RE: should america support Israel?
August 6, 2014 at 11:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2014 at 11:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 6, 2014 at 10:20 pm)bberryhill0 Wrote: The TPP and TTIP treaties will make this all irrelevant in a few years. The World Bank will arbitrate all disputes involving corporate profits. Blackwater/Xi and other private militaries will enforce the decisions. Palestine, with no resources to exploit, will be ignored.
Silly me, I thought Thou Shalt Not Murder was simple. It's ok in lawful war.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill
Palestine won't be ignored because land of Palestine with its strategic location between three continents, and access to Mediterranean is vital for any middle eastern power or coalition seeking to establish regional rather than just local influence. Presence of an intractable Israel in effect prevents the rise of any really influential near eastern power. So any rising power in the near east with an independent agenda, regional ambition, and substantial momentum behind it would find it expedient to take up Palestinians cause either as leverage against Israel, or as a cause that can be used to rally the forces needed to dislodge Israel. On a time of scale of several hundred years, I think it's a relatively safe bet that at least one strong power with that bent of mind, and has its act generally together, will emerge in the Middle East. This is why I don't think palastinian cause will die, or the Palestinians will surrender.
