This article seems to focus more on expressing opinions, but it may be misleading in the process. In discussing the search for redemptive meaning, the article mentions that some have compromised by looking at helping impoverished Iraqis as a possible solution. However, this perspective does not seem to have been sufficiently critically considered during the course of the narrative. The expressions in the remarks appear pale, making the article lack depth and independent thinking. This article seems to fail to fully examine and question the stated views in the process of expression, and is more like a superficial description. In discussing complex issues, the article appears to be oversimplified and lacks deep insight into the nature of things.
However, as journalists face greater challenges, especially in the face of hostile state information warfare, they may be exploited to disseminate specific information. This requires journalists to be more careful in examining and presenting facts when dealing with complex international relations and political issues, so as not to become the mouthpiece of a specific position. In the process of in-depth reporting, we may be able to dig deeper into the facts and reveal more layers of truth. This not only helps improve the accuracy and objectivity of reporting, but also helps readers gain a more comprehensive understanding of complex issues.
Trish, I agree with you on most things but feel you’ve completely lost the plot on Gaza. You’re engaging in amplifying the false narrative of the government of Gaza who launched an attack on Israel and now push women and children out in front of themselves in their bravery.
War is an awful thing, condemn those who started it and their continued war crimes, not the Israelis who were attacked.
You’re now seeing the results of a decades-long alliance between radical Marxists and Islamists in the streets of the west in concert with their push in Israel. Please stop supporting this.
"At the risk of sounding political, war can’t continue once the soldiers start telling the truth about it." And as long as the mainstream media try to suppress those stories, the wars of the moment go on and on. Thanks Triish for your sobering and important reflection
You spoke of Lance Corporal Travis Williams who saw all his troop mates blown up by an IED. We have a Canadian soldier who suffered the same experience, except he was in the explosion that killed all his buddies and he barely survived it. His name is Chris Deering, he was at the Freedom Convoy protest and testified at the POEC about he was brutalized by police while guarding the war memorial. Arrested and then released outside of the city in the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter. He atteneded the Rolling Thunder Rally the following spring after the Convoy in Ottawa where he spoke of his experience at the re-dedication of the the National War Memorial.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lhMKDovmQ
I take from your account Trish the reminder that war is indeed horrible. It is a heavy price to pay. It should weigh heavily in what we support.
A big first question in my mind is how to bring to account the Hamas planners and perpetrators of the atrocities. How exactly is Israel to do that and still behave in a civilised manner? A second question is how to achieve the acceptance of Israel's right to exist there in the Middle East, given the seemingly widespread opinion amongst Arab and Muslim countries, that it does not have that right. A corollary question is how to stamp out the virulent and sickening hatred of Jews, to the point of cheering the slaughter, and advocating violence against them, evident in Canada, the USA and so many other countries.
All very great points. The timing is also disturbing for me as well. We have been witness to one well played event in 2020, so I have become very skeptical when looking at world events. Whenever the US fully backs any regime the hairs on my neck now stand straight up. As a Christian Canadian very far removed from the events in the ME I find it difficult to understand the history of the regions. I do know that when in Israel in 2019 Tel Aviv had sounded the siren alerting us to incoming shelling but averted by the Iron Dome a few times in as many days. Three Israeli students were stabbed to death by Palestinians on the streets in Jerusalem for the crime of being Jewish on ouR visit there. It was obvious that Israelis are constantly on guard at all times. The hate that Arabs has for Jews is palpable. Will it ever be eradicated in the region is debatable. Israel has many enemies and is surrounded by those who don’t just want to see the country free of Jews, these nations have bred a desire to kill every Jew. Why have Palestinians not been welcomed in Egypt, Syria or even Lebanon and Jordan?
Before I will protest I need to understand what the argument I am defending is. To listen to the hate expressed by the Arabs towards Israel is deeply disturbing. It is akin to listening to woke students defending the trans movement as it affects children in elementary schools....
Rupa is an old school journalist who isn’t afraid of weighing in on both sides.
Thank you for this article. I also listened to your most recent podcast with Jenin and Ann. Listening to three calm voices discussing the horrific situation in Palestine and Israel was very valuable. I still have nightmares about that young woman being taken hostage on the back of the motorcycle. And full transparency my head wants Hamas crushed. At the same time - I feel so sorry for the Palestinians who are used as human shields. So my question how does this get resolved? Hamas isn’t interested is peace and they make too much money. I offer this article by way of underscoring my concern.
I finally had the chance to finish listening to your talk with Ann Bauer and Jenin Younes. You all expressed probably about 80-90% of the feelings that I've been having about this whole entire debacle. What strikes me as odd/fishy are the timing of the Hamas attack... and that it took 6 hours (really???) for a response. Given everything we have been through in the past almost 4 years of propaganda one must at least consider all possibilities including that this attack was "allowed" to occur in order to justify the current actions. If that is true then this was in fact Israel's 9-11 because I have come to believe that it was in fact orchestrated by TPTB/Deep State/DoD/CIA in order to justify the 'War on Terror', invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Could it be that Hamas wants to start WWIII by performing absolute atrocities? Are they influenced by Iran and other Islamacists? Possibly. Also worth considering.
Can Israel ignore Hamas and Hezebollah? No, Israeli's deserve to defend themselves. Is the slaughter of innocent children and civilians justified even if they have been brainwashed to hate Jews and the West? No but I don't know how it is possible to get stop the slaughter.
Everyone has the right to life and freedom. For Humanity to triumph there must be a way forward where we can stop the slaughter, recognize the humanity in our fellow human beings and come to peace.
Has this whole situation been orchestrated to distract us from excess deaths in Israel due to the vaccines? To divide the Freedom movement against itself? To further divide left and right (if that even means anything anymore)? To initiate events like another World War to justify further loss of rights (no elections because there's a war... more MSM propaganda because there's a war)?
There's the old cartoon of the Dictator looking out on the people who are storming his palace with pitchforks and torches and his advisor telling him, "All you need to do is tell the people with the pitchforks, the torchbearers are coming for them."
I refuse to take sides. All War is wrong. All sewn division is wrong. I limit my time reading what's going on and what I do I take it all with a huge grain of salt and refuse to react emotionally. I pray for the wisdom to see through the propaganda on both sides. I pray for the children who will be physically and emotionally ruined or killed. And then I go about my life being as positive and happy as I can so that my energy contributes to good.
I am perplexed by the world right now. I developed shingles over the past two weeks as a non vaxxed Canadian I believe as a result of the sadness I hold in my heart. Palestinian children didn’t ask for this ....Israeli children held hostage or bludgeoned by a group of barbarians didn’t deserve their fate either. I have a friend living in an orthodox Jewish area in Toronto who has been hunkering down fearful of triggering hate. We have forgotten that we are called racists if we criticize Muslims but somehow antisemitism gets a pass today. I have a friend who is Palestinian who has said we need to be very weary of immigrants from Palestine because schools have indoctrinated children into a horrible hatred of infidels and the west. This same friend said that Hamas has hijacked Palestinian society and it will take generations to unbrainwash this generation of school aged children. Hamas is the problem, a malignant cancer allowed to take over Palestine.
War is a disgusting reflection of how inhumane humans can be. Israel is a complicated region and it will take brilliant and open minds to come to sane decisions on how to live with the forces that surround them.
Trish, your mother instincts come out loud and clear. Your heart is where it should be. My heart breaks for Israel as well as for all Palestinians stuck in a world of hurt that forces like Hamas have mostly driven. Middle East has a tribal mentality that the west will never understand.
Trish you are a writing angel. Thank you for sharing this post and for pulling me in to the context of what you saw and heard from those who shared with you. War is horrific. Such a loss of life and lives messed up who do survive. I appreciate your work so much. These idiots in these ivory towers slinging orders to the young people to do their killing. It's sickening.
We are all but fodder. The sub-humanism of the so called leaders of this world are atrocious, money and power hungry pieces of shit. None of them care about unity or peace at all. Thank you Trish as always for your reporting. Amen.
I say let the leader of Hamas duke it out with BiBi in a ring and leave all the innocent civilians alone (Frankie Goes Hollywood for those around in the '80s).
But that won't solve anything until the parents today stop indoctrinating their kids with hate of "the other" be it Palestinian kids being taught to hate Jews or Jews being taught to hate the Palestinians. It's all wrong and we can go back and back for hundreds and thousands of years and never find who really "owns" the land. Everyone there now deserves to be able to live there in peace and security, free from warmongers on both sides.
My maternal grandfather was awarded the DSO for his actions in the trench warfare of WW1. I asked him why Britain had entered the "Great War". "We had to teach the Hun a lesson" he replied, and that left me wondering whether soldiers are often drawn into fighting by that sort of nonsense.
My mother's brother did two complete tours as a navigator/bomb aimer in Lancasters in WW2 and was awarded the DFC and bar. He watched as his bombs fell to fuel the fiery holocaust at Dresden. At the end of the war he sold his medals and his flying log book but he couldn't get the sight of Dresden out of his mind and he never spoke of patriotism.
I believe that WW3 started a while back, and that in its early stages it looks a lot like WW1 with disparate conflicts - and it even includes trench warfare in the Donbas mud. I think it's very likely it will spread like a cancer around the world because most of the world's leaders, whether they are leading mere factions like Hamas or great countries, are psychopathic, or stupid, or venal, or all three. They don't understand that war is indeed a racket which kills kids.
I think WW3 will end like WW2 with nuclear weapons. If so, many of the great cities of Europe, the UK, the Middle East, China and the continental USA will be reduced to smoking ruins, like Dresden, with hundreds of millions of their inhabitants vapourised or left as scorched bundles in the rubble. But this time there won't be the resources needed to rebuild.
I admire Trish and others for documenting our progress towards disaster, but I have no hope that we can avoid it.
Not the ruination of just our kids, but the fresh wounds and torn off scabs of intergenerational trauma that will keen and careen through the coming centuries, long after the wars are forgotten.
Not the ruination of just our kids, but the fresh wounds and torn off scabs of intergenerational trauma that will keen and careen through the coming centuries, long after the wars are forgotten.
This article seems to focus more on expressing opinions, but it may be misleading in the process. In discussing the search for redemptive meaning, the article mentions that some have compromised by looking at helping impoverished Iraqis as a possible solution. However, this perspective does not seem to have been sufficiently critically considered during the course of the narrative. The expressions in the remarks appear pale, making the article lack depth and independent thinking. This article seems to fail to fully examine and question the stated views in the process of expression, and is more like a superficial description. In discussing complex issues, the article appears to be oversimplified and lacks deep insight into the nature of things.
However, as journalists face greater challenges, especially in the face of hostile state information warfare, they may be exploited to disseminate specific information. This requires journalists to be more careful in examining and presenting facts when dealing with complex international relations and political issues, so as not to become the mouthpiece of a specific position. In the process of in-depth reporting, we may be able to dig deeper into the facts and reveal more layers of truth. This not only helps improve the accuracy and objectivity of reporting, but also helps readers gain a more comprehensive understanding of complex issues.
Trish, I agree with you on most things but feel you’ve completely lost the plot on Gaza. You’re engaging in amplifying the false narrative of the government of Gaza who launched an attack on Israel and now push women and children out in front of themselves in their bravery.
War is an awful thing, condemn those who started it and their continued war crimes, not the Israelis who were attacked.
You’re now seeing the results of a decades-long alliance between radical Marxists and Islamists in the streets of the west in concert with their push in Israel. Please stop supporting this.
"At the risk of sounding political, war can’t continue once the soldiers start telling the truth about it." And as long as the mainstream media try to suppress those stories, the wars of the moment go on and on. Thanks Triish for your sobering and important reflection
You spoke of Lance Corporal Travis Williams who saw all his troop mates blown up by an IED. We have a Canadian soldier who suffered the same experience, except he was in the explosion that killed all his buddies and he barely survived it. His name is Chris Deering, he was at the Freedom Convoy protest and testified at the POEC about he was brutalized by police while guarding the war memorial. Arrested and then released outside of the city in the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter. He atteneded the Rolling Thunder Rally the following spring after the Convoy in Ottawa where he spoke of his experience at the re-dedication of the the National War Memorial.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lhMKDovmQ
I take from your account Trish the reminder that war is indeed horrible. It is a heavy price to pay. It should weigh heavily in what we support.
A big first question in my mind is how to bring to account the Hamas planners and perpetrators of the atrocities. How exactly is Israel to do that and still behave in a civilised manner? A second question is how to achieve the acceptance of Israel's right to exist there in the Middle East, given the seemingly widespread opinion amongst Arab and Muslim countries, that it does not have that right. A corollary question is how to stamp out the virulent and sickening hatred of Jews, to the point of cheering the slaughter, and advocating violence against them, evident in Canada, the USA and so many other countries.
All very great points. The timing is also disturbing for me as well. We have been witness to one well played event in 2020, so I have become very skeptical when looking at world events. Whenever the US fully backs any regime the hairs on my neck now stand straight up. As a Christian Canadian very far removed from the events in the ME I find it difficult to understand the history of the regions. I do know that when in Israel in 2019 Tel Aviv had sounded the siren alerting us to incoming shelling but averted by the Iron Dome a few times in as many days. Three Israeli students were stabbed to death by Palestinians on the streets in Jerusalem for the crime of being Jewish on ouR visit there. It was obvious that Israelis are constantly on guard at all times. The hate that Arabs has for Jews is palpable. Will it ever be eradicated in the region is debatable. Israel has many enemies and is surrounded by those who don’t just want to see the country free of Jews, these nations have bred a desire to kill every Jew. Why have Palestinians not been welcomed in Egypt, Syria or even Lebanon and Jordan?
Before I will protest I need to understand what the argument I am defending is. To listen to the hate expressed by the Arabs towards Israel is deeply disturbing. It is akin to listening to woke students defending the trans movement as it affects children in elementary schools....
Rupa is an old school journalist who isn’t afraid of weighing in on both sides.
Thank you for this article. I also listened to your most recent podcast with Jenin and Ann. Listening to three calm voices discussing the horrific situation in Palestine and Israel was very valuable. I still have nightmares about that young woman being taken hostage on the back of the motorcycle. And full transparency my head wants Hamas crushed. At the same time - I feel so sorry for the Palestinians who are used as human shields. So my question how does this get resolved? Hamas isn’t interested is peace and they make too much money. I offer this article by way of underscoring my concern.
https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/why-are-gazas-arabs-so-poor
I finally had the chance to finish listening to your talk with Ann Bauer and Jenin Younes. You all expressed probably about 80-90% of the feelings that I've been having about this whole entire debacle. What strikes me as odd/fishy are the timing of the Hamas attack... and that it took 6 hours (really???) for a response. Given everything we have been through in the past almost 4 years of propaganda one must at least consider all possibilities including that this attack was "allowed" to occur in order to justify the current actions. If that is true then this was in fact Israel's 9-11 because I have come to believe that it was in fact orchestrated by TPTB/Deep State/DoD/CIA in order to justify the 'War on Terror', invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Could it be that Hamas wants to start WWIII by performing absolute atrocities? Are they influenced by Iran and other Islamacists? Possibly. Also worth considering.
Can Israel ignore Hamas and Hezebollah? No, Israeli's deserve to defend themselves. Is the slaughter of innocent children and civilians justified even if they have been brainwashed to hate Jews and the West? No but I don't know how it is possible to get stop the slaughter.
Everyone has the right to life and freedom. For Humanity to triumph there must be a way forward where we can stop the slaughter, recognize the humanity in our fellow human beings and come to peace.
Has this whole situation been orchestrated to distract us from excess deaths in Israel due to the vaccines? To divide the Freedom movement against itself? To further divide left and right (if that even means anything anymore)? To initiate events like another World War to justify further loss of rights (no elections because there's a war... more MSM propaganda because there's a war)?
There's the old cartoon of the Dictator looking out on the people who are storming his palace with pitchforks and torches and his advisor telling him, "All you need to do is tell the people with the pitchforks, the torchbearers are coming for them."
I refuse to take sides. All War is wrong. All sewn division is wrong. I limit my time reading what's going on and what I do I take it all with a huge grain of salt and refuse to react emotionally. I pray for the wisdom to see through the propaganda on both sides. I pray for the children who will be physically and emotionally ruined or killed. And then I go about my life being as positive and happy as I can so that my energy contributes to good.
Peace be with you all.
I am perplexed by the world right now. I developed shingles over the past two weeks as a non vaxxed Canadian I believe as a result of the sadness I hold in my heart. Palestinian children didn’t ask for this ....Israeli children held hostage or bludgeoned by a group of barbarians didn’t deserve their fate either. I have a friend living in an orthodox Jewish area in Toronto who has been hunkering down fearful of triggering hate. We have forgotten that we are called racists if we criticize Muslims but somehow antisemitism gets a pass today. I have a friend who is Palestinian who has said we need to be very weary of immigrants from Palestine because schools have indoctrinated children into a horrible hatred of infidels and the west. This same friend said that Hamas has hijacked Palestinian society and it will take generations to unbrainwash this generation of school aged children. Hamas is the problem, a malignant cancer allowed to take over Palestine.
War is a disgusting reflection of how inhumane humans can be. Israel is a complicated region and it will take brilliant and open minds to come to sane decisions on how to live with the forces that surround them.
Trish, your mother instincts come out loud and clear. Your heart is where it should be. My heart breaks for Israel as well as for all Palestinians stuck in a world of hurt that forces like Hamas have mostly driven. Middle East has a tribal mentality that the west will never understand.
Trish you are a writing angel. Thank you for sharing this post and for pulling me in to the context of what you saw and heard from those who shared with you. War is horrific. Such a loss of life and lives messed up who do survive. I appreciate your work so much. These idiots in these ivory towers slinging orders to the young people to do their killing. It's sickening.
We are all but fodder. The sub-humanism of the so called leaders of this world are atrocious, money and power hungry pieces of shit. None of them care about unity or peace at all. Thank you Trish as always for your reporting. Amen.
Thanks for your insights and your heart, Trish.
Thanks, Michelle...means a lot from you. Hope all is well.
I say let the leader of Hamas duke it out with BiBi in a ring and leave all the innocent civilians alone (Frankie Goes Hollywood for those around in the '80s).
But that won't solve anything until the parents today stop indoctrinating their kids with hate of "the other" be it Palestinian kids being taught to hate Jews or Jews being taught to hate the Palestinians. It's all wrong and we can go back and back for hundreds and thousands of years and never find who really "owns" the land. Everyone there now deserves to be able to live there in peace and security, free from warmongers on both sides.
Thank you Trish. Hope you're feeling better.
My maternal grandfather was awarded the DSO for his actions in the trench warfare of WW1. I asked him why Britain had entered the "Great War". "We had to teach the Hun a lesson" he replied, and that left me wondering whether soldiers are often drawn into fighting by that sort of nonsense.
My mother's brother did two complete tours as a navigator/bomb aimer in Lancasters in WW2 and was awarded the DFC and bar. He watched as his bombs fell to fuel the fiery holocaust at Dresden. At the end of the war he sold his medals and his flying log book but he couldn't get the sight of Dresden out of his mind and he never spoke of patriotism.
I believe that WW3 started a while back, and that in its early stages it looks a lot like WW1 with disparate conflicts - and it even includes trench warfare in the Donbas mud. I think it's very likely it will spread like a cancer around the world because most of the world's leaders, whether they are leading mere factions like Hamas or great countries, are psychopathic, or stupid, or venal, or all three. They don't understand that war is indeed a racket which kills kids.
I think WW3 will end like WW2 with nuclear weapons. If so, many of the great cities of Europe, the UK, the Middle East, China and the continental USA will be reduced to smoking ruins, like Dresden, with hundreds of millions of their inhabitants vapourised or left as scorched bundles in the rubble. But this time there won't be the resources needed to rebuild.
I admire Trish and others for documenting our progress towards disaster, but I have no hope that we can avoid it.
Not the ruination of just our kids, but the fresh wounds and torn off scabs of intergenerational trauma that will keen and careen through the coming centuries, long after the wars are forgotten.
Not the ruination of just our kids, but the fresh wounds and torn off scabs of intergenerational trauma that will keen and careen through the coming centuries, long after the wars are forgotten.