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TechnoratiThe Gaza Strip is rapidly becoming one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. Israel has cordoned off the entire area, home to some 1.4 million Palestinians, blocking commercial goods, food, fuel and even humanitarian aid. At least 36 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since Tuesday and many more wounded. Hamas, which took control of Gaza in June, has launched about 200 rockets into southern Israel in the same period in retaliation, injuring more than 10 people. Israel announced the draconian closure and collective punishment Thursday in order to halt the rocket attacks, begun on Tuesday, when 18 Palestinians, including the son of a Hamas leader, were killed by Israeli forces.
This is not another typical spat between Israelis and Palestinians. This is the final, collective strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza. The decision to block shipments of food by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency means that two-thirds of the Palestinians who rely on relief aid will no longer be able to eat when U.N. stockpiles in Gaza run out. Reports from inside Gaza speak of gasoline stations out of fuel, hospitals that lack basic medicine and a shortage of clean water. Whole neighborhoods were plunged into darkness when Israel cut off its supply of fuel to Gaza's only power plant. The level of malnutrition in Gaza is now equal to that in the poorest sub-Saharan nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert uses words like "war" to describe the fight to subdue and control Gaza. But it is not war. The Palestinians have little more than old pipes fashioned into primitive rocket launchers, AK-47s and human bombs with which to counter the assault by one of the best-equipped militaries in the world. Palestinian resistance is largely symbolic. The rocket attacks are paltry, especially when pitted against Israeli jet fighters, attack helicopters, unmanned drones and the mechanized units that make regular incursions into Gaza. A total of 12 Israelis have been killed over the past six years in rocket attacks. Suicide bombings, which once rocked Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, have diminished, and the last one inside Israel that was claimed by Hamas took place in 2005. Since the current uprising began in September 2000, 1,033 Israelis and 4,437 Palestinians have died in the violence, according to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. B'Tselem noted in a December 2007 report that the dead included 119 Israeli children and 971 Palestinian children.
The failure on the part of Israel to grasp that this kind of brutal force is deeply counterproductive is perhaps understandable given the demonization of Arabs, and especially Palestinians, in Israeli society. The failure of Washington to intervene-especially after President Bush's hollow words about peace days before the new fighting began-is baffling. Collective abuse is the most potent recruiting tool in the hands of radicals, as we saw after the indiscriminate Israeli bombing of Lebanon and the American occupation of Iraq. The death of innocents and collective humiliation are used to justify callous acts of indiscriminate violence and revenge. It is how our own radicals, in the wake of 9/11, lured us into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Israel has been attempting to isolate and punish Gaza since June when Hamas took control after days of street fighting against its political rival Fatah. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah leader, dissolved the unity government. His party, ousted from Gaza, has been displaced to the Israeli-controlled West Bank. The isolation of Hamas has been accompanied by a delicate dance between Israel and Fatah. Israel hopes to turn Fatah into a Vichy-style government to administer the Palestinian territories on its behalf, a move that has sapped support for Fatah among Palestinians and across the Arab world. Hamas' stature rises with each act of resistance.
I knew the Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, who was assassinated by Israel in April of 2004. Rantissi took over Hamas after its founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was assassinated by the Israelis in March of that year. Rantissi was born in what is now Israel and driven from his home in 1948 during the war that established the Jewish state. He, along with more than 700,000 other Palestinian refugees, grew up in squalid camps. As a small boy he watched the Israeli army enter and occupy the camp of Khan Younis in 1956 when Israel invaded Gaza. The Israeli soldiers lined up dozens of men and boys, including some of Rantissi's relatives, and executed them. The memory of the executions marked his life. It fed his lifelong refusal to trust Israel and stoked the rage and collective humiliation that drove him into the arms of the Muslim Brotherhood and later Hamas. He was not alone. Several of those who founded the most militant Palestinian organizations witnessed the executions in Gaza carried out by Israel in 1956 that left hundreds dead.
Rantissi was a militant. But he was also brilliant. He studied pediatric medicine and genetics at Egypt's Alexandria University and graduated first in his class. He was articulate and well read and never used in my presence the crude, racist taunts attributed to him by his Israeli enemies. He reminded me that Hamas did not target Israeli civilians until Feb. 25, 1994, when Dr. Baruch Goldstein, dressed in his Israeli army uniform, entered a room in the Cave of the Patriarchs, which served as a mosque, and opened fire on Palestinian worshipers. Goldstein killed 29 unarmed people and wounded 150. Goldstein was rushed by the survivors and beaten to death.
"When Israel stops killing Palestinian civilians we will stop killing Israeli civilians," he told me. "Look at the numbers. It is we who suffer most. But it is only by striking back, by making Israel feel what we feel, that we will have any hope of protecting our people."
The drive to remove Hamas from power will not be accomplished by force. Force and collective punishment create more Rantissis. They create more outrage, more generations of embittered young men and women who will dedicate their lives to avenging the humiliation, perhaps years later, they endured and witnessed as children. The assault on Gaza, far from shortening the clash between the Israelis and Palestinians, ensures that it will continue for generations. If Israel keeps up this attempt to physically subdue Gaza we will see Hamas-directed suicide bombings begin again. This is what resistance groups that do not have tanks, jets, heavy artillery and attack helicopters do when they want to fight back and create maximum terror. Israeli hawks such as Ephraim Halevy (a former head of Mossad), Giora Eiland (who was national security adviser to Ariel Sharon) and Shaul Mofaz (a former defense minister) are all calling for some form of dialogue with Hamas. They get it. But without American pressure Prime Minister Olmert will not bend.
Israel, despite its airstrikes and bloody incursions, has been unable to halt the rocket fire from Gaza or free Cpl. Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in the summer of 2006. Continued collective abuse and starvation will not break Hamas, which was formed, in large part, in response to Israel's misguided policies and mounting repression. There will, in fact, never be Israeli-Palestinian stability or a viable peace accord now without Hamas' agreement. And the refusal of the Bush administration to intercede, to move Israel toward the only solution that can assure mutual stability, is tragic not only for the Palestinians but ultimately Israel.
And so it goes on. The cycle of violence that began decades ago, that turned a young Palestinian refugee with promise and talent into a militant and finally a martyr, is turning small boys today into new versions of what went before them. Olmert, Bush's vaunted partner for peace, has vowed to strike at Palestinian militants "without compromise, without concessions and without mercy," proof that he and the rest of his government have learned nothing. It is also proof that we, as the only country with the power to intervene, have become accessories to murder.
Chris Hedges, the former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times and author most recently of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America," can be found every other Monday on Truthdig.
Copyright © 2008 Truthdig, L.L.C.
38 Comments so far
Show AllJ MAC -- twinkle twinkle little star,
I wonder how you've gotten this far,
up beyond logic's world view,
like a frozen mushroom in a stew
If I were NSA,
would I be smarter than you?
If I were programing your mind,
how would you know?
Siouxrose, if you think nspire is anything other than a NSA stooge, then you should stick to smoking pot and drinking white wine and leave the commentary to those who are not blinded by the pale pablum puked up by the govenment's shills.
NSPIRE: YOU are a true progressive!
MORDECHAI -- Thank you.
That's an "off-the-chart" insult, calling "Paskudnyaks, all of them!", per definition:
Yiddish insult. THE most potent and offensive insult known to man. it has so much connotation that cannot be truly defined that the closest you can come to its meaning is "horrible person". no other definition has the meaning, and there is no way to convey how powerful that word is. Use with caution.
Hitler was a prime example of a paskudnyak. You'd be hard pressed to come up with others.
¿ What's left when one really gets "mad" ?
Like the United States, Israel slowly commits political suicide. As a Jew, I can only shake my head at the dumb Israelis who have conned themselves and been conned by the dumb, fevered gentiles of the American fascist evangelical movement who hate their living guts but are only waiting for Armageddon or the Rapture or whatever utter meshugas these loonies think is about to happen. Paskudnyaks, all of them!
Someone -- Thank you very much,for your eloquent and moving words.
I also believe in the transformative principle of love enabling the mountains to move out of the way of the politicos, so there is always room for hope.
In enlightened, leftist circles, it is not a popular position to speak on behalf of Israel.
And while I am not enlightened, I do agree that Israel is presently making the wrong choices with regards to the Palestinian territories. One would think, given the long Jewish history of being oppressed and murdered and scapegoated and driven out of lands, they would be more sympathetic and righteous in their handling of the situation. Or, psychologically, maybe what we are witnessing is just to be expected -- the fervent conviction and resolution of "never again." Never again will Jews stand by and acquiesce to the hatred, condemnation and destruction brought against them. Israel, the size of New Jersey, has never enjoyed a luxury of security, surrounded by neighbors whose stated wish (and effort) is to "wipe them off the map" and "drive them into the sea."
There needs to be a peaceful, humanitarian resolution of the Palestinian plight. What I am saying is that the good-bad dichotomy is a facile falsehood. Israelis and Arabs, both, are to blame -- just as there are Israelis and Arabs, both, to commend. At some point, people may unite and demand peace with such force -- through the nonviolent, soulful, transformative power of love (whatever that means, or looks like) -- that the governments of the world will have to get out of the way, and let them have it.
Violence, though, is not the answer. Violent tactics have never worked, certainly not for the long haul. Violence just creates conditions for future violence. This includes violence in action, in words, in thinking... Show me where forgiveness begins, where healing begins, and we will see the beginning of reconciliation -- and the possibility of a brighter tomorrow. I am an optimist, at heart, despite all evidence to the contrary. Good luck to us all.
Someone, Everyone, or Nobody -- Perhaps the comparisons are too harsh for some to acknowledge, but please do consider that:
(1.) what happened in the Warsaw Ghettos when the Nazis finally moved in against organized resistance, was
(2.) similar to Israel's 60-yr defense against Arab aggressions - baring that the outcomes were completely reversed.
(3.) Consider now that the Palestine situation is like one or the other of the two historical Jewish situations (above), and we are now watching for that outcome - which will it be?
Would a compassionate person ever have rooted for the demise of the Jews within the Ghetto's walls, trapped and being starved to death? Not likely.
(4.) The Americans ran months of Berlin Air drops in early cold war days, to save tens of thousands of Germans, who it appears share much of the above three situations - trapped people w/o anywhere to go that otherwise will eventually die from egregious deprivations of their civil rights.
What will the future hold for the Palestinians?
Will it look like item (1.) with near total death and destruction? Of course not.
Were both those Germans manning the closed Ghetto gates doing their war time duty and those firing into the people, culpable under war crimes? I share the view above in this thread, that the bullets are not significantly different from than the padlocks, if the end result is (eventually) the same - the termination of those living within the walls.
Or will (could) the Palestinians reverse the situation of item (2.) and equivalently hold the rest of Israel is hostage to Palestine? Not at all possible.
As far as Berlin Air Drop, I do see that situation (4.) is becoming increasingly more likely to become necessary solve crucial minimal needs of the Palestinians - every day that the gov't of Israel continues to act so obtusely - especially considering the very near experience and memories of the similar situations that the Jews themselves faced.
The world's eyes are keen and memories are long. How does Israel expect to be viewed for the choices that it is making today? Favorably? I hardly could imagine that result.
What are we creating now?
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Someone,
this is not a religious conflict, it is about colonialism. Your apologies for the occupiers have no fundament. And by the way, just shut up. You are delusional.
...power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What an unholy place those who think of themselves as the rightful heirs to the "holy land" have made.
Someone needs a strong purgative to get rid of the years of pro-Israeli brainwashing. Get a book, or even two, preferable by Chomsky, Morris, Finklestein, Reinhart, Haas, Khaladi or Shahak.
Prominent Zionist neocons pushed the United States to war in Iraq. A near-holocaust has been inflicted on millions of Iraqis who are totally innocent. The neocons exult in this. Both the US and Israel are going to pay for this in ways that go beyond the 4000 dead and $2 trillion.
Jesus H. Christ! Where do these morons come from? The Israelis are no different than any other evil scumbags who wish to appropriate land that does not rightfully belong to them. The Israelis are just a bunch of scumbag criminals the same as any U.S. government official is.
For Arab neighbors to welcome Palestinians into their own lands (not in refugee camps, but as full citizens) would mean that Israel could live in peace as a nation. No one in the region, except maybe Israel, seems to want that. Israel is willing to exchange land for peace, as demonstrated with the Sinai Peninsula following Egyptian aggression. However, when Israeli and Palestinian leaders were on the threshold of an agreement several years ago, returning some 98% of the occupied territories, somehow it just wasn't good enough for the Palestinian cause.
How did Israel come to occupy the West Bank and Gaza? Because of Britain carving up the land? Or did Israel take areas to enhance its security following one of the many military campaigns against it? The Palestinian plight is a great thorn in Israel's side, and its neighbors are probably happy to see Israel struggle from within, since outward Arab aggression has not destroyed Israel. It's simpler to send money for Palestinian freedom fighters (or terrorists, whatever the term) than to arrive at a genuine peaceful resolution.
Israel has been in self-defense mode, fighting for its right to exist, ever since it became a nation-state some 60 years ago. I don't like the way that the Israeli government is handling the Palestinian situation. But comparing it to U.S. manifest destiny (genocide of Native Americans), German Nazism, or South African apartheid is misinformed and hyperbole.
When Iraq was firing scud missiles into Israel during the first Gulf War, Israel was asked to accept the brunt of such provocation, without retaliation, so as not to embroil the whole region in war. And when attacks continue to come from Lebanon or Gaza, Israelis are somehow supposed to just take it in stride. The reality is, to use an example closer to home, if Mexicans were demanding back portions of Texas and California -- firing across our borders, and bombing our public places -- we would also lay down the law and defend our sovereignty.
An article I read re; the Gaza situation worsening, as if it were even possible to be made worse, a Minister of a department of a Cabinet of, lets say MURDER All Palestinians said " Gaza, there are no problems in Gaza. No." WTF, it is like listening to bush, do they think the entire world is blind? Many appear to act like they are, yet not. Someone posted earlier on 1/21 @ 7:13 PM, violence begets violence, not their words, but you do not begin to comprehend the religion of Islam, leave them alone, call them terrorists, call them whatever you choose, they will leave you alone as well, it is of the Qur'an. Palestinians owned that land until WWII, the rush od the exodus, Jews had to leave, as years wore on they were almost equal in population with the Palestinians, 6 day War, Poof, all gone. A Zionest would die before referencing a Palestinian AS A Palestinian, Arab, Arab, they refuse to call them Palestinian?
Why is Israel allowed to NOT define its borders? WTF? Are they like Google or something? It is disturbing, WMD's, WHY, they are not 1 of the 10, are they?
You would think Israel would summon a bit of humanity and allow food, water and oil, perhaps meds. NADA, just keep stealing Palestinian land. Who wonders why the Palestinians are angry?
I just saw a Isreali woman say it was more humanitarian to cut off electricity for a few days than to drop a bomb. Tell that to the people in hospitals on electrically powered respirators.
Her accent told me she was a recent emmigre from the New York area. And she was living in the border area close to the illegal Israeli settlements which the militant arm of Hamas was targeting with Qusam rockets.
What the news did not say was that along with the loss of electricity the Israeli armed forces are continueing to use military force in an indiscriminate manner.
Much of the Jewish population is as blinded as the much of the US population by propaganda. But, many, especially those in charge, know the purpose of Israeli attacks on Palestine is not to reduce violence, it is to increase it. That serves as a distraction and gives the Israelis to talk about how bad the Palestinians, or Lebanese, or whatever, are; while ignoring that Israelis kill earlier and far more.
Bernice, Red Savages? I don't remember my ancestors being savages. I know that the Constitution refers to us as Savages, but that's been a while back and they were wrong then too. The American Indians did not invade Europe, kill one hundred million people, steal land and resources, and wage a two hundred thirty year continuing genocide. We were downright civilized compared to the White Savages.
There is a potential solution, but it will take courage. Hasni Mubarak, dictator--er, sorry, President--of Egypt could be forced by public sentiment to feign temporary deafness to his American masters (and their Likud masters) and open the border. The oil-rich states could temporarily reduce their spending on courtesans and baubles and cough up for some food, fuel and medicines. If these people really stand in solidarity with their oppressed brethren they will do something. The disgusting, immoral and unlawful conduct of Israel and its American and European enablers is bad, but so is the hypocrisy of their client potentates in the region.
That letter from God Almighty is likely a forgery, unless He is inclined to pit those evil Israelis against the current occupants, which would be a classic massacre of those who pretend to follow His laws on Earth. As everyone knows, especially since those U.S. space cowboys smashed their rescue vehicle onto the moon to measure the vibrations, the moon is a hollow space-station filled with a humungous amount of machinery and several million Aliens with telepathic and physical powers that make Superman seem like a run of the mill laborer by comparison. That's the real reason why the U.S. has stayed away from the moon since then, because the chickenshit U.S. only attacks the weak and those Alien types would mop the floor with the best the U.S. could produce, which wouldn't be much on the quality scale.
Better to airlift all those evil Israelis to a more quiet and hospitable place that would suit their style, like Death Valley or some deep, remote fissure of the Grand Canyon where they can bang their heads against the wall to their black heart's content and no one but the lizards and snakes will be bothered by their animus cult worship of their lost God and forsaken religion.
Mahatma Gandhi was killed by a fellow Hindu. Yitzhak Rabin was killed by a fellow Jew. And so on. Even when individuals and governments pursue a life and policy of peace, other individuals and governments intervene. These are not simple, dichotomous issues, with the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other.
Taking from the article above, and substituting the perspective, it reads with equal validity that violence begets violence:
"The failure on the part of [Palestinians] to grasp that this kind of brutal force is deeply counterproductive is perhaps understandable given the demonization of [Jews], and especially [Israelis], in [Arab] society... When [Palestinians] stop killing [Israeli] civilians we will stop killing [Palestinian] civilians... It is only by striking back, by making [Palestinians] feel what we feel, that we will have any hope of protecting our people... The drive to remove [Israeli militants] from power will not be accomplished by force."
If Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi taught us anything, it is that moral force is greater than physical force. If the Palestinians want to reverse their fortune, they would have greater success doing so through absolute nonviolent means. They need to confront the Israelis as one unified people, without violence. But without the right leadership, they cannot reign in disaffected factions.
Hamas, and groups like it, are trying to create a homeland for themselves in the same way that early Zionists did, by pressuring politics through acts of terrorism. The real enemy, in all of this, and worldwide, is violent fundamentalism (of all national and religious stripes). Unfortunately, once Israel and Palestine make peace, some new militant group will stir the pot. And the cycle continues.
ALEX LAWYER: Excellent post.
VOXCLAMANTIS, OLD GOAT, SOMEONE: Good posts!
The law of karma is no respecter of persons, nor religions. It's tragic that so many feel they will gain impunity for deeds against their fellow man simply because they have fallen for a deluded religious notion.
STEP FOUR: It is rather racist to blame all Jews. Just as enlightened Americans can hardly change domestic or foreign policy as driven by amoral elites in this nation, how can you expect likewise in Israel? There are good people everywhere, and deluded people who COULD be good (certainly have better more humane motivations) if they were given a true education, rather than various behavior mod models used so effectively by religious institutions AND media (in service to corporate master elites).
Exactly right, Siouxrose. Children are what you make them.
Statist use of religion (such as Constantine subsuming normative Christianity) is different from the spiritual tradition which remains rooted in peace as demonstrated by Dr. King, Gandhi, Rev. Desmond Tutu and countless others. The myth/shiboleth is that religions known by a given name do not become something else when mimetic fear/violence is chosen and exercised in their name - the name of the violent is tiamat and was/is as noted, babalonian.
King, Gandhi and Tutu and countless others know that peace is a journey not a goal. Feed the hungry, protect orphans and widows, love others as oneself... in this minute as King said. Not in an hour, not next week or month, in these sixty seconds in a minute...
John Freeman: Thats why I'm a Neo-pagan. At least I know the myths of my Celtic pantheon... are myths.
"It’s not just the US that is complicit in the Israeli stranglehold, the Europeans are doing their part as well." Sadly true - just listen to the BBC, stripping the situation of its context and excusing Israel's war crimes while setting criticism of these acts within inverted commas as "claims". Doubtless the same considerations which saw Harper's Canadian government quietly absolve Israel and America of their torture crimes are at work here. We cannot "embarrass" our allies. But deeper lies an even more discreditable process: we in the west identify with those who resemble us and display our prejudices against those seen as "different" without shame. Because surely, "we" (the inheritors of Judeo-Christian ancestors) are "good" while "they" (the inheritors of the third Abrahamic faith) are "bad". Therefore "our" actions are always honest, honorable and justified - while "they" are liars, criminals, barely human. We are so wedded to these brute currents of feeling that we refuse to acknowledge them, let alone disown them. We won't. They are how we know we are superior, the divinely ordained dominant culture. The whole West has been corrupted by these bigotries and assumptions. The story of our decline and fall will one day be traced back to the day when we backed the formation of an artificial state, Israel, on the lands of the Palestinians, whose ethnic cleansing, and now collective punishment, we collude in.
Any bets israel will be the stalking horse that triggers the war with Iran?
I agree about Israel being the trigger for our next war. The Abramic Religions are to me are likely the largest fraud ever put over on humanity. And unless we do something different vis-a-vie our myths, war is what we are going to continue to get. This horse is DEAD, time to get off and catch a better ride.
It's not just the US that is complicit in the Israeli stranglehold, the Europeans are doing their part as well.
www.counterpunch.com/barghouti01212008.html
"Israel has swallowed a serpent"
A Palestinian saying about the conquest of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Hebrew faith, in all it's minor variants, and Christanity in all of it's destuctive wonder, are based upon the garbled worship of a mysogonistic Babylonian WAR GOD!
Go ahead. Read the Bible. Amongst the poetry and myth is one of the greatest records of mindless, self-righteous bloodshed and violence.
Make me proud to be a Neo-pagan.
"Proportionality prohibits the use of any kind or degree of force that exceeds that needed to accomplish the military objective."
Like US Blackhawk helicopters flown by Israelis raining Hellfire missiles down upon a group of angry protesters throwing rocks?
"Moreover, the Laws of Armed Conflict permits combatants to engage in acts of reprisal to enforce an enemy force’s compliance with LOAC rules."
Unless you're Palestinian - then, reprisals against 60 years of LOAC violations are actually acts of terrorism.
See how it all works out?
All Jews, and especially American Jews, will be judged for the conduct of the Jewish state. Eventually, the sectarian political entity will destroy the religion, if it hasn't done so already.
Blockade Israel. Cut off oil shipments and access to high technology and repair parts as well as most common medicines and antibiotics. Declare a no-fly zone over Gaza and the West bank. Incite an ethnic minority to acts of terrorism and sabotage, if not outright defiance or rebellion, but then leave them twisting in the wind when Israel retalliates.
No? Too barbaric?
It was good enough to do to Iraq.
From:
God Almighty
To:
The Children of Abraham
Dear kids:
I've changed my mind about the Promised Land. I must have been drunk when I told you that you could have Palestine. What was I thinking? The neighborhood is too crowded, and you have never been able to get along with anybody. We need to re-evaluate our covenant.
Accordingly, I am rescinding my promise to Israel and replacing it with an even better deal. I'm giving you the moon. Yes, the whole damn thing, from one end to the other. How many chosen people have a whole planetary body all to themselves? You can build settlements to your hearts content and you will be safely out of range of enemy rockets and suicide bombs. Who can doubt that such clever and hard working souls as yourselves will turn the place into a flowering garden of plenty?
Try to move out by the end of the year. I'd take some water along. Take your Uzis and cluster bombs with you. Take Mossad. Take the Torah. Take Charlton Heston.
Love
Dad
This is the same kind of "war" we fought against the Red Savages in the 19th century, one we were bound to win and did as we isolated them on reservations and broke treaty after treaty. Israel has forced the Palestinians of Gaza onto a reservation with no way in or out and no relief from the suffering Israel imposes upon them. Are we watching a genocide take place without objecting?
Where are the United Nations troops who should be enforcing the resolutions Israel has ignored for half a century? I know those in power in the U.S. and the so-called Quartet are Zionists, but surely the whole U.N. is not. The other Arab nations surely are not and could use the threat of withholding oil to force the issue.
Didn't the Nazi's do this already? You know, the Warsaw Ghetto bit?
I guess it's true. You become the thing you hate...
Israel = Nazi Germany.
Can't put it more plainly than that.