For anyone not reading the papers, here's a heads up for you: Things are going very badly in Israel right now. Rockets continue to fly from Gaza, Egypt is being less than helpful patrolling the Sinai Crossing. war with Lebanon/Syria/Iran could happen at any minute and now Turkey has suspended all ties with them for the flotilla incident last year where nine civilians were killed while they were being boarded. With that incident, I am sick and tired of hearing, "they only had knives and crowbars, why'd you have to shoot them." Those objects will kill you are sure as a bullet, stupid, that's why. Liberal pussies. I hate the idea of mediated reciprocation when violence is concerned. There is no such thing as overreaction when deadly weapons are involved. Just because one is more primitive than the other doesn't mean it's any less lethal.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the Palestinians are lobbying for statehood come the 20th. Only a handful of countries ae opposed to this, most importantly being that of Israel, and by extension, the US. We don't want veto the option and make us look like we are playing favorites but that is exactly what is going to happen. Palestinian President Abbas has pledged his support to avoid violence but that may be inevitable.
Syria continues to do as they please as we never were actually going to do more than support for the rebels (which I still think we are doing through the CIA to destabilize the region and drive a wedge between Turkey and Syria). I am unsure if we really want Syria to fall or if we are doing this just to screw with them but I strongly think its the latter.
Turkey tries to play the king maker but psychopath Erdogon is doing a half assed job at it. He threatens Israel who responded with "we double dog dare you try." Turkey's military is no match for Israel no matter how much it might want to be. And suspending all economic ties with Israel, as they have threatened to do, will ultimately hurt Turkey more than Israel. Thus the reason only military co-ops and weaponry are affected, not goods which would send the economy into a tailspin.
Iran continues blazing forward with a push toward a nuclear armed Islamic regime, a horrifying thought at best. Yes Pakistan also has them, but the military runs the show there and they are anything but Islamic fundamentalists. A nuclear Iran may well end it for us all. People not afraid to die are excatly the kind of people who shouldn't own a microwave oven let alone nuclear weapons.
None of this is being talked about. Why?
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