Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 09, 2024, 12:13 PMThe only hope is for the rest of the world to pressure Israel to cool its jets.  Because this is no stalemate.  This is slaughter.

So, who is going to apply this pressure and how?  Have the Russians or Chinese threatened the Israelis?  Either of them could supply the Palestinians with cruise missiles capable of leveling Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv.  That would even out the slaughter and the Israeli Goobermint would have less support for continuing their own bombing campaign.  How about a naval blockade?  Turkey, Egypt and Saudi could provide enough boats to jam up the Israeli harbors.  What pipelines are supplying the Israelis with Oil & NG?  If the country supports the Palestinians they could shut them down.  If not, terrorists could blow up the pumping stations.There are a half a dozen countries who could help the Palestinians, but none are doing it.  Why?

Because everybody's afraid if they do it will touch off WWIII.  Neither the Ruskies or Chinese will do it, because the Amerikans would then step in to help the Israelis.  The Turks and Egyptians don't care enough about the Palestinians to step in.  The Israelis know this, which is why they did it in the 1st place.

Who really wanted this?  The Oil companies, of course.  They need a bigger, more secure state from which to control the Middle East.  Israel has been the beachhead for Big Oil in MENA since it was carved out of the old Ottoman Empire after WWI.  It's why they gave it to the Jews as a Homeland after WWII when nobody else would take them.  The neighborhood has been at conflict the whole time.  Now is what it has all been leading up to.

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