Pat Oliphant for July 16, 2014

I don’t agree with everything the Israeli government does, but how many times have they come to the peace table, or agree to a truce verses their enemy? How many times did they break the truce? We Americans are lucky. We have the patient Canadiens to our north, who put up with us and still wear a smile. To the south,…Mexico, who certainly don’t like us. We are not surrounded by people who have hatred and revenge as part of their religion, and openly dedicate themselves to our utter oblivion!

Someone once pointed out that the Middle East has been a battleground since the beginning of recorded history (including the Bible)—Assyrians, Egyptians, Israelites, Romans, Persians, Greeks, Crusaders, Palestinians, Turks… (an incomplete list in no particular order)

The road to perdition is filled with vile intentions.

What a horrible twisted telling of true history.

I’ve always had a feeling that the Middle Eastern situation would trigger WW III. I hope I’m dead and gone before it happens. :-(

‘toon is absolutely right, and I’m frankly sick of folks supporting EITHER side in this tribal dustup between two packs of intransigent psychotics.

Nina Paley summed it up in a short cartoon video…..

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/

“God shouldn’t be put in charge of everything until we get to know Him a little better.” — Kurt Vonnegut.

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I spent a few weeks one summer listening to the U.N. hearings during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, when Israel took a lot of territory quickly and humiliated the other side..There was a hefty U.N. official involved at that time that sat hunched over, and Oliphant portrayed him in a cartoon (I’m trying to access rapidly failing memory, here). I clipped that cartoon and had it, along with a whole folder of others, for many years..No doubt all this can be found somewhere on the Internet. That whole area has been in conflict and changed hands back and forth among empires for thousands of years. It’s such a small area, by modern standards..How much progress we have made since then — spreading our human squabbles over the entire planet!

What is so hard to understand about the Israeli situation? The Hamas and its sponsor and supplier Iran have sworn to eradicate Israel from the face of the earth. Israelis are simply defending themselves in a sea of anti-Semitism both surrounding them and in most of Europe.(The way it looks Europe thought that Hitler did not finish the slaughter he carried out against six million Jews. President Obama behaves as if what is happening is all Israel’s fault and He and John Kerry lecture them on being more forthcoming. With friends like the Obama Administration who needs enemies!

Just a note on “Palestinian”. When Israel was created by the U.N. as a modern state in 1948, while Hebrew was supposed to be the “official language”, for decades after becoming a state, most of those “Israelis” actually spoke RUSSIAN or other Eastern European languages. As the Ukraine explodes, and Israel launches another ground invasion on lands the U.N, Balfour, and Peel Commissions ALL said should be part of an ARAB HOMELAND, not just a Jewish homeland, one has to look at history with a view through the fog of Zionist B.S. saturating U.S. coverage of “events”.

Had the U.N. insisted on the Peel Commission boundaries, including Arab control of East Jerusalem, certainly not all, but MUCH of the conflict would have been resolve decades ago. It has been ISRAELI refusal to actually negotiate honestly, especially regarding Jerusalem since their 1967 war on all their neighbors, where THEY attacked first in surprise attacks reminiscent of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, that has caused over 80% of the problems.

Being against totalitarian regimes honestly looked at, is NOT being “anti-Semite” or anti-Jewish, it is anti-totalitarian subjugation of a trapped, and deported, population of people with legitimate claims.

Just a note on “Palestinian”. When Israel was created by the U.N. as a modern state in 1948, while Hebrew was supposed to be the “official language”, for decades after becoming a state, most of those “Israelis” actually spoke RUSSIAN or other Eastern European languages. As the Ukraine explodes, and Israel launches another ground invasion on lands the U.N, Balfour, and Peel Commissions ALL said should be part of an ARAB HOMELAND, not just a Jewish homeland, one has to look at history with a view through the fog of Zionist B.S. saturating U.S. coverage of “events”.

Had the U.N. insisted on the Peel Commission boundaries, including Arab control of East Jerusalem, certainly not all, but MUCH of the conflict would have been resolve decades ago. It has been ISRAELI refusal to actually negotiate honestly, especially regarding Jerusalem since their 1967 war on all their neighbors, where THEY attacked first in surprise attacks reminiscent of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, that has caused over 80% of the problems.

Being against totalitarian regimes honestly looked at, is NOT being “anti-Semite” or anti-Jewish, it is anti-totalitarian subjugation of a trapped, and deported, population of people with legitimate claims.

All religions are shot through with internal divisions, sects and schisms, whose adherents hate each other more than they hate theadherents of other religions. Organised religion is responsible foran inordinate share of the death, destruction and misery in theworld, especially when it fuels nationalism.

Because the “young male hotheads and politicians” are running things — from the US to the Middle East. And everytime one of them does something stupid, another one has to retaliate with something even more stupid.

this may not be so far from the truth.

Over all, the above posts are anti-Israel,our best ally in the region.

. . .Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away".

from Ozymandias

I’ve only seen one interview with a resident of Gaza who said ; “We just want to live in peace, I don’t know who’s crazier, the Jews or the Arabs!”All the rest of the interviews sound like The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail .

The good thing is that both sides seemed to have found a way to bury the hatchet. 8^)