The Yale Alumni Magazine arrived in our mailbox with a cover reminding the Righteous that Yale students were on the Right Side of History (TM) against the “other apartheid regime” (i.e., not Israel) back in the 1980s:
The article, titled “The shanties on the plaza”, never explicitly mentions the noble Palestinians nor the modern apartheid state of Israel, but the parallels are pretty obvious and I think we can all agree on who was in the right back then.
What about the Extremely Unrighteous? From December 2:
The incoming dictator threatened the entirely peaceful hostage-holding Gazans with “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.” Considering what we did to Tokyo (100,000 civilians killed in one night), Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I’m not sure how this promise could be fulfilled.
Related:
- “Nelson Mandela’s support for Palestinians endures with South Africa’s genocide case against Israel” (state-sponsored PBS): “We have stood with the Palestinians and we will continue to stand with our Palestinian brothers and sisters,” Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, said at a pro-Palestinian rally in Cape Town in October, days after the Hamas attack in southern Israel spurred the war on Gaza. Mandla Mandela, an ANC lawmaker, wore a black and white Palestinian keffiyeh around his neck as he spoke to a large crowd.
Looks like 2 million people live in Gaza so it should not be a big deal to kill at least 200,000 in one night.
Funny shanty story from when I was there for my fifth reunion:
“A fire today destroyed a wooden shanty that was built by Yale University students to protest apartheid in South Africa, and a Yale alumnus taking part in the 30th reunion of his class was arrested and charged with setting the blaze.
A member of Yale’s class of 1958, Dr. Elwood D. Bracey, a physician from West Palm Beach, Fla., was charged with first-degree arson by the New Haven police fire investigative unit. Alumnus Chased From Scene
In a twist possible only at a college reunion, he was seen running from the fire at about 7:20 A.M. by Dr. Michael L. Charney, a member of Yale’s class of 1968, who followed him from the scene and called the police.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/06/nyregion/yale-shanty-burns-and-alumnus-is-held.html
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, every-single-woman-and-girl has been stripped of their rights entirely to nothing, and yet the so-called Righteous remain silent about those in Afghanistan.
My proposal to address this issue: universities should establish study abroad programs in Afghanistan, taught exclusively by women professors.
In Saudi Arabia it is same for women forever. Most of the 9/11 terrorists came form Saudi but we love Saudi Arabia and their King and all Righteous remain silent.
Hooray, apartheid was abolished in South Africa! So surely 4 decades later it’s become a prosperous society full of diversity, equity, and racial harmony?
Meanwhile: “South African politician urges people to ‘kill whites’ and their pets”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/south-african-politician-urges-people-to-kill-whites-and-their-pets/2ZQ3P7L6Z7LROY6QUTRQ2C2JRQ/
is it not same as whites killing black people and enslaving them?
How is that the same? Isn’t it by definition the opposite?
My bad , it is a typo. I mean same
“Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.”
I thought those people had been killed already. I cannot see how they could be hit harder, or how they could care about any development now.
F: the Gazans are still holding hostages. So there are live people directly “responsible” today for the holding of hostages today. And, of course, this wouldn’t be practical without broad “civilian” support so there are no doubt quite a few noble Palestinians and perhaps foreign do-gooders who could be considered indirectly responsible (for example, they know where hostages are held but don’t report the location to potential rescuers). So there are definitely live people to “hit” but I can’t envision what “hit harder than Japan/Germany” would look like.
The general support for any given action is always highly questionable. Let’s say I set up the head office of my drug smuggling empire next door to you — you might object in your heart, and you might dream of ratting me out, but I’d kill you and your family just for the suspicion, and you’d need me and all my associate to be locked up basically for good all at once immediately, while you wait for the good folks of witness protection to come and whisk you and your family up, never to see any relative, etc.
So what will you do? is you keeping your mouth shut a sign of complicity, or a rational choice given the risks? do you owe anything to anyone so that your life is turned upside up (or lost) for the War on Drugs?
All of the people who planned 7/10 are dead. Some hostages might be alive (maybe), most likely in the hands of lower cadre, the folks with lower IQ but higher aggression. Whether these folks can be considered responsible is a matter of semantics and philosophy, and they are absolutely immune from threats.