"Never again" must mean never again for everyone.
By Pat Hackett
Introduction.
No matter what race, or country, or religious belief we have or others have , we must do all we can to make sure we prevent future holocausts or genocides or ethnic cleansing around the world.
First of course our governments and organisations who have the ability to act must do everything in their power to stop any funding that could help those committing the genocide in Palestine and do everything in their power to help the victims. Unfortunately this is not happening, our governments and Media are letting us down, so those of us who don't have direct power must look to what we can do including how to tackle the lack of support.
Boycotting is a strategy that works
If you are not already boycotting products that are funding genocide then this is a simple and effective strategy that every consumer can use. Tell your friends, family and acquaintances and sales assistants that you talk with pointing them towards appropriate apps. that can help you in this.
Frustrated by our individual lack of ability to help now, we have to look at ways to make "never again" really mean that in the future.
In particular we should first look at our our own country to determine what influence we collectively are having. It's always easy to point the finger at those we disagree with, without considering objectively our own stance.
Clearly we can see Remembrance day regarding the first world war and the cry of "Never again" after the holocaust of the Jews before and during the second world war, or our "Nuclear deterrent" are not having the effect of preventing either wars nor genocide.
In fact there are those that use and abuse Remembrance Day by using it as a symbol of national pride, or "we won the war" and/or while ironically and cynically denying that genocide is happening today and that we as a nation in Britain are a side in that conflict.
To that end I believe we have important steps to make to make sure that we really mean "never again" and at the least have made sure we have done all we can positively in that direction.
For this purpose in 2025 we must consider both the plight of the Palestine people and our involvement in this, since this genocide and our involvement is happening now. The lessons must be learned and remembered.
1. The first step is to recognise that Genocide is happening.
This first step is crucial and to that end the first of this series considers the myths that are prevalent in the public in Britain:- 10 Myths regarding the Palestine genocide.
(Different myths will be seen on the streets in Tel Aviv and in the Settlers territory)
The conclusion there is
"beyond all reasonable doubt we have a genocide and one that our government and MSM share responsibility for and not accepting this will be seen as Denial"
These myths can help explain the lack of knowledge and resulting indifference to the barbaric treatment of the Palestinians that was evident (and to a lesser extent still is with some) in much of society including the politicians and media. Furthermore these allow governments to pursue White or Zionist colonialism and can contribute to the already attitudes of supremacism as people tried/try to excuse their compliance or indifference.
2. How has this corruption come about?
Having concluded that our government and MSM have aided Israel in the Genocide we can then and only then address the question of how this corruption came about.
Sadly the more successful career wise have been corrupted by those with the most wealth and power who want to corrupt. At the present time that is likely the Israeli and arms industry lobbyists but this corruption is inevitable in our politically and economically flawed system.
3. How the corruption has corrupted society.
A third step is to consider how this corruption has influenced the attitude and behaviour of the general public to accept this corruption and unwittingly maintain this corruption. To this end we will have to really address what "our shared values are" and not just use it as a meaningless, undefined and assumed agreed on set of values.
So just what are our shared values?
5. A peaceful revolution for the long term.
Then we will be in a much stronger position to make decisions on how to play a part in stopping the cycle of war and genocide in the future.
Religion has been abused by some to entice people to war. Religion has been blamed for wars but the reality is that this is often an excuse to either hide the real cause or deflect attention from those involved in the wars. Religious people following the core humanitarian principles of their religion along side other humanitarians can play a huge part in preventing wars.
Stopping the cycle of war and environmental destruction.
6. Rebuilding societies.
Clearly Palestine will need physically rebuilding, not only the homes but all that is needed for it's society to be re-established. All those responsible for it's destruction must help in that reconstruction but then the societies that have been responsible must find ways to rebuild the values of their own society that enabled this to happen.
Summarizing.
In didn't start on October 7th but the barbaric treatment of the Palestinians from Israel backed by the West has exemplified the following general points:-
*In a grossly unequal world, oligarchs or people with extreme wealth and influence are effectively in charge of the politicians and media. This is true in countries that consider themselves to be democratic but in reality it is only a minority of people, often with a "hidden hand" who get to influence. Unfortunately the "invisible hand" envisaged by Adam Smith has not worked for the good of all society.
*Once inequality becomes embedded these oligarchs in a vicious cycle maintain the political and economic system that further maintains the inequality by using their influence to corrupt the politicians, media and many of the values of society.
*The oligarchs then exploit cultural or religious differences to divide societies for their own interests and help maintain the myths of infinite growth and economics of self interest or greed to achieve their insatiable desires.
• These flawed political and economic policies will inevitably fail but as they do those responsible will try to maintain the system but this will lead to increasing levels of war and exploitation to maintain the growth and resources needed. Thus the increased instability we see in the world today is likely the start of the death throws of a flawed system.
*I believe it's only by understanding these key points that societies will know how to get effective system change.
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