The Farm Manager has family in Israel. We're not tight or anything, but she hears through the extended family grapevine that the latest round of giving the terrorists a good slap hasn't enhanced their peace of mind.
What? The terrorists can hit Tel Aviv with sewer pipe rockets ? Fuck that, we're moving back to California.
Well into the 1960s, and this may well have been delusional, but well-intentioned people believed there could be a harmonious integration of the Jewish State into the Middle East. I for one believe there could have been. Edgar Bronfman thought there could have been. Yitzak Rabin thought there could have been.
After 1973 the US money became a toxic threat to the hopes of those who believed in harmonious integration. The arrival of the Russians in large numbers in the early nineties shifted Israeli politics irreparably rightward and more rightward, to the point where Israel is today seen in most of the world as a quasi-fascist apartheid state.
Along the way, Israel has provoked war after war with its neighbours and its caged Gaza population. None of these wars have done Israel one iota of good. Instead, they have fortified the position of the most belligerent and racist segments of Israeli politics. All of these wars of choice have been facilitated and paid for by America.
America has more than enough problems to solve at home. It's time to cut Israel loose.
That's the best hope for peace in the Middle East.
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