Are You Really What You Eat?

Many people look at the so-called election that took place in Gaza and conclude that the people of Gaza support the eradication of Israel and the establishment of a Islamic caliphate, approve of their methods, and/or are complicit in what is happening now. Still there are others who say that Israel is attacking the duly elected government that represents the people of Gaza.

People seem to forget that their other choice in that election (which was fabricated by the United States under the direction of that miserable failure in knee high boots, Condoleeza Rice) was Fatah, a party that, under Yassir Arafat, and then under Mahmoud Abbas, embezzled billions in financial and material aid, keeping them in abject poverty and pawns in a scheme where terror is more profitable than peace. Seeing their leaders driving BMWs and wearing fine Italian suits while there are people without indoor plumbing, etc probably didn’t help matters.

Hamas ran an excellent propaganda campaign, opening clinics and schools. Even though the majority of Gazans are not subscribers to the radical Islamist agenda that is incrementally bringing sharia law to the territory, when faced with a choice between what they had before and something seemingly the lesser of two evils, or something new, they chose Hamas (which, ironically ran as the "Change and Reform" coalition in conjunction with a handful of non- Hamas candidates).  Every four years we end up doing the same thing. Both our parties are demonstrably corrupt. Both have endorsed and legislated an eroding of our constitutional rights, etc. The big difference is that they’re not forcing us to live at the end of a barrel of a gun…not yet anyway.

Though the current sentiment on the streets of Gaza may be anger and outrage with Israel, I suspect that if you gave them the choice of living in peace and coexisting with Israel, or living with Hamas rule and the constant threat of bombings and infiltration by the IDF, I have to believe that they would choose the former. The problem is that currently there is no force in the Palestinian body politic that has the power to stand up to the armed thugs running things.

The fact that the world community has not made any moves to change this speaks to the worldwide acceptance of the genocidal policies of both Fatah and Hamas. So to me the question is not whether there are enough peaceful Palestinians to work with, but whether there are enough players in the world at large that don’t tacitly support the destruction of Israel, that will help dismantle the terror kleptocracy, and give the Palestinian people the chance to build legitimate political institutions that function without the destruction of Israel as their raison d’etre.

The fact that the United States has also largely been silent on that issue, and has sought to legitimate the corrupt Fatah apparatus as a political body, is the best argument in refuting the misguided notion that there is a Jewish/Pro Israel cabal that is influencing our foreign policy, in addition to the fact that our State Department is notorious for selling out Israeli security interests in favor of OPEC, a long standing currency the United States will spend to keep oil prices low when necessary.

The Hamas margin of victory was not that great either in terms of percentages, not one that anyone would call a mandate (though it garnered around 30 more seats that Fatah in the parliament). Perhaps there should have been a third choice on the ballot: "Why don't both of you go fuck yourselves?" I have a feeling that would have been the winner.

The Palestinian people have faced shit, shittier and shittiest as their choices for years. If the world community really gave a flying fuck about the Palestinian people they would do something about that fact. So far the world community's solution is fuck Israel. The only reason that option hasn't worked out is that Israel has more weapons.

Fact: Israel is not going to allow a Palestinian state to be formed when it is going to be run by a terror kleptocracy, and all the bitching by Leftist arm-chair protestors, who have nothing to lose or gain other than a selfish feeling of [false] moral superiority, is not going to change that fact.

Fact: If you object to Israeli military action in Gaza and are not actively working to help end the terror kleptocracies standing in the way of peace, then you are not a friend of the Palestinians, you are anti-Israeli.

Fact: Israel, in the end, doesn't give a fuck whether Left Wing American arm-chair protestors march in the streets. It's just another reminder of how little value the world gives Jewish lives since they never open their fat thoughtless mouths when Jewish children die.

So if you really care about the Palestinians you'll actually do something to help them be able to live free of the terror kleptocracies that do nothing but insure war with Israel without end. But that would entail actually doing something other than bitching.

Good luck with that.