02.28.06
…to spite your face
okay — lemme get this one straight:
- because they don’t like Hamas’ avowed mission of destroying their nation, Israel threatens to withhold the tax money they collect on behalf of the Palestinian Authority… in essence, to punish the Palestinians for doing what the world claims they want, which is to move toward "democracy"
- the United States threatens to withhold it’s funding as well… i guess that’s to reward the Palestinians for holding their elections as the U.S. insisted, over Israel’s objections
- financially abandoned by the U.S. and Israel, the Palestinians turn to Iran for economic support…
"You cannot have one foot in the camp of terror and the other foot in the camp of politics… [y]ou have to renounce violence." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Cairo last week.
this sound pretty ridiculous, coming from the nation that endorses unilateral pre-emptive war as foreign policy…
the European Union has, again, broken ranks with ameriKKKa’s hard line reflex action, and decided to give nearly 150 million in short term relief. Hamas speaks out of both sides of its collective mouth, but thus far maintains it’s "Israel must die" rhetoric…
one has to wonder what the fuck is going on in the mind of anyone involved in this mess. Hamas seems willing to destroy it’s own people to maintain it’s "fuck Israel" attitude. Israel, meanwhile, seems poised to do everything in its power to live up to the image as heartless occupier that feeds Hamas’ popularity.
the U.S., so cornered by the bullshit that has passed for diplomacy since September 11th, 2001, fails to appreciate the hypocrisy of insisting that the Palestinians vote, and then punishing them for having actually done so.
unlike the past two U.S. Presidential elections, noone dispute the election results… the clearest evidence of legitimacy is that not even Hamas expected to win. so the question remains: what exactly does ameriKKKa mean by "nation building"?
is it empowering oppressed peoples to finally have truly democratic governments? or is it our way to tell put upon nations to bend over, so we can shove a hand up the ass of another puppet regime?