In the latest Middle East crisis, U.S. supplied Israeli F-15 fighter jets are blowing the shit out of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. My personal opinion is that Israel is using disproportionate force against the Palestinians in their never ending conflict. I realize that Israel has the right to defend its self but this shit is starting to get real old. President Bush has sat on his pasty ass ever since Hamas was voted into power. By not recognizing the legitimately elected government, it meant one thing only, business as usual.
Israel receives approximately one third of all U.S. foreign aid despite having just .001 percent of the world’s population. I am beginning to believe what political analyst Pat Buchanan said that “Capitol Hill is Israeli-occupied territory.” American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has got to be the most successful lobbying group ever formed. AIPAC has an annual budget of $15 million dollars, 150 employees, and registered lobbyist who manage to visit every member of congress at least once a year.
With the new incoming Obama Administration Obama must make it clear to Israel that in order to continue the vast amount of aid that they receive that they must cede the land captured in the 1967 war and start laying the foundation of a separate state of Palestine. I am not naive enough to believe that it will be easy but money talks and bullshit walks. The Palestinians must have a self determining government.
It is time to put this ridiculous conflict behind us. The Egyptians and Jordanians have already made peace with Israel with the Syrians making strong overtures. Israel must cede all territory captured during the 1967 war in order to make a meaningful peace. I am not anti-Zionist but pro peace! There will be those on both sides that never give into the notion of peace but sooner or later people get tired of killing one another. I weep for every unnecessary death because the greatest fundamental right is for each and every one of us is to live a life unimpeded by the threat of war!
Filed under: Politics, War , aipac, conflict, israel, middle east, palestine
I was waiting for you to comment on this. I haven’t read Jimmy Carter’s book “Peace, Not Apartheid” but I’m now seriously thinking of doing so. I was just undone by the fact that the Palestinians are confined in this space (which they’ve built tunnels to get out of, into Egypt, so they can get supplies) and the Israelis are bombing them. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel so to speak, and then I read that the Israelis bombed a prison. A prison within a prison, really. And they bombed the tunnels. They are strangling these people…and they wonder why a terrorist organization like Hamas gains power? Hello.
On the other hand…I heard today on NPR a spokesman for the government in Gaza say that they can’t confirm that there are any rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel (Israel’s justification for attacking). But if there are, they are being fired by “Israeli collaborators”, and it’s being done to give the Israelis an excuse to annihilate the Palestinians. So which is it, dude? Rockets, or no rockets?
Still, Gaza is a ghetto…Warsaw and Sarajevo come to mind.
Chilling isn’t it? And they have the full backing of the United States government. AIPAC and groups like the Anti Defamtion League have pulled the wool over American eyes. I’ll have more on this story soon.