I write this as someone committed to the liberation of my fellow humans from oppression, understanding the need to be cognizant of how competing structures of oppression can intersect in a person’s life.
Some common sense caveats before the more polemical analytics:
(1) Our goal as a species should be to end all human suffering.
(2) The only “bias” in this article is humanity.
Onward…and please read only if you’re interested in a rational discourse.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that radical Islam has destroyed any hopes of Palestinian liberation. As someone resolutely in solidarity with Palestinian liberation and the liberation of other colonized peoples, this makes me immensely sad.
It benefits the major Islamic power players and it benefits Israel. An antagonistic symbiosis if ever there was one.
Western colonialism created this unique situation of a first world colonial project surrounded by, and under occasional siege from, third world states;
With power mongers and robber barons on all sides taking advantage of obscurantist beliefs;
Beliefs rooted in badly written science fiction meant to control bronze age peasants.
Leaving that be, let’s examine the situation with a dummy’s geopolitical lens.
Iran has baited Israel and Israel is taking the bait, essentially cornering the West into unmitigated support for what might be known as The Abrahamic World War.
Both countries are facing unprecedented internal challenges to their respective religious autocracies. Israel and Iran both need this Abrahamic War to maintain their autocratic status quos.
The only way out of this mess is for states and citizenry that are guided at their core by religious nationalism to realize that moderation and modernity is the only way forward. Their citizenry must demand nothing less than genuine social freedom and keep chipping away at traditional diktats such that conservatism holds the center, rather than constantly veering towards fascism and autocracy.
States with religious doctrine encoded into their constitutions and legislations need to become religious in name only, finding that middle ground of pacifying the religious radicals among their citizenry, while slowly having them wither away to the forces of modernity and capital in a few generations.
Failure to do this will only result in ever more human suffering. People across the world, due to the spread of mass communication and social media, have become increasingly aware and intolerant, albeit ever so slowly, of autocracy.
One hopes this might just be the “world war” that the vast majority of the world refuses to take part in.
As the Pulitzer-prize winning poet and journalist, Carl Sandburg, once said: “Some day they will give a war…and no one will come.”
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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Oct 19 2023
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