Thursday, November 15, 2012

Israel's Home-made Existential Crisis

Israel and the Palestinians are trading explosions, killing each other, and Israel is threatening another invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and cabinet members are visiting Gaza as a show of solidarity, and has recalled his ambassador to Israel.  See the Washington Post article after the jump.

Israel's misguided leaders are renewing threats to Bomb Iran unilaterally, misguided because doing so will not stop Iran from Getting the Bomb [see Council on Foreign Relations,
 Oxford Research Group: 
Iran: Consequences of a War] and will cast Israel out of the Family of Nations.

Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa recently issued a a fatwa declaring Shia (Iran) and Sunni (Arab) versions of  the Quran compatible, ending 1,600 year of animosity between the two, so far as Egypt is concerned.

Th Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is siding more decidedly with the Muslim Palestinians.

Russia has Islamist radicals in its southern Republics who have done Russia much more harm than they ever have done to the US.  Russia can use help from Iran and from Egypt and can offer plenty of help in return.

Israel has more than a million Palestinians living as second-class persons under its control.  Israel cannot continue as it is and remain a democratic nation.

In short:

Make Peace between Israel and a Palestinian State.

Dom't Bomb Iran.

Images of potential brotherhood between Israel and Palestine follow.











Make football, not war!