As I read your article, I kept thinking it could almost be written in reverse from the Israeli perspective. What many call "Palestinian privilege" exists largely because of the extraordinary attention, sympathy, institutional support, and double standards directed against Israel. Tiny Israel receives more scrutiny, more UN resolutions, more activism, and more outrage than conflicts affecting vastly larger numbers of people.
To me, that raises the real question: why? Whether conscious or subconscious, I think much of this reflects the world's obsession with Jews and the Jewish state. The enemy of Israel is elevated, excused, and romanticized in ways that would be unimaginable elsewhere. In many ways, what you call Palestinian privilege is simply the flip side of the unique treatment reserved for Israel and the Jewish people.
The shrunken Israeli left still thinks negotiations can lead to peace. Old addictions live on, but most Israelis have given up on the Palestinians. They see no way to make peace by negotiation. Oct 7 eliminated the dying embers of the Oslo peace movement. We must understand that Arabism and Islam are nothing like Western culture. We are dealing with fanaticism and barbarism, but we are not allowed to say it. That doesn't mean that every Arab or Muslim is like that, but the culture is.
Israel just killed a top Hamas commander. Here is the funeral. Allahu Akbar. Compare it to an Israeli funeral.
If this proves anything, it is that "awareness" and the "international community" are worthless, and worse than useless. Or maybe this proves that they're not, hence the powers that be made very sure to redirect all the awareness and harness the international community toward that one issue.
"There is, evidently, literally nothing that Palestinians can do to turn the world away from obedient, unquestioning devotion to their cause." And equally, there is nothing that could happen to Jews or that Jews could do that would turn the world toward us in support. Six million truly wasn't enough for them, said so in no uncertain terms. They could only manage about a 50 year pause in thirsting for Jewish blood, because being anti-Jew was a bad look for awhile. But they couldn't keep it down forever.
Just wondering how we get "Palestinian privilege" to become a thing? We follow a fantastic non-Jewish British guy on Instagram who refers to having "gentile privilege" because he and other non-Jews, as a rule, don't have to live with the consciousness of being hunted for extermination the way Jews do. Both useful and descriptive phrases, now how to get them into circulation...
it seems there are too many people in power and everywhere, always who need to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of. Me thinks the Palestinians and their champions doth protest too much.
The Palestinians are the least deserving people in the world and perhaps in world history of either support or a state. It's like taking a murderer and instead of trying him for his crime, giving him money, a house and suing his victim's family.
Far too much common sense here. I don't think the UN and the leftists have the mental bandwidth to absorb this unless you feed it to them a syllable at a time. Ah, but that won't work either.
Pat insightful as ever The “Palestinians are an Arab not Israeli problem to solve. 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries since 1948 with their assets stolen by the Arab governments. They are not refugees in Israel as they were granted full citizenship on arrival to develop Israel into the economic, intellectual and military powerhouse that it is today. The Arabs that left Israel either through force or at the behest of the Arab armies since 1948 became the stateless refugees in Arab countries that we see today along with the generations born since, effectively treated as 2nd class citizens with the connivance of UNWRA and the 40+ Muslim states in the UN.
No matter what has taken place since 1948, you can’t expect any people to just say, -sure. ‘Come into my neighborhood , my street, my town, my olive groves, and take them for yourself.’ We did it to the Indians. It wasn’t right then. Doing it in 1948 wasn’t right either. Idk what the idea was supposed to be. I believe in a Jewish State. But how did anyone think it would ever work the way it was implemented? Yes, Israel is the land of Jewish Heritage and Jewish history. But how do you throw the squatters out without all the neighboring countries agreeing to it? And without a real government for the Palestinian people that would help them thrive? It wasn’t in their culture to want modernity. It’s never been offered to them since. From this perspective. Someone has to admit that it will never work.
Well said. But, the fact of the matter is that the more intransigent the Palestinians become, the more the world sides with them.
Hmmmmm. Why, it’s almost as if the world doesn’t REALLY support the Palestinians, it just hates Jews! But, it couldn’t be THAT, could it??????
Pat, you're spot on.
As I read your article, I kept thinking it could almost be written in reverse from the Israeli perspective. What many call "Palestinian privilege" exists largely because of the extraordinary attention, sympathy, institutional support, and double standards directed against Israel. Tiny Israel receives more scrutiny, more UN resolutions, more activism, and more outrage than conflicts affecting vastly larger numbers of people.
To me, that raises the real question: why? Whether conscious or subconscious, I think much of this reflects the world's obsession with Jews and the Jewish state. The enemy of Israel is elevated, excused, and romanticized in ways that would be unimaginable elsewhere. In many ways, what you call Palestinian privilege is simply the flip side of the unique treatment reserved for Israel and the Jewish people.
Pro-Jew, Proudly Zionist
The shrunken Israeli left still thinks negotiations can lead to peace. Old addictions live on, but most Israelis have given up on the Palestinians. They see no way to make peace by negotiation. Oct 7 eliminated the dying embers of the Oslo peace movement. We must understand that Arabism and Islam are nothing like Western culture. We are dealing with fanaticism and barbarism, but we are not allowed to say it. That doesn't mean that every Arab or Muslim is like that, but the culture is.
Israel just killed a top Hamas commander. Here is the funeral. Allahu Akbar. Compare it to an Israeli funeral.
https://t.me/englishabuali/73554?single
This entire society is deeply mentally ill.
Excellent piece. Thank you Pat. I just paid for a subscription. Keep up the good work!
If this proves anything, it is that "awareness" and the "international community" are worthless, and worse than useless. Or maybe this proves that they're not, hence the powers that be made very sure to redirect all the awareness and harness the international community toward that one issue.
"There is, evidently, literally nothing that Palestinians can do to turn the world away from obedient, unquestioning devotion to their cause." And equally, there is nothing that could happen to Jews or that Jews could do that would turn the world toward us in support. Six million truly wasn't enough for them, said so in no uncertain terms. They could only manage about a 50 year pause in thirsting for Jewish blood, because being anti-Jew was a bad look for awhile. But they couldn't keep it down forever.
Just wondering how we get "Palestinian privilege" to become a thing? We follow a fantastic non-Jewish British guy on Instagram who refers to having "gentile privilege" because he and other non-Jews, as a rule, don't have to live with the consciousness of being hunted for extermination the way Jews do. Both useful and descriptive phrases, now how to get them into circulation...
You nailed it!
it seems there are too many people in power and everywhere, always who need to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of. Me thinks the Palestinians and their champions doth protest too much.
The Palestinians are the least deserving people in the world and perhaps in world history of either support or a state. It's like taking a murderer and instead of trying him for his crime, giving him money, a house and suing his victim's family.
Far too much common sense here. I don't think the UN and the leftists have the mental bandwidth to absorb this unless you feed it to them a syllable at a time. Ah, but that won't work either.
https://behindthenarrative7.substack.com/p/what-palestinian-surnames-reveal?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=bpnge
Pat insightful as ever The “Palestinians are an Arab not Israeli problem to solve. 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries since 1948 with their assets stolen by the Arab governments. They are not refugees in Israel as they were granted full citizenship on arrival to develop Israel into the economic, intellectual and military powerhouse that it is today. The Arabs that left Israel either through force or at the behest of the Arab armies since 1948 became the stateless refugees in Arab countries that we see today along with the generations born since, effectively treated as 2nd class citizens with the connivance of UNWRA and the 40+ Muslim states in the UN.
A privilege indeed.
No matter what has taken place since 1948, you can’t expect any people to just say, -sure. ‘Come into my neighborhood , my street, my town, my olive groves, and take them for yourself.’ We did it to the Indians. It wasn’t right then. Doing it in 1948 wasn’t right either. Idk what the idea was supposed to be. I believe in a Jewish State. But how did anyone think it would ever work the way it was implemented? Yes, Israel is the land of Jewish Heritage and Jewish history. But how do you throw the squatters out without all the neighboring countries agreeing to it? And without a real government for the Palestinian people that would help them thrive? It wasn’t in their culture to want modernity. It’s never been offered to them since. From this perspective. Someone has to admit that it will never work.
Gives a whole new, perverse meaning to our "Chosen Ones" moniker.