Because Bobby Miller has been displaying deficiencies in his thinking process, it has become important that he be exposed to the moral life’s requirements as fashioned by the evolutionary process of human beings. So, the question is this: When did we ceased being what we were, and became what we are?
That is, when did we cease to act randomly and be
rewarded for making the right choices, or punished for making the wrong ones? It
must be said that randomness vanished when, for the first time, an organism elevated
the principle of preserving the species to a priority that matched
self-preservation. This is how and why a single organism was able to multiply
and become a species despite the fact that the transformation created two
competing instincts, one favoring the self, the other favoring the species.
For half a billion years or so after that, we thrived and
evolved physically while living on the horns of not one dilemma but two of
them. One dilemma pitted the individual against a competing rival of the same
species; the other dilemma pitted the individual against enemy species. And
this is where Murphy’s law—which says that if something can go wrong, it will
go wrong—came into play.
It is that with the multiplication of priorities confusion
set-in, and however much the organism had evolved, extreme hardship caused it to
lose the ability to distinguish between its clan and a foe, even between a
kinfolk and a stranger. Thus, the organism would lash out at the self, at a
kinfolk or a stranger with vigor to diminish his pain by reducing its cause, or
ending it by terminating the self as a living organism.
All of this being a part of our evolutionary inheritance,
something happened that was meant to propel us to yet another level of higher existence.
Even though we still have a long way to go before the attempt fully succeeds,
what happened was the development of the human brain. It relies on the speed of
electrical impulses to reason things out rather than rely on the slow chemical
processes which determine what the instinct prioritizes.
But what would be a higher level of existence for our
species? It would be the development of a trait that will compel us to cease
competing against each other while hunting to acquire and exploit existing
opportunities. Instead, a higher level of existence will compel us to cooperate
with each other so as to create new opportunities that will fulfill the needs
of the multitudes. But because random occurrences will always make it so that
issues will get tangled up and difficult to sort out between individuals and
between clans, a code of conduct will be established according to which
disputes will be resolved based on the principles of equity and equal justice
for all.
So then, what should Bobby Miller’s takeaway from all this
be? The question is better answered after the examination of what Miller said
in his latest article. It came under the title: “Palestinians Celebrate
Jerusalem Massacre That Left at Least Seven Dead,” and the subtitle: “Palestinians
celebrate following Jerusalem's shooting attack, in Gaza City, January 27, 2023”
which is also the date of Miller’s publication.
Here, in condensed form, is what Bobby Miller said to his
audience:
“In the aftermath of a killing on
International Holocaust Remembrance Day that left at least seven dead,
Palestinians across East Jerusalem celebrated the murders of Israeli [occupiers.]
This display of inhumanity can only be explained by the Palestinian culture of
violence. No amount of equivocating about the Israeli presence in the West Bank
or the new Netanyahu-led government’s policies can make sense of this cruelty.
The Palestinian media regularly laud and encourage [resistance] against
Israelis. Until this glorification of barbarism ceases to be a mainstay of
Palestinian society, peace between Israelis and Palestinians will remain out of
reach”.
To see what Miller hid from his audience, we turn to the
description of the same occurrence in another publication. It is the article
which came under the title: “CIA Director Burns travels to Israel and the West
Bank as violence grows,” written by Mike Brest, and published in The Washington
Examiner on January 27, 2023, the same day as Bobby Miller’s article.
Here, in condensed form, is Mike Brest’s more
comprehensive description of the same incident:
“CIA Director
William Burns traveled to Israel and the West Bank amid a violent
crackdown in a refugee camp. Israeli forces killed 9 Palestinians when it
conducted a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday. A 60-year-old
woman was among the Palestinians who were killed, and it marks one of the
deadliest days since Israeli raids intensified at the end of last year. ‘The
Islamic Jihad operatives were involved in executing and planning attacks on IDF
soldiers and Israeli [occupiers]”, the joint statement from the IDF, Israel’s
Security Agency, and Border Police, said.’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
described the incident as ‘a massacre from the Israeli occupation government,
in the shadow of international silence,’ while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu praised ‘the courage and resourcefulness of the soldiers who
[killed 9 Palestinians] at least’”.
What’s the difference between the two articles?
Well, Mike Brest’s article shows that the disturbance in
occupied Palestine started when on the day reserved to commemorate the
Holocaust, Israeli forces went into a Palestinian refugee camp and
killed 9 people. It was a crime against humanity that prompted the Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to praise the courage of the soldiers that committed
it.
In addition, Bobby Miller went on to opine the following
on the stance which he says makes up the Palestinian character. They have
a culture of violence that is inhuman, he says. How he knows that? He knows it
because no amount of Israeli crimes in the West Bank, committed by the new
Netanyahu-led government, can make sense of the Palestinian responses. The
Palestinian media regularly laud and encourage [resistance] against
Israelis. Until this sort of Palestinian barbarism ceases, peace between
Israelis and Palestinians will remain out of reach, says Bobby Miller.