Says Obama. “We don’t believe in government doing for us what we can do for ourselves.” Then he says CEOs are paid too much and must be stopped. There’s been a lot of talk about the rhetorical strength of Obama’s speeches, how he uses classical tropes and incantatory repetition. To these we can also add: Non sequiturs.
Contentions
The cycle of violence. The endless war. Disproportionate use of force.
All of these media slogans are only a blanket for the real source. Radical Islam. The promise of heaven through death will certainly justify the use of human shields. Its a concept so foreign to Westerners, that no one really believes that anyone lives by it.
Hamas really doesn’t care about the loss of civilians or even fighters. All of those people were given a great opportunity to die and go to Heaven. The real tactical strategy is to beam the pictures of the death and destruction around the world, to gain sympathy for war against Israel, and convince the international community to equate Israeli self-defense with genocide.
Israel must understand that Hamas wages a language war. The strategy is to flip the meaning of every word.
Cease fire = Hamas attacks Israel, Israel cannot respond
Holocaust = Jewish myth created by Israel to gain cover to commit genocide
civilian casualties = both soldiers and human shields combined. The side with the higher number is the moral winner
Each time there is a cease-fire, or more accurately, a hudna, Hamas will regroup to provoke the next attack, send out the pictures, and continue to change the way people look at Jews, Israel, and the laws of warfare and self-defense, until it fully lines up with their definitions and the jihadi outlook. After the military operation is over, Israel must devise a language/culture response-attack to stop this strategy.
BBC:
“Israeli ministers are set to vote on a unilateral ceasefire proposal at the weekend, Israeli officials say, amid signs of diplomatic movement on Gaza. ”
Did Israel reach a deal with Hamas? No. Egypt? Well, no. But is has won hard fought concessions with America, in which we pledge to help stop weapons shipments into Gaza. And isn’t that ultimately what you went to war for?
A lesson in dumb power. Will you learn from it? Nah.
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So the least one understands spoken Arabic and reads written Arabic? Good for it.