Imagine if you could, of the lives that are being lived just south of the Eight Mile bordering Detroit and its suburbs. Enshrined in the film starred by Marshall “Eninem” Mathers III, the southern area is predominately black, and invariably deep in poverty and despair.
Now, imagine, if you could, that the mayor of Detroit and his government are deep in a severe level of corruption that angers the local population. The roads are ill-kept, businesses are leaving in droves, and social welfare is not well kept.
Now, imagine, if you could, that a group comes in, promising the city of Detroit, and actually providing them with a level of service and quality of living far better than the government for the city themselves would provide. But the quality of living is still not anywhere near as good as those living north of the Eight Mile. But of course, it is not this group’s fault. Why, it’s that thieving people up North, that is stealing all of the resources that is rightfully their! They refuse to pay all the taxes, and take away all the good cops, and the good people of this city. They got the fantastic schools, while our own schools are still struggling. It is ALL their fault!
Now imagine the subgroup of people within Detroit who are raised listening to this group’s philosophy. Without hearing any other perspectives, this message could be quite convincing to them.
Now finally, imagine them armed to the teeth with explosives and weapons.
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Everything up to the last scenario has happened everywhere. Whether it is the Catholics and Protestant in Ireland, the deluded people within city and countryside of United States and Canada, and most illustratively, the Hamas and Hezbollah of Palestine and Lebanese.
When Moses of the biblical fame guided his flock around the desert for decades in order to ‘get the Egypt out of the flock’ — he was weeding out the thinking process developed by the Egyptian community, and indoctrinating the newcomers (children) with the new thinking process of Israelites. This can be done for good, and it can be done for bad.
By separating, isolating, and pounding the population with a narrow viewpoint of the world, it is far too easy for the population to lose the ability to see the world in the same way as we do. That population breeds people who are willing to act upon their discontent. Those people are directed by the group who most desire to remain in power, and find their power strengthening by distracting the population away from the real problems.
That is why the Fatah was voted out, and the Hamas brought to a helm. Fatah was a highly corrupted bunch of cronies, and the Hamas was those who provide social aid, and a better way of life. When Israel ceased to be a constant enemy, Palestine took a look inward, and boy, they didn’t like what they saw. But there’s Hamas, acting like Robin Hood — helping the poor, and willful to steal from the rich to do so. That rings true especially compared to Fatah, and thus the population entrusted Hamas with their country’s rule.
Of course, there are growing evidences of problems in Hamas’ ranks. So what will Hamas do? Easy, continue to distract the local population by using the fanatics’ desire for fame and glory to bring in Israel as the constant enemy once more.
In my earlier blog posting, I mentioned how inadequate it would be for students to just do a LOA, as it would only garnish a small population of supporters. Now, imagine if those supporters, fanatics in their hearts, were convinced to attack the financial aid office, and run away with the millions in endowment funds, that would be extremely effective in gaining attention, but with a huge negative cost to those people. Just as the suicide bombers — they sacrifice their lives just to gain attention, because they deeply believe it will give them more than what it does provide.
It is all about control of the population. All about blaming others for their own problems. All about distracting from the corruption by distracting the population with goodwill. With poorly educated population under your control, it is far more common and far more deadly game that they are playing.
All for fame.
All for glory.
All for nothing.
The Bible is full of stories about people like them on both sides. Israel knows this all too well and hence explains their extremely aggressive responses.
To solve this problem, we must convince the population of Palestine and Lebanese that we can help them better than their own people could.
Good luck.
