(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Difference Between Sense and Nonsense [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-05-26 The BBC reports about the actions of two different groups of Israelis. There are right-wing settler groups, who are deliberately ransacking humanitarian aid convoys heading to Gaza, and humanitarian Israelis who counter-act the hooligans to facilitate aid flow. The former group operates from the assumption that “all Gazans are Hamas” and therefore, do not deserve aid while the latter group does not suffer from such a deficiency in reasoning. The police, under the control of ultra-nationalist G’vir, often enable the settler attacks on the trucks by doing nothing. The settler groups enlist the services of even young children and women to do their deeds which they believe will “somehow protect their lives and families.” In other words, by depriving Gazan children of food, such settlers believe their own lives are protected—utter nonsense. These settlers are not deterred by the international opprobrium their crimes invite. They are determined to deny the humanity of others. By contrast, the Israeli peace group “Standing Together” (made up of Arab and Jewish Israelis) is “now mounting regular vigils at the Tarqumiya checkpoint where trucks enter Israel from the southern West Bank.” They hope to thwart the settlers by providing a human buffer for the trucks and their drivers. Read the report here: www.bbc.com/… Right here at home, we have humanitarians who are willing to sacrifice their jobs to take a stand on what they perceive as unwise government policy. Common Dreams has published an article written by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now explaining the rationale for Lily Greenberg Call’s resignation from the US Department of the Interior given America’s continued weapons support for PM Netanyahu and failure to call for a permanent cease-fire. She “rejects the premise that one people’s salvation necessitates the destruction of another people.” She argues that her Jewish faith which emphasizes the sacred duty to save a life inspires her to empathize with and stand up for the human rights of Palestinians: “Pikuach nefesh in Judaism means ‘saving a life,’” . “This idea of b’tselem elohim, that every person is made in the image of God… I feel that I am really living in my Jewishness, in the essence of what I was raised with, by standing up for Palestinians and by demanding their freedom.” To wit, www.commondreams.org/… It is clearly a loss to the government to lose such an outstanding civil servant. I wrote this post to draw attention to the plethora of views among Israelis and Americans of Israeli origin to dissuade people from conflating Jewish people with PM Netanyahu’s extremist regime. It is nonsensical therefore, for individuals to attack Jewish places of worship or members of that community. Similarly, it is nonsensical to attack Muslim places of worship and members of that faith community because of the human rights violations committed by an unrepresentative terror group. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/26/2242878/-The-Difference-Between-Sense-and-Nonsense?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/