An idea for Israel

Some people think that Israel is due for some sour relations with the United States because Benjamin Netanyahu is a right-wing asshole who should be shipped off to Australia, and the United States now has a President with a brain and the courage to do what’s right in stating that the Palestinian need their own internationally recognised country in the internationally recognised borders around the West Bank and Gaza.

What I don’t understand is why Israel does not guarantee a COMPLETE withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and guarantee an enforcement of equal rights for Israeli Arabs in return for the guaranteed full military support of an American CVBG in the event of an armed conflict with Iran…

Current Middle East Affairs

As I’ve stated numerous times throughout my blog, I am definitely far from anti-semitic or anti-zionist (or whatever the term for being against the state of Israel is). I very much believe that Israel has the right to defend itself using as much force as is necessary, and no more.

But it’s quite clear that they’re using grossly excessive force. John Dugard, a United Nations Rapporteur has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Apartheid situation in South Africa way back. Of course, Israel has called the report one sided. You can view the news story on the BBC News website. It seems that when ANYONE says anything about Israel, Israel ALWAYS finds a way to called it biased, or one-sided. I’d love to find a criticism of Israel, in which Knesset have been mature enough to say ‘we do agree with that, and we are in the wrong. We are going to fix the problem, by not murdering hundreds of Palestinians over the unjust murders of a couple of Israeli’s’.

You hardly wonder why the IDF is fucking up so much when you have stories about the Israeli Defence Minister going on hahahahahahahahaha!

The 2008 Presidential race is heating up. There’s only two real candidates – Clinton and Obama. The chances of someone else winning is probably around 10%. Also, there’s rumours that Al Gore MIGHT run for President. The problem is he’s spent so many years acting like he won’t, the chances of him getting any real support is not much. Especially when you have Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the race. I think Al Gore would probably be the best President because of his desire to tackle global warming. Put someone like Arnold Schwarzenneger in as Vice President, Al Gore as President and you’d have Greenpeace EXTREMELY happy! If I were an American, even though Obama has the charisma, and Clinton has the experience, I’d be hesitant in backing either of those because they’d be too unpredictable in what they would do with America’s defence budget and the military in general… if they’d be willing to contribute troops if another nation needed help. If they’d unilaterally step in to somewhere like Somalia… or Sudan… or bomb the blazes out of North Korea if it attacked Japan or South Korea. Some people call America’s defence spending ridiculous – I call it excellent. I sleep safer at night because of the trigger happy cowboys south of the border.