The Arab-Israeli conflict is interesting as a microcosm things gone terribly wrong. There are no “good guys.” American financial and military support does not mitigate Israeli criminality (I’m thinking about cluster bombs, and phosphorous munitions, dozens of recorded civilian massacres, the intentional firing on a U.S. vessel, just to name a few.) But it doesn’t justify the Palestinian criminality, either (e.g., indiscriminate shelling of civilians). All men have the right to exist. All men...
When I turned on the news this morning, everyone was up-in-arms, demanding an apology from Kofi Annan, for jumping to the conclusion that the attack was “deliberate.” Accordingly, I felt that I needed to justify yesterday’s dispatches against the “deliberate” attack. I’m no Annan supporter, but given Israel’s track-record with regard to urban-warfare and human rights, I cannot, in good faith, give them the benefit of the doubt. My fears, it seems, were not...
A century of Western meddling in mid-east affairs has done nothing to alleviate the millenia-old struggles, and in many senses, as we’re seeing played out on Live TV these past few weeks, it has positively exacerbated the situation. We need to ultimately realize, in this region (the middle east), the lines draw on the map at various peace treaties, are ultimately nothing more than arbitrary lines on a map. No consideration was given to...
