Every so often I read an article that I just find bizarre and frustrating. I found this piece on the BBC News website and thought I’d share my sense of discombobulation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew790ppn8jo
Some Israeli soldiers responsible for taking a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus in Lebanon have been removed from active duty and/or placed in military detention (prison).
The whole scenario is ridiculous for a variety of reasons:
Israel has been bombing Iran and Lebanon and killing lots of innocent people in the process. There’s been no apology for any of the death and destruction. The Israelis seem to think they are righteous in causing this carnage.
However, when a piece of religious iconography is destroyed, the Israeli authorities seem to think it’s important enough to take some kind of moral stand. Really? Is it just me? Are there some fucked up priorities or what? The statue of Jesus was just a thing. Easy to replace and of little consequence. How can a piece of plaster (or marble, or concrete, or whatever it was made of) be more important than human beings?
Right now in Lebanon, the Israeli military, having invaded a sovereign country, has been levelling towns and villages in the buffer zone it wants to ‘protect’ Israel with.
So, if levelling a place means destroying everything to make it uninhabitable for the local population, why would you leave a religious site untouched? Why would leaving something standing, that could draw people to the site you don’t want them in, make sense? Weren’t the soldiers just doing what they thought was expected of them?
And why would destroying a statue be more concerning than displacing people and destroying their homes? It’s nonsensical.
Finally removing soldiers from active duty seems like an odd punishment. The soldiers get removed from the war zone where they are at the greatest risk – isn’t that arguably a good outcome for the soldiers?
With all the chaos brought on by Trump and Netanyahu waving their dicks around, how can anyone have the bandwidth to give a stuff about something so insignificant as a statue? It just baffles me.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew790ppn8jo
Some Israeli soldiers responsible for taking a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus in Lebanon have been removed from active duty and/or placed in military detention (prison).
The whole scenario is ridiculous for a variety of reasons:
Israel has been bombing Iran and Lebanon and killing lots of innocent people in the process. There’s been no apology for any of the death and destruction. The Israelis seem to think they are righteous in causing this carnage.
However, when a piece of religious iconography is destroyed, the Israeli authorities seem to think it’s important enough to take some kind of moral stand. Really? Is it just me? Are there some fucked up priorities or what? The statue of Jesus was just a thing. Easy to replace and of little consequence. How can a piece of plaster (or marble, or concrete, or whatever it was made of) be more important than human beings?
Right now in Lebanon, the Israeli military, having invaded a sovereign country, has been levelling towns and villages in the buffer zone it wants to ‘protect’ Israel with.
So, if levelling a place means destroying everything to make it uninhabitable for the local population, why would you leave a religious site untouched? Why would leaving something standing, that could draw people to the site you don’t want them in, make sense? Weren’t the soldiers just doing what they thought was expected of them?
And why would destroying a statue be more concerning than displacing people and destroying their homes? It’s nonsensical.
Finally removing soldiers from active duty seems like an odd punishment. The soldiers get removed from the war zone where they are at the greatest risk – isn’t that arguably a good outcome for the soldiers?
With all the chaos brought on by Trump and Netanyahu waving their dicks around, how can anyone have the bandwidth to give a stuff about something so insignificant as a statue? It just baffles me.
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