Going gaga in Gaza: So much for Palestinian self rule
Given events on the ground in the Middle East right now with Israel trying to gain the release of its kidnapped soldier, it looks like the Palestinian experiment in self rule’s not going so great, particularly in Gaza. Well, as anybody could’ve told ‘em, one election does not a Jeffersonian democracy make.
A jihadist democracy is closer to what the voters were going for when they voted in Hamas, the party of insane, genocidal killers whose blood lust requires nothing less than the destruction of Israel. But then, what would anybody have expected from voters in the world’s most demented society where mothers commonly say that their fondest wish for their very own biological children is martyrdom.
It also looks like Israel’s experiment in unilateral withdrawal from a Palestinian territory — in this case, Gaza — is a colossal failure, however well-intentioned it might have been. Israel had basically said, okay, here you go, guys. Gaza’s all yours. No more occupation and no more excuses for wallowing in victimhood. It’s yours, so take it and let’s see if you can do something worthwhile with it.
(Ara)Fat chance! What they did with it was turn it into an unrestricted launch pad for rockets and mortar shells to be ceaselessly fired into Israel. There’s gratitude for you! They rail for decades that the Israeli occupation is keeping them down, so when the Israelis leave, what do they do? Get jobs, work on civic projects, build the place up, try to improve themselves? In your dreams. They turn the place into an all-out terrorist state.
What is it about the Palestinians that makes them so bound and determined to be the world’s biggest losers? The world’s foremost psychiatrists ought to be flocking to Gaza and the West Bank to study the world’s most intractable mass human pathology. Not that there’s any hope for a cure, of course, but just for the scientific exhilaration of being able to witness a kind of aberrant human behavior that could never be reproduced in the laboratory.
It’s sad things have to be this way, but the best moment so far in this the umpteen millionth crisis was the Israeli warplane low altitude fly-over of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s summer home. Just a little reminder that Israel hasn’t forgotten his ties to Hamas and other terrorists. This time, the windows got rattled a bit. Next time, who knows . . . ?
Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/
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