If I could draw and could figure out how to do it in a way that wasn't offensive to reasonable people, I'd draw a...
If I could draw and could figure out how to do it in a way that wasn't offensive to reasonable people, I'd draw a parody of the old "Spy vs. Spy" cartoons from Mad magazine. I'd call it "Theocrat vs. Theocrat," because that's what's going on-- what always goes on-- in the Middle East. I don't join some of my fellow liberals in radical anti-Israel speech, though it is certainly true that Israel often behaves in an extremely baffling manner for the victims of the most famous attempted genocide in human history. Still and all, to me the whole thing just looks like Old Testament my-god-is-better-than-your-god cheerleading with 20th/21st century weapons. Joshua sending drones over the walls of Jericho.
I'd go along with that if the two sides were equally armed. The Palestinian's rockets are a joke and have not caused many deaths - certain;y not in comparison to the Israeli jets, mortars, bombs, tanks etc. - the UN needs to step in and push Israel back to the 1948 borders, give the Palestinians their own country back and access to their natural resources (including the trillion dollars or so of natural gas that is sitting off the Gaza strip in Palestinian territory.
ReplyDeleteDoug Alder I don't disagree. Israel's behavior makes no sense at all to me. I guess you have to give them credit for not nuking the entire region. I guess. Still and all, they are a theocracy and I don't understand why an Age of Reason constitutional representative democracy like ours is supposed to be supports them without question. We weren't the bad guys in WWII, but our Israel policy behaves like we were.
ReplyDeleteThat said, the Sea People > Philistines > Palestinians arrived in the Levant three millennia ago, around the same time as the Biblical Hebrews and they've been fighting over their ridiculous theologies ever since. I think it's okay for the rest of us to be done with it.