“When people are happy with their leadership and don’t demand change they deserve what they get.” – Barack Obama
Our alleged commander in chief has condemned us all with this statement.
Many of us are not happy with the US policy regarding Israel. And the only real thing we can do short of a revolution (in so far as our leadership goes anyway) is to show our displeasure through the voting process. We are at the dawn of midterm elections. Most Republicans by now know we are unhappy with them, and Obama is a lame duck, so it would seem an ideal time for Israel to start an unfavorable war. How is it possible to condemn a nation for war crimes and then send them in excess of $200,000,000 unless you approve of their actions to begin with?
In anticipation of unfavorable voting, republicans have already come up with a scheme to introduce “a third party." Obama seems to be more afraid of being accused of being a Muslim than he is in speaking the Truth about Israel, its war crimes and its outright acts of genocide against the Palestinian people.
After saying all of that, there appears to be a third ceasefire in effect regarding the current Israeli /Gaza “war.” Israel has an army, air force and navy. The closest thing Palestine has to a military is a police force. As a reminder to Barack Obama: The Boston Massacre was a historic moment in which a half black man led an angry mob standing up against occupying British Troops because one of the soldiers battered a young boy with the butt of a rifle for throwing snowballs!
This entire conflict began because Israel alleges that Hamas the democratically elected government of Palestine kidnapped and murdered three Israeli citizens, which Hamas staunchly denies. To its credit Hamas has agreed to every concession Israel has demanded since the last conflict, while Israel has broken several (to its discredit). Israel claims that by killing 1,830 Palestinians and wounding countless others it was defending itself using experimental tungsten weapons. Tungsten is the material the heating elements inside your toaster, toaster oven and electric oven that causes it to glow orange almost immediately. One problem with this is that Israel - in claiming to be a Jewish state - has exceeded its own law of retribution as cited in the Torah (old testament Bible) “an Eye for an Eye a tooth for a tooth” by 610 times! After the Initial 3 deaths, was Hamas expected to allow Israel to continue dropping bombs and launching rockets? As thuggish as many believe Hamas to be (and they may very well be right), Israel is far worse because they don’t follow their own laws! As per usual Israel uses the Jewish death toll after WWII as reasoning, and applies the slogan “never again." I agree never again! That should apply to all human beings. Genocide should never be the answer to any problem!
As it turns out Hamas did not kidnap and kill the 3 Israeli youth but rather an offshoot of Hamas. Israel even knew this to be a fact before this current conflict occurred.
For all anybody knows the 3 youth in question could have been spies for Hamas and the Hamas offshoots spies (agent provocateurs) for Israel who instigated everything for Israel. Otherwise everything seems to be far too convenient for Israel.
We will see how long the current ceasefire will last. In the mean time we should all continue to divest in Israel by boycotting the following corporations: Mcdonalds, Nestle, Sodastream, Motorola, Intel, IBM ,AOL ,Siemens, Keter, Curver, Contico, Coca-Cola, Outstanding, Danone, Starbucks, Eden, Jardin, Allibert, Jaffa, Tivall, Strauss, Volvic, Evian Shape and Actimel.