Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass January 22, 2006.......... This week alone, somewhere over 50 million dollars will be taken from the pockets of American taxpayers and handed to Israel as foreign aid. The foreign aid from America to Israel has been going on since the day the nation was put into existence. Foreign aid in itself is not a bad thing and should be practiced by those nations of plenty to raise the standards of living for those countries in need around the globe. However, the situation and our relationship with Israel bears a closer look. When the nation of Israel was carved out in 1948, to make room for such a state, those already residing there had to give up their homes and be displaced. Palestinians who had lived for generations in the same neighborhoods and buildings had to be moved like it or not. Of course anger came knocking immediately and the end result was the same Palestinian families who formerly lived in what was now Israel found themselves moved to camps behind fences guarded by Israeli soldiers and in sight of the homes and land they use to live in now occupied by the Israelis. I know this is a simplification of the situation, but from the perspective of the Palestinian it is a correct description. From the eyes of all Muslim nations, it is accepted that the Palestinians were grossly mistreated and left without basic human rights without consideration. As Israel continued on, each time there was an issue, right or wrong, America came down in favor of Israel without fail. Each time Israel engaged in aggression or conflict The United States made it known it was on the sidelines prepared to make certain Israel was protected by the full might and fury of the United States as necessary to prevent her demise. This is akin to the neighborhood bully whose Father stands by to make sure the bully doesn't get slapped around by the one he's kicking. In the 198o's Israel made the judgement to bomb a nuclear power plant in Iraq because of the danger of Iraq having this technology, even for the production of electricity, because that could have led to the production of a nuclear device one day. What the problem was, the state of the art jets that made the attack on the reactor on Iraqi soil was from a country smaller than Massachusetts with less than half the population of New York City, who already had nuclear weapons in their arsenal, and guarded, supported and financed by The USA. As the years have gone by the aggression and inhumane treatment of the Palestinians by Israel has grown more calloused and brutal while rather than control a spoiled child we have turned our heads and pretended to the rest of the world that Israels behaviour was justified while the rest of the world, especially the Muslims, watched as the Israelis responded to the stone throwing Palestinians with tanks and missiles. As it deteriorated to Palestinian suicide bombers we joined in the description of crazy terrorists. Israels thanks to us for our support, kindness and money has been to lie to us, spy on us, sell our weaponry to others and generally offend what is right and wrong. While we may be blind to the behaviour of our spoiled child in the Middle East, the rest of the world isn't. And one day like the neighborhood bully protected by his doting father, we might get burned out of the neighborhood. Or.... has that already started? I'm not an anti -Semetic, but I certainly think it never hurts to look at your self from the perspective of all observers, which in this case is the entire world...............