Thoughts on current events.

Some years ago, in a Skype conversation, my daughter caught me off guard by expressing concern for the plight of the Palestinians. Because I hadn’t expected such sentiments, I didn’t have time to consider my response to her … but it came without thought, because it goes to the core of my beliefs:

“Fuck the Palestinians. Fuck the Palestinians. FUCK the Palestinians.”

A perceptive analyst might realistically infer from the statement that I do not have any particular sympathy for the Palestinians. I wonder how my daughter feels today.

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If Israel could kill all the Palestinians, simply wipe them off the face of the planet … well, they could. And they haven’t.

Why not? What’s stopping them? World opinion? The world already hates Israel, this would just be more of the same. Arab nations might hold it against them, jeopardizing such tenuous, chilly détentes as are currently in place? Could happen, I suppose … but other Arabs hold the Palestinians in contempt, possibly — though not certainly — as much as I do. (Possibly more, since they have the opportunity to know them better.)

We know what the Palestinians would do if they had the power, because they tell us — they tell EVERYBODY — and any small bit of power they accumulate, they immediately use for murder and atrocity, as we are seeing.

No, the reason the Israelis don’t kill all the Palestinians, every last fucking one of them, is because the Israelis aren’t filthy barbarians.

And the subhuman scum attacking Israel … are.