{"id":298,"date":"2025-02-09T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/trumps-gaza-proposal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:36:32","slug":"trumps-gaza-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/trumps-gaza-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Gaza Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump seems incapable of qualifying his statements, a fault that may be connected with his tendency to exaggerate.  And so he needlessly inflames his enemies, who, given their biases, naturally took him to be advocating ethnic cleansing with his talk of "taking over" Gaza.   Anthony Flood here<\/a> skillfully rebuts the suggestion.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I believe Tony is right, having carefully listened to the joint Trump-Netanyahu speech and the context-providing interview last night by Mark Levin of the Israeli Prime Minister. In the speech with Trump, Netanyahu  hung back, not sure what Trump was proposing with his "take over Gaza" remark.  But in the interview he put a positive spin on it. <\/span><\/div>\n
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It is not quite clear whether Trump's  provocation is intentional, a sort of 'blue-baiting' if you will, or simply due to a lack of political skill. <\/span><\/div>\n
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In any case, the interregnum<\/em> did him a world of good. Our boy is learning the ropes, and if he plays his cards right and does not succumb to hubris he may end up on Mt Rushmore. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Dingbat Pelosi has proposed the benighted Joe Biden for that high honor, thereby underscoring her preternatural asininity and her unfitness both for high office and political commentary.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Trump's propensity for hubris<\/em> does, however, worry me.  Merriam-Webster:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Hubris<\/span> Comes From Ancient Greece<\/span><\/p>\n

English picked up both the concept of hubris and the term for that particular brand of cockiness from the ancient Greeks, who considered hubris a dangerous character flaw capable of provoking the wrath of the gods. In classical Greek tragedy, hubris was often a fatal shortcoming that brought about the fall of the tragic hero. Typically, overconfidence led the hero to attempt to overstep the boundaries of human limitations and assume a godlike status, and the gods inevitably humbled the offender with a sharp reminder of their<\/span> his mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is an index of the extreme polarization of our time that there are those who are quite sure that Trump enjoys divine protection. They speak, irresponsibly, of the 'miracle' of his escaping death by assassination at Butler, PA.  But how could anyone know<\/em>, and confidently claim, that God intervened to save his life? I am not saying that God did not intervene in this instance, or that divine intervention in nature is impossible; I am saying that you are guilty of epistemic pretense if you pretend to know what cannot be known, but can only, at most, be reasonably believed.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Hubris or providential protection? You are free to believe what you like, but in a case like this, the wise man suspends judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ever-helpful Dave Lull informs me that our friend Edward Feser has weighed in on the Gaza matter with an article in National Catholic Register<\/em>, Trump's Gaza Proposal is Gravely Immoral<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Catholic opinion on Trump is divided, to put it mildly. See Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's Letter to American Catholics<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Addendum<\/em> (2\/13)<\/span><\/div>\n
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  Donald Trump seems incapable of qualifying his statements, a fault that may be connected with his tendency to exaggerate.  And so he needlessly inflames his enemies, who, given their biases, naturally took him to be advocating ethnic cleansing with his talk of "taking over" Gaza.   Anthony Flood here skillfully rebuts the suggestion.   I … Continue reading “Trump’s Gaza Proposal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,119,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-islamism","category-political-tactics","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}