Gaza

[myrrh]

I am surprised that this hasn't come up yet, but I guess the time of year has something to do with it. Anyway...

There is no love or even a small liking for the Israeli government. Neither do I have any positive feelings for Abbas and his illegal, US backed Fatah government. It sickens me how he just sits back and allows such actions to continue.

That being said, it is sad that a country - that country being Israeli - can just continue to pull all the stunts that it does and get away with them. I don't know what it is going to take for the Arab countries to finally grow a sack and ally up against Israel.

I am sure that the coward puppet regimes in the region fear the US stepping into things. However, if they had any ounce of smarts in their collective heads, and perhaps a bit of courage, then they would see that if they were ever going to do something then perhaps now would be the time because the US has it's troops spread across the world and the opinion of the US people entering another fight might not be positive.

This is a perfect example of how US politics work, and why I say "US Democracy" as if it is it's own ideology:

"The rocket barrage by Hamas that preceded Israel's air strikes began with the unraveling of a cease-fire, brokered by Egypt, that had been in place since June. Although Hamas said the truce expired on Dec. 19, it began firing rockets earlier, in response to an Israeli raid on Nov. 5 aimed at stopping Palestinians from tunneling under the boundary fence. Hamas needed a truce, but one on more favorable terms than what had applied in the preceding six months. During that time, Israel had largely stopped military attacks in Gaza but kept in place a crippling economic siege as part of a Bush Administration–backed campaign to pressure the Palestinian civilian population to overthrow the Hamas government it had elected in 2006."

That is from Time.