JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 12.

 

So, returning to the issue of having children. I think that it was always in my life-scrip or fate to having children, which is why I have had 3. 

Of course, when I was thinking of and even taking it for granted that I would have children, and, ipso facto, that I would be in a relationship with a woman or women. 

It had not at that stage of my journey dawned on me that I would have gotten to a philosophical level of concluding that, were I to have the opportunity to live my life again, I would not have children. 

Why, because I have come to the realisation that, except for the survival prerogative of maintaining our human species, there really is no benefit for for my children. 

Or, if there is, the benefits of deriving whatever happiness or joy they have and/or will have, does not outweigh the dis-benfit or unhappiness of living a life while waiting to die. 

It makes no sense, because if they had not been born, they would not have existed and have to endure pain and pleasure, as it were.

But these are not the kind of consideration that preoccupies a young man or woman' mind when they are contemplating 'starting their own family.' 

Having 'your own children', and 'being the best daddy and mummy.' Of dressing them up nicely and caring for them like the 'best parents' would do. 

Neither will you necessarily give too much thought to the challenges of caring for babies and young children. 

Of how you are going to manage when the baby, for reason/s seemingly beyond your perception, is distress and refuses to stop crying and driving tired you to absolute desperation. 

Or how to care for a sick baby or young child and manage your anxieties and even feelings of guilt over your powerlessness to heal your child.

To be continued!

THE ISRAEL/PALESTINIAN WAR AND HOW ISRAEL'S LATEST ATROCITY MIGHT HAVE SEALED ITS EVENTUAL DEFEAT! LET IT BE, NOW!!

  

That situation simply should not have been allowed to remain, and to allow it to continue would have led to it getting worse. Such as more illegal Jewish settlements being built, as Israel faced-down an increasingly apathetic world which is over-indulgent towards it.

Strategically, therefore, and, with regards to the long-term and future progress of the Palestinian people towards having a sovereign, viable and, hopefully, secular and inclusive Palestinian State.  

A state with all the rights, privileges and obligations pertaining to responsible statehood. 

The Hamas' 7th October 2023 attack, despite being monumentally costly - in terms of the price Zionist Israel and the United States are extracted from the Palestinian people and their nation.  

Could yet prove to be a massive, if not biggest strategic win ever, for the Palestinians and their supporters. 

Yes, not the kind of 'win' or 'victory' which can or could be 'justified' in terms of the numbers of Palestinian lives extinguished, and the phenomenal amount of destruction Zionist Israel and its American and European allies demand and extracted from the people and their land. 

Or the ensuing poignant and catastrophic level of  human suffering. But rather, looked at generationally, it could be 'justified' on the basis of it acting as a catalyst in giving birth to a viable and Sovereign nation; a fully independent Palestinian State. 

And bringing to an end that stage of the struggle.

And as I write this, the locustesque army of Zionist Israel and its US sponsor continue to swarm over Gaza and the West Bank, eating, killing and destroying all that they come across. 

Both literally killing and maiming all life, and/or killing and attempting to kill them by destroying the essentials for sustaining and preserving life. 

So, is it really likely that the Zionist State of Israel has bitten off more than it can chew this time, and that it is likely to choke and self-destruct? 

That its attempted genocide on the Palestinian people and wanton destruction of Gaza and the West Bank, by turning the opinion of probably most of the world's population against it. 

Could seal its fate? That, by causing the spotlights of disapproval of most of the world's sentient population, could, finally, result in Israel bring about its own, and, for those of us who perceive its evil, its much desired downfall? 

Is it the case that. Zionists Israel's AIPAC and other Zionists supporters, now having been forced out of the darkness of corruption. 

From where they have been carrying out their machiavellianistic plans in support of Zionist Israel, will find themselves under much more scrutiny and challenge?

Yes, I do believe and desire this to be the outcome. That, like the former apartheid state of South Africa, the Zionist State of Israel will have it confidence destroyed and collapse. 

Making way for a sovereign, inclusive and secular Palestinian State, for all the people living in Palestine who want to live in such a state with equal rights, privileges and obligations for all its people.

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It is unlikely that things were ever getting better. But, at least the Palestinians were alive, they had their homes, their roads, water, electricity, the basic requirements for having at least a basic life. 

They had more freedom of movement in their 'reservations' than they have now, with the storm troopers crawling over and around them as so many wasps. 

So, yes, it is likely that, for the majority of Palestinians who are being forced to pay the price the Zionist Israeli State has decided to extract from them, the attack of 7th October might be considered to have been a tactical mistake by Hamas and the other Resistance Fighters.

And yet, it could be the case that the overall and eventual outcome of the attack for the Palestinian people will be a positive one.

It has broken the then impasse, the stalemate in progressing the realisation of a sovereign and viable Palestinian State. 

It has forced the nations and international organisations, ordinary people of the world to take notice and be reminded of the fact that Zionist "Israel and its main US and European allies, have been 'burying'  the Palestinian Issue."  

A situation which Zionist Israel and the United States have been exploiting to make further changes to 'the facts on the ground.' 

Such the Americans moving their Embassy to Jerusalem, and the government of Israel increasing  the amount of land they steal from the Palestinians, and planting more Jewish settlers.  

Israel has also used the removal of "the Palestinian Issue" from 'the international agenda', to  'pull or degrade the fangs' of Middle East nations such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt, and negotiate economic and diplomatic agreements with them

This, I believe, had broken the impasse and, again, I believe, more likely to bring about better, eventual results than the previously existing political and diplomatic stalemate and Western apathy. 

Even in the face of Israel having declared, if not starting to build new illegal settlements, and breaking the previous status of East Jerusalem. 

To be continued!

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But I was of the view that Hamas needed to move away from waging an unequal military struggle against an enormously powerful Israeli foe which is backed by the United States and Western Europe. And that it needed to seek a peaceful political path.

But, having reflected upon and reviewed what has been happening over the past decades. I have made some necessary, if tough changes in my position on the impasse surrounding Israel's continuing occupation of Palestinian lands. 

I have moved away from my position of thinking and believing that there was and is no point in Hamas and the other groups of Palestinian freedom fighters continuing to make seemingly suicidal attacks on the State of Israel. 

Whether by way of firing off small rockets which cause minimal or no damage to Israel and its citizens. Or by way of small groups of courageous fighters carrying out raids into Israeli towns or villages. 

All of which nearly always end in their deaths, and the disproportionate 'collective punishment' and retribution by the IDF

I am now of the opinion that there are merits to Hamas increasing the stakes with its 7th October attack. 

Even if, sofar, Hamas and the other Palestinian resistance groups are facing an unprecedented degradation of their forces and military potential from IDF attacks.

Looked at from the perspective of many of the hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians - children, women and men- who are continuing to pay the price of the Zionists invasion of Gaza and the West Bank.  

With tens of thousands of deaths and shattered bodies and minds, and hundreds of thousands of destroyed homes, infrastructures and other properties. 

It seems rational and probably even logical to say, no!  All these deaths and shattered bodies  of both Palestinians and Israelis, and all this destruction. 

Is too high a price to pay for any benefit, any progress, now or in the future, which could be attributed to the repercussions of the 7th October 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and the other Resistance Fighting groups.

After all, prior to 7th October, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were surviving, wrestling a life from diminishing resources, on the one hand, and increasing pressures from settlement encroachment on the other. 

To be continued!

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And, yes, we could also add that the increasing indifference of some of the neighbouring Arab countries in the Middle East to the plight of the Palestinians, have also contributed towards the attack of 7th October on their Israeli oppressors.

Nobody wants to be ignored, and neither do a people who have been subjected to over 70 years of Israeli and American and European oppression and dehumanization, wants them and they case for justice to be ignored.

As far as the Palestinian struggle for their freedom and sovereign state is concerned, I have been following their journey from afar for many decades. 

Going back to the last third of the 20th Century when some Palestinians were pursuing armed struggle, including hijacking aeroplanes and taking the passengers hostage. 

The days when LK became both famous and probably infamous in joining the armed struggle for the freedom of her people. 

I have been around in the various wars which have been fought in this struggle, the building of presumed impregnable 'security fences' by Israel to keep the Palestinians in their desolate 'reserves' and keep the citizens of Israel 'safe' from armed action by the Palestinians. 

I have lived at a time when the IDF used aircraft to kill many of the leaders and fighters of the Palestinian struggle, including the killing of an Imam who had no legs. 

I have lived through the period of the assassination of Yitzak Rabin Zionist of the ilk who are now in charge of the government of Israel and leading the depletion of the Palestinians and the destruction of their lands, cities, towns and villages. 

I have, during my time on planet Earth, seen the now apparent mirage, promise of peace and viable settlement between Palestinians and Israelis, only for it to be brutally dashed against the tempest and disappear below the ocean as an unseaworthy ship. 

I have experienced a time when I felt that the armed struggle of the Palestinians for their homeland was justified and defensible. 

And I have moved with the time to a point where I still felt that the cause remain credible and reasonable.  

To be continued!

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So, what are my thoughts about Hamas' unprecedented attack on parts of Israel, which has resulted in hundreds of men, women and children, some of them soldiers, being killed and thousands of Israelis becoming shocked and traumatised as they have probably never experienced before?

And what are my thoughts about Israel's Zionist government's brutal and merciless counter-attack on, not just Hamas' fighters and military, but on all Palestinians and their social, economic and essential infrastructures in both Gaza and the West Bank?

The egg did not come 'out of nowhere', and neither did the chicken. Everything of substance and significance has a context which can help us to define and understand it more than we could or would be able to do, without that context. 

This principle also applies to Hamas' attack on Israel, just as how it applies to Israel's subsequent and continuing attack on the Palestinians.

And so it is that Hamas' attack on Israel was a great surprise to Israel, especially in terms of the level of intensity, its unexpectedness and almost 'blitzkrieg' nature, and the number of Israelis killed, injured and taken prisoners.

All of that, it was, but the attack did not arise from a state of 'peace between Israel and Hamas and the Palestinian people.' 

The attack occurred during an on-going state of Israeli attacks upon and oppression of the people of Gaza and the West Bank by various means; economical, military, social and political. 

The attack by Hamas had been decades in the making and has been fomented by Israel's usurpation of Palestinian lands for over 70 years, increasing 'settler' attacks one the Palestinian people and the Israeli state stealing Palestinian lands to build more settlements. 

The attack by Hamas has also occured in the face of the European Union, British and American, et al marginalisation and disinterest in acknowledging and helping to pressure Israel into coming to a just and peaceful settlement of the Palestinians' legitimate claim for having their own sovereign state in Palestine. 

To be continued!

JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 11.

 

I have learnt that these situations are a part of our human condition, and that it is better for us to continue to learn how to manage and live with them, instead of trying to prevent them happening.

Living, it might be accurately said, is mostly about managing and coping with the making and losing attachments.

And what of having children; what have I learnt from my experience sofar? 

Well, in addition to what I have already stated, the challenge presented to parents are very onerous, so much more onerous than many or most first time parent are likely to be prepared for. 

The idea of having your 'own' partner and, initially, baby, can be so appealing, romantic. 

If you are a man, having your own wife, girlfriend or woman comes with a special status and associated 'rights', 'privileges', 'expectations and roles' and responsibilities and duties. 

But probably the most irresistible of these, especially for younger people and those who are more given to what might be called the 'more traditional roles of a man and a woman in a union', are likely to be those pertaining to the other partner.

In this sense, the partners will sometimes speak of and refer to each other almost as if they are 'chattels', with references being made to 'my wife', 'my husband', 'my man', 'my woman.' 

With all the underlying inferences towards 'ownership' of the other  person. 

A psychological perceptual state which can and sometimes does adds further difficulties which a relationship is brought to an end.  

And one person not only feels that they cannot go on with living, but that neither should their now estranged or former partner and/or children should be allowed to continue to live.

But I am digressing, as I believe that I have already covered this issue as much as I intend to do. 

To be continued!