ISRAEL VS. PALESTINE...AGAIN

[rothschild]

For me terrorism is a word that appeals to fear and hatred. Yes, there are terrorists, but in many cases the word is used to demonize people with legitimate grievances. Are cluster bombs more civilized than IED's or suicide bombers? No, they are not, so who are the terrorists? In many cases they're just local people resisting military aggression by nations like Israel, the US, the UK, and a good many other colonial powers. We support Israel because our gov't still has a colonial mentality. Birds of a feather flocking together.

Peasants are trash as far as the ruling elite are concerned. Read Rudyard Kipling's poem The White Man's Burden. That's how the "elite" see themselves. They're "civilizing" the heathen scum for their own good.

Hatred begets hatred, violence begets violence, terrorism begets terrorism. If we ever learn how to solve problems without resorting to violence the cycle will be broken and we'll have the opportunity to build truly civilized societies. War isn't an inevitable consequence of human nature. It's the result of human stagnancy arising from defective leadership.

I agree. For as long as I've held an opinion about Israel I have thought that they are the terrorists they accuse others of being. 

I would hope that if our country were invaded that we would stand up to the aggression too.

I read the poem and I feel like I got the sarcasm or maybe I read too much into it.

You read correctly, I think. Sardonic wit, that applies to all of Western colonialism. The Major General I referenced re War is a Racket earned a Medal of Honor in the Philippines. He was there and saw what Kipling spoke of. He later acknowledged exactly what it was that he had been a party to. Mercantilism sans monarchy. It was the same in Haiti, and many other places. Over time foreign interventionism gave rise to the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned about at the end of his presidency.