Perhaps we need to resolve this problem through an entirely different paradigm than tribalism
I have lived in various Middle Eastern countries and it seems clear to me that monsters are rare.
What is common is people viewing members of "the other" demographic as monsters which perpetuates hatreds, violence, and rule by the elites in perpetuity.
Before I'm accused of engaging Hasbara let me say that I AM. In fact I created modern Hasbara. See here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/zqWg94kkauY?feature=share
But I left after a few months when it became clear that the establishment just wanted to use me for my sincerity while they strove to make me say what they wanted me (for the benefit of their own tribe and for the benefit of the ruling class everywhere) rather than, as I intended, to foster understanding and harmonious friendships among formerly fighting communities.
So, after 2 decades in exile, I'm returning without anyone's permission or help to try and get the job done.
None of us will live forever. But for the remainder of our lives it would be nice to live in a world that is more truthful, happy, brotherly, and in accordance with the will of our Creator.
Redditors tend to be anonymous and given over to online debates that have little effect upon the real world, but it doesn't have to be that way.
The world is yours as much as it is Bill Gates', Elon Musk's, or any of that small class of people who have more power and control over Society than your average million people combined.
Lacking any institutional or financial support I don't have any paved path forward to get the world's attention. If you have the skills and the heart to help me please do, for all of our sakes.
Thanks!
I was appointed by Rabbi Noach Weinberg the head of the Aish Hatorah Academy for Jewish Studies to speak with the world in an explanatory capacity regarding all matters Jewish.
Hasbara literally means "explanation" and the goal was to understand people's concerns regarding matters Jewish or Israeli and to address them on both sides.
He believed that Judaism is a moral responsibility to create a "brotherhood of mankind" through honest and sincere discussion.
Unfortunately the real world already had its movers and shakers who would like to continue running things and therefore aren't very interested in the increased freedom and uplift of the rest of your humanity. I bowed out as soon as people tried to turn my rational and humane discussions into propagandistic slogans.
After two decades in exile I was informed by God, or simply Reality, that things won't change unless I change them, so despite how difficult it is to get any audience whatsoever in a paranoid world that's following the dictates of the fearmongering elites (while imagining that they are rebelling against them 🤣) I'm giving it my best shot.
I'n currently in Egypt because I believe in "walking the walk". If I'm trying to convince my fellow Jews that Arabs aren't monsters (and that therefore their own current campaign in Gaza is monstrous) I need to demonstrate it through my own person. I was also hoping that I might be able to get local Egyptians to (the original intent of) my hasbara campaign and therefore to solve the Palestinian (and workdwide human) crisis from the other side, being as Israel's government is blocking its citizenry from seeing my videos.
Unfortunately the average person in Egypt seems to feel as helpless before the ruling forces as my fellow Americans do. But if you have some way of gaining me an audience here with interested humane parties who are interested in refashioning a kinder world in a radical way asap, I'm absolutely game for such a get-together.
Ditto for appearing on someone's show. We need to get the message out there that we are all the same and can care about each other and work our problems out without the self-interested solutions of the ruling elite.
You are 100% correct.
The paranoid tribalists who run most subreddits and most of the world are running on the program of the ruling class even when they think they are rebelling against them As you can see, I'm not terribly boring or stupid, yet you wouldn't believe how many subreddits have already banned me.
Free Speech doesn't mean shouting slogans, it means you and I talking. And the ruling elite along with their hall monitor witch-hunters hate that. It's a real problem. If you can get me an audience through anybody who already has a platform that would be great .YouTube won't even allow me to pay them to share many of my videos in either Israel or America, lest the people decide that we have a better solution than the elites do. It's a very serious problem.