I am taking a couple of days hiatus to formulate some economic thoughts from the latest health care reform. I know you will be waiting anxiously (if indeed you care at all).
I found this linked speech from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu articulates I think very well the problems associated with the Palestinian occupation and a brief history.
Yes. He is extremely articulate. He was so articulate in the mid 1990's with Likud, that he spoke at inciteful pep rallies, to like-minded Jewish right-wingers which included the sort that assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.
ReplyDeleteBut not to be outdone, Ariel Sharon, by contrast might make Netanyahu look akin to Gandhi. Sharon was so bad as "Defense" Minister in the early 80's, that an official Israeli government commission suggested he be fired, and never again be in charge of military units, for his orchestration of the massacre at Sabra and Shatila in Lebannon. Was it any surprise that he once used the same antics he used in Mitla on the Sinai decades earlier again in 2000, when a "visit" of himself and a 1,000-officer police escort ended up in riots? But that was okay. The peaceful Israeli people elected him Prime Minister for his actions.
It's interesting that the same people who apply the term 'terrorist' to just about anyone they don't like have no problem at all firing into crowds of innocents with missiles to "get their man" and use illegal activity to carry out the will of their government--hey that last one sort of sounds like the U.S.! And also it's interesting that Netanyahu never mentions, when he speaks of the rockets smuggled in, that his nation is armed far beyond, with aircraft and nuclear weapons.
Israel has garnered more negative UN resolutions than nearly every nation--except the U.S. Or is it the other way around? Well, hell, that's only the UN. We only care about the UN resolutions that justify OUR wars...
There's enough blame to go around. But if we weren't living in a nation with more Jewish people than inhabit Israel, do you think we'd be sending them the aid we do?