Israel Palistine Evil and Greed
I am trying to understand the situation on the ground. I guess it must mean that if a person builds enough houses on someone else's land that they become the rightful owners. If I build a den in your house and occupy it someday the house becomes mine. Interesting idea. Another idea would be to evict those who build the den and to move towards a fair solution. I remember running into a Persian girl on the streets of Tokyo and telling her I wish there were peace and she telling me - wouldn't America love that. I thought she was hardened for war and that I meant peace sincerely, but now I think the reason we don't have peace is because peace is not wanted. It is given lip service, every few years (in the last fifty or so) some peace proposal is shot off in space - then said to be a mistake. Then they say we tried to make peace but those Arabs keep attacking and another decade goes by with war. America sells weapons to Israel, who if given half a chance would have wiped out and taken over a much wider area of the middle east by now. But not only does America sell them weapons and take the cash - it then forbids them to end the war. "IF" and a very big IF someone thought Israel was in the right then hey why doesn't America let them end it? Of course ending it like that would mean that weapons were no longer needed and the profits from them no longer going into politicians pockets and pockets of corporations. Therefore, peace is not an initiative. We draw it out as long as possible and people suffer over decades pain and loss of life more horrible than in any one decisive battle - as if that battle was even necessary. I remember thinking that Arab girl didn't want peace, but now I see that peace is not the issue here. The issue is an economic one. Israel pours money into American military corporations, gives money to American politicians; every time a missile is fired money is accrued at the cost of civilian lives. And no one suggests that a new line be drawn closer to the UN map at the end of the World War II that was closer to half the current size of Israel but had a boundary that could only suggest the way it would end up. How about a line in the middle? No one would ever suggest that would they. Access to the sea for both countries. An easily defined border. Or how about a little land from other bordering nations. It isn't too much to ask and a gesture towards peace. I think with the Internet people are coming to see the goodness in all nations... the every day lives and quests of individuals, civilization... the fantasy evil ingredient is really just greed. Isn't it?
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