With the assassination of the Hamas commander in Iran and the death of Hezbollah’s top military commander in an airstrike in Beirut it seems that the war in the Middle East is expanding. It is hard to imagine that neither the Iranians nor Lebanese Hezbollah will retaliate.
I also find it hard to believe that anyone will think the Jewish Israelis are the problem The attack by Hezbollah in the Golan Heights which killed 12 Druze children would seem to have put that to bed. For more on the Druze see here or here.
The Druze are an ethnic or ethno-religious minority that are genetically mostly Arabs, speak Arabic, and practice a religion that is an offshoot of Islam, distinct to the Druze. Other Moslems generally consider them heretical. They live in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel. Sir Richard Francis Burton, one of the founding figures in serious Western study of the Middle East called them “the only men in Palestine worthy of the name”. The Druze themselves have rejected retaliation in their name.
But this is the point: they are not colonizers by anyone’s standards. They have as much right to be where they are as anyone in the region. The attack on the Druze confirms that Hezbollah is composed of murderous radical thugs. Hostis humani generis.
In my view the United States should maintain a low profile with respect to this escalating conflict. Given a choice among Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, or the Israelis our preference should be the Israelis but that does not mean that our interests are perfectly aligned with theirs. We should be willing to sell arms to the Israelis but that should be the limit of our military support. I would further suggest that anyone demonstrating in the streets here in the U. S. in favor of Hamas are either our enemies or have been cruelly misled.
We cannot assume the role of interlocutor among these groups: we are too closely associated with the Israelis to be considered impartial.
The idea that Hezbollah attacked Syrian Druze children in Israeli occupied Golan is utterly absurd. Hezbollah is not about killing Arab children. The deaths are likely due to debris from a missile intercept.
It is also possible this is a false flag operation by Mossad or the IDF. Israel is governed by psychotic war criminals who use murder as a political tool. Since Oct. 7, the IDF has killed about 180,000 civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. Another dozen Syrian children would hardly matter.
You might also remember that Haaretz, itself, reported that well over half, if not all, of the Israelis killed on Oct. 7 were killed by the IDF, who simply shot up anything that moved.
American Jews and neocons are utterly blind to the realities of the Jewish regime in Israel. Israel is a fascist, racist apartheid state. Christians and Muslims are routinely persecuted and have distinctly second class citizenship, if they are citizens at all. The openly stated goal of the Israel regime is the elimination of all non-Jews from the entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
That is the minimal goal. Yahweh’s gift was all the land from the Euphrates to the Nile.
IDK Bob.
But I’m going to sleep a lot more soundly once Trump is back at the rudder.
You say that Israel is ruthless, callus, and is winning, yet you say America should switch sides. Side with the desert nomads.
Lose.
Why?
Yes
Manifest Destiny and sea to shining sea.
What if….
There were international pressure to allow Native Americans a seaport so that our adversaries could ship them arms, explosives, missiles.
Just so happens, South of the border, they have that. Moat in your own eye.