An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday. So the sufferings of the press will remain the big story in the endless Middle East savagery.
When are we going to start to take this problem seriously? I'll bet everyone under the age of 35 thinks that the world's greatest threat is global warming. If that is true, how do we see the Middle East problem being resolved, a struggle between two completely egocentric, self-absorbed cultures who have no regard for anything but their own desires? The Palestinians going away somewhere? Israel suffering a knockout and becoming a dwarf state or being banished to Guam?
The things we know are these: On the Palestine side, they have been trying to regain their territory since the late 1940s and there is no evidence they will give up their homeland. And they have proven wonderful proxies for other enemies of Israel who will support their fodder indefinitely. The Palestinian armory has been improving every several years; rifles have been replaced by rockets. What will the Middle East armorers give them next? From the Israeli position, they think this is their ancestral homeland and feel they need some place of safety. So they have amassed 90 nuclear weapons and have the material for 200 more.
At some point, Hamas is going to get tactical weapons from Iran or Pakistan. What then? Are we going to rely upon their better natures? So what are the possible scenarios here? Israel eventually gets worn down? Isreal eventually gets overrun?
Israel in chains? In camps? Does anyone think the Israelis are going quietly into the night? Or, as Israel staggers under the unending hostilities of their neighbors, will they strike back and, like Sampson, pull the whole area--with its oil--down on them. After all, how many targets are there in the Middle East for their 90 nukes?
If Israel is defeated, the Middle East will be uninhabitable for a thousand years.
No comments:
Post a Comment