Things Called Countries

There are things called countries.

There is a collective aspect to existence. We may ask, well, why not only individuals? Billions of independent individuals around the World? Well, when you have a family, and you know others who have families, and none of you want your house to be invanded, people make an agreement, "let's watch out for each other's houses". That's what the police is for.

We need laws. If we are sure that some things are unnacceptable, we have a moral confidence that some things need to be protected and we know others agree, we make laws.

The process through History until the moment we currently live in, was surely not smooth. But we evolved in many ways, and the laws we have, at least in the Democratic World, including respect for difference and equality of opportunity, put us in a good place to struggle to make an even better World.

And also, there is simply no better idea than having countries. Otherwise there are no laws. Unless you have one Big Government for all the Globe. But I think that would be an insane direction to go to. Because, if this Government becomes tyrannic, there are no alternatives left, there is nothing to balance it, to counter it.

With one Global Master, there is no diversity. With no country at all, there is no law.

So, yes, countries. And just like the formation of our current laws, the formation of our current borders was not smooth. It wasn't smooth anywhere in the World. But there should come a moment when we say, okey, these are the countries we have, let's now just seek peace.

Take the Jews for instance. They were expelled, displaced, mass murdered, stolen, and they only want less than one percent of the Middle East. There was displacement of Arabs too, but at least as much Jews. And their ancestral homeland is the only land they want. Just as the Muslins have Mecca, plus ninenty-nine percent of the whole Middle East. This is the opportunity to say, yes, these are the countries we have now and, as turbulent as the past was, now is the time for peace. 

So a country should not attack other.

And that's why a country also have a right to defend itself when attacked, just as family has a right to defend themselves - like calling the police - when their house is violently invaded. And they expect the police to solve the matter.

But now a complex question comes: if a country attacks the other brutally, you need to go after the perpetrators, to show it is not acceptable. But they are in the other country, amidst civillians. So a counter strike will have colateral damage.

And this is where the dilemma starts. Because we don't desire to cause pain to civillians. But it is a dilemma, because the solution is not simply say, "because we can't accept colateral damage, we will give up on the idea that a country has a right to go after the murderers of their people and the rapers of their daughters."

Tough, isn't it? A country, threatened by enemies, lives on this delicate balance. But we need countries. Civilized countries are what separates mankind from the merciless law of the stronger.

There is the individual, and there is the collective. The country that commanded the attack is Iran. Iran is the country that has the power to stop it all.

They have been supporting groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis. Groups that openly call for "Death To Israel, Death To América, Death To The Jews". And they can "close" those groups whose only purpose is aggression.

To balance the safety of individuals in dangerous zones where they are not protected by their leaders, to balance it with the need of human beings for a protective country, we need International Leaders to act as righteous judges and place the responsabilities where they should.

Muslim Arabs - and Christians - always had many places to call their own ever since the Middle Ages. Countries where they are the majority or absolute majority. The Jews are 14 million people in the World and they have a small country for the first time in two thousand years. And people dreaming of seeing them totally destroyed, which Google or Wikipedia won't tell us, but I strongly suspect must be in a larger number than the entire Jewish population.

Israel needs to fight with ethic - and, in my opinion, they show they do. Their enemies build tunnels under hospitals - not like Israel, to protect their people, but to shelter Terrorist leaders.

There is, as I say, a collective aspect of existence, and it is vital, too. Mankind can't just watch bloody dreams of domination grow, and destroy all dreams of stability. Israel can't give up defending Israel.

Righteous judges, who but Iran can stop this right now?

Google couldn't guess what I was trying to ask

 

Google, call me. I want to talk about IDF.

 I mean, Inverse Document Frequency...

Oh... P.S. :

Of course it was a joke, a pun

Obviously I  don't understand A.I. at Google level. If I knew that stuff I would be... exactly here, of course.

Now serious, I did use some rudiments of that stuff for a category suggestion function on two apps.

But the whole name of the magical mechanism is TF-IDF (heart)

How to respond a cruel horde

 A photo circulated, of painfully skinny child, as if it showed a starving child from Gaza, as if it portrayed the "famine" that Israel was causing on Gaza. Most of the press went along, it circulated and caused outrage until it was verified that the child suffered from a genetic disorder. 

Quick "retractions" were issued. A lot of people kept believing the starving version.

Last week, the photographer won a prize. I saw a news program just saying "photographer that portrays the suffering in Gaza wins the big prize". And the skinny child photo was there. The news guys didn't say "like this starving child", but the picture was there. 

How can I think it was not on purpose to make people think "see, the starving kid is real"...

How can I think the New York Times didn't publish a "opinion" piece - to which they have "no responsibility", because it's "opinion", saying that the Israeli forces trained dogs to rape people - yes, the guy said that, even though it is doubtful that something like that is even possible... - how can I think they didn't publish it one day before a big report on the rapes that Hamas commited on Israel, was published, just to "balance" things and not let the report have the effect it should have - people horrified by the proven rapes - proven by verified videos made by terrorist themselves.

"Silenced No More" is the name of the report. I shows the painful truth - that rape on October 7th was not an exception, but a modus operandi. It is unquestionable, as far as evidence is concerned.

Look for the report.

Now, my opinion:

Why the press does that? Well, as I say, there is a vision of the World that is challenged by Israel's need to defend themselves - a vision where shaking hands and promising more "investiments" is enough to "save the World", a vision where politicians are not required to take strong stands for civilizational values. The challenge is not desired. People prefer "business as usual"...

Hordes of men came on peaceful day, mercyless, cruel, laughing, killing and raping, and kidnaping, then torturing people.

Israel just had to eliminate the heads of Hamas, and I'm glad they did. Look for the report. Tell me if Hamas doesn't need to be dismantled.

Think what would you feel if it happened in your city. Sometimes a country has to go to war, as Israel did. It could not go unresponded.

Random killing and massive rape. It couldn't be solved by world leaders shaking hands, and promising investments.

It is horribly sad the Terrorists regimes use their own women and children as hostages - unprotected, put in danger - to slow Israel.

But the darkest day in Israel's History, one of the darkest days in the History of the World, could not go unresponded, because this darkness doesn't point to exception, it shows us what kind of forces are growing in parts of the World.