What’s the Role of The New World?
What’s the Role of The New World?
what if we could be part of the solution instead of the problem
The IDF confirmed on May 20th that it recovered 4 hostage bodies in a Hamas tunnel underneath an UNRWA building in Jabalya the week prior.
The events that have unfolded since the October 7th, 2023 massacre have served as a mirror for western society. In the full length mirror which Hamas, Samidoun, and the Islamic resistance has crafted and now holds up for us, we cannot escape the human ugliness of our reflection. What do we see there, when we stare at ourselves? Each of us will see something slightly different and many won’t be able to accept what stares back at them and will employ ego defence mechanisms such as projection and splitting and others.
🚨Breaking Newsflash 🚨 IDGAF who started it. It’s been 8 months now. I am done with the invocation of helplessness as a reason not to try different and more responsible and humane strategy. We aren’t going to clean this room by smearing our emotional sh1t on the walls, FYI.
How did we here? Wouldn’t it be nice if it was The Other Bad People Over There which did The Bad Things and then we could implement a quick solution and all get home on time to catch the game on TV? Life ain’t like that. Reasonably good people, who aren’t different from you and I, can easily be convinced to do monstrous things. People cannot become monsters, they are humans.
So, why did we get to this point where extremists have taken over UNRWA and the westerners powers shrug at the Israeli intelligence revealing this (lying joos and all) and continue handing over public funds to foreign extremists? Why are we indulging that decolonisation horsesh1t rationale for terrorist attacks? When did glorifying helplessness as an identity become the in vogue thing to do to promote tolerance and peaceful coexistence?
Abusers abuse out of desperation and helplessness. Are we sure we want to amplify and incentivize the most abusive and cowardly personality traits in collective society? When did triumph and resilience become oppressive? When did boundaries become bigotry? When did it become okay to impose collective punishment? When did we break the moral compass and just give up responsibility and get lazy and say fcuk it some people hafta die because we’re mad about stuff others did?
I have no answers. I have lots of questions. I would rather replace judgement with curiosity now. I see no solution that can come from the continued collective punishment and its crazy justification and the rupture it’s placed on North American society. Look at all the high revving amygdalas at the gate, vroom vroom. I would not let any of these people behind the wheel of these revving engines drive me anywhere, to use a metaphor.
What if history could teach us a thing or two? A National Post piece by Tom Blackwell described Ivan Rand, the Canadian Supreme Court Justice who worked diligently behind the scenes in the period leading up to Israel’s birth. Whilst dean of the Western University law school “the white, Anglo-Saxon protestant … rejected a candidate for the faculty because, he felt, London, Ont., didn’t want too many Jews …” Justice Rand made some groundbreaking rulings in his career, however the 40 days he spent on the mission he led for the UN to create a partition blueprint changed history for Jewish people and the world, really. Israeli historian Uri Milstein wrote that Rand tipped the scales in favour of a Jewish state. Rand did that at a time when major geopolitical players, such as UK and USA (and even Canada behind the scenes), did not support a partition of the British Mandate for Palestine.
“He went there as a fiercely independent judge of the Supreme Court of Canada to find a solution to this intractable problem,” Kaplan said in an interview. (NaPo)
Rand had to balance two discordant views:
Jews have an ethnic ancestral attachment to Israel, Jewish people belong to the land of the British Mandate of Palestine and Europe was ethnically cleansing Jews and the world abandoned the Jewish diaspora.
Arabs people belong to the land of the British Mandate for Palestine because they lived there under Ottoman times.
Arab leaders boycotted the panel and process, Jewish leaders did not, they stayed and worked out a homeland partition for their people. Blackwell describes Rand as a crotchety man. Yet the crotchety non charismatic man who was a fiercely independent thinking SCC justice made a lasting impact because he took responsibility and listened, independently and fairly deliberated—like Canadians are meant to do. Canada had a reputation for fairness, remember. Because we had courage.
Let’s remember Ivan Rand. Let’s remember courage. Let’s remember we have a distance to rise up in order to meet this problem we face eye to eye, with any self-honesty and hope to overcome the blocks to truth and non violence.