Yoav,
This essay does make a very interesting contrast, between the observation that there is no truly objective point of view. That both sides explicitly frame themselves positively and the other side negatively.
Then it contrasts with your explicitly Israeli perspective. Wouldn't some effort to be truly objective look at the flaws and fudging on both sides?
Consider that Netanyahu has been explicitly on the record as supporting Hamas, over years, if not decades, as a way to undercut the PA and any progress toward a two state situation.
Wouldn't that make him far more complicit in the events of October 7th, than the average kid in Gaza?
Antoun Ananias makes some clear points as to why this might be more than just another "mowing the grass," yet bigger picture, the entire West is in equally dire straits, as Israel.
Not only has the US Administration been revealed as a zombiacracy, but that exponential debt will soon start biting into all our overseas adventurism. Interest on it is rapidly reaching what is spent on the military and the bankers pulling the strings in this country will be more interested in keeping that money flowing out, than whatever the politicians want to pound their chests about.
Meanwhile Europe is also reaching a cliff, both politically and economically.
My guess is that Ukraine and Israel will only be the opening acts in the fall of the West.
Where do we go from here?
While good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, to our various social tribes, with us being the good guys and the other side being evil, in reality, good and bad are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.
Human evolution has been far more a product of solving the problems when things are going wrong, than just huddling in our little tribal group hugs.
Ethics matters more than ethnicity, when the problems are this big, because we will all need to reach out of our enclaves.
The East and the South are starting to network in ways they never would have, if the West had not driven much of the rest of the world into the same corner.
Does the West find ways to become part of that larger network, or do we let the crazies just keep dragging us further down our various rabbit holes?
Trial and error.
Sometimes too much good can be bad and sometimes bad can be educational.
As these linear, goal oriented creatures in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, we are living in a flat world on a round planet.
What goes round, comes round.
