The "root cause"

There will be no morialekafa on tuesday the 18th.

Since the Israelis launched their latest reckless (but carefully planned in advance) genocidal attacks on Gaza and Lebanon there has been (obviously) much talk about the problem. Many commentators keep referring to the "root cause." You now, if we could just get to the "root cause" of the conflict...etc. So just what the hell is the root cause? One might well argue that the root cause has to do with British colonialism that artificially created Iraq where there was no Iraq before. Or, one might argue that the root cause has to do with forcing the Palestinians to give up territory for a "Jewish homeland." Or perhaps the root cause was the six days war. Maybe the root cause is the capture (kidnapping?) of an Israeli soldier. Perhaps it is the capture or two more Israeli soldiers. Perhaps it is because of the price of tea in China. At the moment the best bet for the root cause is the simple fact that Israel has been illegally occupying and stealing Palestinian land for a long time - and shows no signs of ever changing their ways. The only meaningful root cause for the moment has to do with this illegal occupation, with the full and unconditional support of the U.S.

And don't expect to get any rational analyses out of the American Press. The whole thing is so biased towards Israel there is no point in even watching the MSM. You notice they don't hesitate to claim that rockets fired by Hezbolla came from Iran (whether they actually did or not I don't know - they probably did). But they never say the rockets fired by Israel came from the U.S. We (the U.S.) has been providing armaments to the Israelis to the tune of several billion dollars a year for a very long time. They have the most sophisticated weapons available courtesy of the U.S. The Palestinians and Lebanese have little more than sticks and stones (relatively speaking). This blindly uncritical support of Israel is not always in the best interest of the U.S. But, hey, mustn't upset the Israeli lobby. And it is perfectly obvious that Israel does not act in the best interests of the U.S. Right now they are trying to recruit us to do much of their dirty work (like attack Iran, for example, or Syria). What if Iran and Syria are supporting Hezbolla? Why should they not? Why should they just lay down for American/Israeli hegemony over the entire Middle East? Why should they not object to Israel stealing their land and water?

Israel is giving us their story of being constantly attacked by Hamas and Hezbolla. They have a right to defend themselves, they claim. And at one level that is no doubt true. But who are they killing in defense? Hundreds of innocent Palestinians and Lebanese. In Lebanon in the last six days they have killed somewhere between 150 and 250 people (at least), and virtually all of them were civilians, including large numbers of children. Is this who they are protecting themselves from? Children? Innocents? Make no mistake about it, they are not concerned with their captured soldiers, they are out to destroy the Palestinians and those Lebanese who support Hezbolla, and they are not hesitating to punish hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the process. They are committing war crimes on a scale not seen for a long time. And Bush?Cheney are standing idly by apparently relishing what is going on. Israel may have a right to defend themselves but they do not have a right to violate even the most basic canons of international law. They do not have a right to murder innocent children. They do not have a right to doom more than a million innocent residents of Gaza to utter misery and death. The root cause of all this at the moment is Israel (and the collaboration of he U.S.).

Let's move on to the next potential bloodbath. The U.S. is making plans for how we will remake Cuba after Fidel goes. Naturally we are going to impose democracy on the island (everyone must want democracy). I don't think we are actually asking the Cubans what they might want. We know what's good for them. They have plans of their own but we don't care about them. The most amusing thing I read about this recently is that we are not only going to impose democracy but we will also "rebuild" Cuba. I don't know exactly what that means but I guess we want to build on our overwhelming successes in rebuilding Afghanistan, Iraq, and New Orleans. If I were a Cuban and heard this I believe I would "run for the hills" as fast as possible. Having the U.S. rebuild Cuba would apparently be a fate worse than death. We are having so much success spreading democracy around he world why should Cuba be denied this wonderful experience?

George W. Bush is borderline retarded and Dick the Slimy is probably the most evil SOB ever. Makes one right proud to be a 'murican. I sincerely hope Russia will take Bush's advice and become a model for democracy like Iraq.