One of the phrases or words that has popped up over the last week or so in relation to Israel and Gaza and was chanted in cities around the world during their international day of rage yesterday, was the phrase, “decolonisation”
So, what does decolonisation look like in this context of the most recent Hamas, Palestinian uprising?
Well, the irony is that those calling for decolonisation are actually living the experience of it in 2023.
It’s right there in glorious living colour, hiding in plain sight and the useful idiots in the West are too stupid to see it.
You only have to look no further than Gaza itself to get an understanding of what decolonisation looks like.
Beirut and Lebanon, the Levant, once regarded as the Paris of the Mediterranean and just over the northern border is another example of decolonisation. Further afield in Africa, there’s the standout example of Zimbabwe and others.
All of these places have been decolonized over the last 50 years and without exception they’re are now all hellscape, shithole countries or locations.
Gaza was decolonised less than 20 years ago in 2005 and is the working model.
After close to 40 years Israel left Gaza with a flourishing glasshouse industry but with the Israelis gone, the Palestinians in their seething rage and resentment proceeded to bulldoze, vandalise and loot the Greenhouse infrastructure which was providing jobs and trade to the international market, of all the necessary pumps and irrigation hoses.
Some of these Greenhouses were actually bought by American Jewish philanthropists and then donated to the Palestinians
From 2005,
“..𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬…”
As with Zimbabwe and Lebanon, decolonisation brings with it warlords, crime, and corruption. Gaza is no different.
The left says Gaza is a prison. If that’s the case, then Hamas are the jail wardens.
Gaza is what decolonisation looks like. Careful what you wish for.
Dear Jim,
anti-Semitic sentiment and actions have existed even before 1948.
A friend’s late father overheard a group of youth speaking in Arabic that one day they’ll “… kill them off and we’ll take their land….”
My friend’s father understood their language and told them off in Arabic.
The group scurried away.
That was years before 1948.
Don’t think it applies to anti-Semitism. It applies to Christians who are being persecuted in the middle-east.
The late middle-eastern scholar the Rev. Fr. Dr. Paul Stenhouse, “The Australian’s” middle-east expert knew more about the goings on in the middle-east than journalists.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/fr-paul-stenhouse-msc-1935-2019-catholic-editor-extraordinaire-2/
Part of my heritage is Phoenician. In what was once the “Switzerland” of the middle-east with 80%+ christinaity is now less than 40% Christian.
As a bonus, it is full of corruption. If you are sick and don’t have money and cannot afford medical treatment, you’re gone.
We should be grateful to be living in Australia and hope no group brings their troubles here and tries to foment trouble and ruin the social order.
Thank you