{{ When the slave ship known as the Zorg left what is now the Ghanaian coast in 1781, it was headed for Jamaica, with 442 Africans pitilessly crammed into space intended for about 250. Along the way it drifted off course, and dehydration and scurvy took their toll on crew and cargo. The captain, desperately ill, appointed as his replacement a self-serving reprobate, a colonial governor who had recently been sacked. An incompetent navigator, he sailed clear past Jamaica.
After three months at sea, he and the other two white men in command threw about 125 of the enslaved Africans overboard to drown or be devoured by sharks.
Back in England, the Zorg’s owner sought an insurance payout for the loss. At trial, he claimed that water supplies had gone so low that sending the Africans to their death was the only way to keep the other slaves and themselves alive. At a second trial, however — convened in response to a fiery editorial by an outraged abolitionist — it emerged that the Zorg in fact had plenty of water. Why, then, were the slaves thrown overboard? Because the captain determined that in their weakened state, they would be more valuable as an insurance claim than for sale at the auction block. No one was charged with the crime. }}
Is not literally “throwing people to the sharks in an attempt to bolster an insurance claim” worthy of demonization?
How about Private Equity firms who are buying hospitals with the intent of loading them up with debt and management fees, and then letting them go bankrupt (the Mitt Romney model), thus depriving people of health care.
When Mitt Romney came to town. (They made a movie about it.)
Isn’t that what Hamas started a war to do? Knowing full well the Western press could be led by the nose? Demonize Jews as creating a genocide, while Gaza’s population continued to climb?
The people who fight to believe Hamas claims are they unethical and immoral?
Has it occured to you that you are wrong? There was a war of course, but there has been no genocide, no ethnic cleansing, and one of the smallest of the famines on the planet.
Has it occured to you that you are wrong? Or is it too hard to face being wrong when so emotional?
BTW you have no reason to be emotional. You can tune into a dozen other wars and you really won’t care until the press starts a propaganda campaign.
Won’t care? You were never this bent out of shape over Syria, Sudan, Yemen, or Ukraine. The press never did such a hatchet job on the public. All of those wars are far worse than Gaza.
Again this might blow your mind but the Palestinians and the Jews get along extremely well. Hamas and the PA have some problems.