Yes, this is about… Israel/Gaza/Hamas.
Yes, Mr. Obama — and Mr. Biden — understand that this very same land and culture and religion dispute… stretches back well-over 2,300 years in this same anciently occupied, and yet generally very arid few thousand miles. Thus land disputes were and are… inevitable. And culture wars — and religious ones — hot ones.
That said, Mr. Obama sums up the complexity nicely:
…If there’s any chance of us being able to act constructively to do something, it will require an admission of complexity, and maintaining what on the surface may seem contradictory ideas that what Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians must also be unbearable….
For Mirengoff, Hayward and Billingspuss (who sees fit to recall a 1984 failed Presidential bid, to make a lame point) — and as we have amply shown, Hinderaker, hisself — all of human history began on October 7 in the region. It is silly. It is sad. But that is their position.
For Messrs. Obama — and Biden — instead, the goal is not to cluck-cluck, but to try to do better. To lead. To solve, humanely as possible, mens’ grievances against their fellow men.
In sum, to seek to change the situation — so that less bloodshed ensues. But to be clear, we should all accept that no matter what anyone does, there will likely be more blood spilt in the sand.
But an ultimately non-occupied Gaza is a step toward some stability. And the US has now very directly told Israel this, as of today. That is leadership.
And that too, is a warning. These churlish ideologues above should accept that.
After last night’s nationwide election results, it is safe to say that the GOP is going to lose the US House in 2024 — and the Democratic Party will run the table. Tangerine and Trumpism will be in the rear view mirror — and/or he’ll convicted, and maybe even jailed, by then.
And THEN, in the end, without extensive US aid… Israel cannot hold out, alone. Not for very long — not decades, to be certain. So… in all likelihood by 2025 (and as of right now, in most of the EU), the deal will be tabled as follows: diminished arms and aid to Tel Aviv, henceforth, unless and until a plan for a self-governing Gaza is on the ground in Israel.
That’s tough leadership — and it is certainly imperfect (for those of us with skin in the game) but it might increase the odds of less blood in the sand.
Pretending the world started when slavery ended in the US, or when Ron Reagan took office, or when Trump did… OR when Hamas committed this terrorism… serves no legitimate interest.
It leads (as we’ve said) solely to a nation of the blind — with every man woman and child missing at least one eye — and perhaps… both of them.
So sit down, boys.
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