Israel & Palestine: How sincere religious convictions result in Evil deeds & crimes, including against innocent and defenseless women & children.

Israel & Palestine: How sincere religious convictions result in Evil deeds & crimes, including against innocent and defenseless women & children.
 
Greg Krasovsky
October 24, 2023
 
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
   - Blaise Pascal (see more quotes below)
    
Holy war. Jihad.
 
So much spilled blood over "Our G-d", as though The G-D, the Ruler of the Universe with
 
- thousands of known (visible) galaxies,
- millions of stars & planets, and
- billions, if not trillions of species, some intelligent and self-aware (most of the time during their short existence)
 
can be defined, worshiped or belong exclusively to any land, country, race, ethnicity, or religious group of men on our Mother Earth.
 
Yet, during the last four known millennia in the current cycle of human history, "In the name of G-d" millions of people (perhaps even over a hundred million) have
 
- died,
- killed,
- tortured, raped, maimed, beaten,
- kidnapped, enslaved,
- persecuted, excommunicated, disenfranchised, exiled, expelled,
- seized property & land, confiscated or poisoned crops,
 
to preach, spread & entrench their faith and to win over (seize by force or threats whenever necessary) the hearts, minds & souls of other human beings.

Today, in 2023, human beings are still at it, even without mercy for innocent children, women and the elderly!
 
Today, in 2023, when the vast library of human knowledge, including on morality, philosophy, religion and science is available in digital form virtually in every community around the globe thanks to the World Wide Web of the Internet.
 
Today, when smartphones and tablet PCs cost less that TVs and washing machines -- and sometimes even less that bicycles.
 
Nevertheless, we still find even among those with college & university educations people who justify

- their superiority (intellectual, moral, spiritual, cultural, ethnic, racial and even genetic), their elevated legal rights & status, and

- their treatment of other groups as inferior,  

merely based on their faith, on their version of G-d and His supposed preference & protection of their group.

So what's the immediate or eventual result?

Discrimination, persecution, commission terrorist acts, war crimes. crimes against humanity and other abuses of human rights.
 
Why such cognitive dissidence in supposedly intelligent, educated and spiritual men -- including their religious, political, business and cultural leaders?

Easy! The cult of superiority based on mere faith & belief (without real indisputable scientific evidence) has been with us since the Dawn of Time (for humanity) and has seduced entire communities, nations, kingdoms and empires as effectively as alcohol, opium or any other mind-altering compound.

It makes you feel good, if not great--- just as long as you're not on the receiving end of the stick.

And it justifies seizing authority, power, land, property, natural and human resources -- just to make sure that these G-d given things are in the hands of The Right People, i.e. Your People:

- Hindus,
- Buddhists,
- Taoists,
- Zoroastrians,
- Jews,
- Worshipers of ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman & Norse deities,
- Christians,
- Muslims,
- Pagans, and
- Satanists
 
And it justifies punishing others (the non-believers in your version of Deity) all in the name of your G-d.

On the extreme end it justifies the enslavement, sterilization or murder of Their WOMEN -- just to prevent them from giving birth to your spiritual or historic enemies (i.e. competitors).

And it justifies the seizure, enslavement, brainwashing (cultural & religious reprogramming & indoctrination), sterilization, maiming, murder and manslaughter of their CHILDREN -- just to make sure (not to risk) that They don't grow up to fight & resist Your rule & faith and/or avenge the wrongs that Your People committed against Them before (even if decades, hundreds or thousands of years ago).

Is that what we want and support in 2023?

Radical Muslims <-> Radical Jews, like in Israel, Palestine and the rest of The Levant?
 
Hindus <-> Muslims, like in India?

Muslims <-> Christians, like in Iraq, Syria, former Yugoslavia?
 
Buddhists  <-> Muslims, like in Burma (Myanmar)?
 
Catholics  <-> Eastern (Russian Orthodox)  like in Ukraine?
 
Protestants  <-> Catholics like in Northern Ireland?

Christians  <-> Pagans like during the conquest & colonization of The Americas and Africa?

Christians / Pagans <-> Jews, like with Nazi Germany just 80 years ago?
 
Today, from October 7 to October 24, we've seen enough dead & injured civilians, including women and children, who were the victims of

1. Hamas terrorist acts, war crimes & crimes against humanity (against Israelis) on and after 10/07/2023
 
- torturing, killing and kidnapping Israeli civilians, including women and children,
-  torturing, killing and inhumane captivity without access of Israeli soldiers, security & law enforcement personnel against the Rules of War (Geneva conventions and etc.).
- launching unguided / inaccurate rockets into Israeli civilian areas or against civilian targets

2.  Israeli army war crimes and crimes against humanity after 10/07/2023 in retaliation to Hamas' crimes and in an effort to neutralize Hamas (including by destroying their bases, infrastructure and support networks in and under Gaza) with minimum Israeli casualties

- indiscriminate missile strikes, bombing and shelling in the Gaza Strip, leading to massive civilian casualties (at least 40% children)

- failure & refusal to ensure (organize & conduct) a safe evacuation of civilians PRIOR to launching the above strikes, including

-- safe transportation,
-- medical evacuation of wounded,
-- temporary housing with heat, electricity and sewage,
-- temporary medical facilities,
-- food, water and medicine deliveries,
-- temporary educational facilities for children

Location of temporary evacuation facilities?

- Safe areas of the Gaza Strip (in the South),
- areas of Israel adjacent to the Gaza Strip (lots of desert of temporary camps even behind barbed wire), and
- The West Bank (under the Palestinian Authority),

- other countries (only upon the prior agreement of the evacuees and the country in question, like Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria)

Israel's failure to organize and conduct proper & humane evacuation prior to the start of its current anti-terrorist operation has resulted in the negligent / reckless deaths (manslaughter) or intentional deaths & injury (murder) of innocent Palestinian civilians (non-combatants).

Yet today, we hear evil words in the defense of their immoral & criminal actions from both sides of the conflict, Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims.

Today, we hear these hateful words spoken by political and religious leaders on BOTH sides (Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, Persian), as well as  Jewish and Muslim around the world backed up by references from their faiths' holy texts (Torah, Koran) to justify the discrimination, persecution, displacement ethnic cleansing, manslaughter, murder, genocide, other crimes against humanity and war crimes -- INCLUDING AGAINST INNOCENT CHILDREN!  

Now add geopolitical and globalist goals into the mix to control the Middle East and its valuable resources (incl. oil & gas) while exploiting religious fanatics, their religious & political leaders and their governments willingness to go to war, commit terrorist acts, war crimes and heinous crimes against humanity -- all evil things that often benefit, enrich & give more political power & influence to Transnational Financial-Industrial Groups (FIGs) with globalist agendas.

FIGs which control or own -- directly or indirectly (surreptitiously) -- leading members of every Western country's

a. Political Parties, Politicians, elected & appointed government officials and senior civil servants who lead ministries and government, thus allowing these FIGs to control every branch of government (executive, legislative and judicial)
 
b. Military-Industrial Complex (with Domestic Law Enforcement, Security and Foreign Intelligence contracts & interests) that makes money hand over fist from military conflicts, civil strife and even preventable crime,

c. News & Entertainment Media,

d. Educational & Research Institutions and Think Tanks that formulate government & social policies.

e. Non-Profit organizations, including for human rights and humanitarian work domestically and abroad.

FYI, organizations listed in c, d and e above allow, facilitate, aid & abet those transnational & globalist FIGs to
   - do their work in the shadows (control of government policy as described in "a" above)
   - define and limit the narrative, exposure and coverage of history, current events and FIG agendas & activity, and
   - control populations, voters, taxpayers, consumers and security/intelligence/military personnel & contractors necessary for the execution of their plans domestically and abroad through
        -- regime change operations,
        -- domestic & foreign terrorism
        -- domestic civil unrest & civil wars
        -- international military conflicts

As they say, if you're a Satanist, there's no better place to hide than among the religiously fervent & righteous and thrive by surreptitiously seizing religious & political leadership positions to realize your evil plans while citing your commitment to G-d's work to grow and defend "your" flock's (victims) faith by battling your enemies (groups whose land, country and /or resources you want to seize & control).

This is just like Pedophiles hiding and thriving in schools, children's sport and scouting organizations to have authority, credibility, parents' trust and unfettered inconspicuous access to children (to victimize them with impunity).

So let's not allow religion & its tenets to be used to commit human rights violations and crimes against people in general, but especially against women & children.
 
And let's start protecting our (humanity's) women and children today, starting in Israel and Palestine by demanding and putting an immediate end to ALL sides' commission of terrorism, war crimes, crimes against humanity and human rights violations.

Today's "Israel - Hamas War" is a litmus test that cannot be avoided and must be passed to avoid a downward spiral that could end in World War III.
 
Because if today's international community (on a planet with 7+ bilion people, 180+ countries, the UN, EU, NATO, BRICS and etc.) is NOT WILLING OR ABLE to force -- if necessary, by military, economic & political means -- just two small states (Israel and Palestine, the later unrecognized), and several small militant groups (Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, etc.) to
 
- immediately comply with a ceasefire,

- safely evacuate, house, feed and humanely treat civilians from areas of military operations,

- refrain from further criminal acts (terrorism, war crimes & etc.)

then we, as humanity, members and leaders of any of the aforementioned religious groups, have lost our moral & spiritual authority to claim that we are faithful servants of our G-d in His bid to restore in our world love, goodness, compassion and mercy -- the primary attributes of G-d -- so that we come closer to the innocence lost when mankind was expelled from the proverbial Garden of Eden..
 
What do you think?

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 Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
   - Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal's other quotes:
 
    All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

    As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

    There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

    Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

    Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

    If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
 
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/blaise-pascal-quotes

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Blaise Pascal (/pæˈskæl/ pass-KAL, also UK: /-ˈskɑːl, ˈpæskəl, -skæl/ -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, US: /pɑːˈskɑːl/ pahs-KAHL;[3][4][5][6][7] French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

His earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16.

He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.[8][9]

Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial results.

He made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum in 1647.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[10] Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology.

His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits.  

The latter contains Pascal's wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine,[11][12] a fideistic probabilistic argument for God's existence.

In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.

Throughout his life, Pascal was in frail health, especially after the age of 18; he died just two months after his 39th birthday.[13]
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A programming language is named for Pascal. In 2014, Nvidia announced its new Pascal microarchitecture, which is named for Pascal. The first graphics cards featuring Pascal were released in 2016.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

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