Israeli strikes on Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp cause catastrophic damage
An Israeli strike on the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza caused many casualties, officials in the enclave said Tuesday.
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Never go near a place where these events are discussed in the coldness of military analysis . Once they start to make sense the person is in too deep. Been there.
Take care
Roger
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Hi Roger I am not sure that I understand. If you have time and want to, can you explain more. Hugs. Scottie
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Yeah Scottie.
Put it this way. You can find in books or on sites discussions of casualties and suffering in a dispassionate way. Not callously, but simply as part of whatever war it was. There may be some upset at the number of deaths, but not outrage.
With some historians the outrage if any would be directed at those who claim the action was not necessary.
This is particularly common around the question of the American Use of the Atom Bomb against Japan.
Then there is the ‘light casualties’ comment; only double figures killed or injured, which is tough on those who were the light casualties and those loved ones who get the news.
Once you start reading too many of these, you start to think like that.
If you are fortunate you can get a perspective, but you will know that somewhere there will be people who will be making calculations of losses as necessary, and there will be debates over which losses will be the more ‘cost’ effective.
No one really thinks about the one who is one the business end of the munitions be they soldier or civilian who got in the way.
‘Nothing personal. It’s just business’
It’s just war.
To get across the horror of it all and how it has a very long story sometimes I did this blog post which was about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and how ‘we’ got there.
It all started off with just an experiment to spilt the atom, back at the start of the 20th century, and then took on its own momentum, not because folk wanted a bomb, but because they feared the other side getting one.
Dammit if I wasn’t thinking and writing laying out the unstoppable march to that A- bomb and how there was no choice against the back drop of the politics and the wars.
That mess with my head a bit.
So I wrote another blog post a while later challenging folks’ assumptions on what would they do, not just with that choice but with snap fingered demands on their decision making when the ethical lines were blurred :
I need to get away from all of this mind set for a while
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Hi Roger. Please don’t reply if you need to distance, I do understand. But I do want to reply to show you I think I understand what you are advising me. I think I understand what you are saying. You are saying don’t get clinical. Don’t lose the ability to feel for, to care for those who are harmed in military actions. You want me to keep centered that real humans / everything is being effected with these actions. I agree. I think that is maybe too much my problem. I can not stop feeling for the people harmed. It hurts me deep inside. I just don’t know how to help or stop it other than reporting it here.
As for the American Use of the Atom Bomb against Japan. When I was a kid in school I was told it was necessary to save lives, there was no other way. Now I have learned it was not only not necessary as the Japanese were already sending messages of stopping the war but were at the end of their ability to fight. The decision to drop the two bombs was a political one, its goal was to send a message to the world at that time. They did not even need to drop the second, but again politics needed the overkill of sheer superiority of military strength.
I put your post in my que to be read next.
Roger I know you need to pull back, I respect that. But I also want to tell you that you have added to my knowledge and understanding of things I never had the schooling or ability to gain understanding of. Your understanding and being able to explain historical and recent news in places around the world far from the USA is very educational for me. I have treasured that and maybe leaned on it too much over time. Thank you for sharing your time and energy to teach and share with me. In a way, I feel like a young person talking with a teacher who is open to questions and spending time. I hope you will pop back in now and again and keep pushing me to expand my education and understandings. Best wishes. Hugs. Scottie
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Hi Scottie.
Folk who care about simply about any people being hurt or killed or losing home and family have the right attitude, and your heart is in the right place.
What you are doing Scottie is exactly the right thing, keeping alive just what their intolerant fanatics are about, playing your part in never letting this slip out of the news. Keep on keeping on….But always take time out🌲🌷🌼🌻🙂.
My concern is folk being desensitised to any sort of violence and treating war as if it is some sort of spectator sport where you chose a side and cheer them on, while ignoring other violence because it does not interest them. In conjunction with this is accepting War as simply just another facet of life, in another part of the world. By all means read Military History and absorb the facts, but try not to forget that in descriptions of action behind the words people died or suffered horrible wounds. We must never lose sight of that fact.
An American soldier who served in WWII dealing with bodies said. ‘The dead have a strange smell. You know what I think? If more politicians smelt that smell there would be less wars,’
Reading about the events leading up to the development, the decision making processes on both sides, the dropping of the bombs and the results are some of the most disturbing reading. The most awful part is that when you read enough histories you can actually perceive how both sides took the paths they did. Like some sort of inevitable and almost unavoidable road. All part of that ghastly logic which War has. But in cannot be summed up in a simple words, even 200 or 300 hundred wouldn’t hack it. The history before and after has to be woven in. It is as if those two bombs were the distillation of the folly of Humanity approach to War. The pool is so deep, dark and filled with hidden dangers.
Thank you so much for those very kind words Scottie. I do feel somewhat honoured by what you say. I’m not sure about being a teacher, maybe having read so much (or too much) there’s an urge to share the experience and knowledge that nothing is simple and our only hope are folk who strive to expose evil and intolerance, who wish to spread Compassion, Respect and Tolerance, because all those cheap options spouted by populists and extremists of all sorts only lead to ruination.
Thank you again Scottie, my good friend.
(I have to stop now as my latest Covid booster jab is staring to catch up with me, nothing dangerous but the eyes are getting heavy 😪)
Take care you guys, regards to Ron
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