Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Smithereens

It’s Disproportionate. . .
Bush and his folks haven’t just blundered around and created this dangerous mess, they’ve done it on purpose. And they intend to make it worse.

Eugene Robinson and I must have been born under the same sign. We’re so often of like mind. He writes better than I do, though.

When this latest thing with Israel began — when they started imprisoning Lebanon’s political leaders — I thought, “What? Are they out of their fucking minds? Do they WANT to start a war??” How could there have been any other outcome? Did they really think Lebanon would just roll over? Maybe open up its borders for Israeli settlement?

And why are so many people being so cautious about condemning Israel for this latest whacked-out violence? WWII was a long time ago people and the Holocaust has NOTHING to do with modern-day Israel. It’s okay for us to criticize Israel. It doesn’t make us Nazis.

Which leads me to another rant. Doesn’t it seem like the Middle East was a much more pleasant place before Israel was created? Here’s how I see it: WWII, much guilt over Holocaust (and well-deserved guilt), Jews want homeland, ancient roots in Middle East (though most Jews were, well, Europeans by then), let ‘em have “Israel”, only Arab “wogs” living there then anyway and who gives a shit about them.

If the Jews wanted a homeland, we should have given them part of Germany after WWII. It would have made a whole lot more sense, and think of all the unnecessary violence it could have prevented.

But, no. So, here we are almost 60 years later, and the Israelis still haven’t learned to get along with their neighbors. Hey, I’m being fair. Their neighbors still haven’t learned to get along with them either.

There’s probably not much point in kicking our fathers and grandfathers for the stupid mistakes they made in the past. The only question that makes any sense is, how do we stop them from blowing each other to smithereens? It’s sure not by encouraging the Israelis in their craziness.