Israel, Palestine, and the World: Fractally Bad

I open a book and get a report on future events that even God would like to file and forget. - Philip K Dick

• Errors of US foreign policy going all the way back to Truman contribute to the current situation in Israel and Palestine.

• If Iran cared all about the Palestinian people, they would have prevented the Hamas attack of October 7th.

• In this war we see two opponents each bent on the annihilation of the other. This is rare in history. If the regional war that both some Israeli and Iranian factions desire begins, it will be brutal beyond belief.

• I do not believe there is anything President Biden can do that will stop the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza. It is colonialist thinking to believe that President Biden can order Israel to do anything. The United States could withdraw all support and I don’t think the assault would stop. Israel is a regional power, makes its own money and can manufacture its own weapons – they have a huge munitions industry and are a major arms exporter. US made weapons are of value to them, but I don’t think they need them.

• Israel would have done better to make peace many years ago. Some Israeli politicians are explicitly advocating the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This may be Israel’s war aim.

• Israel depends on US diplomatic support and US naval defense. If the United States does withdraw all support of Israel, Iran would probably go to war with Israel and there would be regional war, possibly world war.

• Do we want to see trade through the Suez canal controlled by Islamic radicals?

• Israel is rumored to have a small number of nuclear weapons. This has never been publicly confirmed, but US intelligence agencies most likely know, so President Biden most likely knows. If so, and Israel faces total defeat in war, Israel is likely to use them.

• Christian Zionists are delusional and enormously destructive – what kind of people want to bring about the end of the world?

• Iran is aiming at the ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide of the Jews of Israel – has been for at least two decades. There are some westerners who are all right with this; apparently genocide is all right with them, as long as it’s Jews.

• The brutality of Iranian-sponsored Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi hint at how Iran will conduct itself in a war.

• The Houthi piracy in the Red Sea, and the apparent support by Iran may bring the rest of the world into conflict with Iran.

• The UN General Assembly and Security Council refuses to condemn the mass rapes undertaken by Hamas – that’s why there was no security council resolution. The bureaucratic functions of the UN are great, but its legislature is upgefkd, partly because many of the participants are not democracies.

Fractally bad - at every level and worldwide.