Masopher's Mind

So there is this “quartet”, the USA, Europe, Russia and the rest of the world(The UN) and they have gotten together in Russia to decide what to do about Israel. Lately Israel’s Likud coalition government has all but given the finger to the EU and USA.

The UN and Russia are quite concerned about this because Israel seemed to have come so far until it decided to fuck up the Gaza strip, attack the UN and basically murder a lot of Palestinians in the name of political gains. Israel has flaunted its friendships by travelling to non threatening Arab states using European passports to assassinate Israel’s enemies. Israel has actively broken down relationships with Turkey and Syria. Israel has officially called American president an anti-Semite. Israel has allowed its right wing elements to continue Zionist expansion into the few remaining Palestinian enclaves left for the landless people. Israel has turned sites revered by Jewish and other religions into Jew only sites.

Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly lost control of his rightist elements and lost control of his government. While the Palestinian authority and even moderate elements of Hamas have tried to play ball, Israel has somehow lost its way and set the peace process back considerably. Proximity talks were what used to happen back when Yassar Arafat was still wiring his own bombs…this is undoubtedly a retrograde progression.

Can anyone tell Israel what to do? It has flaunted and bought its way out of UN resolutions, it has threatened the region with nuclear and biological war it is now thumbing its nose at its strongest supporter in a way not seen since the 1976 Suez Canal crisis. Israel has faced off and won against many foes since its very inception. Going to war with whomever, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen threatening others as it pleases, proliferating nuclear technology: this country is a proven fighter so I don’t see how a hypocritical meeting in Moscow and empty tut-tutting is going to show Israel that wrong is wrong. Sanctions are needed and they are needed now. As usual anything less than complete asskissing will be seen as anti-Semitism and the bones of the victims of Germany’s holocaust will be trotted out to remind us what happens to Jews when people stop kissing their ass. But maybe we need to get over our irrational fear of ourselves and let’s just censure a country that does wrong.