Grim news from Israel As most of you probably already know, another suicide bomber struck in Israel yesterday, killing 20 and wounding over 100. As we learned earlier this week, that's another $25,000 from Saddam Hussein to the family of the bomber.
The attack took place during a ceremony marking the beginning of Passover, a Holy season which commemorates the liberation of the Jews from Egypt. Oddly enough, the international press has been strangely silent about this aspect of the attack. I say strange because these were the same folks castigating the US for continuing the afghanistan campaign over Ramadan, an Islamic Holy season. I can think of two reasons for this puzzling silence:
The EU has revealed their prejudice once again in their seeming neutrality:
"I am horrified at the level of violence reached. Civilians on both sides are by now the main victims of a conflict situation which they never chose to be part of," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in a statement.
Question: Why did the Holocaust occur in Europe?
Answer: Because nobody there really gave a damn about stopping it.
It seems that attitude still holds true today. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure that many Europeans deplored the Holocaust while it was occurring, and did everything in their power to stop it, just as there are many today who deplore the actions of the Palestinians, and see them for ehat they are. But most of what we hear coming out of the EU and the European press is sickeningly favorable to the Palestinians.
President Bush, in the meantime, is still publicly clinging to the hope that he can line up Arab support for his campaign against terrorism. The time is reapidly approaching when he will have to admit publicly what he must already know, or at least suspect privately:
We are watching the beginnings of World War III.
Events have begun to move with a ponderous momentum like a ship colliding with a pier while docking. The velocity is minor, but the momentum causes a spectacular amount of damage. Attempts to appease the Palestinians have done nothing to reduce the momentum. In fact, they may have added to the momentum by encouraging the Palstinians to press harder for more concessions. Every concession which has been made by the Israelis has been answered by more bombings, more suicide attacks, more Israeli bodies blown apart in the street. This naturally causes the Israeli people to demand swifter and harsher reprisals, and more stringent security measures. The Sharon government is in danger of losing support not because they've been too harsh and aggressive, but because they've not been agressive enough in the eyes of many Israelis. It seems evident that within a short period of time, Israel will be forced to go to war against Palestine, and her backers in Syria, Irag, and Saudi Arabia.
As for the Suadi Peace Plan, as I demonstrated below, it was a non starter to begin with. With the collapse of the Arab Summit, it is made even more irrelevant.
So, the Middle East is all set to cascade into full blown warfare, and drag the rest of the world along with it.
Is there anything that can stop it?
Short of an asteroid impact wiping out al life on our planet or the Second Coming, I don't think so. The double ought decade is going to be the bloodiest in history.
Posted by Rich at March 28, 2002 4:33 AM