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[ritaxis]

I wish for justice.



On a related front:

So. Here's the thing I don't understand why nobody's talking about, not even, so far as I can tell, The Nation:

So they pulled all the illegal Israeli settlers out of Gaza, and then they blockaded the roads in and out, not letting Palestinians carry on normal business or trade. They lobbed missiles into Gaza from the moment the pullout was effected, something that nobody but me seems to remember. Gaza has been under seige all along. Israel has also demanded, and gotten, and international embargo on basic aid to this bit of land where self-sufficiency has never been allowed to grow, where every attempt to have normal relations with the world has been rigorously squashed. Okay. I understand that people want to maintain a fiction that the conflict is symmetrical, that Israel, a fairly wealthy nation with a sophisticated army and nuclear weapons and ongoing subsidies from the US, is equally under threat from the Palestinians. I don't understand why but I do understand that it is the case.

But why is the state of seige being ignored? Why is the fact that the Palestinians have been locked up without the ability to ship out their produce, or trade, or get their ill and injured to hospital, -- not to mention simply visiting their own relatives, which I understand is a luxury and a resistant occupied population has no actual right to it -- why is this completely out of the minds of the world?

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Not to put too fine a point on it

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

Everyone in this go-round are acting like assholes. Eye for an eye bring it on.

The Israelis have apprently forgotten any Nazi inconveniences, because they seem prepared to act exactly the same way against innocent Palestinians.

The Arab Countries have an interest in stirred up Palestinians, so they haven't done anything to tray and help, ever since the 1949 or whatever vote to set up Israel.

One of the policial blogs I read suggested we should have started with the Saudis, (I'm not finding the other two). Because they were sectarian governments interested in sending out people, like Bin Ladin, to stir up trouble because "those other so called islamic countries aren't holy enough"

I've got no use for it. They're all going to tear their own bellies out and eat their own guts, I just wish our troops weren't in the midst. The same may be said of Africa. there once there is an idea of extra money to be made through scamming the system, all governmental principals go out the door and they start tearing out and eating their own guts.

yMMV... I don't even know what we can do about it. I don't think our troops should be in the way of such sectarian violence.

Re: Not to put too fine a point on it

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

The Israelis have apprently forgotten any Nazi inconveniences, because they seem prepared to act exactly the same way against innocent Palestinians.

I'm not the most politically savvy, but I've always got the impression that the Nazis are the Israelis' trump card: we were treated in the worst way ever, so now it's okay if we're paranoid and cruel, and besides, we'll never be as bad as they were, because they were Nazis.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, of course, it's only being ignored by US papers, and the US government. There used to be a certain rough realpolitik sense to this--I don't defend it--, but now that the cold war is over, it's just old policy, out of context. The whole conflict is a moral swamp, and it seems we need great moral leadership to get get out of it.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Because Washington is "in" with the Israel lobby. In fact, there was a WashPost article on it...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071201627.html