> "ya ate the steak ya have to pay!"
> --judge judy
### - well here we go then, israel's going all-in...
the question being: will the rest of the arab/muslim world just stand by
and do nada, or will they start pitching-in as hammas obviously hoped
they'd be forced to when israel went ape on gaza like never before?
so far, at any rate, there's only been token responses from them; a few
shots across the Lebanese border & those missiles from yemen for instance,
but whether that restraint continues as things get horrible in gaza begs
the question... there's certainly a lot of support for the palistinians
(huge protest marches again today in central london for example) but the
jews are hopping-mad and ain't gonna stop now!
this latest whole palistinian effort obviously being to force the rest of
the world to finally intervene and sort this problem out once and for all
(e.g., via a 2-state solution) only that's not at all what israel
ultimately wants: which is for the palistinians to just be gone and ALL
that land to become part of the state of israel, then from israel's pov
the problem's solved...
the palistinians, however, understandably want something of their own,
having been evicted from their lands in 1948 that's all they've been
thinking about and fighting for ever since, generations now of which know
nothing else except the ensuing struggles/horrors involved, it's ALL they
know??
arriving at an actual 'solution' then is very difficult indeed, and after
pondering this for quite a while am beginning to think that the only
'real' + 'lasting' solution would be if the whole arab world opened wide
its doors and invited those 2.3 million palistinians to instead come and
make a life with them in various places/nations of their choice, with good
help & support given to them to settle in those new places, homes and jobs
+ a genuine chance to make a life for themselves...
this generation of palistinians are always gonna be damaged/hurt you
understand, the generational shit they've been through will/can never be
forgotten, but their children will be less damaged, and the generation
after that less damaged still until it's all just a bad memory, a dark
history, but where everything's been ok now for 60 years...
from israel's pov, all that land then becomes part of the state of israel
so the whole struggle/worry is over, their neighbours may well still bear
a grudge for quite a while to come, but with no constant provocations
against the muslim world for a couple of generations, peace would slowly
become the norm that no one then wants (or needs) to break!
and it's only 2.3 million people, which would have little effect on the
rest of the whole middle east absorbing them, it could work!
can't think of anything else that would 'actually' work long-term, i
mean...
chances of them all doing summat 'sane' like that though is minimal,
everyone's too completely obsessed with chanting: me me me me me me me me!
to ever consider anything other than themselves and what 'they' want...
and what everyone wants at the moment, is blood!