THE U.S. AND EUROPE WEAR BLINKERS
A dear friend sent me a story this morning that simply confirms the ongoing idiocy of western policy. It confirms that George Bush has learned nothing about the Middle East in almost 8 years as President and it confirms that U.S./WESTERN policy continues to be utterly out of touch with reality.
The U.S. and Europe have cooked up a strategy in concert with Israel. The result is to be two smaller Palestinian States, one supported by large amounts of western cash…the other isolated and cut off from all aid.
The strategy- in a nutshell- represents the final confirmation that the western nations, which created this mess in the first place, have no interest in promoting democracy in the Middle East.
The irony is that those Palestinians who will be getting the aid, are the ones who followed Yasser Arafat, the man who was reviled and destroyed by these same western governments.
Jim
It took the Guardian writer till close to the end to identify the biggest underlying hypocrisy of all…. “Hamas enjoys a democratic mandate…”
Over the past decade the US Monkey-with-a-gun and his UK poodle were SO infatuated with pimping democracy in Iraq, Afghanistan, hither and yon yet they punish and vilify Palestinians for voting Hamas.
If this phony coalition didn’t like the speech-patterns of Hamas, it could pressure UN to impose and police anti-hate sanctions on Hamas leaders, not punishment of its civilians for voting incorrectly. All the legal hate-crime templates and methodology are already available from western countries and of course Israel.
If that didn’t work… ok, sanctions.