Initially it must be explained that this text is an “organic” development of an item in my blog on “Swedish coverage of the Israel-Hamas war”, written originally on February 10, 2024. It required updates to the point of justifying a separate treatment as below.

Especially during trips abroad, and as already mentioned in my article on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, I compare Swedish news in mass media, mainly television SVT and radio SR, with news accessible in hotels’ television networks, the English versions of Deutsche Welle (DW), France 24, and AlJazeera. It stimulated other critical thoughts, and conclusions. Earlier I also compared them with the CNN, BBC and more seldom available CGTN (Chinas Global Television Network) in connection with the Ukraine war. Now in the first two months of year 2024 I felt it embarrassing, the more so in dialogues with our foreign contacts, that the events in the Israel-Hamas war are comparatively silenced after the initial terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel. This to the point that on only one occasion I read a columnist expressing in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet a concise “neutral” (as opposed to complex, “partisan”) judgment about the motivation and the immediate success of Hamas’ terrorist attack: to put the old Palestine-Israel problem on the forefront of the world’s attention, which lately was totally absorbed by the conflict in Ukraine, face the US disengagement from the Middle East that had started with the Obama administration.

The extent of this silencing makes one wonder whether this it is not recommended because of concern that truth (as well as the balancing of different opinions) may increase the harassment of Jews in Sweden. In fact, at about the time when I was stopping to update this present text of mine, on July 8, 2024, the Swedish public radio had in its news a large feature about increased antisemitism in the world and Sweden “following the October 7 2023 terrorist attack of Hamas in Israel”. By the way, the BBC news the very same day, as well as the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet contained a large feature on “at about 30 people have been killed after Russia launched a massive missile attack against cities across Ukraine, according to officials”, including “a children’s hospital has been damaged” without, however, killed children. That is, about the same or less than the number of people killed daily in Gaza which, however, includes killed children. No mention of the latter in the Swedish news (besides a report of complaints by one of about 50 Palestinians prisoners (out of about 4500, including 160 children) just liberated by Israel, telling about how they had been treated in prison).

It is the case that TV and radio stations in other Western countries including the Al Jazeera English initially had been reporting news with text and images of the killing and the wounding, of up to an average of 200 civilians per day, mainly in Gaza, including the West Bank. This in Israel's self-defense after the Hamas attack with (in mid-February 2024) about 28.000, 33.000 in April and more than 42.000 in October (including up to about 14.000 children, cf. also here) dead Palestinian civilians against Hamas's murder of roughly 1,300 Israelis (including 33 children), both figures including children, women and elders.

By the end of February news agencies (here, here and here), reported that an active member of the United States military (Aaron Bushness) had set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, in an apparent act of protest against Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, estimated (as the BBC Middle East correspondent did) to have resulted in about more than 30.000 dead and 70.000 injured. Others including The Lancet estimated on March 5, 2024 an informal death total of up to 200.000 (The Lancet on July 19, 2024 “up to 186.000 or even more”) which is supported by the reported application of high-tech warfare. (see here on AI-weapons). I did see neither the suicide nor the initial 100-200 daily deaths being commented in the Swedish public service news. It recalls, as I already remarked in my essay on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the difficulty to respect not only Christian doctrine but even the milder Jewish classical injunction of “An eye for an eye”.

I understand that Sweden’s commitment to membership in NATO implies an increased mirroring of its and USA’s positions regarding ongoing conflicts such as in Gaza and Ukraine. At the same time Swedish news ignored what was going on in Senegal, Pakistan and Indonesia, while AlJazeera on February 24th I saw journalist Step Vaessen interviewing Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi on her country’s view of the conflict in Palestine. In Deutsche Welle the very same day I saw the journalist Sarah Kelly interviewingThe Palestinian politician, academic and economist Mohammad Shtayyeh, followed by comments from politicians from Israel, Jordan, Spain and Canada. AlJazeera on several occasions interviewed people from the Norwegian Refugee Council (also here) in Rafah, Gaza, e.g. Youssef Hamash and Samah Hadid.

Other interviewed and reporting journalists in Deutsche Welle were World Health Organization WHO’s representatives, and e.g. Mohammad Alkahlout and the often consulted Marwan Bishara presented as an “author who writes extensively on global politics and is widely regarded as a leading authority on US foreign policy, the Middle East and international strategic affairs. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris”. Another personality appearing at the television is Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative.

After writing the main of the present text I also could verify how AlJazeera keeps interviewing or referring to a lot of knowledgeable people besides those mentioned in the text. Most of them do not only refer to facts but also analyze causes and possible actions. , obliging viewers to think, instead of only absorbing assumed “facts”, rejecting “misinformation”. They do not programmatically represent Israel’s, USA’s or NATO’s views, which is most important after Israel’s banning AlJazeera from reporting from Israel, submitting the whole country to military censorship. Examples are (sample up to October 15, 2024 with ongoing war also in Lebanon with its 2400 dead since October 7 2024, plus officially estimated 42.000 in Gaza):

I have not heard a single of them or alike experts around the world being interviewed by the Swedish public TV and radio, except for one exceptional radio program in the series Konflikt (Conflict) on October 18-19 2024 on The pager-attacks in Lebanon: the future wars are here. Swedish public media prefer to interview employees at the Swedish Defense University (Försvarshögskolan) or the Swedish Defense Research Agency (Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut), which are prone to advance official opinions that are consistent with the European Union EU’s, NATO’s and consequently USA’s. Or worse, they interview the public Swedish radio’s and television’s own correspondents located in Russia, Ukraine or Israel (that does not allow them to enter Gaza) and who are prone to advance opinions consistent with the Swedish government’s and European Union’s official views.

Gone are the days when Sweden (alike Switzerland and in part even Norway still today) was considered or was self-proclaimed “neutral” or even “the conscience of the world”, before being recognized as the beacon of “state-individualistic ethics” . It also seems unthinkable that its public mass media would buy the authorization of broadcasting some of the recorded programs made by other mass media around the world. “Uncountable”, seem to be these interviewed people, without going so long as to more controversial issues such as The Israeli Mossad and international terrorism during the month of September or Failing Gaza: Pro-Israel bias uncovered behind the lens of Western media. But the same (controversial?!) media source offers what could be less controversial for being written by Alastair Crooke: “Israel Does What It Does; It Was Always Planned This Way”.

All this while the Swedish Public Radio is very restricted in its news. When having a special program on October 7 2024 about Antisemitism after October 7 and the war in Gaza, they interviewed two practically unanimous Israel-sympathetic scholars, Lars Dencik and Pontus Rudberg.

Experience of information in Sweden

Up to the end of February 2024 nothing of all this was considered worthy borrowing some program from an international news service, or a television or radio program, documentary or pod at the Swedish public service network. The first more ambitious program I heard was from the Swedish Radio SR, in the serie Konflikt [Conflict] on March 1st 2024 with the title Bidens fredsplan mitt I Gazakriget [Biden’s plan for peace in the middle of the Gaza war]. It indirectly uncovered the “active passivity” of the USA in face of the ongoing killing and injuring of civil Palestinians, completing a few shorter previous programs as of February 28 on Protester och ilska mot Hamas I Gaza: “Vi står inte ut [Protests and anger against Hamas in Gaza: "We can't stand it"].

It could be seen as a diplomatic journalistic bonus to Israel, reminding Swedes that the 30.000 Palestinian deaths and ongoing suffering is to be attributed to Hamas and its initial incursion in Israel. It is also a diplomatic journalistic bonus to Ukraine to have had an earlier program on Putin’s krig mot sitt eget folk [Putin’s war against his own people], reminding that journalism, the more so with membership in NATO, relinquishes the need of objectivity with presentation of conflicting views and arguments. In any case, one main Swedish morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, on March 6-7 2024 has obviously no problem with access to its source (TT) of news in Israel when it publishes (my transl):

“His friend is a Hamas prisoner - wants tougher action”:

Two of his friends were murdered and a third kidnapped to Gaza in the Hamas terror attack on October 7.

Student Daniel Danon wants peace - but also wants Israel to be even tougher in the Gaza Strip.

Mia Holmberg Karlsson/TT

Published at 06:19

On the morning of October 7, Daniel Danon is eating cereal in a hotel bar in Iceland. He is on vacation from his studies in Tel Aviv, visiting glaciers and ice caves. When messages from home start to trickle in, he calls his mother in Kalia, a kibbutz by the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank. […]

I remember one day towards the end of January, war news in SR were replaced by the news that climate warming was behind the fact that some butterflies' 5 spots on their wings had been reduced to just 3. And it was probably last night that the complete silencing of such news is replaced by a fairly large feature about the trials in the United States in the case of Alec Baldwin’s “2021 shooting incident”. Before that I listened to the news at the radio’s channel 1: no mention of the Israel-Hamas war but a notice that researchers find environmental clues on butterfly wings (cf. old notice here). I asked myself, “journalists editing such news while at the beginning of February I had heard that 113 journalists had already been killed in Gaza and Jodie Ginsberg reported for the Committee to Protect Journalists.

And what about “World news in the now NATO-friendly Sweden?". The Swedish TV (STV) choose to rely only upon its correspondent in the Middle East Samir Abu Eid whose e-mail address I have been trying to obtain from STV while other international sources are even too generous to supply their own controversial information and complaints for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. All this while Samir Abu Eid complains for not being allowed by Israel to enter Gaza. At the same time it is noticeable how skillful he is in his reporting from outside Gaza, in order to maintain “impartiality”. And the Swedish radio’s correspondent Cecilia Uddén has always been even more skillful in being more outspoken as in one of the rare strong reportings, on March 10, 2024, from her contact with the journalist Sami Abu Salem in Gaza (also here, immediately accused here by the online newspaper Bulletin for spreading Hamas propaganda), apparently allowed in a medium that emotionally is not so strong as television is, with its images.

But by a remarkable coincidence, the very same day of March 10, when the whole world had begun to talk about the Gaza disaster, also the Swedish television had a rare if not first close report from the news agency Reuters from a hospital in Gaza. It included images of dying and dead children whose faces and limbs, however, appeared shiningly whitewashed, if not computer-photoshop-manipulated with beauty filter, as I had never seen in e.g. Deutsche Welle’s and AlJazeera’s videos showing dirt and blood. That was followed by an interview with Carl Skau, chief operating officer of the World Food Program and by interviews emphasizing Sweden’s restart of contributions to UNWRA and Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas. It is interesting that such skills in maintaining “impartiality” have been unnecessary in both Swedish radio’s and television’s reports from the war in Ukraine, while Cecilia Uddén has been criticized and suspended by the Swedish television for making evaluative statements about presidential candidates during the 2004 American presidential election when she was the radio’s correspondent in Washington.

Long after writing the above, in December 2024 when the officially accounted number of killed Palestinians was about 60.000, the Swedish government suddenly anew withdrew its support to the UNWRA. Especially Swedish-speaking readers of these lines (but also others by translation of the occasional texts in the links that follow the talks, will be able to appreciate the debate about such unclearly motivated decision. It is a debate between members of the Swedish Parliament on January 31, 2025, who respectively questioned (Jacob Risberg, Johan Büser, Linnea Wickman, Lorena Delgado Varas) and who tried to justify the reasons that I perceived are never stated (Benjamin Dousa, main responsible Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, and Fredrik Saweståhl) for the unexpected decision. Why did the reasons for the new withdrawal to UNWRA never stated? The answer may have come in a communication from a non-mainstream and therefore controversial source of political comments on January 31 2025, recalling a time when Sweden was not yet member of NATO and was even able to see itself as formally politically “neutral”, and as “the conscience of the world”:

"Washington has an unprecedented grip over Europe. When Washington says 'jump' the European's will reply 'how high?' But that was not always the case. There once was a Europe of independent states, not US satellites. There was the Europe of Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, or Bruno Kreisky that had a decidedly different foreign policy from the USA. Where did that place go?”

Long after my writing the main of this text, by the end of July 2024 the conflict in Gaza had evolved into a risk of a dangerous expanded war in the Middle East. Israel’s had killed a Hezbollah leading figure in Beirut and the Hamas political leader in visit to Iran, in Teheran, plus 2 AlJazeera journalists in Gaza totaling 160 killed journalists there. I observed in AlJazeera pronouncements by figures related to the United Nations Human Rights Office and to the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, including matters such as “Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment. Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch was interviewed despite his controversiality caused by his criticism of Israel. I do not forget that at the Swedish public television’s - SVT daily news in the evening of July 31 2024, some of these issues were mentioned in the initial 10 minutes while the following 5-10 minutes were dedicated to the pronouncements by a Swedish gay priest complaining for having been an object of attempted persuasion to become straight. (It would be a matter to be treated by a problematic “gay-straight alliance”.) Long after writing the main of this text, however, I think that I observed on August 11, 2024 (I think it was) that both radio and television mentioned that more than 100 Palestinians including as usual women and children in Gaza, had been killed the previous day in an unannounced bombing attack, motivated by the alleged killing of 20 Hamas warriors. Daily killings of less than 10 or a few tens of killed civilians in Gaza (gradually including the West Bank) are not considered worthy to be named in the Swedish daily news, possibly because that happens also in Sudan and other places of the world, if yet without the support mainly of the United States.

While it may be seen as natural for a small country like Sweden to dedicate most attention of domestic provincial issues (but big countries have more and more complex domestic issues), it is also true that its smallness makes it more politically and economically dependent upon, and sensitive to the big geopolitical issues.

I have been feeling embarrassed in front of foreign friends. I guess that SVT does not have the same resources as several foreign TV stations, the more so when the news mention its unavailability of own journalists in Gaza, allowed only if incorporated in Israel’s IDF, without explaining why it cannot purchase news and programs by e.g. AlJazeera with daily reports by their correspondents. I do not understand why it could not at least buy selected programs with reports with e.g. Deutsche Welles and AlJazeera's local foreign correspondents (including from Gaza itself) and simply "translate" them with Swedish undertexts.

Again: During my latest trip in Western Europe down to Spain I did annotate interviews in the mentioned channels with e.g. Tareq Abu Azzoum and the already mentioned Marwan Bishara in AlJazeera; Efraim Halevy in DW (former director of the Mossad Israeli intelligence), interviewed by Tim Sebastian in the series “Conflict Zone”, and revealing the official Israel rationality; Jan Egeland, Norwegian diplomat, and Norway’s foreign minister Espen Barth Eide (chair of the board, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue), and I wonder whether he has been interviewed by SVT in the Scandinavian brother-country Sweden) in AlJazeera; the broadcasted public report by US secretary of state Antony Blinken on 7 February 2024 after Israel’s rejection of Hamas’ plan for peace. And Shani Rozanes from Deutsche Welle commented the Israel’s rejection of the Hamas offer, while Swedish television preferred to only report “Hamas’ rejections of Israel’s plans for peace”.

When I was already stopping to update this text of mine, on June 11, 2024, on occasion of UN’s Security Council’s approval on June 10 of the Joe Biden’s (paradoxically) “Israel’s plan for peace” I happened to listen at AlJazeera’s English news channel two highly interesting commentators who, as far as I know, are never mentioned or consulted by Swedish media. They were Imran Khan former prime minister of Pakistan, and British-Israeli political analyst Daniel Levy whose public statements and activities as faithfully accounted in Wikipedia have been criticized, of course, for “lack of clearer support of Israel”. Long after having written most of this text, on August 20 2024 I heard prof. Mohamad Elmastry being interviewed about the latest USA proposal for cease fire, together with political analyst Daniel Levy and Yezid Sayigh. Elmastry had already written on August 2 about Gaza and the death of Western journalism. That is, just examples of personalities and opinions that are programmatically ignored in Swedish media, but impress listeners for obliging them to “think” while listening.

I repeat that I saw nothing of all this in my daily comparison with Swedish television and radio news, which uncontroversially presented readymade facts and conclusions. I also experienced that the items mentioned above required heavy attention and continuous sometimes painful thinking. I had to think while listening to the discussions and interviews. All this is crowned by SVT’s news only mentioning (e.g. on 9 Feb 2024) that there were more than 200 Palestinian deaths, plus that SVT's Russia correspondents only convey criticism of Russia instead of conveying views from Russia's counterparts to our defense or geopolitical pundits (e.g. Fyodor Lukyanov). And in addition, following Brussels' EU recommendation, Sweden has been censoring the Russian "state-controlled" RT.com, at the same time (Jan-Feb 2024) as e.g. Spain had it fully available. It is paradoxical that Sweden, which often wished to be considered the “conscience of the world”, refers so often to its "democratic freedom of expression". As I already wrote in my text of “Quality-control of information”:

The debacle of democratic free expression, or the official mistrust of people, of freedom in communication and of power of argumentation, is displayed in governmental western censorship of news from the Russian network Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik News. In Sweden. It was directed by decision of The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (corresponding to USA’s FCC), following EU imposed sanctions (also here) announced 2 March 2022, while all those western countries were not in war.

If you say nothing, you will have said nothing

It is meaningful curiosity to match these events to what is a popular saying in Sweden, Upon an observation by a close Swedish relative, I found this also consistent with ongoing assumptions about elements in its national character, it all recalling abusive interpretations of Biblical sayings, mainly Psalm 141:3 and Proberbs 21:23. Psychology suggests that fear of open conflict is counterbalanced by hidden aggressivity, or “passive-aggressive behavior” including “manifestation of emotions that have been repressed based on a self-imposed need for acceptance”. It is a national character according to the following table of sayings, in Swedish on the left, and English on the right:

Om man ingenting säger har man ingenting sagt.

Om man inte lägger sig i behöver man inte dra sig ur.

Sköt dig själv och skit i andra

(Som jag kompletterar med liknande uttryck:)

Om du inte tittar ser du ingenting.

Om du inte lyssnar hör du ingenting.

If you say nothing, you will have said nothing.

If you don't interfere, you will not have to withdraw.

Take care of yourself and don’t mind others

(Which I complete with similar expressions:)

If you do not look, you see nothing.

If you do not listen, you hear nothing.

And then we shall mention the latest curiosity reported in Germany, France and England that after by then unproven Israel's claim that 12 out of the about 30.000 UNRWA employees were Hamas sympathizers or fighters, Sweden together with UNRWA's major donors, including the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, and France, subsequently suspended funding. As if they could not wait for proof that this claim is not part of the information war. But, again, it may be a consequence of Sweden’s commitment to a membership in Nato, implying an increased eagerness to follow the USA’s positions in political matters, as already done in the conflict Russia-NATO-Ukraine.

It is therefore a question of SVT’s programmatic silencing (also mirrored in the press) of controversial videos and news - which cannot be offset by any other occasional programs that in turn tend to become biased and cannot reach a wider Swedish audience that has been already biased by the SVT’s policy.

Contacting the Swedish public television

I wrote about all this to SVT’s contact address <kontakt@svt.se> with the naïve request that this should be presented to SVT's top management, with the expectation of a comment as well. I got the following anonymous answer (except for it being signed with the first name “Daniel, editor”), whose anonymity was encouraged by the nowadays famous Swedish "Thou-reform” that today is often (ab)used to anonymize or hide the identity, relieving the responsibility of the sender. I maintain my view of the distressing inferior quality of Swedish public radio and television in the issues covered here, but also in other intellectual ethical issue such as LGBT as ultimately shown in a recent talk-show program for seniors in the series Studio 65. It is characterized by the avoidance of controversial views and opinions, and it is unrelated to the showing of “the bloodies and most horrific images”, which in my experience have been also avoided by all the mentioned established foreign television channels. My general conclusion is that we are experiencing a serious “apocalyptic” cultural crisis that is not mainly political but rather ethical with its base in ignored religion and theology: in the Western world, mainly Christianity.

And here follows the body of the mail answer from the Swedish public television SVT at the beginning of February 2024. No comments:

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Thank you for your email.

If you think we have not reported on the suffering of civilians in Gaza, I question whether you have been following our reporting at all. We have had numerous reports on how people are really suffering in the Gaza Strip, almost on a daily basis. Our reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas has been extensive since October 7.

It's sad that you are ashamed of SVT compared to other European broadcasters. But there is no lack of resources to cover these news events.

My suggestion is that you go through our articles on svt.se about the war and watch our broadcasts backwards in SVT Play. Unfortunately, they are available only for the past seven days, but it will give you a good picture.

Here you can also read more about how we report on this conflict [in Swedish]

https://www.svt.se/kontakt/sa-rapporterar-svt-om-kriget-mellan-israel-och-hamas

…

[B]ut we can't show the bloodiest and most horrific images either. There are laws and rules about how much violence and blood we can show during the early evening. And even after 9 pm, we can't show the most brutal images. We have a journalistic responsibility here. If we violate it, we will be condemned by the Review Board.

With kind regards

/Daniel

Editor

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No comments, and a curiosity: the Swedish public radio’s program on March 23, 2024 Medierna [The Media] reported that from the listeners had been received hundreds of complaints to the Swedish Press and Broadcasting Authority about partiality in reporting the conflict in Gaza, with the news that three of them that had been recently been officially verified by the authority.

I think that a continuous discussion of these matters would incur in the communicative (im)possibilities that I try to resume in my texts on Information and Debate and Information and Theology, with applications to my analysis on the information about the Russia-NATO-Ukraine conflict, all related to Quality-Control of Information that includes the matter of information-wars, misinformation and disinformation.

For the rest, I only hope that this text will not have to grow as it grew during my writing here, to an exhausting whole long essay, as it happened with my blog (below) on the conflict between Russia, NATO and Ukraine.

And now only (as I thought when I wrote it) a final note:

Note for mainly Swedish readers since it deals with the content of a Swedish book:

A suggestion I offer to “intellectual pundits” who wish to pursue the matter is that they should attempt to review the theology behind a new book, Grinden I Dachau [The gate in Dachau] by the journalist Björn Wiman, cultural editor of one main morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter which represents an influential main current of Swedish journalism. A sufficiently explicative excerpt from the book was published in Dagens Nyheter on 27 January 2024, and can be helpful to understand, for instance, also the background of the above-mentioned interview in DW of Efraim Halevy in (former director of the Mossad Israeli intelligence). It is a theology of a Judeo-Christian culture (see also Wikipedia’s disambiguation of the term) that has divorced from Christianity (Matthew 5:44), in the spirit of Kahanism and from a dialog with Islam and other religions, while speculatively referring to the Midrash Biblical exegesis that uses a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.

Similar mind-blowing complexities are contained in the accounts of Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Orthodox Judaism, which in its political activities includes that:

“as a matter of Jewish law, any territorial concession on Israel's part would endanger the lives of all Jews in the Land of Israel and is therefore forbidden. He also insisted that even discussing the possibility of such concessions showed weakness, would encourage Arab attacks, and therefore endanger Jewish lives.”

My speculative interpretation is that the author refers to the Midrash and Talmud, as he could have referred to the Chabad-Lubavitch Ortohodoxy, but in one of the most, if not the most, secularized countries of the world, Sweden, this cannot be understood by common people in its democratic legitimation. As the Yddish language itself, this kind of approach is influenced by the history of the very same German culture that played down Christianity and Jewish religiosity, as many if not most modern Jews define themselves as only “cultural Jews” (cf. here, and here). Yiddish is said to have become the cohesive force in a secular culture in favor of a vague “Spirit”. It was the way to Goethe, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Heidegger and even Rudolf Steiner, and further to Nazism and Holocaust. The latter would barely have developed in a Christian culture, how critical yet it could have been of the consequences of Judaism’s momentous rejection of Jesus Christ’s teaching, while some see an implicit “genocidal ideology” applied (mainly by cultural Jews?) to the war in Gaza. It reveals to me the importance of cultural and theological background (beyond “Spirit”, culture, imagination, universal values, and substitutes of God) in the engagement and position of humans who tend reduce it to political issues, and to the role of “conservatism” as analyzed by Claes Ryn.

Transition from blog to monitoring article

But no…! It was not enough. At this point of my writing I felt that I had to repeat and probably implement what I had written above that: “I only hope that this text will not have to grow as it grew during my writing here, to an exhausting whole long essay, as it happened with my blog (below) on the conflict between Russia, NATO and Ukraine.

A couple of weeks after all the above text was completed, on April 6, 2024, I listen to the Swedish public radio program in the series “Medierna”, which seems to be a self-appointed supervision of or self-criticism produced by a business that calls itself Tredje Statsmakten Media [The Third Estate Media], and presents itself as (my translation) “Monitoring media and journalism. Goes behind the week's headlines and looks at the media landscape of the future.” The program is related to another one published February 10, 2024 also mentioned below, and announced as follows (also my translation) naming reporter, producer and presenter:

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/israel-portar-al-jazeera-langlivad-vaccinartikel-och-om-att-overlista-slumpen-med-lottojournalistik

https://podme.com/se/medierna/1796715

Media giant Al Jazeera banned in Israel. This week, news broke that Israel has passed a new law that can temporarily restrict foreign media from reporting in the country - if they threaten the country's security. It quickly became apparent where the axe was pointed when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on X that "the terrorist channel Al Jazeera will no longer be allowed to broadcast from Israel." But what role has the Qatar-owned media giant Al Jazeera played in covering the war?

Reporter: Freddi (Fredrik) Ramel.

https://podme.com/se/medierna/1686230

SVT [The Swedish public television] spreads both pro-Russian disinformation and its own conspiracy theory.

Last weekend, SVT Nyheter [SVT News] published an investigation into how pro-Russian disinformation, through various media proxies, could be spread to established media. But exposing fake news involves a balancing act on a knife edge. Because retelling inaccuracies and lies involves the risk of amplifying the messages and spreading the false claims to a far wider audience than they would otherwise reach. In this particular case, that is exactly what happened. Because when films from the investigation were spread outside the safe SVT environment, they suddenly became perfect examples of exactly what the investigation was supposed to highlight. The media cover up mistakes. Like the changing of the seasons, the media's willingness to expose their mistakes seems to vary over time. For a long time, it was not only customary, but also a matter of great pride and honor for the media to clearly display their corrections. But are we seeing a shift in how openly the media acknowledge errors and account for changes and additions to publications?

Producer: Erik Petersson. Presenter: Martina Pierrou.

My comments: the first program contains also an account that AlJazeera’s various versions in English and Arabic contain different versions of news, where the Arabic ones, for instance, have a more sympathetic attitude to Hamas, seemingly meaning that they dare to account for its own versions of events. One or two days earlier than April 6, interestingly enough, I had heard at the English AlJazeera, National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby (live) reiterating, in face of Israel’s accusations, the official trust of the USA White House in the quality and integrity of AlJazeera.

Likewise, in what I called the “related” program it is meant that it is pro-Russian because it accounts for the Russian version of events, which seems to mean that it dares to account for non-Western USA-NATO accounts of the very same events. In this sense it means that they resemble what I myself have been accused or will be accused of in the present blog and in my essay about the Russia-NATO-Ukraine information crisis. In the above presentation of the latter related program on pro-Russian disinformation it is also extremely interesting to realize that so-called disinformation, lies, inaccuracies, false claims, corrections, errors etc. outside the safe SVT environment, ignore the whole problem of quality-control of information as developed in my essay on the subject. And who are, what do listeners or readers know about the self-appointed (and approved by the Swedish Radio’s management itself?) “public media supervisors” or “journalists square” of the “program square Medierna” Freddi Ramel, and Martina Pierrou? They could be arabs, Israelites, or employees or sympathizers of whatever besides being employees or associates of the above-mentioned business firm Third Estate Media.

And what does Third Estate (or Third Power) mean? Yes, this is also extremely interesting. The Third Estate in Sweden corresponds to The Fourth Estate in most if not all other concerned countries of the world. Very simple if one does not ask “Why?”. The short answer is: because the the Swedish Third Estate is supposed to be the democratic public mass media, here represented by SVT and the firm Third Estate Media, where Media has appropriated to the Judiciary Power’s third place in other countries where the media are relegated to being a fourth power, within the political theory’s concept of division and balance of powers legislature, executive, and judiciary. Whoever wants details, can study Inga-Britt Ahlenius’ article (in Swedish by translatable by e.g. the Chrome-browser’s translator feature): “Sverige har en egen syn på maktdelning” [Sweden has its own approach to sharing power], in Svenska Dagbladet, December 12, 2020.

It would last until April 10, 2024 for the Swedish radio itself (it was serendipitous that it happened after my own blog – which both the radio and television have reasons to follow-up - was published) to broadcast a program of 20 minutes in its series “Dagens Eko” [Today’s Echo] with the title Därför kallar Israel Al Jazeera för en terrorist kanal [Therefore Israel calls AlJazeera a terrorist channel]. It was an ambitious short report about AlJazeera’s origin, history, and ambitious work including Israel’s killing of journalists emphasizing, however, the problematic that it also has reported pronouncements by e.g. the Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. This emphasis once again reveals that both the Swedish public media and its self-appointed critics do not understand the grounds for what I have called quality-control of information.

Conclusion? It is regrettable that the Swedish public radio cannot report controversial events, judgments and opinions, and that artificial general intelligence or the presently trendy ChatGPT cannot be expected to write texts such as Alastair Crooke’s Brutal, chaotic war – norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased. Even if disregarding that our so-called norms, conventions and laws of conduct were originally supposed to decur not from western democracy, but rather that they and democracy itself decurred from religion in general, and from Christianity in particular.

PS – Having listened to the Swedish Radio’s main morning news at 8 o’clock, the day April 11, 2024 I can refer typically two among the highlights: that a man was shot in a suburb of the capital Stockholm, and three horses were attacked by wolves somewhere else in the country. One may assume that nothing important has happened in neither Gaza nor Israel.

Another significative highlight the following day was an Internet message I received on April 12: on an article by Jan Majlard that was published earlier, in the morning-newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, referring to an article in the the Politico with the title Zelenskyy warns Russia has penetrated US politics, invites Trump to Ukraine. It has gone so far that people in the West are accused for being “pro-Russian”, both politicians and common people writing in their blogs, or driven by “idealism”, which possibly also includes eventual references to religion and Christianity. I already remarked in my essay on the conflict in Ukraine that the simple suspicion of my being “pro-Russian” was enough for the enmity of former assumed “friends”. And this in a western country, champion of “democracy”, based on free press and freedom of expression. So far, Swedish public media stands above all suspicions of broadcasting fake news, of being pro-Russian or pro-Palestinian.

Finally, as I pondered whether to terminate my follow up of the subject of this paper, and “freeze” this writing I saw on AlJazeera’s live channel in my computer one additional thoughtful program through a link that I want to leave documented: What would ICC [International Criminal Court] arrest against Benjamin Netanyahu mean for Israel? with the contribution of, among others, the Israel journalist Gideon Levy.

Serendipity and synchronicity

The Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus in April 2024, and the subsequent Iranian strike in Israel could be expected, however, to serendipitously foster an increased mass-media focus on the danger of escalation and war in the Middle East, with consequent disinterest for the conflict in Gaza. It may be considered by some as an interesting case of political-psychological synchronicity or meaningful coincidence. Nevertheless Gaza was not forgotten in the subsequent only quality program on the issue that I have seen on the Swedish public television: “Vedergällningen” [The Retaliation, can be seen in the whole world until October 13th, 2024], was broadcasted on April 16th with a discussion between former minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, and the former Middle East correspondents Bitte Hammargren and Stina Blomgren. Again, it may be a serendipitous synchronicity that all of them are “former”, as I myself.

But despite of this exceptional quality program, there seems to be no chance that the Swedish TV will be able to at least report and even less borrow and re-transmit the program that the channel AlJazeera transmitted the following day, April 17th. The commissioner-general of the UNWRA (already mentioned above), Philippe Lazzarini, was shown “live” delivering a speech to the the United Nations Security Council UNSC. He explained the tragedy that Israel’s announced proposal to dismantle UNWRA would imply for the Gaza population, 75 years after the organization was established for assisting displaced Palestinians with food, medical assistance and education. And he reminded that since the beginning of the war in Gaza 178 of the staff had been killed in the war, while Israel’s accusation (so long without delivered proofs) that 12 of the staff out of 13.000 employees had been active in supporting Hamas’ activities and attack in Israel, had not yet been evaluated. But 16 UN-countries, lead by the USA, had freezed their UNWRA’s funding.

Diplomacy vs. Mission

In the Swedish Catholic Review Signum, April 2024, appears the following text (pp. 9-13). It is an extract from the original Swedish text that is available on the net:

Rydberg, Robert. Krig i vårt heliga land – ett katolskt perspektiv [War in our Holy Land – a Catholic perspective].

Rapport #3 i skriftserien Tro och Samhälle.

Stockholm: Justitia et Pax, Kommissionen för Rättvisa och Fred. March 2024:

Rydberg writes on page 10 of the above referred Signum:

”The Council stated that the task of Christians is to work for a peace based on justice and love. But when all peaceful means have been exhausted, governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate defense. International law and the laws of war must then be respected, and indiscriminate destruction is a crime against God and man.

The formulations in Gaudium et Spes [GS] on the right to legitimate defense are repeated and clarified in the Catechism of the Catholic Church […KKK 2309…KKK2312, GS79…KKK2313…KKK2314, GS80…].”

Rydberg’s above quotes from the Catechism belong to its section on ”Safeguarding Peace”, in Part 3, Section 2, Chapter 2, Article 5.

But a problem that usually is not quoted by Rydberg and is not problematized in our modern context is represented by KKK 2310 and 2310, which state:

2310 Public authorities, in this case, have the right and duty to impose on citizens the obligations necessary for national defense.

Those who are sworn to serve their country in the armed forces are servants of the security and freedom of nations. If they carry out their duty honorably, they truly contribute to the common good of the nation and the maintenance of peace.¹⁰⁷

My comment: Do “public authorities” have the “right to impose” because they themselves “carry out their duty honorably”? Or is this assumed because it is assumed that they are appointed “democratically”, disregarding the opinions of those who are convinced of the ”Myth of democracy”?. Compare with my text on the conflict in Ukraine. Or is it enough with our own interpretation of Romans 13:1 that all authority is given by God?

2311 Public authorities should make equitable provision for those who for reasons of conscience refuse to bear arms; these are nonetheless obliged to serve the human community in some other way.¹⁰⁸

And one paragraph is generally not quoted and considered, probably because it is the most important appearing to invalidate facile interpretations of several of the other paragraphs, including many interpretations of Rydberg’s text:

2317 Injustice, excessive economic or social inequalities, envy, distrust, and pride raging among men and nations constantly threaten peace and cause wars. Everything done to overcome these disorders contributes to building up peace and avoiding war:

Insofar as men are sinners, the threat of war hangs over them and will so continue until Christ comes again; but insofar as they can vanquish sin by coming together in charity, violence itself will be vanquished and these words will be fulfilled: "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."¹¹²

It is interesting to note that Rydberg, beyond the Catechism, refers to Gaudium et Spes, and it is also to note something that Wikipedia tries to clarify about it:

Gaudium et spes, "Joy and Hope"), the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, is one of the four constitutions resulting from the Second Vatican Council in 1966. It was the last and longest published document from the council and is the first constitution published by an ecumenical council to address the entire world.Gaudium et spes clarified and reoriented the role of the church's mission to people outside of the Catholic faith.It was the first time that the church took explicit responsibility for its role in the larger world. The constitution's creation was necessitated by fear of the church's irrelevance in the modern era due to its ignorance on problems that plague the modern world. The document represents an inner examination of the church by the council and features a response to problems affecting the modern world.

Within Gaudium et spes are the themes of gift of self and the promotion of peace.While initial reception of the document was focused on the shift in theological considerations, reception of Gaudium et spestoday marks the document as a turning point in the Church's focus on the world.

My impression is that Gaudium et Spes may be legitimate as a popularization of Catholic thought for non-Catholics, but it should emphasize that it cannot be expected to be used as an argument of thought of those who are not Catholics, as Rydberg seems to expect by writing in Signum. This seems to be related to the criticism of the Second Vatican Council and to the meaning of what is reported to have happened with the influential cardinal Henri de Lubac in the years after the Vatican II.

Rydberg, for instance writes (in Signum, p. 10 -13, my excerpts, my italics and trans.):

1. The Council states that the task of Christians is to work for a peace based on justice and love. But when all peaceful means have been exhausted, governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate defense. International law and the laws of war must then be respected, and the indiscriminate destruction is a crime against God and man.

2. What then is a reasonable way to look at the Gaza war from a Catholic perspective? Two extremes [...] should be dismissed: One would be to argue that Hamas's action on October 7, although "some mistakes may have been made", was a legitimate act of self-defense by a people under occupation, and that this means that any military response by Israel is illegitimate. The second would be to say that Hamas's brutality was so limitless that it absolves Israel of the obligation to do its utmost to protect the civilian population of Gaza […].

3. On this point, criticism of Israel is growing [...] as new reports [...] paint an image of insensitivity to civilian suffering and perhaps that basic principles of the laws of war are not being respected. […]

4. In this context, it is important to underline that the laws of war apply regardless of the events that triggered the war. If Hamas had not carried out its brutal attack on October 7, over 30,000 Palestinian lives would also have been saved. And that applies even if the opponent you fight, like Hamas, breaks all its rules.

5. [Those] who do not want to give up [hope] highlight a number of factors that must be present for a two-state solution to be possible. It requires an Israeli leadership that is genuinely interested and that is not dependent on support from an expansive settler movement, it requires a Palestinian leadership that can stand up with authority and tell its own people that the impossible is not possible, it requires a Gaza that is not controlled by a movement that wants to wipe out Israel, and it requires an actively engaged United States, with support from the Arab world and from the EU.

My comments:

1. Who cares and has the authority to decide, implement, and deny “when all peaceful means have been exhausted, governments cannot be denied the right”?

2. Who said that “should be” dismissed and who has the power to dismiss?

3. Who has the authority and power to decide and implement measures about the laws of war are not being respected?

4. Who chooses the among the alternatives that historically were available for (1300 Israelite lives and) over 30,000 Palestinian lives would also have been saved. And that applies even if the opponent you fight, like Hamas, [and why not also Israel] breaks all its rules?

5. Is Israeli leadership’s behavior only dependent on support from an expansive settler movement, and does it not also have to tell its people that the impossible is not possible, or is something impossible that happens to be possible for it? And who has what to do about an (inactively?) engaged United States?

I think that all this is can be seen as a rhetorical exercise to put into evidence that diplomacy is not missioning. Robert Rydberg himself does not start recognize and confessing that he is a diplomat, and neither a priest nor missionary. Undefined diplomacy has tenuous relations with religion and Christianity. I have not yet read in Rydberg’s text on why diplomacy, up to today’s USA’s (inactive?) engagement has long failed to solving the Palestine-Israel conflict, since at least the aftermath of the Balfour declaration. If not why not earlier in the context of the Exodus, of which the declaration with aftermaths seems to be a modern analog of letting Palestinians pay for western colonial and Holocaust sins. How can one adduce diplomacy for a stable solution of the conflict, without an analysis of the reasons for decades of failures including the role of the International Court of Justice (ICJ, one of the six organs of the United Nations) vis-a-vi enforcement, as related to positive vs. natural law? And I have not yet seen a discussion of the relation between modern times’ diplomatic trade-offs and (the criticism of) the philosophy of utilitarianism on which it apparently relies. The failure of law and justice in these contexts also exposes the intellectual flatness of ignoring of not only what “justice” is or should be as related to ethics and politics, but also of what is uncovered by scholars interviewed in AlJazeera, such as prof. Raz Segal, and in the fields of Transitional justice and Restorative justice.

The only way to relieve the suffering of those involved on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war is to motivate them to embrace Christianity. It cannot be done by studying the Catechism, which is a guideline for those who already are “actively engaged” Christians. Catechism is not love and commitment to God, which Blaise Pascal in his Pensées reminds is grace and not the necessary result of Aquinian logical argumentation. Jesus himself did not preach a Catechism or “laws of war” but only the content of the New Testament.

Israel and most of the Jewish community in the USA cannot be referred to Christianity when at least part of the population refers, as in the USA, to “Jewish identity and belief” or considers itself as being a “Cultural Jew”. All this is related to the problematics of The Myth of the Cultural Jew, that could and should be extended to a discussion of the myth of the cultural Christian in a secularized West.

Judeo-Christian ethics will not do anymore, when even the “orthodox” Jewish commandment in the book of Exodus of “Eye for an eye” is muddled and watered down by later discussions about The Golden Rule. It is still surviving in the muddled principle of the proportionality principle but is ignored as the historical background and aftermath of the Balfour declaration is ignored in the invasion of Gaza, presupposing the Hamas’ October terror attack of Israel was “unprovoked”. The “eye for an eye” has been substituted in Gaza by more than “35 eyes for an eye” in November 2024 (the latest updating of the present text).

The “Judeo-Christian” USA as well the “Christian West” in their (inactive?) engagement in the Gaza crisis (and see How top arms exporters have responded to the war in Gaza) is still farther away from the Christian “Mote and the beam”. Not to speak of the Gospel’s “turn to them the other cheek also” all the while society’s speaks about “sanctions” for every perceived injustice and seldom if ever offers attempts of education on conflict resolution and conciliation.

One may wonder whether the morass of new updated expanded definitions of antisemites (see here and here) is simply driven by and approved by the increased number of secularized Christians who, like the Christian Right in its Christian Zionism do not any longer neither understand nor therefore care for the core of the Christian message of love. Especially by those who, including many cultural Jews, get their identity from an explicit or implicit personal rejection of Christianity, or project it on Christians by seeing them as rejecting Jews. That is, considering in the Torah the meaning of neighbor in “love thy neighbor” as referring exclusively to ethnic Jews and their faithful sympathizers, raising consequently societal paranoid suspicions of “Jewish conspiracies”, while paradoxically claiming that the Christians exclude Jews from solidary society.

By seeing it all as theological question we can better avoid to fall into the trap of being programmatically and cheaply accused for just antisemitism, as could be the case if only referring to sharp polemic texts in controversial sources such as the article on Unreasonable to accuse Israel – only now, an automatic translation of the original Swedish text “Orimligt att åtala Israel – först nu”.

One main hypothesis is that this definitional phenomenon impersonating the concept of Antichrist was and is driven by the interpretations or misinterpretations of the German philosophy and theology, beginning in the home country of the Holocaust. They are related to the historically inflated names of a Goethe (see especially here), Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Habermas, and Steiner. Symptomatically, despite of much reference to spirituality and spirit, their heritage did not offer to the European peoples a spiritual, intellectual and emotional defense face the causes and consequences of the second world war and the rising ideology of Nazism. In an environment of increasing secularization of societies facilitated by the Enlightenment and Western scientific thought but still imbued by Western people’s weaning Christianity, they rather exacerbated the socio-psychological phenomenon of “projection” (as understood in historical terms in the Babylonian Talmud and the Gospel, and today in analytical psychology) of Christian peoples’ own Christian shortcomings, regressing to (misinterpretations or interpretations of) the Torah in Leviticus 19:18 as referring to “the children of thy people”. That is: thy people or groupthink when the human process of individuation is hampered in defective culture and the ego sinks into the collective unconscious, a process that in a theological context I describe as the reduction of religion to politics . This happens to the point that, as in the USA, religion is so misunderstood that it risks to lead to a third (and last) world war or “Armageddon”, as I point out in the paper on the conflict in Ukraine.

It is a projection of shortcomings upon those who could be seen as programmatically rejecting Christianism. It is a process that at its source is analog to daily popular mobbing, in the actual case “mobbing of Jews” countered by mobbing of Muslims and so-called antisemites, which is not yet properly understood as evidenced in its Wikipedia outline. In my readings this idea that it could be a case of projection was first suggested by Sven Reichmann, who in the Swedish Wikipedia is presented as “physician, Bible scholar, pastor, author and preacher, and directs to a dedicated Internet-site. Despite what appears being deep insights, Reichmann’s book Judarna (The Jews, 1990, 1995) can be read as an apology of Zionism and Israel, and a deep-going related analysis of mainly the Bible. Its logical structure (c.f. pp. 89, 253, 272) is consistent with my definition of antisemitism proposed above, revealing a typical logical-analytical mind of its author, as of the much discussed “Ashkenazi intelligence” that I mention in my paper on artificial intelligence - AI. Its product can be seen as a counterpart to other modern networks of arguments which in our culture are often classified as “conspiratorial”, and are advanced e.g. in Catholic Crusaders for the Jewish Imperium, and Is Holocaust-Denial a Sin?.

As I emphasize in the context of AI, however, the problem of analytical-logical thinking, including logical positivism (see esp. here), is much more serious as it affects our Western culture and the understanding of its problems, including the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. A late event in this war, for instance, was the 2024 Lebanon pager explosions. Even disregarding its inconsistency with and practical invalidation of International Law and of the authority of the International Court of Justice.

It illustrates the absurd long-term cultural consequences of subordinating Christian ethics to a logical-analytical or logical positivistic techno-scientific way of thinking. This in turn reveals a possible core of the Israel-Gaza-Lebanon war. It is to be sought in the causes and reasons, including geo-political ones, for the assumedly Christian USA’s (as most of Europe’s) unconditional diplomatic, economic and military support of the state of Israel, following the Balfour declaration. These causes and reasons may now also be the USA’s perceived need of having a base for proxy wars in the Middle-East. As the bases in NATO-countries around Russia and in Taiwan in China.

On this basis, a hypothesis which may explain what has been happening, including Israel not allowing journalists in Gaza as surveyed in a special program of AlJazeera-English on October 22 2024 at 18:30-19:00 GMT. The program was completed with an interview of Laura Albast, Tim Dawson of the International Federation of Journalists, plus Ashish Prahshar, and was matched the same evening by an CGTN-interview of Jeffrey Sachs. It all makes the events understandable by helping to understand Israel’s government’s perceived national interest as it may be shared by the USA up to the point that the USA, seen by Israel’s as its proxy military power, is ready to be dragged in a wider conflict with Iran, as Ukraine’s president Zelensky wishes to draw NATO’s USA into a conflict with Russia. It all implies that the more than ten visits of the USA secretary of state Anthony Blinken to talks with Israel’s PM Netanyahu (October 2023 to October 2024) may simply consist of a series of private talks reassuring USA’s approval and unconditional support of Israel, paired with public internationally spread statements on the USA’s hope and wish for Israel’s restraint and respect of Gaza’s (and Lebanon’s) civilian population.

Yes, I wrote above “assumedly Christian USA”, since the USA has followed or even led the late Westers process of secularization, exemplified also by the development of Satanism. This to the point the during its candidacy for the presidency in 2024, Donald Trump could not counter the democrats’ support of abortion, renamed as women’s “reproductive rights”, by just adducing the Christian arguments. The clear Catholic and Eastern Orthodox position is diluted and scrawled among other traditions, churches and denominations. It is forgotten just as the sixth commandment – “Thou shalt not kill” - also is diluted and scrawled in talk about “just war”, and marriage ends in talk about divorce.

In such contexts, as I have shown in my papers on the Wikipedia-democracy or wikicracy, Quality-control of information and Disinformation, and Disinformation, the often adduced Wikipedia loses most of its ethical integrity and authority.

Organizations and university departments that deal with peace and conflict studies, e.g. SIPRI, are seldom if ever interviewed or asked for their opinions, despite their occasional contributions to the Gaza issue. This is even less so after governments, such as previously officially neutral Sweden’s and Finland’s, have officially joined NATO, and mass media have turned over to interviewing their politicians, military and governments, such as the already mentioned Swedish Defence Research Agency (Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut). For instance, in the Swedish Public Radio News on the result of the November 2024 election of the USA-president, one such representative, together with selected journalists, criticized the result of the election.

Thought experiment about Holy Land

Most Jews are not orthodox, and don’t care for neither the Torah nor, even less, for the New Testament but religion is still forcefully adduced by Israel and “cultural Jews” as well by the “Christian Right” for legitimation of (re-)occupation of the biblical Holy Land that can barely be “holy” for only cultural Jews and sympathizers. The holy land cannot be biblically “holy” for those who do not care for the Torah’s biblical “an eye for an eye”, which long after the main of this text was written, in February 2025 has been inflated up to about 61000/1200 killings in the Israel-Hamas war, equal to, say, “50 eyes for one eye”. And many people disregard that all over the world, nations and ethnical groups have provisionally gained and definitively lost land, appeared and disappeared, disregarding biblical sayings as most Westerners do today.

Dialectical thought-experiment in February 2025 in terms of

The Design of Inquiring Systems (saved here, and OCR-converted here):

The main of the following text was written long after the rest of the main text in this paper:

The thought starts considering the time prior to the United Nations’ implementation of the Balfour-declaration based on Great Britain’s earlier colonialism, and prior to the Holocaust, when the immense, rich and generous USA (and in minor fractions several European colonial countries) in a genuine Christian spirit could easily have invited and accommodated in just one of its dozens of states all Israelis in the diaspora risking persecution. In February 2025 it was announced that the new president of the USA Donald Trump had suggested the relocation in Egypt and Jordan of the population in Gaza that was about 80-90% destroyed by Israel with weapons supplied mainly by the USA, to be rebuilt by the USA taking over its territory. German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle chose to investigate the strategy behind president Trump behavior by interviewing on Feb 7 Evan Nierman, originally working for pro-Israel AIPAC, presently CEO of Red Banyan on Feb 7 on “crisis response management”. In contrast, it is natural that politically but not ethically naïve dreamers, as much creatively as president Trump did, wished to analyze the situation by applying one of the most advanced models of information systems, which has been called Hegelian dialectical inquiring systems. That is, to use about the same basic data available to Trump in order to find an alternative final counter-solution to the result (in February 2025) of the Israel-Hamas conflict: to imagine the USA relocating into its own territory and eventually in a new Israeli USA-state formed out of present states (plus planned future USA-states of Canada and Greenland), up to 10 million Israelis. All this followed by allowing the about 2 million Palestinians in Gaza plus the rest elsewhere, up to about 10 million including in the diaspora, to move into their old and the present Israel territory, starting with occupying estimated 700.000 places in Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies. All this while the USA finances and takes care of rebuilding Gaza, which was destroyed with USA’s military and financial help, and returns it as a touristic resort to a Palestinian coming state.

All this while today the United Nation’s organization, that officially enabled the creation of the state of Israel (see here and here) is officially cursed by Israel’s government, e.g. on occasion of its recent General Assembly and the International Court’s pronouncements. Not to mention the later incidents with the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon), to be added to its list of casualties. Among the latest news at the moment of updating this text, see e.g. in The Guardian (October 15, 2024) “What is Unifil and why has Israel been firing on its positions in Lebanon?”, which included the following:

Israel has a hostile relationship with the UN and has attacked its schools, medical centres and aid workers. The antagonism is in large part the result of the role that UN aid and rights bodies have played over the decades in protecting Palestinians and highlighting abuses under Israeli occupation.

Israel has long accused the world body of being biased against it. Netanyahu has called it a “house of darkness” and a “swamp of antisemitic bile”. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, who has spoken out against Israel’s killings, was recently made persona non grata.

In obscure conceptions of diplomacy, Rydberg’s [mentioned above] diplomatic expertise and writing intended for an unspecified target group will not do if, as I claim elsewhere in my writings, one cannot reduce religion to politics in the context of “the first time that the church took explicit responsibility for its role in the larger world”. As if it had not already taken explicit responsibility for its role in the larger world and now only plunged into it. Secularization: the act or process of making something secular or of becoming secular: removal from ecclesiastical or clerical use or influence. I would not be surprised if all this stood at the core of the Catholics’ dispute of the Vatican II as a dispute and crisis of Catholicism that may be seen represented by the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX).

ChatGPT comments the “Thought experiment”

On February 8, 2025 the generally available ChatGPT commented my following question about the above early version of (only) the thought-experiment that is framed in the table above.

My question was: “Please tell me what commentary may be expected from, or how the text on a DIALECTICAL THOUGHT-EXPERIMENT would be received and improvements recommended by educated common people who are interested in analysis of the Israel-Hamas conflict”: The ChatGPT comment was:

1. Strengths and Positive Reactions

· Thought-Provoking Dialectics: Many readers would appreciate the thought-experiment's creative approach in applying Hegelian dialectics, which invites deeper reflection on long-term solutions beyond conventional policy proposals.

· Complexity Acknowledged: Educated readers might commend the attempt to explore moral and practical complexity in the aftermath of large-scale conflict, something often ignored in mainstream media.

2. Potential Criticism and Suggested Improvements

· Bias Perception and Credibility Issues: Some readers could perceive a biased framing, particularly due to the depiction of Trump, the USA, and Israel’s role in the conflict, which may alienate those seeking a more neutral or balanced discussion. Recommendation: Balance the narrative by clarifying that this is a hypothetical scenario aimed at expanding discussion, not a political endorsement. Also, present varying viewpoints, possibly including Palestinian perspectives.

· Complexity of Resettlement Proposals: The idea of relocating populations on such a massive scale (both Israelis and Palestinians) may appear unrealistic to many readers, given historical precedent, legal barriers, and cultural ties to land. Recommendation: Acknowledge the logistical, legal, and moral challenges of resettlement while stressing that this is an exploratory model meant to challenge existing paradigms, not a prescriptive solution.

· Clarifying Ethical Standpoints: The description of “ethically naïve dreamers” could be interpreted as dismissive or unclear in tone.Recommendation: Clarify the ethical grounding of the dialectical model. Is the aim to be provocative, practical, or merely exploratory? Setting this intention clearly could enhance the audience's understanding and engagement.

· Strengthen Structure and Flow: The writing can be dense and at times lacks coherence, particularly in long sentences that blur key points.Recommendation: Break down the text into smaller sections with clear subheadings. Ensure each step of the thought-experiment is logically sequenced: 1) Context, 2) Hypothetical premise, 3) Proposed outcomes, and 4) Ethical implications.

· Historical and Geopolitical Nuances: Readers may challenge the portrayal of resettlement into the USA or Israeli colonies without deeper exploration of the resistance such a proposal would face from key stakeholders. Recommendation: Provide hypothetical counter-arguments from both Israeli and Palestinian perspectives. Explore how these groups might respond, adding depth to the thought-experiment.

Overall, a revised version should aim for clarity, balance, and acknowledgment of counterpoints, which would resonate better with critical, educated audiences analyzing the conflict."

A revised “Thought-experiment”?

I submitted this question to the ChatGPT as (1) a further testing of the difficulties in writing about these issues, (2) a further clarification the need of the present whole paper, and (3) example of the problems of coming use of AI as advanced in my paper on Artificial intelligence and ChatGPT.

Starting with the las item (3) above, this means that a teenager could have presented in a few minutes or rather seconds a (for ChatGPT) flawless answer to a question to ChatGPT like “How to solve the present situation after the truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict?”. Such effort would have to be countered by an army of intellectual researchers who would have to write an extensive kind of book that would be a complement to the present text of mine. Regarding point (2) above I am satisfied that Chat GPT at least reports the need of the rest of my text, if yet incomplete, beyond the “thought-experiment. The total result is a comment to the initial point (1).

The kind of “brainstorming” has in any case the following effect of updating my thought-experiment above as follows:

In early February 2025 an analog idea to the earlier missed invitation and accomodation mentioned above was announced by the new president of the USA Donald Trump suggesting the relocation in Egypt and Jordan of the population in Gaza that was about 80-90% destroyed by Israel. Gaza that had been destructed with weapons supplied mainly by the USA would be rebuilt with the USA’s financial and military help. Later, on February 10, president Trump clarified that Palestinians would (illegally) not be allowed to return to Gaza, which illustrates the impotence and irrelevance of international law (see here, here and here). And consequently as well of the United Nations as a product of secular positive law, believed to be a substitute of conscience based on religion and Christian ethics. This was finally and formally exemplified by the White House (on February 6) imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court.

The German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle chose to investigate “rhetorically” the strategy behind president Trump behavior by interviewing on Feb 7 Evan Nierman, originally working for pro-Israel AIPAC, presently CEO of Red Banyan on Feb 7 on “crisis response management”. In contrast, it is natural that politically naïve but ethically committed Christian dreamers (who are often confused with anti-Semites because of their Christian interpretation of the biblical “love thy neighbor”), as much creatively as president Trump did, wish to also analyze the situation. They can do it by applying one of the most advanced models of information systems, which has been called Hegelian dialectical inquiring systems. I acknowledge the obvious logistical, legal, and mainly moral challenges of resettlement while stressing that this is an exploratory model meant to challenge existing paradigms, not as an outright naively prescriptive solution.

I have not yet seen in AI development the implementation of Hegelian systems in the answering of questions. In our case here it basically consists of using about the same basic data available to Trump in order to find also one alternative extreme counter-solution to the situation (in February 2025) of the Israel-Hamas conflict. That is, to imagine the USA relocating up to about 10 million Israelis into its own territory. It can be done by their eventually joining American Jews and relatives in a new Israeli USA-state formed out of present states (including the planned future USA-states of Canada and Greenland). All this would be followed by allowing the about 2 million Palestinians in Gaza plus the rest elsewhere, up to about 10 million including in the diaspora, to move into their old and the present Israel territory, starting with occupying estimated 700.000 places in Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies. All this while the USA finances and takes care of rebuilding Gaza, returning it as a touristic resort to a Palestinian coming state. The whole could then be seen as a historical repair or inversion of the process of colonization of North America when European colonizers occupied the territory subduing or killing indigenous people, and later relegating their offspring to territorial reserves.

Semantic Exercises

Despite all the complexities described above it is interesting to understand the dynamics and meaning of what can be seen as a “semantic exercise” taking place during a uniquely deep-going program at the Swedish public radio on June 7, 2024: Pressen ökar på Israel om Gazakriget [Pressure mounts on Israel over Gaza war, archived page here]. In it is interviewed Israel’s ambassador in Sweden, Ziv Nevo Kulman. Among his personal qualifications indicating an unprejudiced mentality, Swedish Wikipedia page emphasizes that he

came out as gay in 1999 and has been very involved in LGBTQ issues. The last three years of his stay in Jerusalem, before moving to Sweden, he volunteered at the education program of the Jerusalem Open House, which organizes Jerusalem Pride, among other things. While serving in Tokyo, he and his then-partner became the first same-sex diplomatic couple to be officially accepted in Japan.

The program, contains an interesting outline of some later historical events of Israel’s intervention in Gaza, including South Africa’s genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice - ICJ. It also includes the International Criminal Court – ICC’s treatment of the applications for arrest warrants against three Hamas’ and two of Israel’s political leaders: its Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. Kulman objects (more on this below) that the ICC’s publication of the applications for arrest warrants was made at the same time for the Hamas and Israel’s involved.

Highlights of the interview are the ambassador’s objections against the “timing” of ICC publication about the applications for arrest warrants, that he and Israel sees as (in a sense, “semantically” and) morally equivalizing the Hamas and Israel’s political leaders. More semantic treatment is applied by Kulman in commenting the ICJ’s case when he imputes Israel’s causing a surge of civilian deaths in “collateral damage” to “incidental-unintentional” factors during incursions for destroying Hamas infrastructure. This is accompanied by Kulman’s reiteration of his ignoring the judgments by the Israel military, Israel Defense Forces – IDF. This, however, continues until Kulman refers to that he knows the number of estimated 15.000 Hamas warriors (“terrorist”) killed, without being able to report on how it comes that he could not report Israel’s estimate of how many civilians had been killed, as reported by the world press to more of 36.000, including 15.000 children. All this was crowned by Kulman’s observation that Israel’s leadership cannot be considered as being responsible as Hamas’ is because Israel is a democracy, while Gaza’s population can be seen as responsible because it covers up the location and disposition of its undemocratic leadership, of Hamas warriors, and their infrastructure.

This kind of what I call here “semantic exercises” close to the modern meaning of sophism or sophistry, is paralleled by the phenomenon of sentimentality in the exercises in rhetoric and sophistry by the Israeli prime minister Netanyahu when addressing the USA Congress on July 24 2024 (long after my writing the main body of this present text) with the purpose of obtaining support for what has been called “genocidal” continued support of the warfare in Gaza (and the occupied West Bank). It corresponds to what I elsewhere call the abuse of logic and in general, in scientific contexts, abuse of formal science as in artificial general intelligence, related to lots of discussions, only exemplified in Are Jews smarter that everyone else?. .

Artificial General Intelligence – Exercise

In order to illustrate the problem of solving complex social problems with the help of so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), and in order to illustrate my own paper on the issue, I formulated the following question to ChatGPT:

“In the situation reigning in February 14, 2025, what would be the outline of a politics that has the highest probability of reaching a permanent peace in the Israel-Hamas war. This, however, while minimising the total incremental suffering of the most involved populations.”

And I got the following response:

"Achieving a permanent peace between Israel and Hamas, while minimizing the suffering of the affected populations, requires a multifaceted approach that addresses immediate humanitarian needs and lays the groundwork for long-term stability.

Immediate Humanitarian Actions:

1. Ceasefire Maintenance: Ensuring the continuation and strict adherence to the current ceasefire is crucial. Both parties must commit to halting hostilities to prevent further loss of life and destruction.

2. Humanitarian Aid Delivery: Facilitating the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza is essential. This includes providing food, clean water, medical supplies, and temporary shelter to address the acute needs of the displaced and affected populations.

3. Infrastructure Restoration: Prioritizing the repair and reconstruction of critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, schools, and water treatment facilities, is vital to support basic living conditions and public health.

Long-Term Political Strategies:

1. Inclusive Negotiations: Initiate comprehensive peace talks that involve all relevant stakeholders, including representatives from both Israeli and Palestinian communities, as well as international mediators. The aim should be to address core issues such as borders, security, the status of Jerusalem, and the rights of refugees.

2. Two-State Solution Framework: Revitalize discussions around the two-state solution, envisioning the establishment of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, based on pre-1967 borders with mutually agreed land swaps. This approach has been a longstanding international consensus for resolving the conflict.

3. Economic Development and Cooperation: Implement programs that promote economic collaboration and development in Palestinian territories. Enhancing economic opportunities can improve living standards and foster interdependence, reducing incentives for conflict.

4. Security Guarantees: Establish security arrangements that protect the sovereignty and safety of both Israelis and Palestinians. This could involve international peacekeeping forces or monitoring mechanisms to build trust between the parties.

5. Addressing Human Rights Concerns: Both parties must commit to upholding human rights and international humanitarian law. Accountability mechanisms should be put in place to address past violations and prevent future abuses.

Implementing these strategies requires sustained commitment from both local leadership and the international community. While challenges are significant, a balanced approach that addresses immediate needs and long-term aspirations offers the best prospect for achieving lasting peace and reducing suffering in the region."

While awaiting the opportunity to expand on the issue, I refer to my above mentioned paper on Artificial General Intelligence and ChatGPT. I will only mention that what could be a following step in the use of AGI: to put the question “What and who prevents that such solution is implemented?” And so on, illustrating why no known and imagined AI would have the motivation, capability (and “democratic” freedom) to write this present text of mine.

In other words: a teenager would be able to put my first question above, and even to get a good grade in an academic examination, but an army of intellectual politicians, diplomats, and researchers is required to follow-up the answer. And the ones who have the resources to “train” and operate the AGI (in this case ChatGPT) will have a crushing advantage in any so called democratic mass-media or even academic research debate.

Conclusion

One conclusion was suggested above. It is regrettable that the Swedish public radio cannot report controversial events, judgments and opinions, and that artificial general intelligence or the presently trendy ChatGPT cannot be expected to write texts such as Alastair Crooke’s Brutal, chaotic war – norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased. Even if disregarding that our so-called norms, conventions and laws of conduct were originally supposed to follow not from western democracy, but rather that they and democracy itself followed from Christian religion in particular.

In view of all these problems concerning “information systems” it is perhaps understandable that not only journalists and politicians avoid tough work. Even young doctoral students who pursue a career as smart operators and careerists are not interested in old professors’ talk about “quality-control of information”. They prefer to avoid “information and debate” by opting for politically correct cronyism and socialization in a postmodern approach to (Wikipedia’s description of) “sensemaking”, one of its important properties being that people prefer “plausibility”, whatever it happens to be:

People favour plausibility over accuracy in accounts of events and contexts (Currie & Brown, 2003; Brown, 2005; Abolafia, 2010): "in an equivocal, postmodern world, infused with the politics of interpretation and conflicting interests and inhabited by people with multiple shifting identities, an obsession with accuracy seems fruitless, and not of much practical help, either" (Weick, 1995: 61).

For the rest, if somebody feels that my text has not been sufficiently “balanced” in taking into consideration both the Israeli and Hamas’ point of view, I suggest that the balance may be re-assessed and re-adjusted by reading another controversial text that was mailed to me by a critical reader, at about the same time when I stopped updating mine, one of the first days of May 2024. Please read or listen to it at the following link with the title Israel/Gaza: The Masks Come Off in American Society, as related to the IHRA’s Working definition of antisemitism, plus the comments in Will the US adopt IHRA’s antisemitism definition? What’s the controversy? Do you know what’s the controversy (or you don’t)? Read then on the Weaponization of antisemitism, with full knowledge that the text is probably already purged by the struggle between partisan Wikipedia-editors in a process that I already surveyed in my article on Wikipedia democracy and wikicracy: editing Wikipedia.

I am not sure whether the issue is worth more words in the context of the present text. Nevertheless I will suggest some links for the most committed readers, the last one being the latest, most controversial and apparently anti-Kahanist (and therefore also anti-Nakam) link, that has reached me on the Internet:

Wikipedia, Masada2000

Wikipedia Canary Mission (publication example here)

Lawrence Bush, In defense of “Self-Hating” Jews.

Yigal Bronner, On Self-hating

Jordie Gerson, Self-Hating Jews

Quora, Is the website Canary Mission meant to replace Masada2000?

Quora, Israel-Palestine Debate

The Organization Jewish Voice for Peace

Norman Finkelstein, Gaza: An inquest into its martyrdom. (Book here. Wikipedia here)

Ron Unz, The State of Israel as “Cartoonishly Evil”? (Archived here)

After reading them all, I wonder how many other readers, instead of anger, can feel the distress of the human tragedy of the death of the intellect and victory of hate in so many people who could have justified George Orwell’s idea of a stable true Judeo-Christian ethics beyond its later vulgar (Kahanist?) American (government’s) interpretation. All this can be completed with the reading of what I found to be a “censorship of disinformation” illustrated by the dismissal of the sociology professor David Miller from the university of Bristol, as well as by reading about the Haredi rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss (whose being rabbi is not mentioned in the English Wikipedia), spokesman for the worldwide religious anti-Zionist group Naturei Karta. Judeo-Christianity can be seen as being negated and rejected, as when Israel’s PM Netanyahu invoked a reference (see also the “too outspokenly” here) to Amalek in connection to the occupation of Gaza. It implies isolating the Torah or the Bible’s 5 Mos 4:1-2, 6-8 about “the world’s greatest nation”, from e.g. Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. And the “neighbor” and “enemy” to be loved as in the Romans 13: 7-10 and Matthew 5:43-48, and even more Luke 6:27-38 that I saw being rejected (“explained away”) even by supposed self-avowed alleged Catholics, is supposed to be only a neighbor belonging to the world’s “greatest nation”. So much for the supposed Judeo-Christian ethics, and its ignored Christian interpretation that today is rejected by those who today profit politically of the prestige of Jesus Christ’s Jewish background but reject him, as those who wanted to have him dead on the cross. And so much for USA’s Israelite interpretation of only the Old Testament (Torah) of the Bible in Trump UN nominee backs Israeli claims of biblical rights to West Bank (The Guardian, 21 January 2025, cf. also AlJazeera). Rights with no duties. All this long after the main of the present text had been written and the number of killed Palestinians was estimated (based on The Lancet, cf. also El País 10 Jan 2025) to be close to 47.000, with additional 10.000 otherwise estimated bodies estimated to lie under the rubble of 80% destroyed Gaza (plus West Bank). Let’s forget further estimates of the percentages of dead and (110.000?) injured, including amputations, of children and women, not to mention elders.

The whole indicates that the now silent mass media should have done is a discussion and explanation of the already mentioned original Balfour declaration whereby the Western powers paid for their colonial sins, for support in the coming war, and later for the Holocaust, by sacrificing Palestinians’ territory and lives. All the while retaining military control of the Middle East and capacity for support of future “proxy wars” by means of Israel’s (and possibly even Ukraine’s) man-power mediation. Parenthetically, I can see a bold analogy to especially the politically polarized USA’s exercising its profitable military-industrial-congressional-complex (MICC) in a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, at the cost of Ukrainian and Russian lives, all under the label of struggle for freedom and democracy as substitutes for God and Christianity. A spectacle that helps to explain the already mentioned congressional sentimental applauses of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the USA Congress on July 24 2024.

The whole may be completed by reading a sort of historical summary of the situation on December 8, 2023, by the multinational news channel and website CNN, under the title Israel-UN relations at historic low as secretary-general invokes rare diplomatic measure (archived page here).

If our ancestors were not unscientific stupid bigots, it is mind-blowing to consider that they considered it as dangerously problematic if not criminal to deny gods or God, while today such a valuation is reserved for the Holocaust. It may be worth to ponder whether the legality of God’s denial as in the historical “Atheism dispute” corresponds to today’s dispute on the Legality of Holocaust denial, implying that the Holocaust stands as a sort of modern democratic god in a secularized western world, or rather as the devil that must be acknowledged and affirmed, and its victims with descendants are conceived as its saints and priests including the equivalent of grand inquisitors. It would reveal the old relation between theology and politics where especially today, as I show in my essay on Information and theology, theology and religion are reduced to politics. But after all, my naïve surprise and desolation for events in Gaza and Israel, as well as earlier in Ukraine, Sudan and in the world, is caused by my deliberate unwillingness to adopt the cynical conclusion of followers of the new gods including democracy, that the Christian message is not “plausible”.

Final notes

In order to illustrate the Zeitgeist or distressing “spirit of our time” I will relate how shortcomings in mass media’s relating news come close to tendencies to socially spread paranoia. By the end of May 2024 the Swedish public television SVT that did not report dozens up to hundred daily deaths including children in the Gaza conflict, communicated that according to Israel’s Mossad, Iran’s government, which had been recruiting members of criminal gangs to perform terrorist act against Jews in Sweden, “could” also recruit children for the same purpose. Yes, foreign governments could or may do that, including disinformation. We and our allies, however, “could or might” do that but are never supposed to do it, in the worst case only think evil.

I will also relate the comment of a colleague of mine, avowedly Catholic but primarily believer in the pragmatic authority and power of the United Nations “universal declaration of Human rights (rather than duties or Commandments concisely summarized in love God, and others as yourself, as in Matthew 22:36-40). Upon reading or misreading my text above, in the same spirit as some readers’ comments to my earlier paper on the information about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, he wrote to me:

I guess that the terrorists that control Palestine need more people like you, to go there and help them to find the peace they desire, by wiping out completely the Jewish race. I guess that Hitler after all didn't finish the job.

To which, after my surprise and some reflection on the quotation “I am human: I regard nothing human as foreign to me”, attributed to the Roman playwright Terence, I responded in the following way:

“Indeed…what you write can be very stimulating for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of misunderstanding and its relation to disinformation.”

Besides this, the same colleague sent later me a short video from an unknown source, introduced by an apparently professional actress who did not identify herself, with the following communication, asking my opinion about it:

Here I receive a vídeo but I think is very dangerous and I'm not thinking in passing it around, in fact I'm going to send it just to you, because I know your ideas, and I am extremely curious about knowing if you think that what is being shown in this video is truth, or just a certain percentage of it true, or all of it is totally untrue.

As I said, this video is going around, and probably by now, many millions of people already have it. This is the kind of videos that I do not like sending because they could create a lot of trouble and I think that the world has enough trouble as it is.

To which, having already seen such creations as Gerald Baker’s article in The Wall Street Journal with the title “Israel Defends Itself – and May Save Western Civilization” (Sept. 30, 2024) I answered as follows, attaching at the end link to the body of the video [later deleted, see below] that he had sent me:

To begin with I took a look at the first 4 minutes and have a preliminary impression base on (as often) not having been told which is the source of the video, and by seeing the lady not introducing herself. The impression/intuition is that it is clear Israel-propaganda, which is intended as often to counter Muslim propaganda. Nowadays, after Israel's rejection of the United Nations, International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, it can also be seen by many as countering the world's opinion (except USA's).

It is relatively easy for me, since besides following western mass media, together with Gunnela have been following also AlJazeera and CGTN. It is also easy because I have already meditated about it all, which helps me to notice that the video is declared to have been elaborated by the Canary Mission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Mission

which has been seen as a heir of Masada 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada2000

all of which is surveyed in my essay that you were supposed to have read and studied (!):

https://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/Israel-Hamas240210.html#Conclusion.

Its merit is that it can also be used as a way of knowing and classifying ("friend or foe") the ethical and political position of anybody who is asked to express his opinion about it (the video)…

The video is [was] found at https://vimeo.com/1016826375, and I could later see had symptomatically it been deleted as per my updating on this text on February 19 2025, which in turn makes me regret that I had not saved it at e.g. the Internet Archive.

This game of propaganda videos appearing and disappearing from the Internet is exemplified by other phenomena, such as much international attention with news about Iran’s nuclear power program, on whether it hides plans to manufacture nuclear weapons. In April 2025 the USA had initiated much advertised talks with Iran in order to stop and “eliminate” its nuclear enrichment and weaponization program. Against this background it is interesting to know that on January 24, 2024 the Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was reported to have extremist rhetoric against Palestinians, namely: Israeli minister renews call for striking Gaza with “nuclear bomb”. All this, however, crowned by the continuous international silencing and “disappearing” of comments on the question of nuclear weapons and Israel, and the revelations in the historical geopolitical scandal of the case of Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist.

The title of this paper is on information about the Israel-Hamas war. It is therefore appropriate to also conclude by remarking the great attention with resounding comments that were accorded by especially the western news and press to the Russian missiles strike on April 13, 2025 at the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumi. It had exceptionally killed at least 34 people. It is interesting to compare with some other statistics with no comparable echo and comments: The United Nations reported about one week earlier that some 100 children were killed or injured every day in Gaza, since war was resumed on March 18, 2025. And since the war had begun 1,5 years earlier, 15.000 children were reportedly killed.

A hypothesis is that those who approve and rely on the most politically influential and decisive USA evangelical support of Israel do not realize that it can be mainly based on a tragic misreading of the Bible’s Old Testament or Torah, rejecting Christ and the Christian addendum. The return of Jews to the promised land of Israel can be rather understood as the whole (non-ecclesiastical “catholic”) humanity’s hopeful final “return” to divine communion in paradise.

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