The June attacks are proven as a fitting response to Israeli airstrikes in July and August.
Ramallah, January 8 – Scientists at Bir Zeit University announced this afternoon that they had refuted Newtonian notions such as cause-and-effect and the flow of time, freeing their fellow Palestinians of the need to justify their behavior or demands on those grounds.
A team of researchers used the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the subject of its inquiries, applying to it various axioms such as Palestinian virtue and the empirical observation that the Palestinian attachment to the land carries greater weight than the Jewish one. In so doing, the scientists were able to demonstrate that long-held notions such as a cause must precede its effect, or that any connection at all actually exists between a cause and its direct effect, are invalid.
In the January issue of theoretical physics journal Boundaries Unbounded: New Knowledge (BUNK), the Bir Zeit team demonstrates that the Occupation can serve as a valid explanation of the cause for myriad instances of Palestinian violence, most tellingly violence that occurred long before the Occupation in strictly chronological terms. Whether the term Occupation strictly refers to Israeli control beyond the 1967 cease-fire lines with Jordan, as some Palestinian leaders publicly assert, or more expansively to the Jewish sovereignty that began in 1948, as others claim, it can only explain the 1929 Hebron Massacre, for example, if chronology is dismissed. Because the Occupation, empirically, justifies any and all Palestinian actions, chronological sequence is therefore disproved as a prerequisite for cause-and-effect.
In a similar vein, the BUNK article describes the mechanism whereby a seeming cause can be disassociated from its supposed effect, and therefore dismissed from consideration. Given that the Palestinian claim to the Holy Land is superior to the Jewish one, which is so empirically evident that it needs no evidentiary support, the ancient, unbroken Jewish presence there, as well as the similarly ancient Jewish connection to the land, must perforce mean nothing. Thus, when Zionists and their supporters invoke the Jewish connection to the Holy Land as a basis for Israel’s legitimacy, they rely on untenable notions of cause-and-effect that wrongly assume history has any bearing on the present.
The BUNK researchers apply their proofs to shorter-term developments, as well, notably this past summer’s war between Hamas and Israel. Conventional wisdom would conclude from the available chronology that the war broke out as a result of the abduction and murder of three Israeli teens, followed by Palestinian rocket fire at Israeli communities, but conventional wisdom, the researchers prove, suffers from its unwarranted reliance on the order and timing of events as indicative.
In fact, notes the study, the only acceptable conclusion is that the rocket fire and abduction/killing resulted from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. The mechanism comes down to the immutable premise that collective Palestinian behavior – and by extension all Arab-Muslim behavior that negatively affects other populations – defies any characterization other than just and appropriate, by virtue of it being Palestinian (or Arab-Muslim). With the justice of Palestinian actions a given and the deaths of Gazan children in airstrikes crying out for response, the fact that the abduction, murder,and rocket attacks chronologically preceded those deaths becomes immaterial, and those June attacks are proven as a fitting response to Israeli airstrikes in July and August.
The BUNK team plans a follow-up study showing that the Occupation, whether it began in 1948 or 1967, serves as the cause of the 1939-1945 Holocaust. The study taking place will depend on the researchers’ success in gaining permission to imply the Holocaust actually happened.
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