Israel is basically out of the control in Gaza and the occupied territories...
They know what they want: ...namely the expulsion all Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza; and re-establishment of "Biblical Israel" as demanded by the Likudnics and others in the Zionist right wing.
In this they are back by American Evangelicals...who think that the re-establishment of Biblical Israel...will bring about the Second Coming of Christ...AND the Conversion of the Jews to Christianity...!
Of course, the Zionists accept the support of the American Religious Right...up to a point...the "converting to Christianity" part is, well, problematic I assume.
But the whole affair is the pipedream of religious nut cases, BOTH in Israel and the US, who are pushing the world to the brink of disaster.
The problem is that Israel can't just say what it's intentions are:
THE TOTAL ANNEXATION OF ALL OCCUPIED LAND...BOTH ON THE WEST BANK AND IN GAZA
BECAUSE, FRANKLY, THERE IS NO SUPPORT FOR THIS POSITION IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY...
AND, THE RESULTING FORCED GENOCIDAL EXODUS OF THE PALESTINIANS...WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR THE ZIONISTS GLOBALLY.
PERHAPS EVEN THE US WOULD WITHDRAW SUPPORT...?
So, we have the current dilemma; this constant Cat and Mouse Game...wherein Israel provokes...is then attacked...and attacks back...thus provoking more attacks.
The problem is that no one...not even Bush and the Neocons can speak for Israel...or control the internal Zionist agenda in the territories.
Europe can criticize...but that's all.
And the American media has to watch what they say...
So, the beat goes on...and on...and on...
NOW, WE HAVE A HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN GAZA...THAT WILL COST THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MILLIONS TO REPAIR.
AND WHOSE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS? ....SURELY NOT ISRAEL...
RATHER, THE US TAXPAYERS...
THE WHOLE PROBLEM COMES FROM HAVING HIDDEN AGENDAS THAT ARE "NON-DISCUSSIBLE" IN THE PUBLIC FORUM...BECAUSE THE HIDDEN DEMANDS ARE SO HORRENDOUS, THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WOULD CONDEMN THEM STRAIGHT AWAY...
The Palestinians have been provoked beyond all reason...an entire generation has been lost to hate and violence... They have lost their homeland...
But, everyone is afraid to tell them the truth...so we continue adrift.
And Israel doesn't have the courage to do what it needs to do...which is exile all Arabs out of "Biblical Israel."
So we have the prison camp towns and concentration camps of Gaza and the West Bank...that are now hot beds of dissent and insurgency...
Sooner or later--someone is going to have to break this deadlock...
Unfortnately, the current administartion in Washington is so hated in the middle east, and manifestly incompetent that we can only drift from crisis to crisis for now...
Postscript: But then there is the "end of the world" scenario of the Book the Bible Code, which predicts the "end of days" in 2006... Right on time apparently!
