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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

Cultural elitism is just another nefarious form of racism and superiority promoted in the U.S.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Yes!

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Western "civilization" has become a tragic/comic 18th century aristocrat who, despite hiding his stench, rot, lice, decay and filth under perfume and powder, still stinks to high heaven and leaves a trail of shit,slime and blood everywhere he goes!

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

I couldn't have said it better Diane- totally agree!

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bernie holland's avatar

Your writing just goes from strength to strength Sobia ! There is much I could unpack in terms of the striking contrasts you present of the courage, dignity and magnaminity of the oppressed and the lack of the same on the part of their oppressors.

I was particularly moved by the video clip showing those young boys feeding the cats whilst going without food themselves.

Such behaviour is emblematic of a people who need make no effort to display their love and compassion for other living beings simply because it is a natural manifestation of their

true selves. Being mindful of

this transforms my hatred of these Israeli thugs into pity as the real tragedy is that of how such individuals can descend into such depravity and barbarism at the behest of their masters. However, we can be heartened by the knowledge that, at last, the vote for the recognition of Palestinian statehood has been been approved by the United Nations General Assembly, in spite of the protestation by the Israeli Representative, the rancid Mr Danon who, like the rest of the Zionist zealots, has nothing to offer to the discourse other than to resort to the usual tropes about Hamas, terrorism and anti semitism.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Thank you Bernie! Yes, so many moving clips of Palestinians self-sacrifice. The realisation of those who want to see, that the Palestinians are a people so oppressed over the past century, that humility and compassion are hardwired as surely as cruelty and arrogance are in the occupiers. I hope one day the latter have to look at themselves in the mirror and live out their days in eternal torment. They are pure ugliness. Every tiny piece of positive news at the moment is important - and yes, agree, all they can fire back with is hypotheticals and made up nonsense.

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Ann Bogart's avatar

I think on some level they know that the Palestinians are superior- that’s one reason they had to be sure to destroy the universities from the very beginning!

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Totally agree Ann!

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Davina's avatar

Absolutely. All high learning came from the East when the West was still killing each other with bows and arrows, the travellers to the East brought back the learning and, of course, we used it in the wrong way.

The other thing that annoys me is people who declared wars once led their armies, not sitting in some pumped up position with those under them sending young men and women, to their deaths. Or did, until Israel showed that they could do it long distance and use your soldiers as snipers instead, while bringing foreign thugs to also play at being soldiers as the kill at a distance, and then the soldiers go in when there are no people left and steal children's toys and women's underwear and brag about it like kids starling kes from a neighbour's orchard -- come on, how brave is that?

Also, in their torture prisons, hostages without being charged, are starved, beaten and raped with cattle prods that end up killing them by rupturing their insides.

No one, I don't care who the hell they are to call Israhell civilised, not now, not since 1948, not ever. Of course, do not forget they, Israelis, have no ancestry to the Middle East, they are interlopers and thieving muderers, rapist and sodomisers.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Everything you say is spot on. The learning and culture from the East that is then denied or disguised as Western, or misused; the killing from a distance and absolutely deplorable, cowardly sick behaviour of the "Israelis". And the fact the "Israelis" are just disgusting interlopers.May they get their just punishment.

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John Horne's avatar

Power/advantage + immorality = Western "civilisation"

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