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In reply to the discussion: My only post on the ME crisis [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Will explain to you my cynicism.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5312275
As to the response of our political class...that sub thread will explain it too. If these were Martians, rah, rah for the Martians!
My view is far more nuanced, both sides need to stop. Tit for tat will leave all dead and blind.
And the citizens on both sides have to figure out how to get rid of current leaders. I also understand this...because I have lived it with Mexico. Americans tend to be very insular and look at issues purely from the US perspective. Local politics are mostly ignored. Also the filter is, what is in this for us?
I understand why Israeli civilians are for these operations. First, media has gone into war time broadcasting. So there are certain things Channel four is not showing, or at the bottom of the broadcast. But they are tired. Camp David was supposed to lead to peace, and on and on and on. The withdrawal from Gaza was supposed to end terror attacks. It has not.
You know who Israelis blame for this? Labor. The left, those bloody traitors. Israeli youth is hardening in it's views. Those kids will be patrolling Rafa at the pace we are going.
On the other side, many in Gaza blame Hamas, who promised ponies and rainbows and infrastructure since Fatah really never delivered. Instead they got people who have invested like not in what they promised to deliver. So many in Gaza are pissed. But how do you protest when you might be charged with being an Israeli collaborator? Bullets come next.
Of course the idea of a unity government scares Tel Aviv, but that is neither here or there.
None of this has made it through our media bubble. Then again, after the lousy coverage of Mexican and Canadian politics, I expect nothing on the other side of the world.
So if you must know, I feel empathy for all the kids in this mess. The adults, I wish I could take their leaders, get them into a room, close the door and not open it until they agreed to break the cycle. More than that, they broke it. This he's evil, no, he's evil...will only dig that trench deeper. And as a daughter of a holocaust survivor this horrifies me to my core.
I also expect to go to my grave with the conflict still ongoing. Yup, that horrifically simple. And with some radicals on both sides, some American Jews and Arabs...it will get even more fun. (Yup, a group of loons intends to rebuild the temple, another group of loons intends to defend the Al Aqsah mosque, and get Jerusalem as their capital and still talk of killing all Jews)