It is funny to listen to Buddhist ethics being applied to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Of course, that conflict has nothing to do with and is completely outside the frame of reference of ethics or Buddhism. This is a longstanding, purely tribal conflict. Neither Hamas nor the Netanyahu government is in the least bit concerned with "ethics" and does not consider any ethical issues to be involved in the conflict. They consider only their own tribal goals and vengeance and don't worry about the effects on the other tribe because they don't care about the other side at all. Netanyahu would happily displace all of Gaza's population to Egypt or any other country that would take them but there are none. And Hamas would happily wipe Israel off the map. Neither side views ethics as having any role to play here as both sides are driven by zero sum tribal goals.
By the way, the young part Palestinian Vincent describes himself as a "full time meditator" "computer engineering dropout," and "geek" Vince provides coaching services for up to $840 per hour should anyone need any. Perhaps Netanyahu will take him up on it. And learn that he doesn't have a self.
It is funny to listen to Buddhist ethics being applied to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Of course, that conflict has nothing to do with and is completely outside the frame of reference of ethics or Buddhism. This is a longstanding, purely tribal conflict. Neither Hamas nor the Netanyahu government is in the least bit concerned with "ethics" and does not consider any ethical issues to be involved in the conflict. They consider only their own tribal goals and vengeance and don't worry about the effects on the other tribe because they don't care about the other side at all. Netanyahu would happily displace all of Gaza's population to Egypt or any other country that would take them but there are none. And Hamas would happily wipe Israel off the map. Neither side views ethics as having any role to play here as both sides are driven by zero sum tribal goals.
By the way, the young part Palestinian Vincent describes himself as a "full time meditator" "computer engineering dropout," and "geek" Vince provides coaching services for up to $840 per hour should anyone need any. Perhaps Netanyahu will take him up on it. And learn that he doesn't have a self.
Nothing is outside the scope of human ethics, so long as it has to do with human interaction, power, resources, history, etc.