Jordan's queen is now on MSNBC making an effective case that people denied basic human supplies are what's brought this on, and says the U.N. agrees. Both she and the U.N., she says, have noticed that while Israel claims that relief trucks are being let in, it's just an insufficient token few trucks while the number of relief trucks needed are being denied access to the area.
And reporters are being kept out. If Israel is as justified as all that, why are they not allowing honest reporting?
A secular solution is the only best answer to the insanities of religion on both sides. Period. As far as Palestinians doing for themselves, it's amazing how many people think it's doable to hogtie them and then expect them to do anything. You mean to tell me that even with Israel control over electricity, fresh water, food, and supplies needed for sanitation hasn't resulted in a less-seething barrel of fish to shoot at? Aw gee, I wonder why THAT is.
The problem with Mike Ross is his vested interest in the fiction of revisionist history. Mike, you have no standing to preach about digging into history when your version of history is at odds with history of record. History of record shows that there was no Jewish rule over Jewish lands as such since Alexander the Great, that any Jewish people there were residents as citizens of other regimes including the Mithraic Kingdoms, and during the Mithraic era, was Syria's land.
By your reasoning, Chinatown in California and Chinatown in New York are both Chinese lands. Under the Roman Empire, Jews were Romans. Under the Ottoman Empire, Jews were Ottomans...those lands were Syrian lands, Roman lands, and Ottoman, respectively. Just because you live someplace doesn't mean that it's automatically the land of your family's place of origin.
P.S. to M Green:
"How do you make peace with this?" The same way Israel did when it was arming Hamas to destablize the Palestinian Authority, that's how. Yep, Israel was a supporter of Hamas. Why don't you pose youre question to the Knesset?
Hello, M Green. You and a lot of Israelis who genuinely desire peace but feel like you don't know what else to do should view an excellent documentary about the message that you're not getting. It's called "Occupation 101". It's difficult for the occupying side to understand what it's like living in occupation. Try it sometime.
Understand, please, that I'm not defending Hamas' rockets; I'm simply stating why it is that a group of surrounded people whose livelihoods and life basics have been constricted while a wall pretending to be a security measure is actually a land grab committed by people who wish to destroy a 7th century mosque built under a treaty they refuse to recognize.
There is the encroachment by illegal settlements and the bulldozing of the homes that legitimately belong there to make room for illegal settlers. The problem is the whole picture. If somebody took a bulldozer to your house and claimed your land as theirs, you would...what....turn handsprings and say "you can bulldoze my house and take my land! Enjoy!"?
Walk a mile in their shoes, live the life of occupation, and you will understand.
An accurate perspective on the Levant is the independent documentary film "Occupation 101". Joan, you hit the nail right on the head--Israel isn't so much an independent state as it is a dependency of the United States, and the only interest the U.S. really has in Israel is its role as bulwark for oil.
Once the U.S. stops, as T. Boone Pickins says, exporting our wealth to countries that don't like us, we will end our dependence on Arab oil. Once that happens, Israel will be seen as a bleeder of precious U.S. resources...the parasite that it is.
Here we are in a major financial crunch and we're still funding...what, now? Bulldozers for other Rachel Corries? Please. We're best buddies with the Saudis, or hasn't anyone in Israel noticed?
A Muslim country that has freedom of etc is Turkey--but don't call it a Muslim country. It's officially secular.
It takes a secular government to civilize barbaric religions.
Where you have illegal migration you also have human trafficking. Where you have unregulated markets, you have racketeering. Where you have unregulated firearms, you have warlords.
Thank you, Rick. The whole nonsense about Master Races and Chosen People are rooted in Angle-Saxony (Germany), as is Yiddish (Bavarian German). Such is the nature of the concept of royalty, too ("blue-bloods", as if their blood isn't red like in the rest of us).
Consider that the House of Windsor did a name change to smokescreen their own German origin. They changed it to Windsor from Saxe-Coburn, a German house. It's the Angles who have traditionally claimed to be an angelic race,after all, as their name suggests.
And it's all religio-racist tommyrot. This business of an "Aryan Nation" embraces a false notion of "IndoEuropean" to the extent that the Hindu-fomented caste system is embraced, and, woudln't you know it--they fancy themselves to bhe the Brahmins and everybody else is inconsequential.
The Middle East is just a patch of desert. The only thing that makes it a threat to the planet is the religions of the misbegotten people fighting over it.
How the dickens did that get double-posted?????????
Michael, let's try again. Hamas = Taliban = Christofascists = Israeli illegal settlers/settlements. They all think they're God's warriors (see also Christianne Amanpour's documentary by that name; see also the documentary film "Occupation 101").
Nothing makes a monkey of Abraham's God than his believers in the Middle East, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim alike.
And you ARE all alike.