A friend recently send me a forty year old article by the late Charles Krauthammer that offers a sharp insight on the Left's present-day siding with Hamas.
The foundational principle of Marxism is division. If division doesn't already exist, they invent it. In the case of Israel v. "Palestine" - well, that divisiveness has existed for some time. I like your analogizing it to "tourism" - for here, the Marxists have the opportunity to see genuine divisiveness, which they stoke and foment much like the gardeners keeping the hedges at a fancy resort.
“It’s not that new, though. I've seen, across the years, some loathsome types openly saying stuff like "Give the Jews some desert in Arizona, and move them all out of the Middle East." At this juncture, it's worth reiterating that Israel has agreed to, many times, a two-state solution, and has been rebuffed at every turn. Yasser Arafat had a chance at that, but would likely have been murdered by his own people should he have made that sort of peace with the Israelis.”
“Two blind eyes for that which they choose to ignore: the hostages. As of now, Hamas still has 107 hostages (and the bodies of 25 more). Best I can find, 18 are women and 2 are children. I don't see the cease-fire demanders also demand that Hamas release all the remaining hostages as part of that cease-fire, nor do I see any mention of the utter brutality inflicted upon either the hostages or the 1200+ Israelis killed in the initial attack.”
Peter, I am going to start commenting on your blogs on our NRPLUS FB page, hopefully to expose you to a wider audience.
Thank you. I do post some of them there.
The foundational principle of Marxism is division. If division doesn't already exist, they invent it. In the case of Israel v. "Palestine" - well, that divisiveness has existed for some time. I like your analogizing it to "tourism" - for here, the Marxists have the opportunity to see genuine divisiveness, which they stoke and foment much like the gardeners keeping the hedges at a fancy resort.
The basic problem is that two groups want the same land. I don't see how you resolve that.
It's a problem as old as human history.
How has this been resolved throughout human history?
If diplomacy and compromise fail, then force. War, if you prefer.
I was a physicist/engineer and, in my world, a SWAG was a scientific-wild-ass-guess.
That was them dressing it up pretty......
Thank you.
“It’s not that new, though. I've seen, across the years, some loathsome types openly saying stuff like "Give the Jews some desert in Arizona, and move them all out of the Middle East." At this juncture, it's worth reiterating that Israel has agreed to, many times, a two-state solution, and has been rebuffed at every turn. Yasser Arafat had a chance at that, but would likely have been murdered by his own people should he have made that sort of peace with the Israelis.”
“Two blind eyes for that which they choose to ignore: the hostages. As of now, Hamas still has 107 hostages (and the bodies of 25 more). Best I can find, 18 are women and 2 are children. I don't see the cease-fire demanders also demand that Hamas release all the remaining hostages as part of that cease-fire, nor do I see any mention of the utter brutality inflicted upon either the hostages or the 1200+ Israelis killed in the initial attack.”
Absurd. Actually, sick and absurd. It leaves me in such a profound state of disgust.