June 12, 2010
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One can choose the paradigm of competition and control, or one can choose the paradigm of collaboration and cooperation. Depending on whether they want to be motivated by fear or by empathy. (me)
Let me see. I’m in international waters. Legally. I have had my ship checked at the last port and reported to Israel the contents. We have hundreds of people on board including Nobel prize winners, journalists, politicians, and people set to do humanitarian deeds for people who are desperate for supplies. The Zionists have said to bring it to their checkpoint on land where they have forbidden previous shipments of supplies. They have a whole list of deadly things which cannot be allowed – like coriander. And cement. And so they set up an illegal blockade. (There isn’t a country in the world, including the US, that will say that the Gaza blockade is legal.)
So the bungling Israeli Navy dispatches a bunch of Sylvester Stallone type thugs to board the ships via climbing down ropes onto the ships late at night. Then, when the passengers realize that they are being attacked by pirates and start to get physical by pushing them into the sea, the baboons shoot ten people and then call for help. And the baboons claim they killed in self defense. The only one gullible enough to think that the charge of “self defense” is sufficient in such a situation is Obama.
Meanwhile Obama says, “Oh my. We regret it. But that’s life.” And goes on making TV appearances regarding BP. While the rest of the world is up at arms that once again, the US has shown itself as less than moral and hardly worthy of claiming to be for freedom and compassion. Turkey demands that the US give some action besides the couple of words: “We regret”. And Hillary and Obama still echo, “We regret”.
The US has lost its financial power. The financial superpower is no longer the US. The US has the military power, but so what? What good has that done in our current two wars or our past wars all the way to Viet Nam? Our military might is useless in our current world. And we have lost our reputation of being fair and compassionate with a passion for justice. The US has lost so much respect in the world and yet the politicians are still fiddling while our society, like burning Rome, goes unnoticed.
Will the partying in D.C. stop in time to realize that we are a part of a global civilization and not an island? Will the two parties stop warring in time to try to change the direction of our society in time? Or will they insist on playing their competitive games until the walls come crashing down?
I, and many others, believe that this last bungled fiasco by Israel will be like Selma, Alabama – the watershed experience where rational, non-political people realize that change must come. Must come. With or without the support of the US. The US can work with the rest of the world, or continue to pretend that everything is hunkey-dorey and allow Israel to continue all of its illegal acts (building dividing walls, occupying a land with 1.5 million people by illegally controlling their air rights, their water rights, and their human rights, insisting on building yet more settlements, setting up an illegal blockade, oh my, my fingers are getting tired and I haven’t begun an exhaustive list) while the global community buries us. We are losing Allies faster than a mountain geezer can swat flies.
Yet there will be many Zionists (not Jews or even Israelis for many of them are as ashamed of the work of the Zionists as the Palestinians are and I am proud to know them as some of my friends) who will expect to hear nothing more than, “We regret”. To them, they want to hear that expression, “forevermore”. For that will mean they don’t have to worry about legality or morality in the future just as they haven’t worried about it in the past. And when one is immoral, they don’t want to reflect on their actions or the resto of the world’s reactions for too long before hearing some affirmations.
Oh look! Here comes Israel looking for the US to give it more arms. Perhaps they’ll get a double load if they say it is for “self defense”. While more and more people in the US are saying “Not in my name!” I wonder who Obama will listen to this time. I’ll bet he gives Israel it’s double load and then turn to say to those saying “Not in my name” these words: “We regret. We regret that we don’t have enough money for schools, or for health, or for safety, or for the vulnerables in the US.” It really is a regrettable situation, isn’t it?
Comments (13)
It is just a mess. I am convinced one of the only reasons we’re allies with Israel is because we are an alleged Christian nation and the Jews are God’s chosen people although if believers read the Bible they would know that the Jews are no longer that chosen people. I love misinterpretations of Revelations.
I surely do not understand mankind’s bent to not only destroy our planet but each other.
Agreed, Great thinking, World is now a global village and we should work not only for national peace but for Global Peace too:)
and the cat chasing ball is awesome:)
Heart wrenching post David. You spilled my thoughts and perhaps of many many more out on the screen. Remember when a young Iranian girl was shot to death last year in the streets of Tehran during the protests? Her name was Neda. Do you remember how the US was upset and what strong words were lashedat Iran, and how it was blamed for the non humanitarian practices?? I was wondering last night, how are the lives of all the Palestinians different from that one girl? They also died by predators, just like the girl in Iran who was killed by home grown animals, appearing as humans!
I wish I could recommend this post a hundred times.
Insightful post.
I’ve said in the past that I will be the last man standing in defense of Obama, and I still believe that to be true.
That said, your magnificent post is making me ask: what wondrous changes might be wrought if Obama steeled himself to being a one-term president and were to do and say all of the RIGHT things instead of keeping an eye on the necessity of staying in office? To me, that’s the only explanation for the lack of conviction that he displays from time to time. I say that because I am still convinced he is the wisest and most decent person in our government today (and I don’t mean to have just damned him with faint praise, but my point here is that politicians are not by nature wise and decent people).
Israel is its own worst enemy, and I wish Obama would say so.
@twoberry - I agree. However I would probably put it that the Zionists are Israel’s worst enemies. I think it’s important to make that distinction. As for Obama: I also agree. I think he is the best we’ve had so far and I also love him. I think the problem with him and the Zionists is that he feels he needs to say and do what previous Presidents have said and done (or not done). I love your question of what if he were to resign himself to just one term and then do what is morally right rather than politically right.
wreaks of regretability
It sure is.
@I_once_was - Thanks for your comment. (I’m sorry I missed it before this.)
@Pennington_Hall - Thanks.