"Why is WOTN so quiet about the Gaza Conflict?" (friend)
That is a very pertinent question. WOTN has established several criteria for reporting:
1) Is it factual?
2) Is it provable?
3) Is it pertinent?
The Gaza conflict is being widely reported (at least at the moment) and with great emotion. We make every attempt to remove emotion from reporting at WOTN.
Israel/Palestine is however in many respects the birthplace of
Two Centuries ago, it would have been considered Sacrireligious for a Muslim to call Jerusalem a Holy City or the site of Mohammed's Magic Carpet ride. But those that desire absolute power, whether Nazi, Communist, Ba'ath, or Islamist came to realize the motivational power of hate. And each of those marketed their program of hate, including anti-Semitism.
Minorities are easy victims of Political Figures, using hatred, as a means to rise to absolute power. Jews are the ultimate minority. They can be found near world wide, as descendants of slaves scattered by the Roman Empire, as the descendents of the bookkeepers of their masters, turned entrepreneurs upon release to freedom. They have little in the way of paternal political governance to protect them, on either a National or International level. They are a non-minority in only one Nation, one small spot on earth, Israel.
And while not a universal rule, they are often financially successful. Like the King of France, who decided it was more profitable to take over his well-off debtees, The Knights Templar, so too found Hitler a cash cow in taking out the financially successful Jews in 1930's Germany. So too found Saddam, it potentially profitable to annex his debtees, the Kuwaitis.
Neither Iran nor Al-Qaeda have any love for the Palestinians, but they see in the Palestinians an easy manner to raise recruits and financing. It is little more than a rally cry for wannabe tyrants who can not rise above terrorists. And yet it is also a proving grounds for new groups that wish to rise to fame as the new in terrorist power. The PLO became Fatah. Hezbollah achieved their claim to fame in South Lebanon. And Hamas made its claim to politics after its rise in Palestine.
They're rivals and allies. It's a twisted spider-web where loyalties are sworn and betrayed even amongst the more atrocious of evil-doers.
But the base of evil: hatred, bore many fruits. It surprised the world in Munich in 1972. And it did not take the Soviets long to recognize its utility. In their version of the game of "Risk," in which they attempted to gain worldwide control, they saw great utility in picking up the strategic alliance of several Arab Nations, including a previous strong US ally, Iran, at the loss of only one potential, yet small ally, Israel. Little did they know that Israel would prove so resilient to invasion.
The Soviets advanced the concept of terrorism across Europe, not only through their new Arab surrogates, but also through pure communistic surrogates such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Red Army Brigade (RAB) and in the concept of an enemy of an enemy is my friend, the Catholics of the IRA (Irish Republic Army) and its myriad of successors. There was considerable cross-polinization between the PLO, IRA, RAF, and others of opposing idealogies but common enemy.
In the end, all of these idealogies (short possibly the IRA) are the ultimate in capitalistic enterprises and yet its very anti-thesis: their goal is to monopolize power and wealth at the highest levels, in their own hands, and they need both allies and conscripts, i.e. the blood of those they desire to eventually tyrannize but in the short term must dupe. How many peasants have spilled their blood to put a tyrant in power? Tens if not hundreds of millions. Just look at the Soviet Union or Communist China to see how many died to put oppressive tyrants in power and how many more died upon the arrival of those same tyrants to power.
Islamism is no different in its goals, only in its motivation and means. Hamas is simply one group that is demanding its adherents shed their own blood to kill the unarmed civilians of an easy minority, a rich minority. The desire for a future caliphate is hampered primarily by the fact that so many divergent groups wish to have the power.
But to answer the opening question: the Gaza Conflict is currently widely covered. Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, it is easy to find out exactly what has happened in Gaza, even a few minutes or hours ago, through multiple sources. WOTN's official position is this: We support the sovereignity of nations to protect their own citizens, particularly against the terrorist actions of criminal organizations, even if they claim a political organization. We support their right and responsibility to protect their own civilians and citizens, even if to do so, they must extend their military beyond their own borders.
War On Terror News supports the Geneva Conventions, to include those portions which ban militants from using ambulances, schools and hospitals as bases of military operations. It recognizes that when terrorists use prohibited areas to launch attacks, it is the terrorist organization, not the retalitory force responsible for the destruction of those areas, as well as the collateral damage resultant in eliminating the war criminals that are targeting civilians, no matter how much hatred has been preached.
In short, WOTN recognizes the sovereign right of Israel to defend itself against the terrorist organization Hamas.
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