There is a scene in one of the SAW movies in which a policeman faces a choice: Either (1) kill the SAW psycho killer, or (2) rescue his cop buddy from a gruesome death in one of the SAW psycho killer’s torture devices, but let the SAW psycho killer get away to victimize other people.
In the movies, the policeman makes the wrong choice: He rescues his cop buddy, letting the SAW psycho killer get away to torture and kill more people.
And it gets worse, because sometimes some victim survivors of the SAW psycho killer basically become converted to his cause and become psycho torture killers themselves in what is a lot like a Stockholm Syndrome response. So, letting a SAW psycho killer loose not only creates more death victims, but also creates more psycho killers.
In the SAW movies, the psycho killer has a rationale and a superficially sympathetic message. Something about how few people fully appreciate their lives, and so the best way to be thankful for your existence is to barely escape death and perhaps have to kill some other victim in the process of rescuing yourself. In fact, the SAW psycho killer deliberately chooses some victims (not all, but some) who are very terrible people themselves like rapists who had never been caught.
Just like the SAW psycho killer, Hamas has superficial reasons that seem sympathetic. Accusing Jews of being colonialists. Israel ramping up its blockade around Gaza after 2005 to reduce Hamas’s ability to make rockets, despite Israel handing Hamas full internal control over Gaza in 2005 in a gesture of goodwill.
Just like the SAW psycho killer who himself sometimes deliberately killed very unsympathetic persons like uncaught rapists, sometimes Hamas kills Jews who are not sympathetic like some orthodox Jews who are chauvinistic Jews. Except chauvinist extremist Jews do not bake babies or behead babies, whereas chauvinist extremist Muslims like Hamas do.
(I was thinking about trying to find a Youtube clip showing when the policeman finds the SAW psycho killer, and chooses to rescue his buddy instead of kill the SAW psycho killer. But I cannot. SAW is too much for me. I saw that scene in the background when I had to be somewhere. I do not watch those movies. And I cannot handle the Youtube clips. Trust me, there is no need to watch the movies or search out the clips. Thinking about Hamas baking and beheading babies, which is real, is close enough.)
Just like the SAW psycho killer, Hamas turns many Gazans and foreigners around the world into Stockholm Syndrome sufferers sympathetic to Hamas who see the humanity of Hamas as the abuser and then ally with the abuser.
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Just like the SAW psycho killer, Hamas holds Gazans hostage to Israel’s justifiable military operations to kill Hamas. The SAW psycho killer deliberately sets up Trolley Problem situations in which one innocent person has to kill another innocent person in order to live. That’s what Hamas is doing to Israel: No matter how much Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties, Israel’s justifiable military operations targeting Hamas terrorists will accidently kill some innocent Gaza civilians.
The legal system and police exist not just to protect innocent civilians, but to protect criminals from vigilante justice as well. On the world stage, though, there is no legal system or police. Psycho serial killers like Hamas, ISIS, North Korea, Pol Pot, Putin, Hitler, Stalin, and others run amok.
Israel is doing vigilante justice against the terrorist psycho killers of Hamas. If you have seen the television show The Expanse, Israel is doing the part of Amos Burton when he is That Guy who vigilante-style kills a psycho mad scientist who was experimenting on children.
Very few people like or feel comfortable around Amos Burton in The Expanse. Similarly, it does seem that most people in the world are hating on Israel. Pretty much everyone who first meets Amos Burton in the show comes away scared of him. Same with all the Clint Eastwood vigilante movie characters. Nevertheless, they are the good guys.
But when there are no police, vigilantes are the only solution. And the problem with vigilantes, and the problem with any military operation, is that some innocent civilians are probably going to get accidently killed.
During World War Two, America firebombed cities in Imperial Japan and Germany, killing probably hundreds of thousands of civilians. But what was America supposed to do? Does anyone serious think America had any better options?
Israel faces the same sort of dilemma.
Just like World War Two German and Japanese facist beliefs in their nationalities as the best, Hamas as extremist Muslims believe that all non-Muslims such as Jews should be second class citizens. (It was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who allied with Hitler after all.) After World War Two, the German and Japanese people completely reversed course and decided to stop being racists and rejoin the civilized world.
America’s WW2 operations probably disproportionately killed the die-hard racists in Germany and Imperial Japan at a higher rate than American operations killed less unreasonable fascists in both countries. After World War Two, many of those less unreasonable Japanese and German fascists proved they could rejoin civilized society.
Unfortunately, this is a World War Two situation. Hamas has displayed the same level of evil as Imperial Japan’s Unit 731 and the Nazis by baking and beheading babies, locking civilians in a room and throwing a grenade in, and raping and killing partiers at a peace music festival.
After Israel mostly destroys Hamas vigilante-style, Gazans have a choice. Will they renounce Islamic chauvinism and rejoin the civilized world where we try to treat everyone as equals like Japanese and Germans did after World War Two, or will Gazans continue chauvinistically to treat non-Muslims like Jews as second class citizens?
During World War Two, the Allies killed almost half of all German males. It is probably the case that Japan suffered a similar degree of male casualties. However, many women and children were killed too, just not nearly as high a rate.
Right now many protestors want Israel to unilaterally declare a ceasefire. But Hamas is not going to cease fire, and we all know that, so what those protestors are really doing is demanding that Israel let itself be killed. If Israel ceases fire, Hamas will just do another SAW psycho-style murder attack on babies. Hamas has stated that they will attack again after their 7 October 2023 massacre attack.
Maybe after a few more times of Hamas SAW psycho-style murdering babies, Hamas might lighten up a bit and go back to old fashioned suicide bombs in Israeli cafes.
Israel already dismantled its Gaza settlements and pulled ground forces out in 2005 in a gesture of goodwill, and yet rather than reciprocate that gesture of goodwill, Hamas did the opposite: Hamas ramped up attacks, so Israel justifiably ramped up its blockade.
What do the cease-fire advocates actually think Israel can do to make peace with Hamas besides let itself be killed? What is there left to do?
Theoretically, ceasefire-advocates could offer some ideas about what Israel can actually do after a ceasefire to make peace with the Palestinians, but they refuse to do so. Ceasefire-advocates could offer novel suggestions like this Non-Violence publication’s idea to nation build by carving out progressively larger small zones in the hostile nation, and putting only locals in charge who were raised in a modern educational system.
But the ceasefire-advocates are offering no suggestions to Israel. The only thing they offer Israel is death, because that is what will happen if Israel ceases fire and then does nothing. And so in the absence of mass worldwide attention to any ceasefire-compatible actions Israel can take like this Non-Violence publication’s nation building ideas,* the only option Israel has is do to Gaza what America did to Germany and Japan during WWII, and then hope that the surviving men of Gaza make better choices.
Hamas is the SAW psycho torture killer, and in the absence of world police, Israel’s counterattacks perfectly fit the profile of vigilante justice. However, the modern left does not like vigilantes, which is one major reason why the progressive left is siding with the Hamas baby bakers/beheaders.
The progressive left loves forcing its ideas on others using government programs. The progressive left needs police power to enforce its government programs, and so it dislikes anyone acting outside of police powers, even when the police are not able to do their job.
Like in international politics, where there is no police. There are no police officers who can arrest the Hamas SAW psycho killers who bake and behead babies. Israel’s all on its own against the chauvinist psychos who do not want to accept non-Muslims as equals, which is the fundamental cause of this whole conflict.
The Grand Canyon. Getting out into nature is the best way to heal psychologically from having to think about the fact that evil people like Hamas exist baking and beheading babies.
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*To carry out this Non-Violence publication’s nation-building idea, Israel would continue blockading most of Gaza. Israel would then take one small part of Gaza and/or the West Bank, and turn over leadership more and more only to Palestinians who were educated in truly egalitarian school systems like Israel’s own, or like conservative schools in America. Israel could sponsor orphans to grow up going to schools run by the 20% of Israel’s citizenry who are Muslim Arabs, and then turn over control only to graduates of such schooling. Israel would expand that small portion of territory ruled by truly peace-minded Palestinians as the pool of peace-minded Palestinians increases in number. As soon as those peace-minded Palestinians have sufficient people and weaponry to defend themselves against the extremist Palestinians who currently run Hamas and Fatah, Israel could just turn control over completely to these future peace-minded Palestinians.
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