I can't figure out the reason behind such vastly different responses to the same pro-Israel message coming from supporters of similar conservative figures. I wonder if it's because Peterson's supporters gravitate to him due to his overall 'clean your room and become responsible' message, and not just his anti-woke stance, while the likes of Walsh and Shapiro tend to gather support from those who oppose wokeness rather than seeking self improvement per se? I don't know, it's just my guess. But in the case of JBP, it's certainly been interesting to see that those who follow him for guidance have their eyes open wider than him.
And as for tradcons' Israel blindness, it looks like developing depth of expertise in one area isn't enough. One must not only go deep, but also go wide to avoid getting derailed, and leave no stones unturned in search for sacred cows. The leading tradcons seem to have failed at that.
I've had a similar thought about it, and for us here is a really good warning, just because the right seems to be making tons of sense in a lot of issues lately, it doesn't mean that they have no ideological possession. I think a lot of the Shapiro and Walsh followers did so by default and didn't really think their way into agreeing with them, they simply wanted to oppose the left politically, so they picked up all their blindspots.
I think the Peterson followers weren't looking for a political guidance, so they allow themselves to agree with him on cognitive issues, but to disagree with him politically, because for all he says, he can clearly be ideologically possessed, nobody's perfect.
As far as the left protesting in favor of Palestine, I'm not sure.. they are demonstrating because they demonstrate about just about anything, with the same understanding of the issues, they tend to demonstrate when it's cool and it's in and it's the current thing. So, it's not so much that they care about Palestinians, as much as they care about being seen as compassionate for the oppressed, so I am not holding my breadth for any sincere empathy there. But also, they placed themselves on the opposite side of the right, by inertia.
the left does its thing and the right does the opposite by default, not a lot of critical thinking that I can see.
True. So why would Hamas do it? To provoke Israel into a severe retaliation. Why? Either Hamas is not working for Palestine, or they expect that Israel's coming war will enrage the Arab world and force their governments to intervene against Israel (
this guy I follow on YT argues that). But if the latter, then Hamas is also not really working for Palestine, because that plan involves sacrificing thousands if not millions of Palestinians. And who is to say that Israel's 'deep state' didn't want exactly that - taking the gloves off against all Muslims, even if that also involves sacrificing several Israeli lives? Considering Israel knows Uncle Sam will be right there at its side.
Sadly, I think this is a very likely scenario, Bibi has been having trouble internally and a war is just what he needed to tighten the grip on power. I suppose we won't know why the timing of it? Perhaps, the horizon looks like a defeat in Ukraine would see the multipolar world shaping up even further, and with the relations getting smoother among all the Arab nations, recently with Iran and Saudi Arabia for instance, or Syria back in the Arab League, this is perhaps an attempt to sow chaos in the region and maybe reignite some of these old conflicts so as to prevent the Arab block from remerging, to keep them divided?
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