Who Is Throwing Whom to the Sea?

One wonders, when the far right extremist Israeli Minister of Agriculture Avi Dichter calls the genocide underway Gaza’s Nakba, who is throwing whom to the sea. Nakba refers to the largest exodus of Palestinians in 1948. The Minister meant that Israel intends to depopulate Gaza of its 2.3 million residents by throwing them in the sea if Egypt refuses to allow them to immigrate into the Sinai desert.

We know that the extremist Hamas wants to throw the Israelis to the sea. But we now have proof that the extremist Israelis want to apply the same principle against the Palestinians. And that is not the end of the Palestinian dilemma.

Another Minister, Amihai Eliyahu, wants to nuke the Palestinians. Just imagine for a moment the global firestorm such a statement would have caused had a Muslim leader said he wants to nuke Israel. Yet, that minister’s statement hardly made the news. Netanyahu simply reprimanded him for his idiocy.

Mind you, many observers around the world have already forgiven Minister Eliyahu because his parents are first cousins.

Folks, there are extremists on both sides, not just on the Palestinian side.

This is how the United States loses its credibility abroad. When it appears to act as a dysfunctional, one-sided arbiter and peacemaker.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MISTAKE AND TERRORISM

For many pro-Israel supporters, Eliyahu’s statement constitutes a “mistake”. But depending on who said it, the same group of people would construe it as terrorism if such was uttered by a Muslim. In other words, we have two standards at play here. One for the Israelis excusing their terror, and one for the Arabs and Muslims holding them accountable and calling them “terrorists” for the same flagrant and horrific statement.

There was no Congressional inquiry into the Israeli Minister’s statement, nor did the Department of State issue a press release denouncing Eliyahu’s hope to nuke Palestinians. Unlike what Congress did to one of their own, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, when she mentioned the words “from the river to the sea” in reference to throwing the Jews to the sea. Not that we condone such utterances, but come on. What is the difference between an Israeli Cabinet Minister screaming Gaza’s Nakba, and what Tlaib said?

Both have the very same purpose and intention, after all. However, one that Congress censured, and the other that Congress and the U.S. Government simply ignored.

This is how the United States loses its credibility abroad. When it appears to act as a dysfunctional, one-sided arbiter and peacemaker.

So, let us not pretend that Israel is this shining country on the hill when its leadership resembles that of Hamas.

THE TRUTH ABOUT EXTREMISM

The same way the extremist Palestinians wish to throw the Israelis to the sea, so do the extremist Israelis wish to nuke the Palestinians. Both sides are made of the same sick fabric of humanity.

Yet, you rarely see our President, or any past U.S. President, denounce Israeli extremism. Their fanaticism is swept under the rug every single time. Unfortunately, the media, in the U.S., goes along ignoring Israeli extremism in many cases.

As there are good and peaceful Israelis who simply want to co-exist with the Palestinians, so are there peaceful Palestinians wishing the same. The problem is that the religious extremists on both sides have hijacked the wishes of the majority and injected it with the poison of radicalism. There is no escaping wars when that happens.

Fanatics on both sides want to throw each other to the sea, or nuke the other side. That’s the truth. So, let us not pretend that Israel is this shining country on the hill when its leadership resembles that of Hamas.

The whole world would be on board when moderate and centrist Israelis return to power. Now that Hamas is about to become extinct, time to also clip the wings of Netanyahu and his cabinet-from-hell as well.

Otherwise, the next war is just around the corner.

Who Is Throwing Whom to the Sea?