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We stepped on the path of solution to the Arab-Israeli issue at Oslo. Who but that raging antisemite Ariel Sharon could but destroy a blueprint for peace for the Jewish people?
Without Israel as a distraction, the Arab people would be able to focus their attention on their enemies in the west who have caused them nothing but grief since oil was discovered in their homeland. So of course Israel continues to exist because white europeans want them there to absorb the blows intended for white european hegemony.
Sharon has been in bed with white european hegemony from the beginning. He was, and is, no Jew.
If one wants to locate the source of antisemitism, one need only look at who printed all those Catholic Bibles prior to and during the Middle Ages. The seeds of antisemitism were sown there as a way of distracting white europeans from the fact that it was rich people, not simply Jews, who saw to the dispatch of their savior who, as fortune would have it, was also a Jew. The rich and the powerful have always had a vested interest in keeping us fighting with each other and absorbing the blows intended for them.
All could be forgiven but for the fact that the rich and the powerful go on crucifying heroes of every ethnicity and of every stripe to this very day. And whenever these folks need a scapegoat, they point to the Bibles they had printed and show everyone how all of this conflict was predicted. Just as they manufacture it. Not by all those dirty Jews but by all those cunning white people who saw the first western culture to actually fully mature before their eyes as a threat to their very survival.
Perhaps if white people saw their love affair with unbridled competition for the narcissistic indulgence that it is, they could learn what the Jews learned being under Arab rule for all those many centuries: cooperative collectives fare better in the long run than do competitive individuals.
Mix the two systems successfully and not only is everyone happy, we're also all the same color. But white people don't want to hear that kind of talk. It sounds too compromising. It sounds too Jewish. Therefore, it must be a trick.
Only the paranoid believe that they can determine the presence of paranoia in others.
The same holds true for bigotry.
A remarkable feat, this mind reading and ascertaining of motives that you do. I'd argue the finer points of the limitations of the tool of language with you, but you're obviously heavily involved in winning a crazy contest at all costs. You seem to be building up quite a head of steam.
Best of luck to you.
...doesn't negate the fact that most world leaders are not idiots. They have national interests and know that they can be compelled by circumstances, or enticed with bribery, to negotiate with others.
The issue has always been Israel's paranoia that someone is going to determine its jealously guarded secrets and lend credence to lo' these many thousands of years of other ethnicities taking exception to Israel's aggressive, oftentimes extremely ethnocentric, behavior.
I don't know what it's like to be a Palestinian, but I know what it's like to be an American living under the thumb of Jewish ethnocentricity. About the only thing I noticed is that willfully ignorant people get shunned from societies under Jewish control. Be still my beating heart.
Societies under Anglo Saxon control result in a random, hardly meritorious implementation of oligarchy -- unless there's a color, or something shiny involved that people wear. Stupid people rule and even dumber people follow them over cliffs.
Arafat is dead; Sharon is a head of cabbage. The nation building exercise, while forced, regrettable and devious, is over and everyone but the moneychangers paid way more for their land than it could ever be worth to them. The rich strike again! You said you wanted a roof over your head, so, howzit fittin'? Do you need to accessorize?
Why don't we smoke out the bastards who are profiting from all this conflict and be done with it?
Don't we have bigger fish to fry, as a species, than who wins and who loses in a game where the winner has always been predetermined in all of recorded history (if you read between the lines they let the printers publish)?