Q&A: Massacre in Gaza?
Massacre in Gaza?
Question
Hello Rabbi,
What do you think of the text brought here? On the face of it, it seems like unchecked thinking, and also the kind that doesn’t distinguish between different considerations (I can live in peace with the claim that the hostages should be returned in exchange for a ceasefire, but not with the idea that the war is pointless). I wasn’t able to copy the text, so I’m putting a link:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2188496851670006&id=100015291371096
Answer
Indeed. The guy went through trauma, and that probably affects him. I can accept that he also saw cases of inappropriate treatment, and that too shocks people. But his overall picture is indeed astonishingly distorted. You can read about it in column 38: https://mikyab.net/posts/1977/
It’s obvious that he’s used to anti-Israeli thinking. I went over a few of his posts; he’s also one of those who left religion and hate it…
The first indication in the post that this wasn’t a patriot who simply could no longer deny what he saw with his own eyes was when he called the incident with the aid trucks the “Flour Massacre,” which is the name Al Jazeera gave the event. He didn’t see the event with his own eyes, and he chose to believe Al Jazeera rather than the IDF. Strange. There were other indications too.
This is the oldest trick in the book: to play, “I’m one of you guys, and we’re wrong.”
Just a random nitpick that bothered me:
“And let one vengeance be avenged” and not “And it is vengeance”