If I could make one point to the world re: Israel and Palestine, it wouldn't be a partisan one. It'd be this, a simple one. The nature of the choices both those people have to make are not ones we can judge because they are so far different than any one we know.
As evidence for that, of course, there's the recent prisoner exchange. Fundamentally, Israel agreed to release a Hezbollah hero who had killed an Israeli man, then smashed his four year old daughter's skull and tossed her corpse in the ocean, in exchange for what is in all probability—Hezbollah won't say—the corpses of two Israeli soldiers, captured two years ago. Israel's statement on the subject is that they have a moral responsibility to bring closure to the families of those soldiers who, again, have not been told one way or the other, whether the two men were killed or kept in captivity. To assuage this moral responsibility they're going to release a child murderer. Well. That's a decision I'm glad I'm no where in the chain of command for.
On the other side, of course, it remains impossible to understand not only the timing but the direction of certain Israeli initiatives at a time when peace negotiations are apparently proceeding in earnest.
Now I fully expect some of you to say some really awful things, in which direction I cannot guess, and I look forward to ignoring you.
At least, although it has been so many years, and so little hope of a workable compromise remains, neither side has yet adopted John McCain's wonderful refusal to entertain the idea of talks with people we don't like, which is, of course, certain to work so much better, as Iran and others begin to miss our musk so much that they propose to halt nuclear development and suggest we get a shared apartment.
Of course, difficult duplicities are no stranger to the American field of politics, only the severity—which is, again, really something we just can't appreciate. I don't have a side on the public private funding debate except that it would be stupid for Obama to refuse the richer option. Let him fix the system later, if he feels like it. You know why?
Old man McCain says you can't trust Barack because he implied he supports public funding and then went private, and I'll even leave aside her the loan lies, because I don't care that much. Know how much the RNC has to spend on campaigning, verse the DNC? Why that'd be 40.6 million to 4.4 million.
Dear John will be using his public funding on top of a massive machinery of private funding which will contribute about 75% of his war chest. S'pose it would be alright then if Barack agreed to only run 3/4ths of his campaign on private funding as well, huh?
Reds can speak as they choose and will. Barack isn't perfect but he's so far the best either side has done for twelve years or so. If you don't like that, maybe we should all work on having higher standards...
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