What was the excuse this time? Oh right... three Jewish teenagers were killed by some unknown person or persons. Most assume that someone was a Palestinian, but there was no trial. Israel of course decided that they would be handling this like any civilized country handles a murder case: by bombing an entire city. Obviously the fact that a Palestinian boy was burned alive by Israelis the following week would have no bearing on the collective punishment that was to be doled out. It was payback time, and this wasnt going to be a light tit-for-tat airstrike. No, they were going to do this right: full out bombardment and ground troops. Time to reduce the rubble of Gaza down to a more manageable patch of sand (or better yet smear it off the map completely). So Tuesday it began, and so far forty or so Palestinians have been killed, at least eight of them children, but anyone who knows Israeli math understands that we still have a long way to go until the death of those three teenagers is balanced out. I can never remember how many brown skinned corpses a single white corpse is worth (algebra was never my strongest subject). The good news is that we can count on the U.S. media to give us a play by play account of every homemade rocket being fired out of Palestine. So far no Israelis have been killed by them, but its still very dramatic to hear about, and it helps keep the attention off the images of dismembered Palestinian women and children in the streets. Whatever is left of the collective consciousness is then sponged up by the World Cup. Can you believe how Germany ran up the score on Brazil last night? What an outrage! That friendly media coverage is almost as helpful as the three billion dollars a year the United States sends Israel each year. Almost. Of course some will always say that Israel shouldnt be getting U.S. tax dollars like this, especially when you have cities like Detroit crumbling in on themselves, but Im sure youll agree that Israels desire to bomb its neighbors significantly outweighs such petty concerns. Think of it as a down payment towards the glass crater weve been saving up for in the middle east. We will of course continue whine about other discretionary spending, but our nations commitment to propping up Israel (and Kiev, and the Syrian rebels) is sacrosanct. Why? Dont ask silly questions like that. Go watch Fox news and get back to me once youve rewritten what little you know about history. Geez. Speaking of history I think its worth commemorating the progress weve made over the past 50 years. Take a gander at the map below and just imagine what it will look like a decade. Inspiring isnt it?
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:04:51 +0000
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