I’m not even going to link to anything here. Surely you have been around the block and witnessed the rending of garments over the situation in Palestine — the rending of garments from Israel’s supporters! They’re so defensive. Nobody understands. The poor people of Sderot have to put up with unpredictable loud noises. They can’t sit out on their patios in peace. !!

And so forth. Such hystrionics, while little children die in Gaza by the dozens.

Let’s just cut through the bullshit. Israel is wrong. They are morally wrong. All the people busily debating the nuances of whose fault this is and the so-called peace process and everyone else’s burden and role to solve this supposedly intractable problem — blah blah blah — it is all beside the point. Israel drags the situation out interminably because Israel does not want peace. Israel wants all of Palestine. Israel makes the problem intractable, on purpose. And since Israel has a captive worldwide corporate media megaphone, Israel can proceed to muddy the waters ad nauseam, which of course they do, to this very end. It’s so helpful for them when everybody debates incessantly because it wastes time, and time works against the Palestinians, as it has now for over 60 years.

If Israel wanted peace, there would be peace. It is really as simple as that, because Israel always gets what Israel wants.

Look at the maps. The maps don’t lie, only the people do. There is precious little the Palestinians can give up but their lives, at this point. And that seems to be just fine with Israel, because Israel does not want peace. Israel does not want to share the land with the Palestinians. Not after 60 years. Not ever.

Israel always gets what Israel wants. And everybody knows it. And they will continue to carve up the Palestinians until they have satisfactorily carved themselves clean out of the human race.

And then humanity will say, “I know you not.”