The Gaza War and the End of the Myth!!
Myth is a symbolic narrative originating in oral cultures passed on by word of mouth and kept in our memories. They are generated collectively and decimated in our cultures not by one event or an individual. They are national traits that a group of people or nation believe, mostly exaggerated and self-grandiose to keep national coherence and set them apart from the rest—One of the myths that I grew up with back in the days in Egypt is that “Egypt is the mother of the world,” we thought Egypt is in the center of the world. I came to America 40 years ago to find out another myth, America is “The father of the world.” Myths are hard to create and hard to get rid of, even if reality says otherwise.
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WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN FORGOT IN HIS HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL SPEECH!!
In the Holocaust Memorial speech Tuesday, President Joe Biden compared what happened on October 7 to the Holocaust, the man who supplied thousands of bombs and most destructive weapons for the Israelis to kill almost 40,000 Palestinians and destroy a city of two million people, mostly refugees as a result of the establishing of the Jewish state, now is warning Americans of the growth of antisemitism on campuses. This is not student protests, this is an anti-war movement, that is not just all over American campuses, it is on all campuses around the world, from Germany, the UK, France, Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, Turkey, Mexico, Latin America, Morocco, Pakistan, all over the globe.
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How Football Explains the War Between Israel and Palestinians
The Jewish-Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman says in his brilliant book Modernity and the Holocaust that through history, most of the atrocities have been committed by people who follow orders and law, so what we need now to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza for some Israeli soldiers to stop following orders, stop playing football and starts playing the beautiful game of Soccer!
How Football Explains the War Between Israel and Palestinians
Since the Israeli attack on Gaza where, in the last four months, a massive, indiscriminate bombing has killed over 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Destruction of a city of almost 3 million people. Lots of pundits, political analysts, military experts, and historians have been trying to explain the conflict and understand the Israeli Army’s barbarity and the human cruelty of the world that is watching as if it were a football match. If you want to understand the Americans’ fascination with the Zionist state and why so the Palestinian human tragedy story does not move many Americans? Americans’ justifications for their support for the Zionist state, some political, some religious, with millions of Christian Zionists, and getting God in the real estate business and worshiping land is not the way to go. But there is a cultural reason behind American fascination with Israeli aggression and violence:
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