Palestine and Israel: Desperate Peoples sometimes lash out

As the much and wrongly maligned Neville Chamberlain correctly observed, There will be no winners only losers...  Hamas backed fighters launched a massive assault from the Gaza Strip against Israel.  Besides the massed rocket attacks and small arms fire-fights, the Hamas extremists took many hostages during deep incursions into Israel, using a combined air, sea, and land operation.

Hurt people, hurt people.  This attack is not an Ex Nihilo event and there is no point in claiming who has suffered more or who started what whose grievances are greater because no one has the moral high ground, no one can claim their suffering is superior to others. Whatever analysis you read, understand a lot of innocent people are going to die because of the extremist leaders of Israel and Hamas.

But, some understanding of why Hamas would indeed launch such an attack knowing that the Israeli reprisal is likely to be massive and indiscriminate.  The Gaza Strip is tantamount to an open-air prison, or a Ghetto if you will.  The 2 million peoples there live in an area smaller than the area of the city of Chicago.

Besides the settlers taking land (officially "stopped" in 2005), the Israeli government controls water and power for the people living there and has engaged in less-than-careful killing of civilians during the short Hamas/Israel wars in 2009 and 2014.  The penning in of civilians in Gaza has been a slow grinding genocide, punctuated by brutality from IDF soliders.  This story from 2020 recounts how Israeli snipers wounded hundreds of demonstrators, 

"I know exactly how many knees I’ve hit," says Eden, who completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces as a sniper in its Golani infantry brigade six months ago. For much of the time, he was stationed along the border with the Gaza Strip. 

But, the propaganda value of "Palestine" and the plight of the Palestinian people long ago lost it's luster in the Arab World.  But, let's ignore the unctuous rightwing take of Newt Gingrich's who declared there are no Palestinians only Arabs since the inference would mean there are no Americans only Europeans in North America (and the Indigenous peoples we slaughtered, cheated, and swindled out of their land). 

I fear the Israeli military reprisals for these Hamas terrorist attacks, savage kidnappings, and brutal murders are going to be draconian, blood-thirsty, with little care for collateral damage, and a near-total disregard for Gaza residents.  I'm imagining a 10:1 ratio or worse.

"I can tell you tonight that the people of Gaza will have to take into consideration that they will have to pay a price and we will advise them to take steps to avoid any casualties,” Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli Knesset says it will “not be easy” for the people of Gaza tonight. told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv. “We will be efficient, and we will do whatever it takes to hunt them [Hamas] down.”

Civilians in Gaza have no where to go so, Nehtanyahu's warning for non-combatants to leave is trite at best and tantamount to justifying the coming war crimes.  Already the death count is over 1000 and the expected long Israeli counter-offensive is sure to involve ground forces conducting Urban Warfare.  Benjamin Netanyahu is a Fascist as is his Likud Party. His absurd lies helped to push the US into War with Iraq;

"If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

And Netanyahu has pushed lies trying to get the US to attack every Islamic Nation.  But, his corruption, militant authoritarian beliefs, and current attempts to completely subvert the tattered Israeli Democracy were his whole focus leading up to this attack.  And perhaps worst off all Netanyahu encouraged the rightwing domestic Israeli extremists in 1995, who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.  When Rabin was murdered the two-state solution was killed with him.  Since then, the official Israeli plan has been a slow-moving elimination of the Palestinian people and state.

But, it's never time to criticize Israel or Israeli apartheid policies.  So, we have a War.   

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. -  Neville Chamberlain 1938

The Iran Deal II: The Wrath of the Khan-servatives

The Right's reaction to a diplomatic success was as predictable as it was unhinged. Now, unfortunately the P5+1 Iran Nuclear Deal should be called Obamacare III: The Search for Conservative Sanity because Republicans declared the so-called "Nuclear Option" ending the filibuster to be Obamacare II but, I'm not fluent in right-wing klingon.

Fortunately, the internet provides many who are able to translate right-wing shit-talking and what they uncovered is President Obama's Diplomacy is Munich and the President himself is Neville Chamberlain or A. Hitler.

The constant references to Hitler and WWII go beyond "Godwin's Law" and show us right-wingers have a paucity of reading, knowledge, understanding of any historical time frame to draw upon other than WWII.

Andrew Deadbart's successor Ben Shapiro stated, The easy comparison is to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler in Munich in 1938.

Mark Levin, the brains behind Sean Hannity went further, Obama's destruction spreads worldwide; we surrender to Iran.

Munich 2; Deal Reached On Iran's Nukes, howled Joshuapundit. ...President Obama and the West have just decided to accept a nuclear armed Iran.

This is like Munich and Chamberlain all over again, isn't it? said Robert Stacy McCain. Even to think of negotiating with the Tehran regime is a disgrace.

So, Conservatives wasted no time assuring their duped and brain battered followers that Diplomacy by President Obama is tantamount to surrender. Gotta Blame Barack for something!

Of course, its' only inside the American Right-Wing fart bubble of outrage that such diplomacy is seen as surrender, partly because the grifters who continually pump there noxious emissions into the right-wing blog-o-sphere need a fresh supply of outrage to keep fleecing the conservative rubes but also because secretly down in their shriveled loins conservatives hope some Right-Wing Second Amendment Hero will rid them of President Obama.

However, the worst of the worst has to go to NeoClown John Bolton, Former UN ambassador and never right about anything, who let it be known that Israeli has his blessing and the moral duty to launch nuclear attacks on Iran immediately for the dastardly crime of diplomacy,

"So in truth, an Israeli military strike is the only way to avoid Tehran’s otherwise inevitable march..."

Once again, Israel is treated as the 51st and yet most important State in the Union by the Right.

A reason for this was hit upon over at Addicting Info, T. Steelman who believes that underneath all of the furious beating of conservatives' man-boobs lies the belief by the right-wing religious fanatics that Wars in the Middle East will usher in the end-times,

This agreement throws a wrench into their Armageddon plans. The situation in Syria has petered out for the moment so Iran now draws their attention again. For their End Times scenario to work, there must be conflict in the Middle East. Every step to alleviate that drives another nail into the coffin of their twisted religious doctrine. The way these people talk about this — their codes and dog-whistles — clearly paint Obama as the Antichrist. They believe that his actions, especially concerning the Middle East, will jump-start their little end-of-the-world drama. They WANT war in the Middle East. They WANT death and destruction. Because they believe that will usher in the Second Coming. They see everything as the end of the world because they WANT it to be. And that is just some premium sick, to my mind.

So, it does seem the conservative Chairborne Commandos who've never stepped into the yellow footprints let alone heard a shot fired in anger beat feet to their keyboards to furiously demand that Neville Chamberlain/Obama/Hitler renounce his kenyan muslim marxist ways and declare immediate war on Iran.