ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?

Bring it on. I'm ready for WWIII as long as the PRC is in on it too, I want a piece of 'em.

I am an athiest and globalist.
I live in Germany and I know what i type now.
Germany is still notorious for 13 years of barbaric behaviour
for which as a citizen of Germany i stoop my head and kiss the feets of all the decent citizens around the globe( though personally neither my family nor my poorself was responseble)

Karl Marx is a jew like jesus.
Unfortunately both jews are unpopular in Germany and ISRAEL.
Why?
Forget about the plight of Palestheians who are homeless like the pitiable millions with a country to boast but life to live and die peacefully..
Let me appeal to this.
Touch your conscience if you have one

hanno wrote:

Bring it on. I'm ready for WWIII as long as the PRC is in on it too, I want a piece of 'em.

The PRC? How did they get into this?

Like, just because there's an EU, and there is relative peace amongst European countries, doesn't mean European countries suddenly want to be altruistic. That would be too much like the United States, and we couldn't expect Continental Europe to act like the United States, could we now?

This piece predates by two or three days some of the more recent ones posted. The interesting thing is that Israel was apparently delivering and willing to deliver fuel, food, and medicine to Gaza in lieu of allowing free border access, but this was deemed 'insufficient'.

Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Wednesday March 22, 2006
The Guardian


Widespread bread rationing has been introduced in the Gaza Strip because Israel has cut off deliveries of flour and other foodstuffs to the Palestinian territory for most of the past two months.
The military reopened the main cargo crossing into Gaza yesterday under US pressure to allow in humanitarian supplies, but the UN said the terminal was working at only a fraction of capacity. The Israelis say that the closure has been forced by security warnings but the Palestinians accuse them of using the crossing as a political tool after the Hamas election victory, and in breach of pledges to the US.

"The bakeries are rationing bread," said John Ging, director of UN operations in Gaza. "People queue and they're given a coupon and a rationed amount ... The shelves are quite empty. There's no sugar, oil, milk, the basics. The shops are really depleted on those essential items."

The Palestinian deputy economy minister, Nasser Sarraj, said about two-thirds of Gaza bakeries had closed due to lack of flour, and many restaurants have shut. Fuel shortages have also contributed to sharply rising commodity prices.

On Monday, Israel allowed Karni crossing to open for less than an hour to permit deliveries of wheat, Coca-Cola and crisps. Before that it was operating only intermittently for almost two months.

Mr Ging said yesterday's deliveries of wheat were limited because the terminal was working at only 10% of capacity.

"This is the first time that bread has been rationed," he said. "Palestinians are very resilient people and they would always have their reserves. However, as the crossing has been closed for 60% of the time since January 1 this year, this is unprecedented. Last year the crossing was closed for 18% of the time."

Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli defence ministry official responsible for liaising with the Palestinians on Karni, said the closures were entirely a matter of security.

"The shortage of basic foodstuffs was weighed against the terror threat, and the logical decision to open it for a limited amount of time was made with the hope the Palestinians will uphold their commitments," he told Israel radio.

But Palestinian officials and some Israeli analysts believe there is a political motive. Some have described the closures as a collective punishment of Palestinians for electing a Hamas government, and a means to pressure the new administration. Israel has also used the closure of Karni to pressure Palestinians to use the cargo crossing at Kerem Shalom, near the Egyptian border. Palestinian officials resisted because they say it is a part of a ploy by Israel to close Karni completely and isolate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank.

Now if Egypt started some public works projects close to the the Gaza Strip, jobs could be given to the Palestinians. What type of public works? Well, it has been awhile since the last pyramid has been built in Egypt. Filming it could also lead to a documentary.

It could even launch a film career for some Palestinians. If not in Hollywood, than perhaps Bollywood? There's certainly enough "extras," what with all the Palestinians protesting this or that on the news.

My tongue-in-cheek thought above is based on the musing that the Palestinians might be best served if they were annexed by Egypt. And, the West Bank Palestinians became part of Jordan.

In other words, as the world has seen, the Palestinians have a divided politic, and they want Israel out of their lives. Perhaps, the Palestinians are better off if they became part of an established Middle Eastern country? In my own opinion, the window of opportunity, for the Palestinians to have their own State, won't remain open forever. Their existential concerns may be solved, but not in the manner they would have chosen, since they just didn't make the grade, so to speak, when the window of opportunity was open. In the way of analogy, like how many years is a student allowed to be a social, social senior?

RAFAH, Egypt - Hamas militants joined Egyptian forces for a second day Monday in trying to restore control at three breaches in the Gaza border, building a chain-link fence to seal off one opening and directing traffic at two others.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have flooded into Egypt unchecked over the past six days since Hamas militants blasted holes in the border partition. They have been voraciously buying up food, fuel and other goods made scarce by Israeli and Egyptian closures of Gaza's borders.

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I still maintain that if the Palestinian government would simply call for a permanent cease fire and acknowledge Israel's right to exist, the conflict between Israel and Palestinians would be over.
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Israel is an apartheid state with the necessary armament to enforce their bigotry - all with the blessing of the US.

I see little objective basis on which to prefer Israeli tribalism to the Palestinian version. The issues here of course involve, not so much the Israeli treatment of its Palestinian citizens, as their treatment of the much larger number of inhabitants of the occupied territories. There are very few historical precedents for such long-term oppression and ill-treatment of a captive people - particularly at the hands of states that claim to adhere to modern Western concepts of freedom and democracy.

georgeob1 wrote:

I see little objective basis on which to prefer Israeli tribalism to the Palestinian version. The issues here of course involve, not so much the Israeli treatment of its Palestinian citizens, as their treatment of the much larger number of inhabitants of the occupied territories. There are very few historical precedents for such long-term oppression and ill-treatment of a captive people - particularly at the hands of states that claim to adhere to modern Western concepts of freedom and democracy.

I'm only guessing, but perhaps the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories is a vestige of how Jews were treated for a thousand years in the ghettos of Europe. Only a guess.