The Nation Comments on the Middle East Situation
In an email from a couple of minutes ago, The Nation explains to its readers the real source of all of the bloodshed and violence in the Middle East. And wouldn't you know it, it's a cynical Israeli ploy to get more land:
The Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has exploited the capture of Army Corporal Gilad Shalit to restore the country's diminished deterrence against militant Palestinian factions, to break the elected Hamas government and to impose its unilateral territorial solution on the West Bank. But, as Marwan Bishara writes, when the dust finally settles, Israel's offensive against the besieged territories--and now Lebanon--will have left the region with more destruction and death and the Israeli government with the same strategic deadlock.
What - exactly - has to happen before Western liberal sophisticates will be willing to listen to the argument that maybe... just maybe... there might be something to this whole "there are Arabs who just want to wipe out Israel" theory? Because apparently, coming across a border to commit kidnap and murder isn't enough while declaring that you intend to liberate all of "Occupied Palestine" isn't enough.
Seriously, we're just asking.
The Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has exploited the capture of Army Corporal Gilad Shalit to restore the country's diminished deterrence against militant Palestinian factions, to break the elected Hamas government and to impose its unilateral territorial solution on the West Bank. But, as Marwan Bishara writes, when the dust finally settles, Israel's offensive against the besieged territories--and now Lebanon--will have left the region with more destruction and death and the Israeli government with the same strategic deadlock.
What - exactly - has to happen before Western liberal sophisticates will be willing to listen to the argument that maybe... just maybe... there might be something to this whole "there are Arabs who just want to wipe out Israel" theory? Because apparently, coming across a border to commit kidnap and murder isn't enough while declaring that you intend to liberate all of "Occupied Palestine" isn't enough.
Seriously, we're just asking.
