Advice to Palestine
I have the solution to the Israel / Palestine conflict. I admit that I am not an expert, read a little but still I am privy to that little bit of the common man political sense.
So here is the solution to a conflict that has existed since before I was born. Palistinians are you listening, good, this is the solution “SURRENDER”
Total and complete unconditional surrender. It worked for Japan, Germany and Italy. If you held to a complete unconditional surrended and dare I say it, co-operated with the Israeli government I got a good bet to wadger here that they would invest in re-building your ‘new’ country because it would be in thier own interest to do so over the long term. Enough with this stupid bartering like you even have a position to negotiate from. Whatever is offered take it today and end the idiocy permanently, you can file claims for reparations in 2030, after 20 years of peace.
Wars are messy crap ok, messy, messy stuff that festers on for a generation. I am not going to wade into any issues here, at this point who cares. Who cares if Israel should exist or not, who cares about who gets a capital city of Jerusalem. At this point in the decades long conflict the bottom line is that militarily there is no hope of success. There is no longer a cold war card to play and therefore what is occurring now is simply idiocy in allowing for the death of innocents.
Russia, Iran whatever other country Palestine is trying to tie its boat to at this point is using it and using it to the detriment of its people. At a certain point reasonable men must stand up and say ok, enough is enough. And when I say surrender I mean ‘total surrender’. I mean that the next time you hear some nut asking about where he can get a missile launcher you call Israel and they come arrest him. If it is your brother asking you, sit him down and tell him to stop.
Every war must end, every conflict must end for civilized people. France was conquered by the Romans, it was conquered by the British you have to know when to let it go, when to surrender. War and violence is only a reflection of the failure of politics and it is time to enter into politics in a rational and civilized manner. It rips out my heart to see the latest attack on Palestine, to see the deaths of innocents but there is nothing that I can do aside from feel the pain of it and question the intelligence of the leaders of an oppressed people who refuse to surrender.
Often I hear the case made that Palestinians believe that the world is with them silently, that the rest of the people of the world are horrified at Israel but this is not true as much any longer in the post 9/11 world. As more and more time has gone by, the conflict is so perpetual that although many feel sympathy for the Palestine position even more now are questioning the sanity of its leaders. I mentioned this face to face to a Palestinian and I saw such rage appear in his eyes that I had to walk away from him right away. Without knowing it, he proved my point instantly by the wild look that appeared in his eyes.
Of course the great root of the problem is that religion is mixed in with equal or higher measure from the usual political nonsense. As I said violence and conflict is the failure of politics, in my view it isn’t even politics at this point. It is just simple idiocy on both sides of the coin. One may be able to be more coldly rational from the Israel side and one may be able to be more morally passionate from the Palestine side but that is the worst dialect possible, cold reason versus emotional morality, is there any more horrific a conflict to be physically realized in the real world than the human condition in every human heart made real.
The White Devil by John Webster as a revenge tragedy of 1612 sums up to me the Israel / Palestine conflict today at this point for me.
there’s but three furies found in spacious hell, But in a great man’s breast three thousand dwell
Today in the year 2008, almost 2009 it is only about the revenge in the heart of men on both sides. Nothing more, nothing less and nothing could be more tragic. A hell made real on our world for decades with the death of innocents the only result.
But how, how can Palestinians surrender?
It is simple really, ask yourself if God would surrender to the Devil if it meant saving the life of an innocent child? Then remember that you are not God and beg forgiveness for your sin of even considering that you are…
Than go read Goethe’s Faust and note the very ending where the Devil reaches for Faust’s soul and the outcome.
Merry Christmas,
Peace on Earth and Good Will to All Men…
