Thursday, January 26, 2006
Hamas and Israel
So Hamas just won 76 of 132 seats in the Palestinian Parliamentary elections, a landslide victory for the most radical Palestinian power bloc in the Middle East.
The right is going to go berserk over this. They focus inordinately on terrorists in the Middle East as it is. Israel is horrified.
Bwahahahahaha!
The entire world is dismayed: “Leaders around the world were shocked by Hamas' victory, with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reportedly calling it a "very, very, very bad result,’” according to AOL News.
Sounds like the world reaction when W got reelected, don’t it? Funny how fucked up democracies can get when the electorate are a mob of gap-toothed inbreds.
But just parse the reactions from the “good guys” here. “Labor Party politician Ami Ayalon said Israel might have to change the route of its West Bank security barrier to take Hamas' victory into account.” In other words, their illegal barrier might have to be altered to gobble up more Palestinian land to punish the peasants for electing a radical government. Yet another quid-pro-quo response from Israel. The Jews, if they could, would seize more West Bank territory as retribution for negative press coverage in Palestinian towns. This follows from the Israeli logic that if your citizens are massacred by a suicide bomber its OK to penalize the relatives of the bomber by bulldozing their home or detaining them as terror suspects indefinitely. The Israelis have made a science out of making a profit from being a “victim”: they have a unique way of taking more and more as restitution for their losses even when they have to seize property and arrest people that only happen to be tangentially related their abusers, who are long dead.
I am endlessly amused at the Israelis, who, after forty years of sitting on Palestinian land after they started and then won the 1967 War, are in violation of more U.N. Resolutions than any other nation in the world, after having assassinated, pillaged, policed, beaten, and humiliated the Palestinians for generations, are suddenly shocked, shocked, that Hamas won a majority.
I tire of their act. Je suis no longer amused. I have already written about my low opinion of this posturing, and my opinion hasn’t changed in the last week.
World leaders called on Hamas to repudiate violence, something Hamas is not rushing to do, which endlessly amuses me also. Not that I endorse terror or violence: I just like Israel thinking it might happen.
For God’s sake let’s drop the act. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO PALESTINE ELECTS. Israel is in control of the situation, as they have been for sixty years. If Palestine elects a militant leadership, Israel will simply take more of their land and use collective punishment to make Palestinians’ lives Hell. If Palestine elects a moderate government Israel will simply sit on their West Bank settlements that are most defensible and continue to construct a wall through Palestinian territory for their own “defense” (read: new border), brutally policing Palestinian towns and stalling the peace process until the Palestinian authority has somehow stopped all anti-Israeli violence in their feces-smeared reservation.
Which will never happen. Palestine has a population comparable to Sweet Home Chicago, which has six hundred homicides a year. If you turned Chicago into an execrable Indian reservation and put a bunch of brutal, foreign police in charge of maintaining law and order, say, some imaginary nationality that had been at war with Chicagoans for a century, what’s the chance that anti- imaginary nationality violence would ever approach zero homicides a year?
I FEEL LIKE I AM LIVING IN A DREAMWORLD. Hey! HEY! NEOCONS! You want to put “teeth” into U.N. sanctions? How about invading Israel? They have thumbed their nose at the Security Council for sixty years.
Where is your concern for justice and international law now? WHERE IS YOUR CONCERN FOR JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW NOW?
Nowhere. Our lawless governors wouldn’t know Justice if it was introduced to them by Jack Abramoff at a GOP fundraiser. They are an insult to justice. And every one of the verminous, raunchy hookers that service them at the National Review or Wall Street Journal are an insult to justice as well. Enjoying those tax cuts, conservatives? How’s everything going in THE HOOK SHOP OF MAMMON?
I tire of arguing with these drooling, twitching lobotomy subjects. They’re like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter: every time you debunk them and point out their gross, factual lies on national TV they just come back a week later with a different lie. HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BE HUMILIATED BEFORE YOU REALIZE YOU ARE AN ABOMINABLE INTELLECTUAL WHORE?
Let me make this more clear, so there isn’t any, say, ambiguity.
YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION.
Yes, you, Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh fans. That goes for you Michael “Savage” Weiner fans, and movement conservatives, and brainless, dickless moderate conservatives too. I hope you get drafted to fight and die in the war you dream of and jerk off to at night, you chickenshit porcine wannabes. Maybe you won’t be so flippant about the necessity and costs of war when your ass cashes the checks your mouth writes.
Where is the courage of your convictions? If you want the war, then go fight it, Yellow Elephants. How about starting by paying for it without the use of a Chinese loan? Your hallowed tax cuts might have to wait.
I listened to the Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Debate last night. Talk about tax cuts. Jebus Mary Joseph! That’s the only thing they talked about last night.
Tell me, Reprobaticans, how do you form a coherent political philosophy around one fucking idea. How do tax cuts solve anything, much less everything? Do you have any fucking idea about how to run a country besides “don’t take my money” and “fuck the poor”? What is the use to a healthy society of moral parasites like yourself?
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER. YOU ARE A DISEASE ON THE FACE OF AMERICA THAT MUST BE EXCISED.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:58 PM 
