditioned upon cultural assimilation within the dominant tribal group. As documented by British author Fred Harrison in the first two volumes of his trilogy titled "#WeAreRent," every advanced tribal group eventually succumbed to hierarchy, entrenched privilege and the effective redistribution of wealth from producers to a non-producing rentier elite. With the massive increase in the human population and the disappearance of the frontier lands capable to supporting human settlement, the problems you have described have advanced at an accelerating pace. Mr. Harrison's book presents a dire picture of our future unless we can somehow quickly deal with the unresolved "land question" political economists as long ago as A.R. Jacques Turgot and Adam Smith warned us would eventually bring down civilization.
Hi Ann: thanks for your cogent analysis! In my view we need to spark a peaceful revolution to create new social, economic, and political systems that place love at the center for our collective repair, justice and peace. We need a new global economic financial architecture that transforms our economies to be de-growth, circular, and sustainable. The collapse and crises you describe is our moment of opportunity! it’s go time!!
There is no genocide happening nearby. Hamas did that Oct 7th but since then Israel has been trying to hold Hamas to account for the brutal atrocities by Hamas and to reduce the likelihood of it happening again. Hamas and other Islamist extremists openly declare they will do October 7th “...again and again and again...” until Israel is annihilated. Hamas is genocidal.
Decades of suicide bombings (martyr operations according to Palestinians), rocket attacks and other jihadist activities were met with defensive activities but to no avail. The civilians who were raped, tortured, and kidnapped experienced war crimes by Israel. Israel does not do those kinds of things.
Building military tunnels at over 1 million dollars per km (with more than 500 km) under hospitals, schools and mosques are also war crimes. The money could have been used better.
Note also that the leadership is made up of billionaires living in 4 star hotels in Qatar where they keep their private jets. They are running a scam on the Palestinian people and the West that makes Trump look like an amateur. They brag about how they need the aid to keep flowing and large amounts need to be siphoned to them.
When Hamas committed the atrocities Oct 7th they were hoping to score hugely. But likely Israel and the IDF has stopped that. Just like police raids on Mafia figures sometimes lead to the deaths of their minions Israel is working to eliminate Hamas.
We humans are still quite tribal in our associations, although we have progressed somewhat to allow for diversity within the tribe, conditioned upon cultural assimilation within the dominant tribal group. As documented by British author Fred Harrison in the first two volumes of his trilogy titled "#WeAreRent," every advanced tribal group eventually succumbed to hierarchy, entrenched privilege and the effective redistribution of wealth from producers to a non-producing rentier elite. With the massive increase in the human population and the disappearance of the frontier lands capable to supporting human settlement, the problems you have described have advanced at an accelerating pace. Mr. Harrison's book presents a dire picture of our future unless we can somehow quickly deal with the unresolved "land question" political economists as long ago as A.R. Jacques Turgot and Adam Smith warned us would eventually bring down civilization.