Gaza According to Orville Redenbacher
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Yesterday's Washington Post fronted a story with the breathless headline Palestinian Battles Raise Fears of Coup And Civil War.
Why the average American would even raise his or her eyebrows at the thought of two ongoing criminal enterprises engaged in the equivalent of a no-holds-barred cage match intrigued me. Who would "fear" a "coup" upon a non-existent government or a "civil war" in a society bereft of civil institutions was also a head-scratcher.
Read on.
A deeper reading of the article shows the fear is limited to Mahmoud Abbas. As the Palestinians engage in their national pastime, everyone else seems to be shrugging their shoulders. Though it was amusing to see Hamas describing Fatah as the "Jew-American army."
To be perfectly clear one would have to search long and hard to find another people who have more diligently and industriously worked against their own best interests than the Palestinians. So long as the battle is confined to the self-created Mad Max dystopia of Gaza and the West Bank they can fight until the last dog is dead as far as I am concerned.
This intramural homicide spree was a readily forseeable consequence of the civilized world long accepting uncivilized behavior as a norm when dealing with the Palestinians. This infantilization has had the exact same outcome on an entire people as it has when applied to a child. You end up with a vicious, spiteful child prone to tantrums with an unlimited sense of entitlement. One would think that 40 years of demanding and expecting nothing of the Palestinians would have taught us something, but one would be wrong.
Indeed when UN apparatchik Alvaro de Soto resigned as Middle East envoy last month his final report predictably blames the US and Israel but also calls out his former employer for being a meanie to Hamas. Quoted in the WaPo:
De Soto said that the Quartet has grown increasingly biased in favor of Israel over the past two years. He said that it made a strategic mistake by imposing conditions on Hamas after its January 2006 electoral victory -- that it renounce violence, recognize Israel and embrace prior peace agreements. [italics mine]
Okay. The popcorn's done. Butter? Salt?
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You HOPE they keep killing each other.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
ammunition in the hope that they completely exterminate each other. If we could only completely wall this off so it doesn't spill over into Israel.
and reminding yourself that we have exacerbated islamic unrest. Then write a letter to the Times about illegal war and American imperialism.
"Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it can make them happy"
Pascal
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
As we watched the news yesterday. My question to him: You know how we can have peace in the Middle East?
His answer to me: Give them all guns and wait until they kill each other.
We were both thinking the same thing.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
A tragedy.
Wow, that is the best analysis I have read on that situation in all the media. Excellent post.