Imagine No War, by A.J. Smuskiewicz

Regardless of what’s said, humanity must love war, because it’s always doing it. From A.J. Smuskiewicz at unz.com:

With the world on the brink of WWIII, perhaps it’s time to realize we are all brothers

I remember, from when I was studying biology at the University of Illinois in the early 1980s, a genetics professor talking to our class about Jews and Palestinians. I recall him sharing his view with us that the conflict between these two groups of people—each violently fighting for their perceived religious, cultural, and biological identities—was illogical, because, biologically speaking, they are identical people.

This professor was apparently referring specifically to those Jews with a purely Middle Eastern genetic heritage, as opposed to those with substantial European genetics. His expressed view was obviously an oversimplification of the complex genetic and historic backgrounds of both groups of people. Nevertheless, it is true that scientific analyses have identified strong genetic similarities between modern-day Jewish people and modern-day Palestinians, as well as certain other Middle Eastern people.

So, in a sense, the seemingly endless and worsening Israeli-Palestinian conflict really amounts to brother fighting and killing brother.

Of course, the same kind of genetic similarities exist between many groups of people that have been in conflict in the past or that are in conflict today. Ukrainians and Russians. English, Irish, and Scotts. Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. North and South in the American Civil War. Needless to say, all people are ultimately related to one another, and we all have our genetic roots in Africa. We are all ultimately brothers and sisters.

That sounds all nice, warm, fuzzy, and groovy. But so what. Being related to some guy doesn’t mean you can’t hate him—or even want to kill him. Plenty of real brothers and sisters and other family members can’t stand each other. So, what the hell is my point in even bringing up all this genetic stuff?

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One response to “Imagine No War, by A.J. Smuskiewicz

  1. Neo is the One's avatar Neo is the One

    Flip the peace sign over remove the circle and it is Algiz runes?

    The Norse were around long before the NSDAP for any who tremble in fear over Waffen-SS unit symbols.

    The Criminals In Action came up with that as well?

    What if it all really is fake, programmed, herding humanity towards the abattoir?

    War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

    George Orwell

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