One of these days, in fact, in the
day of the independence of Israel, I saw in one of my open Brazilian tv
channels, a story about it. It was all about the “suffering and the destruction
in Palestine”. They didn’t say the word “Hamas”, they didn’t mention October 7th,
and, good God, they didn’t even mention the hostages.
Of course they probably said some distilled
words about it in other stories, I don’t know how they control what goes in
each story, maybe it’s influenced by how many people are watching, I don’t
know. But I swear that in that day, they talked for some minutes about the war and
didn’t mention these three “little facts”. And when you see so many people plucking
down posters of hostages in America, you can’t deny that some people want to
erase part of this story.
It seems like a war on what must be
showed and what must not. Israel is not denying Gazan casualties, but the other
side don’t want us to even think about the horror of that day and the hostages.
There are various levels of influence: some people that are more easily
influenced can be convinced that it didn’t even happen, that it is a lie. Most
people, though, I hope, will know that it happened, so for these people, they
come with a more sophisticated argument: that if you talk about the horror and
the hostages, you are talking about isolated facts and not giving the proper “context”.
If you talk about it, if you tell a
fact that they don’t like, they will accuse you of not giving the proper “context”.
I can’t help but think that then, in this case, we shouldn’t even have twitter,
right? Because it’s short. We should only communicate writing huge books and
sending them to each other.
But those “context” people do use
twitter. Their tweets are short like everybody else’s, but we should believe
they have context because the writers are supposedly educated. So it’s about
people having the right credentials to tell facts.
Of course you can add information to
what somebody writes. You may think that person “forgot” some facts and you
want to add. That’s perfectly fine. But that is different from trying to erase
a fact that you know it’s true, by saying that, because of the context, that
fact shouldn’t be mentioned.
Let’s think. What should differentiate
really educated academical analysis from cheap conspiracy theories, if not the belief
that it is strongly steeped in real facts? Only then you can try to make the
right reasoning. If you don’t start by considering as many proven facts as you
can, you are not being honest. So why not let people provide proven facts to
each other, making this context together, via twitter or whatever?
Let’s remember that a cheap conspiracy
theory is a set of imagined relations between facts, that can even be real. They
usually sound crazy for people on the other “side”, but people buy them
because, let’s face it, they give those people what they want.
If the Academia and the Press
consider that some individual facts must not be mentioned, how can we not think
that they are creating a set of relations that is based only the facts they
chose to mention? Makes me think of a circular thing: you don’t consider some
facts because they are not surrounded by the right context, then you take the
other facts and elaborate the context…
The facts they are suppressing as
they pluck down posters of hostages and silence about horror are individual stories
of pain, danger, and fear. Of course there is pain on both sides, but as they erase
the individual stories of one of the sides, they can turn it all into “maths”.
They will just count casualties, not showing individual pain but just numbers,
and so, they use it to confirm their “sophisticated” theories.
Of course you realized that they
paint Israel as an “oppressor”. Well, I think I can define oppression as
violence and deprivation.
Man, all violence in this story comes
from the consecutive wars. And these wars all come from a sense that the
Palestinians are being deprived of something. So let’s focus on deprivation.
There is a story that Palestinians
are told since babies, that because of the Israelis, they lost everything. (And
now this lullaby is being sang to the whole World, it seems).
I don’t think anybody lost everything.
Gazans are not squirmished in a jail. It seems that they keep some people in
tents for celebrities to visit, but the vast majority lives in cities, with
buildings. The works.
Some organizations give all them
status of refugees because the grandparents of half of them once lived in what
is now Israel. Well, when the first leg of this war broke a long time ago, some
Arab people chose to live in peace in Israel, where their families now have all
the rights. Most Arabs never wanted peace. And Israel have the credit of having
tried peace much more. Even spontaneously giving back Gaza – that once was part
of Israel. You can’t say “that peace wouldn’t work” if you never took a step
towards it.
Let me remind you, there was space
in what they called the Brittish mandate of Palestine, for the arabs that lived
there, for the jews that lived there, and for the jews that wanted to move
there. But nations and more nations tried to destroy Israel.
But both sides live in lands with
space for their people and one of them even have a creative and productive neighbour.
This could be a great opportunity, because there was no opulent nation there
before.
So, when a teacher talks to you
about the concept of “reparation”, divide it in three concepts: “You want revenge”,
“You want what you had”, “You deserve more than what you have”.
Let’s not even talk about revenge,
please. They can have more if they think they deserve. More prosperity, more
happiness, all things they didn’t have before, if they accept peace. The terrorist
Hamas can’t be a government of people who want peace.
So, coming back, all that the pro
terror people have are numbers of deaths, which are heavily affected by the
fact that the Gazan leaders consider the death of their people as an honor to
these people, as they publicly said so many times. This mathematics can’t be
our guide. A sense of humanity, our shared humanity, must be our guide.
If you think about people as human
beings, not just numbers, you will have to face the fact that there is
individual pain in both sides. We have to think straight, what is happening is
a war, that nobody with heart can desire, but that started for a reason. When
it started? How? Why? Who started?
And most of all, what are the
compromises that must be expected from both sides for it to end.
I don’t think there is any other way
but considering the returning of the hostages as first and foremost, and the
nature of the government in Gaza as second.
That’s my context.
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