What's Really Happening In Lebanon

Simple:

The United States is being and has always been stupid about the Middle East. For 50 years we have offered blind support to Israel that they have used mostly to steal Palestinian land rather than to live defensively within, miraculously given, internationally recognized borders. While the hour is late and the situation has been aggravated to the point of suicidal hysteria it is never too late to do the right thing and possibly create peace as follows:

1) Tell Israel that not one more penny will be forthcoming unless they build a defensive wall at the internationally recognized 1967 borders, and live peacefully behind that wall except to counter attacks over the wall. When living behind legitimate borders Israel will have the legitimate right to attack those who attack them, and in so doing will also help us by weakening the Islamo-Fascist militias (Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood) that threaten us directly and the oil producing status quo in the Middle East.

2) Demand the rest of the world finally take a position to either support and defend the 1967 boundaries, push Israel into the sea, or shut up and be cowardly, impotent bystanders forever. Once the United States has finally taken a clear, simple, practical, and moral position the entire world will no longer be so confused, befuddled and frightened by the Israeli trick of presenting the Middle East to us as a very technical, complicated region of the world in which only they can navigate. Murderous fools hating and killing each other is neither technical nor complex.

Many countries led by the US will defend the UN sanctioned 1967 borders. All the preposterous rhetoric, arguments, speeches and garbage coming out of the mouths of the combatants will be instantly irrelevant and superfluous. We won’t have to hear about water rights, Shabaa Farms, right of return, judifying Jerusalem, who got there first, who attacked first, or what holy book fanatics think, anymore. The Israelis will have no arguments and the Muslims will have one remaining argument that will sound silly even to them: Allah demands that we drive the Jews into the sea.

Of course if this had all happened 40 years ago the Muslims would have had time to forget about their neighbors on the other side of the internationally created, defended, and justified wall, and go on with their lives with or without massive international aid. Sadly, 40 years of American stupidity and Israeli aggression has caused a metastatic hatred across much of the world, and worse, Muslims now have long range rockets that they can fire over the wall and, one day soon, over the oceans. Nevertheless, clear, simple, honest, and moral language and a clear, simple, honest, and moral way to think about the problem is the best place to begin, even if it’s late in the game. The US must become an honest peace broker rather than remain as a blind, dumb supporter of Israel. An honest broker can be an effective advocate for peace while a partisan broker is someone in whom Muslims will have an ever growing hatred. And, “ever” can be a long deadly time when you’re talking about a suicidally fanatic people with trillions of petrodollars with which to develop WMD and delivery systems.

More blind support for Israel as it destroys the entire nation of Lebanon, with American weapons, seems like nothing more than an exact continuation of the same polic