T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Salon magazine just published this piece on the fighting between Hamas and Israel:
The last paragraph of the article, the body of which is mostly a recitation of history mixed with some cherry picking, is telling of the whole:
The sentence I highlighted is the most declarative of the piece. Breaking this down one should ask, Why are the "...Palestinians powerless and friendless, even in the Arab world?"
The answer is, from history, because the Palestinians are a bunch of warmongering thugs and criminals who can't even get their act together enough to stop internal warfare between what amounts to street gangs. Jordan threw them out of that country because they tried to stage a revolution and overthrow the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
Egypt got tired of their constant criminal terrorist behavior in their country and closed their border with Gaza as a result.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Mid..., which it holds responsible for running Gaza.
Syria kicked them out for similar reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Lebanon
The roughly half million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon also played a leading role in destabilizing that country.
Yet, it is somehow Israel's fault and a war crime that their vastly superior military stomps on Hamas after Hamas launches hundreds, well over a thousand, rockets at Israel from Gaza and now from allied groups in Lebanon. Hamas wanted a war. They got a war. Indiscriminate rocket fire intended to kill anyone in Israel is usually considered a war crime. Using civilians as human shields is too. That's what Hamas practices here.
That Israel responds to that with military force is just too freakin' bad for the Palestinians. They should learn to pick their enemies better along with stop being street gangs. Maybe if they tried to improve their own lot rather than tear down someone else's they wouldn't be universally reviled in the Middle East like they are.
The lesson for the US should be that radical Leftist groups like Antifa and BLM are doing the same sort of shit here to society and are no better liked for it. Sure, the radical Left embraces their thuggery but the rest of society at some point will become irked enough to stomp the lot of them into the ground.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-abetted-by-the-u-s/ar-BB1gLHhM?ocid=msedgdhp
The last paragraph of the article, the body of which is mostly a recitation of history mixed with some cherry picking, is telling of the whole:
The sentence I highlighted is the most declarative of the piece. Breaking this down one should ask, Why are the "...Palestinians powerless and friendless, even in the Arab world?"
The answer is, from history, because the Palestinians are a bunch of warmongering thugs and criminals who can't even get their act together enough to stop internal warfare between what amounts to street gangs. Jordan threw them out of that country because they tried to stage a revolution and overthrow the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
Egypt got tired of their constant criminal terrorist behavior in their country and closed their border with Gaza as a result.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Mid..., which it holds responsible for running Gaza.
Syria kicked them out for similar reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Lebanon
The roughly half million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon also played a leading role in destabilizing that country.
Yet, it is somehow Israel's fault and a war crime that their vastly superior military stomps on Hamas after Hamas launches hundreds, well over a thousand, rockets at Israel from Gaza and now from allied groups in Lebanon. Hamas wanted a war. They got a war. Indiscriminate rocket fire intended to kill anyone in Israel is usually considered a war crime. Using civilians as human shields is too. That's what Hamas practices here.
That Israel responds to that with military force is just too freakin' bad for the Palestinians. They should learn to pick their enemies better along with stop being street gangs. Maybe if they tried to improve their own lot rather than tear down someone else's they wouldn't be universally reviled in the Middle East like they are.
The lesson for the US should be that radical Leftist groups like Antifa and BLM are doing the same sort of shit here to society and are no better liked for it. Sure, the radical Left embraces their thuggery but the rest of society at some point will become irked enough to stomp the lot of them into the ground.
