فلسطين/Palestine | Israel

While there may be a lot going on the region right now, some of the reasons mentioned in numerous news reports around the online web right through here have been a very scant cluster of reiterated phrases, and sometimes the 'reasons' are almost pathetic in terms of using those reasons to launch extreme scale violence.

And there is the discussion of security, in general, meaning safety of people regardless of their belief and ethnicity, there is the discussion of security when Eid comes around. How to announce and make it known it is Eid, based off moon sightings, whereat there looms the possibility that Eid gatherings could be used by cowards to launch cowardly attacks on persons while being present in the gatherings, whether they be eating, praying, resting, gathering, or witnessing. Eid is a celebratory time that goes back a very long time ago, and everyone is welcome to attend, basically. There are people that may attend a gathering as an opportune time to see about new clothes, have a tasty treat, the hungry might get a free meal, hear speeches and so on, who, might not all be 'Muslim'.

-To simply lurk on the confirmed day and gathering times of Eid to launch an attack, by natural sense of ethics, is probably, if not a fact, a gross, by far very gross violation of human rights. This applies anywhere and any time, not just in the Middle East.

Today March 30, 2025, marks the Eid prayer date after Ramadhan conclusion for many, perhaps not everyone.

There was a report that helicopters assaulted individuals while they were praying Eid.

That action is about topping the list how to propagate continued fighting, if it happened anywhere in the world.

At one point, or a number of points since the memorable October 7th 2023 date, there have been cease fires or at least calls for.

It looked like some spans of peace might be nearing.

Albeit, reality has materialized, as ravishing fighting continues, according to reports.

A simplistic dividing line, of Palestinians on one side, and Israelis on the other side, seems to be the trend that people go by these days. Frankly, individuals can be attracted to going to the Holy Land for a number of reasons. People’s inner belief whether Muslim or otherwise can change from day to day minute to minute. There is no ‘lock’ of every man, woman, and child on one side is permanently on that side, and they are a religion; such as someone has an identification pass that says he or she is Palestinian, that must mean they are Muslim, and they are in a fight against Israel, or someone has an Israeli identification paper, and that must mean they are a ‘Jew’ or ‘Yehudi’, and vowed to fight Muslims who are one in the same with Palestinians. 

Which brings up another issue. I and surely others, do not feel it is appropriate for Americans that have agendas that are not on the same page as why the Holy Land is the Holy Land, should be attempting, to be present on the Holy Land and referee and direct traffic of affairs. Americans that are upright is a different matter. Let's not make the same mistake that was made in Afghanistan in the timeline after year 2000, where there were Americans put in positions of authority that were not appropriate in their character but somehow managed to get in (to Afghanistan) perhaps through being assigned, under and when the larger plan of the effort to mitigate terrorism.

The repercussions of sending dishonorable characters to Holy Lands, can often be comprised of the locals becoming hostile, very hostile, and want decadent persons off their land pretty much the same as they want to combat the opposing side, the war that gave rise to intervening.

History since 1980, especially in the Middle East, has proven this is true. Saliently, when Lebanon was the site of the Marine barracks attack, October 1983; there was talk that there may have been discomfort of the presence of people from places that were 'not considered predominantly Muslim', especially in the way that Islam is practiced in the main in most of the popularly known Middle East in the 1980s, in context.

Speaking of Lebanon, in the past week, there are reports that sites in Lebanon have been bombed, Beirut, it appears in pursuit of Hezebullah targets.

Note the spelling of Hezebullah,- it is a transliteration; no one that is a Hezebullah or a hezebullah in general spirit, like a human being that strives hard to do well what they do, would call themselves Hezebollah like they are pronouncing bowl in Super Bowl, there is no o, sometimes taken to be symbolic for nothing, in how Hezebullah is pronounced. Although many news outlets and websites might do it, maybe it is popular, but this website is not trying to go with the flow of ignorance.

There is a report that a senior Hamas leader (al-Bardaweel) was attacked and killed, along with his wife, about last week; there are pictures on websites with the reports that make it appear it might have been through a missile attack that usually has an incendiary components. The hospital that was struck, was reportedly in Gaza and several others were fatalities.

Despite the frequency of missile attacks to kill other human beings these days, ethics aside, believe it or not, not everyone is comfortable nor getting comfortable to this ‘new norm’ of disgusting violence.

Not everyone in Palestine wholly supports Hamas. As a matter of fact, there has been protesting in the past few weeks against the Hamas party.

There have been individuals in Israel territory that have expressed disagreements with the current Israeli government.

The United Nations is in the region. Reports exist of them scaling back in the wake of an employee killed. 

Because of other reports about the UN, there are some analysts who might be taking a very hard look, increasing the focus grading on smaller particles under the microscope, as to how much benefit for peace has the UN actually been, even there may have been many UN employees and soldiers that had good intentions.

The death toll in Gaza, still today, (perhaps March the 20th about 10 days ago), is sometimes up to 6 or 7 dozen persons in a single day.

There are online news reports, whether true and viable or not, that in Yemen, Houthi targets, were struck by the US within the past several days thereabout. 

Houthis in general are not gathering masses upon masses of support by the world humankind body. There are reasons for that, including their ‘philosophies’ are sort of an underdog in the region they are in; prevailing Islamic thought and folkways that have been set for long lengths of time, is not being overturned by a group not to exclude Houthis. However, that does not give the green light to mercilessly slaughter; this not to say that they are being mercilessly slaughtered, but at some point in the future trajectory, if someone were to for instance announce a political policy to rid regions of Houthi thought,  or something like that, rules for treatment of people are still in effect.

The different places that Houthis have been active over the years, it is understandable that they throw a monkey wrench into simple 2 sided battle lines. 

At that, there is the subject of Iran that gets brought up.

It may be natural for nations in the Middle East that have Islam as their basic basis for government, to become protective of Al Quds and the Dome of the Rock, as it is among the 3 holy masajid, plural of masjid, place of prayer, as there is the be protective of the places principle. If a certain body feels that there has been too much unfair attack, they might take to condemning, preventing, and steps further activity.

All said, in consideration of news reports earlier this week, it sounds like Iran is nearing the threshold of as far as things could go in terms of them being protective, and not resulting in responses from other nations, and one can see where back and forth fighting could get started.

Keep in mind that Iran may have certain kinds of relations with Russia; so if something happens to Iran, then Russia might get involved. As it stands today, the US is not hailing in huge outpouring of support for their military actions upon Ukraine in the past several years, even though in recent months, US leadership has pushed aspects of Ukraine leadership decisions that may have perceptions they may have faults, into the forefront.

It is probably safe to say, that no one is interested in any further escalations of tensions between the US and Russia, not the US, not the Russians; Russia is huge in land mass, with a huge amount of people compared to the US; in those huge amounts of people are prospects of soldiers, which by far, far outnumber the US; the potential of Russia’s capability that could be tapped for military, maybe they have used about 5%, some may say that’s way too high of a number for an estimate. On the other hand, having a clear-cut other side of an announced battle stance that opposes the US, as the Cold War has shown, can expediently result in many nations around the world showing a frown face to Russia, and expressing a wish not to want to be friends anymore, which could lead to activities like boycotts and so on. Regardless of either’s capability to overcome the other’s capability, it is just a lot less mental stress and anxiety, not to go down Cold War repeat road.

There are those among us that have a strong sense of a lot of events which could unfold, epochs and eras in advance before they do, or could do; no matter what form or shape you, as in the perpetrators, come in, even if appearing a disguised totally opposite of a fairy tale prediction, -do not think that the learned of truth do not know what you are thinking. Unwise strategies that endanger any of the Holy Places is, as already said, unwise.

Going back to the subject of the rationale for breaking peace, truces, and treaties, pertinently in the area of Gaza, Al Quds and Jerusalem region- news reports are making it appear that back and forth disagreements between Hamas and the government currently installed in Israel, is why the turbulence in the region is going on. 

Hostage situation stemming from 10/7 still ongoing.

The content of the conversation if spoken in the region seems to have the recurring components of, they broke the truce, fired on me, so I fire on them, they fired on them, so they fire back; this equation; it has happened in the region before; maybe it was not Hamas and Netanyahu’s shot calling, maybe it was another party representing Palestine, maybe it was another leader of the Israeli government.

While sacrificing one’s life for what they believe in, and the willingness to do so, may be admirable on the concept, it is sad that in the grander arch and destiny of developments in the Holy Land near Al Quds and Jerusalem, it is known that of the offspring of certain referent tribes, or the ‘sons of’ (bani or bany), them, that they will have differing beliefs; there were travels to and from the region of historic proportions; when that is set beside the most trivial reasons to launch an attack on someone, in sum, honestly one word sums it up sometimes, that word is: disgraceful.