Given people try and force me to make a “stance” or take “Sides” on Israeli-Palestinian relations regarding Gaza constantly. I will break my silence to issue this blanket public statement of which I posted in a response on twitter embedded below for context along with a proper statement.
Amirali Hosseini you made a sincere statement of which I am not disrespecting you as an individual by using it as a means to issue my public statement on my “position” regarding Gaza. Unlike the majority of people you did not force the issue, but it led me to feel the need to make a very clear statement as to why I have kept silent on an issue regarding the International State System with International politics involving the Islamic world. A place where I have never hesitated to speak my mind, no matter how controversial regarding international politics. Especially in the Middle East, Central-South Asia and South-East Asia.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHe is Pashtun from what I know, however he is not a self-proclaimed mujahid, he is in all likelihood a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war however an evangelical old man in power or an evangelical old man with .33 machine gun in the hands of a most likely multiple war, civil war and… pic.twitter.com/VV4hBTLaK8
— Interzone Analysis (@Interzone93) May 15, 2024
For context outside twitter I got the unusual bait to go into Gaza.
This is my edited response with a full statement on GAZA and Why I am silent, Why I will not break it or take sides.
He is Pashtun from what I know, however he is not a self-proclaimed mujahid, he is in all likelihood a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war however an evangelical old man in power or an evangelical old man with .33 machine gun in the hands of a most likely multiple war, civil war and Insurgency veteran will end you just as easy.
I have no disrespect for the pictured old man. I was making a bit of a joke, as a means of de-escalating my involvement in having to take a public stance on Israel/Palestine. Its not that I don`t care, people think my silence on the issue is a lack of empathy. In fact I care deeply for complex reasons about the situation in Gaza for is to close to home as I have people I consider friends who have had very close calls.
I have enough dead friends for a lifetime, I don`t feel I should loose any more over the actions of Nation States they have nothing to do with. Not all Israeli Jews where in the IDF for national service, many never did mandatory service for medical and also other more complex reasons. I don`t see why anyone should be held accountable for the actions of a nation-state they are not even involved with beyond been ostracised for socio-economic and ethic reasons and been born.
I have ties to the Islamic world and always will, I have defended Taliban, despite having friends getting clipped in heavy contact and by snipers (they all somehow survived) by Taliban during the twenty year insurgency. But that was war and they where professional soldiers, But I refuse to be forced to make any public position on Gaza. In the end all it comes down to is, I don`t want to loose any more friends.
Or see anyone attacked, Israeli or Palestinian, or Anyone for the decisions made by organisations, governments, nation-states and the international state system of which that they have no association with. I have no association with the Australian government, yet am an Australian citizen, to say I have not been treated well by the Australian establishment is an understatement.
I don`t deserve to die because of British colonial interest related Australian Interventionalist Foreign Policy In Indonesia/East Timor. And the horror unleashed due to that quote “Peace keeping” Operation for British Colonial Interests. When beyond knowing what happened from contacts and veterans I have no association with or accountability for what happened other than not been silent on what the reason for going to East Timor Was or what will continue to happen with Australian Interventionist foreign Policy in South East Asia specifically Indonesia and in all likelihood Indonesia Again in the Near future for another quote “Peace Keeping Operation” In West Papua`s Separatist situation with the Liberation Front.
So #Gaza#Israel#Palestine This is my position and it will not change, the International State system is designed to cause people to take sides and cause strife and division, as a means of control, to focus people on taking sides and draining there life and time on issues they usually know noting about beyond propaganda, nor will I make empty platitudes on the sanctity of human life when I have seen first hand what these empty platitudes from activists do for people been killed, directly or indirectly by the dehumanising nature of been caught in terrible places and situations.
I have had a women dying holding her dead baby at me, which was dead so long it was no longer in Rigor mortis which lasts around twenty to thirty hours. Dead for at least two days asking me for food for her baby in Urdu. As if I was Christ and could somehow resurrect it. I have seen women try and magick there dying kid back together after been ripped in half trying to hold there entrails in whilst there still alive with a blanket. Staring at me as if I can do anything at all, beyond kill there child and end its suffering. I know what online virtue is worth let alone empty platitudes correlate to in reality. I will not make any apology’s for my psychology or lack of moral stances. This is a moral stance, empty platitudes and virtue did nothing for these people, and the people who could have prevented, stopped or helped these circumstances I was forced to bear witness to first hand did nothing, and attacked me for ever bringing up a possible lack of character.
This is my only public statement about my continued silence about Gaza and Israel when I am very vocal about my positions regarding International Politics as a Realist in International Relation Political Theory. If it does not directly affect you, and there is nothing you can do about it, and you don`t know the extensive history and complexity of the issue at hand. You have done nothing but play into the hands of the Systems of Control. You can have empathy, but going into hysteria over propaganda, taking sides and dehumanising people when you have not even taken responsibility for the suffering you may be causing in your own life and field of influence then you should re-evaluate your life choices. As you are wasting your limited energy and time, physical and mental health. Over something you have if not directly involved in, no personal responsibility or need to take sides over.
Caring and playing into the hands of “activists” who are almost always agent provocateurs when you don’t have anyone directly affected by this beyond paranoid fears of Nuclear war. I have stake in this, I have friends who may be killed over it not just contacts, Yet I will not engage,
TAKE RESPONSABILITY OVER YOUR OWN LIFE BEFORE YOU TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD !
Regards IA