A couple of weeks ago the right wing majority in Israel decided that they weren’t going to give up building settlements and thereby torpedoed Obama’s peace attempt making our President and our country look like suckers for trying to help them.
What’s going on here? For over 60 years we have practically kept this country alive. We have supported Israel, often to our own detriment, with money supplies and the power of our power and now that we’re trying to help them to a peaceful solution to their problems they spit in our face. Why? Well, maybe because it is a country built on a religion instead of a nationality and when anything is based on a religion it loses it’s ability to act rationally and acts out of faith and passion. That’s what the Israeli’s are doing now.
Why is this brave country being held hostage by a group of religious fanatics who aren’t intelligent enough to find another location in which to build their settlements? Why do they have to build them on the West Bank? Isn’t there any other land available in Israel? Granted I haven’t been in Israel in over twenty years but when I was there, there was plenty of land available, for construction or anything else. I have a feeling that there’s still more than enough.
Many, certainly not all, of our Middle East and Muslim problems come directly from our support of Israel. We would be a lot better off if we dumped them, but we don’t because we, at least sometimes, try to do the right thing as individuals and as a nation. A little recognition of this, a little cooperation from the nutty religious right would go a long way to inspiring us to continue with our seemingly unappreciated help. Maybe if they stopped propagating like hamsters they wouldn’t need as much housing.
There are a lot of people and nations in this world, most of them in their direct proximity that would like to see Israel gone. This is, of course, not acceptable, but I also think that the destructive forces inside the Jewish State must recognize this fact and try to do something constructive about it. Building settlements that lead to the destruction of a potential peace process isn’t constructive and if they aren’t intelligent enough to see this, then maybe their fellow countrymen should have the hutspa to forcibly point it out to them.
Why should we be going out on a limb for these people if they are too stubborn, too willful and too intransient to help themselves?