Arpad Nagy
2 min readMar 9, 2024

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If you are going to make accusations and assertions, you need to do so with clarity and forthrightly.

You don’t get a free pass.

Speaking of said “free pass.”

Where, precisely, was the author, "giving a pass?”...and to the rest of your gaslighting, sensationalist buzzwords.

Was it here? --"So, while Zionism is being portrayed as evil, despite its simple definition as a belief in the right of existence of a Jewish homeland, those opposing Zionism and calling for the downfall of Israel are demanding a Palestinian Arab state. Which, according to the Hamas charter and doctrines of the ruling parties, will be ethnically cleansed of Jews.”

Or was it here? -- "Ridiculed for calling out antisemitism, we are then called Islamophobes. I mean, what? As if calling out one prejudice is valid while the other is not.

And then there’s the hatred of Zionism and its now-established existence as a dirty word."

Are you recognizing Israel as sovereign state and thus recognize she has the right to defend her citizens against aggressors, who also kill mothers and children with impunity, supported and encouraged by their government?

Are you going to recognize that the Hamas attacks were void of all human decency against Israeli’s? Or are you giving that a pass, because, after all, it’s only Jews we’re talking about?

“Are you standing up for Israel to stop its brutal war in Gaza?” – The author has said, repeatedly, that she is standing up for the end of killing. Period.

What are you standing up for?

“There is something illogical…” Yes, there is. The author stated this. --“The hypocrisy is blinding. Yet the narrative that depicts Israel and Palestine respectively as Oppressor and Oppressed, designed to be simple enough for a two-year-old to understand and therefore completely unchallenging to the perspectives of the masses, has taken away anyone’s adult abilities to unpick, study, and think critically”

“An end to war is the way you achieve peace.” This is incorrect or at the very least, an incomplete thought.

Ending a war ends the killing—temporarily. Achieving peace comes by two roads. The first is having adjacent societies choosing to live with tolerance, acceptance, humanity and harmony in their socio-religious-philosophical beliefs and teachings.

The second is by one nation warring until they have achieved dominion over the land and their enemies. When the enemies are removed, then there can be peace.

“You can justify and support a war. You can call for peace. You cant do both.”

Incorrect again.

WWII is a fine example of justifying and supporting a war, all the while emissaries and global citizens called for and worked towards peace. This was unsuccessful because the enemy of humanity refused to acknowledge the futility of their campaign and clung to philosophy of exterminating Jews as a path to righteous hegemony.

I ask again. What are you standing up for?

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Arpad Nagy
Arpad Nagy

Written by Arpad Nagy

Shortlisted for 2024 Northwind Writing Award in NF/Fiction. New owner of First Line Fiction. Editor @ The Memoirist, AoE, Book Cafe, Short Place, Kitchen Tales.

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