Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summed it up the other day when he said, “We use our rockets to protect our women and children; they [Hamas] use their women and children to protect their rockets.”
Some time ago, the Left adopted the Palestinians as their pet oppressed minority group so there is nothing that Israel might do that will be okay with them, except to commit suicide, that is, cease to exist — which is the stated policy of Hamas. Every time Israel refuses the suggestion that it cease to exist, the Left becomes inflamed. They cannot imagine why Israel would prefer to fight for its existence than to roll over and die.
The Palestinian leadership doesn’t really want to talk about any resolution to the enduring crisis in which Israel is granted the right to exist. That doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for negotiation, and so they have literally painted themselves into a geographical corner of the region called the Gaza Strip where one of their other policies is to grow the Palestinian population in the hopes of eventually wiping Israel off the map by sheer demographic pressure. The political Right Wing of Israel is using exactly the same tactic in the contested West Bank. All of that is tragic, of course, because when the oil age comes to an end the entire region of the southern Levant will probably support one-twentieth of the population of all ethnic groups.
The New York Times reported that street protests against Israel had broken out in London and Paris, giving the impression that some broad national sentiment was being expressed when, in fact, the protesters were from the large Muslim communities that these nations had foolishly invited to immigrate there. Has anyone in the West still failed to notice the pugnacity of Islam in our time? Islam does not want to co-exist with the West anymore than the Palestinians want to grant Israel the right to exist.
Luckily for the West, there is enough animosity between the Islamic factions to distract Islam from its mission to defeat all the great-and-small Satans cluttering up their world. All this is happening as that world lurches into the twilight of the oil age, which until lately had given so much financial leverage to Islam. Really, the entire Middle East, including Israel, has overpopulated itself so severely that the only plausible outcome is the desperate fight over what’s left. A hundred and fifty years ago a mere half million people inhabited the place that is now Israel, and more than 90 percent of them were Arabic. Then came the great Industrial explosion of activity, migrations, and soaring birth rates thanks to fossil fuels. When that phase of history concludes, the population there will go down accordingly.
Over millennia, Israel or Palestine or the Levant (take your pick) has been under the dominion of rotating empires: Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Egyptian Mameluks, the Turks, Great Britain. Who owns what has been an expression of a particular slice of time, and the current time is no different. As a geographical crossroads of trade and cultures, the region is one of the most fought-over places in the world and may continue to be as long as human beings are around. Hamas and the Palestinians in effect declared war on Israel by lobbing rockets out of Gaza and now Israel is answering. The Palestinians have got the war they asked for and they are trying to manipulate world opinion by mingling their war machine in the heart of their population center of Gaza City. Their choice.
The other hot zone in the world right now, Ukraine, got hotter the past week when somebody or some faction shot down a commercial Malaysian airliner. The question that no news organ has so far raised: why are any commercial airlines routing their planes over a war zone? Especially a war zone where other airplanes have been shot down recently. Just how dumb has the human race become?
And as sad as this incident may be, what business is it of the USA to get involved over a downed flight of a foreign airline that originated in the Netherlands and was carrying passengers overwhelmingly of Dutch nationality. Our presumption to involve ourselves in this is flat-out insane. It’s the kind of behavior that leads to world wars.
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Good read JK, yeap, that what the world needs WWIII.
I think JHK gets it fairly right here, although his Jewishness is showing.
If demographics can do it, the Muslims will rule the world eventually. But Kunstler is right. Collapse is not something the jihadists are counting on, and even if they win it’ll be an empty victory. I’m sure that some of them think they can get control of the oil, and that will allow them to starve the West.
Good point about the US not having a dog in this fight.
USA: We’re Relevant!
Birth control by rocket is not the most efficient way to kill off your enemy. But never fear, one or both sides (not to mention Russia, Chechnya or the Ukraine) will figure out a better way and use it.
Now, if Russia loans out SA-11 Systems to idiots (even with a Russian Officer or three telling them “Now push that button!”) when do you suppose they will loan out a tiny nuke (with fresh batteries, of course) to some proxy to enable that proxy to do Russia’s dirty work?
To me it’s gives a whole new meaning to the word “suspense”…
MA
Kunstler, the Zionist gatekeeper, parrots the Zionist lies… conveniently forgetting the crimes committed by the IDF, and the decades of inhumane treatment of Palestinians by Israel, including their apartheid policies (didn’t the world condemn that in S Africa).
Of course the US could stop the “terrorism” in a heartbeat, by cutting off all aid to Israel and providing it to the Palestinians instead. With a fully funded, world class military, the Palestinians would have no need for “suicide bombers” or primitive rocket attacks that do no damage. No, they could simply carry out a “just” (at least it seems to be in the eyes of the west) perpetual traditional war against Israel… as Israel has against Palestine for 60 years!
Is it not true that the vast majority of today’s Jews are descended from Khazars, a warlike tribe of northern Europe that converted to the RELIGION of Judaism? Khazars, as an ethnic group, eventually faded away but the RELIGION of Judaism thrived and grew throughout EUROPE.
That Sephardic Jews, the Jews of the Bible, the REAL Jews, have lived, intermarried with Arabs and are now, today’s PALESTINIANS? That Palestinians are the true descendants of the Jews of the Bible?
That these are the TRUE Semitic peoples, that the Jews of Northern Europe have absolutely NO connection, historically and ethnically with the Jews of the Bible. That the Jews of Northern Europe have absolutely NO claim to the lands of the Middle East?
I offer you this,
And this, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sho/summary/v025/25.4berkowitz.html
And this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ
And this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWfwK3Xc_Y4
And this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTmMWlMu7U
And this,
(this is my land, fuck your Jesus)
No country has a “right” to exist. The Americas already had people living in the lands we now call Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Panama,,, etc. etc.
Countries simply exist according to the situation on the ground which is maintained mostly by force.
Hamas and the Palestinians haven’t just now declared war on Israel. The original inhabitants of the region have been resisting their genocide from the very beginning. Who wouldn’t?
Who will win? Those who stole the land or those from whom the land was stolen? Israel has the 4th largest military in the world. Israel is gifted by the American taxpayer with 3 billion dollars per year and that’s been going on for 60 years.
What if the Palestinians and the real Jews who have lived there for 2,000 years had the same advantage? Who would win? Who would then have a “right” to exist ?
Ona final note , see this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWfwK3Xc_Y4 and this
A final, final note. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+five+dancing+israelis
Wrong final note,, here’s the right one.
to MuckAbout: If birth control by rocket actually worked, then why has the population of Gaza grown by 50%?
to SRV: Last year the U.S. gave $500 million to the Palestinian Authority. The rest of the world also gives money to the Palestinians, but it seems that the leaders don’t spend much of it on their own people. A world-class military in Gaza would mean Hamas could kill lots more Jews since their stated aim is the destruction of Israel. And if you are against apartheid policies, then I assume you are just as outraged by Egypt, which expelled all of its Jewish citizens, Iraq, which expelled its Jewish citizens, and Jordan, which allows no Jews to become citizens or own land.
to PietroPaulo: DNA tests show that 90% of Ashkenazic Jews descended from the Levant. The Levant is the eastern Mediterranean area now covered by Israel, Lebanon, part of Syria, and western Jordan. Sephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants. You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about, so I’m not even going to bother with the rest of your nonsense–you are the typical Jew hater who can only parrot crap instead of bothering to find out facts.
sharonsj
How much did the U.S. give to Israel last year?
Sharonsj,
And of course, you offer no links, books, essays, authors, to back your claims. And you further chose to ignore MY offerings that support my views.
So what ABOUT the five dancing Israelis who were discovered to be dancing with joy and high fiving while the Towers burned? That they took images of one of them holding up a cigarette lighter with the Towers burning in the background?
That a nice, New York Jewish lady called the cops on them?
That after weeks of questioning, they were quietly sent back to Israel.
That ON ISRAELI MEDIA, they declared that their mission was to record the event. That unequivocally means foreknowledge of time and place of the most catastrophic event in America’s history.
That Israel’s staunchest ally and friend was not warned of the coming disaster. That Israel knew exactly what was going to happen, when and where. And that clearly indicates that they knew who REALLY did it.
Some friend, some ally. Look up, The USS Liberty.
But there ARE indications that some Israelis DID warn the US. What does that say about the Bush administration?
i’m glad jim k let me know where he really stands
now i know i can ignore anything he ever says again
@Pietropaulo: “That ON ISRAELI MEDIA, they declared that their mission was to record the event. That unequivocally means foreknowledge of time and place of the most catastrophic event in America’s history.
That Israel’s staunchest ally and friend was not warned of the coming disaster. That Israel knew exactly what was going to happen, when and where. And that clearly indicates that they knew who REALLY did it. ”
SOMEBODY warned someone…like Larry Silverstein, who took out over a $1B insurance policy on the towers, and what about those puts on American and United airlines stock just the day before?
If a Palestinian homeland was so important why didn’t the Jordanians, the Syrians or even the Egyptians give them a homeland prior to Jews setting up Israel ?
Just how dumb has the human race become? I coined a phrase a while back that I think nails it, “Too stupid to Live”
Cunstler”s showing his true colours.