My Middle East Questions

The events taking place in the world today unfold like a sick soap opera, supposedly Earthlings are intelligent beings -- a doubtful assumption – a presumptuous opinion – perhaps, but, if we are intelligent, we are neither good nor wise.

Who is running this show? Are we captured under the spell of a major brainwashing hoax? We seem controlled by some obsessive biblical power, but it’s not godly goodness, it’s a horror show.

Take as example the present Middle East quagmire:

How much is the world willing to pay for the survival of Israel? Why is the world held responsible for its continued existence? How long is this situation going to last?

Sometimes I think enough is enough…

Why is it always -- What Israel wants…???? Who are the Israelis? Is their claim to the land of Palestine legitimate in 21st century terms? Are the immigrant-Jews that have flooded onto that speck of land, the rightful descendants of the “Chosen People?” How is the Jewish “right to the Promised Land” justified to those whose conviction are outside the biblical sphere of belief and influence?

Was the Iraq War and removal of Saddam Hussein demanded by Israel? Was it for Israel that USA forces occupied Iraq and Afghanistan? Is Islamic terrorism rooted into Israel’s presence in the Middle East? If Israel has to be, can it only be by ceaseless military grind?

It’s hard to accept that we cannot have a few years of peace because of Israel and related problems in the Middle East.

When are we going to wake up from these continuing Semitic nightmares? What is the meaning of the expression -- Anti Semitism? Are they not Semites, the ancient Hebrews, the Akkadians, the Phoenicians, and the modern Arabs? Are modern Jews, Semites?

What would Judaism be today if Christianity and Islam had not followed?

In whose name millennia of war, occupation, murder and destruction? For whose profit centuries of hatred and distrust? Why can’t Israel be for Judaism what the Vatican is for Christianity or Mecca for Islam?

But here, deviating from biblical ranting and raving, my questions still remain:

Why is "diplomacy" dilly-dallying with the willpower to curb the present Hezbollah – Israel Conflict? Who wants war? Who are the suppliers of such obscene and massive numbers of weapons?
Can we stop the producers and production of military equipment? Are weapon manufactures those responsible for starting wars to unload their colossal arsenals?

Does Israel really believe that continuing military rampages can neutralize Hezbollah or its inevitable successors? Are devastating attacks on Lebanon and the obstruction of humanitarian aid not brutal and criminal acts?

Does a real Peace Plan really exist? I don't think so, whoever runs this Show does not want peace...

I am sorry to say that I do not trust Israel any more than I would trust any other self-serving organization. Israel is alway too ready to put in action the might of its military powers... and I do not mean the number of soldiers or generals or experts it has, but the billion-dollar war-machinery it stockpiles...

Winston's Churchill's view

Left to themselves, the Arabs of Palestine would not in a thousand years, have taken effective steps towards irrigation and electrification of Palestine. They would have been quite content to dwell – a handful of philosophic people - in the wasted sun-scorched plains, letting the waters of the Jordan continue to flow unbridled and unharassed into the sea.

Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965

Mel Gibson's in Vino Veritas

For Mel Gibson, saying the Jews are responsible for the woes of the world was a gaffe even the excuse of alcoholic influence will not erase. To quote Omar Kayyam's Rubayat:

The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line
Nor all thy tears wash out a world of it.

But isn’t the western world a free speech society? Are we back been burned at the stake for the heresy of saying what we think?

Weapons of Mass Madness

Before television and the internet we lived with some degree of innocent oblivion, but no longer can we escape from that on-stage-reality, humanity, the world, is, as always at the mercy of criminals and fools.

Seen at their best or worse in the morning or late night news, our nations’s leaders are no statesmen or philosopher-kings, that’s for sure…

Deceitful, self-serving, long-lived Australia’s John Howard justifies inflation and a squeezing interest-rate-rise, on a temporary shortage of bananas.

Mumbling Bush on Air-Force One, cannot rely on a self-respecting-sentence; the expertise of crafty speech writers must be his lunch or breakfast… No comment for frigid Dr. Rice, or a Bush-supporting Blair .

Squashy-spoken Kofi Annan, coyly says one thing and then agrees to do the other, he is so evident a puppet, the manipulating puppeteers are palpable through his weak veneer.

Those are only a few of the fools.

World-power-hungry megalomaniacs are the criminals; they maneuver, control and exploit world events, cashing in on massive profits through manufacturing, supplying and distributing warfare apparatus. We, taxpayers pay for wars they make…

To expect, in-conflict nations, to stop bellicose hostilities while simultaneously supplying weapons, is like asking smokers to stop smoking while providing them with cigarette packets, notwithstanding the warning label that “cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health”.

The real terrorists are the superpowers, those comfortably hiding in gilded towers, colossal fortresses of corporations and financial institution, while state-of –the-art- bombs and missiles rain on innocents and fragile environments. Is this what we pay taxes for?

We taxpayers, world citizens, urgently need to recognize our leaders’ greed and lack of wisdom, must demand, dismantle, and ban all iniquitous military-industrial composites. For the producer, the manufacturers, the architects of weapons, are the evil, not the weapons, nor the many who are bullied into using them.

We can and must find peaceful ways to boost our economies, to keep share markets afloat without the debouchery of war. But to stop wars, we first must cease to manufacture weapons, as to stop cigarette smoking is to stop the production of tobacco.

We must bury hatchets, cleanse ourselves of spilled oil and blood, cleanse the sea shores of tomorrow; without nefarious weapons we WILL find diplomatic ways, disputes can be squabbles, NOT wars.

Avalanche in the Middle East

No matter what the issue is, it always becomes an avalanche in the Middle East, as the present Lebanon-Israel conflict. It was the abduction of two Israeli soldiers the spark that lit the fires, the whole world held its breath at the showdown: “Return the soldiers or else…” asked Israel, “Only as a prisoner exchange,” Hezbollah replied.

Both sides deny negotiations, the basis for the on going clash becomes Israel’s “right to exist” and an "opportunity" to disarm Hezbollah, murder of the innocent, destruction and horrible devastation in the name of democracy. But who in Middle East makes war to achieve piece? Only fools and criminals…

So it was with Iraq. Great suspense while the USA gathered support to start a war: to save the world from Saddam Hussain's weapons of mass destruction, to liberate the region of a ruthless dictator, to create instant democracy…? or was to secure oil reserves and to complete the 1991 unfinished business…?

And all that carpet bombing in Afghanistan, what was that about? To get Osama Bin Laden? To get the Taliban? To unite the country’s war lords under one USA delegated flag and call it democracy? And still the poppies grow…

The Old World Order

And so 15 years later there is no talk of New World Order, it died at its inception. Now the task to clean up the New-Middle-East-Mess is more uncertain, more complex. And ALL SOLUTIONS only temporary anyway, for no amount of “democracy in the region” can obliterate the hatred and distrust caused by centuries of quarrels, recent violent disputes and devastating military activities.

Israel’s 1948 birth and its aftermath was achieved by a series of deceptions and for such, it will always be threatened by those seeking to avenge themselves, their forefathers, their dead, their dispossessed and traumatized. Israel’s wants recognition, security and a universal ‘right to exist’. A right that will not be achieved by military force, coercion and bullying, that it feels threatened and surrounded by hostile neighbourhoods, it’s true, but then it did not place itself there to behave like Father Christmas either…

The New Middle East

What does Ms. Secretary of State Rice imply by the New Middle East?

She descends on Rome from her private plane, a smiling Nubian Goddess clad in white robes, the no-cease-fire envoy of the USA. She announces that she has no desire to return in a few weeks or months to the same old thing, with a frozen gaze she delivers Washington’s warning for those who will not like the New Middle East: “We will prevail, and they will not”

Ok…
But who writes her lines? Does that not sounds suspiciously like G W Bush the 1st 1991 post Gulf-War “New World Order?”

Israel in the Middle

The existence of Israel in the Middle East is a supreme example of history repeating itself. In its Biblical Era its presence fermented violent emotions and the rise of endless confrontations with the original inhabitants of the land and with its neighbours, In the 21st century nothing much has changed except that God seems to be silent and less involved. Perhaps he abdicated in favour of the USA.

Oh Israel...

Israel, your reaction agaist Lebanon resembles Zidane’s headbutt at the World Cup. As conflicts continue in the Middle East I view you with increasing distrust and diminishing respect.

Ever since Theodor Herzl’s conception of “the Jewish State”(1986) you were maneuvered into existence, deliberately choosing to place yourself between the fire and the frying pan of the Arab world where with over 4000 years of historical hostilities your “Right to Exist” will forever be disputed.

Doubtfully will a universal “Right to Exist” be secured by military force. Persistent belligerence, aggressiveness, colonial dominance, moral and physical dispossession of existing tenants has, and will backfire.

Hizbollah, may be neutralized for awhile but not forever. It, Hamas or other “terrorist organizations” will rise in opposition… a never ending cycle never ending in peaceful co-existence. Like in the old days, fighting Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Philistines…

Take a break, this is the 21st century! With poverty, famine, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, disease, crime and all the other woes of humanity, with the exception of merchants of weapons who needs wanton damage, destruction and disruption when and where we all crave for a bit of peaceful sunshine?

An Atheist's View

What went wrong? Maybe there was never anything right with the human race, certainly the biblical claim that a god named Jehovah created mankind in his own image makes Jehovah a lot less than perfect, even if the rotten disposition of Adam and Eve’s descendants was caused by the incitement to disobedience by a serpent named Satan.

If Jehovah is THE - supreme – SUPREMEST CREATOR -- the FIRST CAUSE - - the eternal before and after – the always has been, always will be THE ONE and ONLY maker, nothing therefore exists, existed, can exist or will exist without this primary matrix, resulting in that this one indivisible force or essence, being all and everything, both positive and negative, also manifest itself as good AND evil --- as observable in the human race -- a touch of good and a hell of a lot of evil…