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Dead Palestinian Children! Who's To Blame

December 14, 2024

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

Golda Meir said she hated the Palestinians, not because they were Palestinians, but because they forced her to kill their children. No one forced her, and no one is forcing the current Israeli leadership to do such a horrible thing, but still they do it.

Golda Meir’s justification for killing children is not unlike someone intent on killing a man who has committed horrible crimes, but they can’t get to him without killing his immediate and extended family.

Rather than seeking another way of making the guilty man pay for his crime they just kill them all. This is basically what Netanyahu is doing, and just like the people who committed the October massacre, it is a strategy sanctioned by their variation of the same god.

The Koran is a book of concentrated violence on par with the Torah’s invitation to genocide.

The Koran is a shorter book than the Bible (by a factor of ten); pound for pound, it no doubt features more exhortations to violence.

So if you ask which book is “worse” in terms of belligerence, you might say that qualitatively the Hebrew Bible (and hence the Christian Bible) takes the trophy—thanks to that unrivalled embrace of genocide in Deuteronomy—but that quantitatively the winner is the Koran, at least in terms of the frequency of belligerent passages, if not in absolute numbers.

And if, on top of the verses espousing violence in the terrestrial world, you add verses gleefully envisioning the suffering of infidels in the afterlife, the Koran wins the quantitative competition more decisively.

Richard Wright, The Evolution of God

Hamas killed or kidnapped whoever they encountered on October 7. Has horrible as that was, it is no justification for Israel’s deliberate, mass, on-going, indiscriminate retaliatory slaughter in spite it also being given the green light by its holy book to commit mass murder. A pox on them, an archaic expression that is both a description and a condemnation of the Koran and the Torah!