Middle East Points

Here are a few points to make with regard to the war in the Middle East.

First, there are no rules to war.

Television commentators keep referring to international law and the rules of war.

Again, there are no rules to war.

War represents the absence of civilization – and therefore the absence of law.

If you can’t handle that, then don’t fight the war.

In that regard, the Geneva Conventions are a joke.

The Geneva Conventions are a joke because in a real war people are going to do whatever they have to do to win the war.

Moreover, the Geneva Conventions are a threat to world peace

They are so because they sanctify war. They keep war going. They try to humanize war – although I would be careful of that term.

In short, they put window dressing on the horrors of war.

Second, it is a fantasy for many Palestinians and their supporters to think that they can march into Israel, kill a thousand Israelis, and then go back into the Gaza Strip and ask for peace – and have the Israelis fall for that.

Of course, there are going to be repercussions.

The Palestinians have no valid argument in complaining about Israeli payback.

You can say the same thing for the Israelis.

For the Israelis to lock people up in the new Warsaw ghetto, deny them the vital necessities of life, and then not expect payback is a fantasy.

Of course, there is going to be payback. We just saw it.

Third, both Palestinian leadership and Israeli leadership share blame equally for the conflict going on in the Middle East.

It’s not a matter of picking one side or the other.

What you have going on over there is a reverberating circuit.

It takes two to tango.

It takes two to play the game of ping-pong.

Each side mistakenly thinks that an attack on the other side will weaken the leadership of its opponent.

Of course, that never happens.

Netanyahu has only grown stronger since the attack by Hamas into Israel.

In response to that, Netanyahu and his cronies will now attack the Palestinians, mistakenly, believing that their attacks will weaken Hamas.

Nothing of the sort will happen.

Every building leveled by Israel in the Gaza Strip creates one hundred new recruits for Hamas.

Fourth, the regular Jew and the regular Palestinian who live in that area, have more in common with each other than either one of them has with their leaders.

Their respective leaders are cut out of a different cloth than regular people. Their leaders are all about money and power; that is their primary concern.

Regular people at the end of the day prefer peace. They would much rather be at the beach getting hammered by pina coladas.

Fifth, this conflict is ultimately about oil and power. Israel was created by GB and US for the purpose of establishing a beachhead in the Middle East in order to control the Suez Canal plus the vital oil and gas assets that exist there.

Oil is the ATP of our modern society. Without oil we don’t have a modern society.

That’s what the leaders in the US care about, not the Jews. The Jews were used to colonize Palestine in order to control the oil.

Iran and other nations such as Russia, China and India are not interested in the United States controlling any more of the world than it does now..

These other countries understand that as long as the United States controls the oil of the Middle East, the United States can hold them over a barrel.

They would prefer that the United States not control any of the oil in the Middle East; hence their support for the Palestinians in harassing Israel.

The US caring only about oil and power will abandon Israel in a heartbeat if ever oil and the Suez Canal become unimportant.

Sixth, collective punishment is to be expected in war because it is the population that supports the military effort.

No warrior or group of people engaged in a war effort has a good reason to be horrified or outraged by collective punishment.

All nations engage in collective punishment. The North engaged in collective punishment during the Civil War when Sherman rampaged through the South.

The United States again engaged in collective punishment during WWII when they bombed Dresden to a pulp.

If you can’t handle collective punishment, don’t fight the war.

Seventh, there is a war going on, and it has been going on for 105 years. The Palestinians are no more and no less terrorist than the Israelis.

Both sides are both committing atrocities, which is what you would expect in a war.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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