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A Bridge To Nowhere
"The people of Gaza can finally recover and rebuild."
So said Joe Biden on Wednesday, after Israel and Hamas tentatively agreed to a 42-day ceasefire.
The terms of what'll likely prove to be a very tenuous truce call for the release of nearly three-dozen Israeli hostages in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
The IDF will pull back from populated areas in what's now an uninhabitable moonscape, giving Gazans an opportunity to -- I don't know -- dig the rem
The capacity for true evil exists in humans. Unfortunately, of this I am sure.
Cruelty has a human heart – William Blake
It was Churchill — or was it Harold Macmillan? — who allegedly said jaw-jaw is better than war-war. I wonder if anyone else thinks the events of the last eighteen months throws the wisdom of that saying into question?
It was MacMillan and he was dealing with a contracting empire still recovering from 2 world wars which had wiped out entire generations of Brits. There was no stomach for another fight.
H-Man, Hamas draws first blood, Israel goes nuclear and flattens Gaza — then it becomes time to sit down and work things out. I guess that last part is good but what a price to pay for everybody to stand down,
You’d think, ” why don’t those people settle in other friendly Arab countries and stop this never-ending killing of each other?”
None of those countries want these future killers. Let them all stay over there, close to Israel.
That is my opinion.
There you go, Lee. Demonize a whole people while providing no historical context whatsoever. This is the kind of comment that adds no value. None.
If you don’t have anything to add, why bother?
You comment frequently regarding your disdain for Putin and Donald Trump and, more generally, what sounds like disappointment for the decline of democracy. Well, guess what? Israel’s not a democracy, Lee. It never has been, and to the extent it was, Netanyahu’s determined that it won’t be going forward.
Israel has two choices: Pursue a two-state solution and within the Jewish state, allow for more multiculturalism and re-democratization, or keep pursuing autocracy and genocide under a security state model. The latter strategy’s not working so well, on the off chance you haven’t noticed.
I prefer “Speak softly and carry a big stick”. Jaw jaw doesn’t work with an implacable foe whose only goal when finally driven to negotiations is to buy time to rebuild to then try again to wipe you from the face of the earth.
Quagmire. Maybe an irreconcilable quagmire.