this just in: something is happening in palestine

ok, so it appears that the palestinian authority has collapsed. the coalition government between hamas and fatah has fallen apart, and hamas militants have taken over the entire gaza strip. why, you ask? well, someone from aipac blames american and israel right-wingers, which is ironic because those are exactly the 2 groups that aipac helped bring together in a neoconservative alliance against islam, ever since 9/11 changed everything. maybe aipac does not have as much orthodoxy as i and others have thought, and is more of a heterodox zionist organization. who knows? the israelis, at least, make a hell of a lot more sense than the palestinians, at least on some level. they are a wealthy nation like us, and just like us, they have to fight islamic terrorists all the time, terrorists who are out to destroy their nation. and just like us, they are occupying arab muslim lands with their military, and antagonizing the local population in these occupied territories. except we occupied iraq in 2003 following the invasion of afghanistan back in 2001. israel occupied the west bank, the gaza strip, the golan heights, the sinai peninsula, and lebanon in the past. out of those 5 areas, israel remains occupiers of 2 territories: the west bank and the golan heights. 2 of the other areas, lebanon and the gaza strip, are areas israel has had major military conflicts or occupations in within the last few years. anyway, both lebanon and the gaza strip were under israeli occupation until recently, and now both places are really fucked up because israel left and left a power vacuum behind and then used military force again after leaving, making things even worse.

ok, so what is going on here? well, the palestinians, that is, the people who live in the west bank and the gaza strip who are not israeli citizens, are a people with no national citizenship, who live in land under military occupation that is not part of any nation. or at least, that was the case until recently... but now the gaza strip is free of israeli occupation. this was not too much of a problem until a civil war broke out between hamas and fatah, which were ironically in a coalition government together, running the palestinian authority, in a coalition that took over a year to put together and had not been going for too long. all of these events would not have happened if it were not for the death of yasser arafat several years ago, because when he was alive, all of the palestinian militant groups answered to him, some more reluctantly than others. israel would have never left the gaza strip with yasser arafat in charge of the palestinians. when israel withdrew from gaza, they knew the most powerful, well-equipped armed group in the gaza strip was hamas. but, they did it anyway. in retrospect, it is amazing that hamas did not take over gaza earlier, given the fact that they could have done it so easily. now, the leader of fatah and the president of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas, the pro-american stooge we had installed as yasser arafat’s #2, has declared hamas illegal, and disbanded the coalition government with hamas, installing in its place a government that does not have any hamas members in it. this is despite the fact that hamas overwhelmingly won the most recent elections that swept it into power in the palestinian parliament. so the president of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas, has had to resort to undemocratic methods to stay in power and keep the palestinian authority from falling apart. in reality, all he is doing is making the palestinian authority simply be permanently controlled by the fatah movement and by the president of palestine, just like when yasser arafat was the president of the palestinian authority and the leader of the fatah movement. it is well known that mahmoud abbas is willing to do or say pretty much anything in order to win over the americans, the israelis, and the international community. he is a weak, spineless american puppet whose house of cards is crumbling. now he will have to consolidate his base of power in the west bank, get international aid to his government restored, and become a more autocratic type of ruler in the mold of yasser arafat. he will probably have the support of the bush administration, but will that be enough for him to hold onto power? or will hamas take over the west bank too? will everything just collapse into anarchy? the palestinian-controlled parts of the west bank are fragmented and separate from one another, so there could be different armed groups in control of each part, theoretically. but it is more likely that there will be 1 or 2 armed groups that rule everyone as the official government. will that government be recognized by the international community as a real government governing a real independent nation called palestine? no chance. there is a little bit of good news in all of this. the good news is, israel benefits from the palestinians fighting among themselves, because when palestinians fight other palestinians, they are not fighting israelis. but the bad news for israel? things will only get worse once the palestinians are done fighting each other, and if demographic trends continue as projected, someday jews will be a minority and muslims the majority in the nation of israel. then, who will win free and fair democratic elections, if those are ever held? muslims, since they will be the majority. of course, that assumes that new people who are born will practice the same religion as their parents. if instead we assume that each new person miraculously learns to think for themselves, the majority of people, not just in israel but in all other nations, will someday be atheists. but, that is unlikely, and besides, most people are so stupid that if they thought for themselves, they would do even worse than if they just believe whatever they are told. i have seen time and time again examples of the universal stupidity that almost all if not all human beings share, to different degrees of severity. i do not know a single person who has not shown some level of stupidity with their words and/or actions. most people show plenty of stupidity with both their words and their actions. the stupidest thing of all is to deny being stupid, because denial is just plain dumb. the neoconservatives are still in denial over the issue of iraq, and this demonstrates clearly to everyone the degree of stupidity these so-called “intellectuals” have. but i do not think that there is such a thing as a “neoconservative intellectual”, although other people have written on the subject as if such people exist. i think it is an oxymoron. most neoconservatives are actually anti-intellectual. anyway, the palestinians are in quite a pickle now. we’ll see how they deal with this problem. i think, more and more, the west bank and the gaza strip will be viewed as completely separate and distinct in the future, and people will give up on the idea of a unified “palestine”. or, then again, demographic trends could make israel obsolete, and perhaps everyone would rally to the cause of creating a unified palestine, just as people rallied to the zionist cause of creating the nation of israel in 1948. but, do not forget that the problems in lebanon are also closely tied to the fact that israel occupied southern lebanon for many years and fought a war against lebanon last summer. israel will be able to survive in the short term because of military superiority that they owe in a large part to aid from the united states. but in the long run, israel could still be destroyed, given how much they are hated by the muslims of the world, and how they have many more enemies than friends. both israel and palestine seem to be doomed to destruction, but in different ways, and over different time frames. the syrians may someday get their wish of having the golan heights back; perhaps they could annex lebanon as well, one of these days. once israel is dead and gone, like over 1 billion muslims would probably like to see happen, who knows what will happen? now do those same billion muslims want to destroy the united states. no... only a fraction would want that. although we are a lot more hated than before, we are still nowhere near as hated as israel. now israel does have nuclear weapons, but do you expect them to use nuclear weapons if an overwhelming force of a human army invades and is about to destroy their nation? the whole justification for founding israel was because of the holocaust being bad and the victims needing a land they can call home and feel safe in. unleashing a new nuclear holocaust would not be a good way for such a nation to come to an end. it would be more proper to simply dismantle the weapons of mass destruction so nobody can use them. but the time for that has not yet come. anyway, these recent events in the middle east probably fit the end times prophecies of the book of revelations perfectly. it seems that no matter what happens in the world, it always fits perfectly with biblical prophecy, at least when listening to people who make a career out of saying that all the time regardless of the circumstances. who knows? maybe they are right. who would jesus bomb? someday we may know the answer, when the fightin’ jesus comes back to kick some ass for his daddy. perhaps jesus will carry a machine gun, and go around blasting people to smithereens. one can only pray. now, whether you pray for that to happen or for that not to happen, hey, it depends on whether that kind of stuff is your taste. but if you don’t pray, well then, don’t complain when god goes and does something you have a problem with, because guess what? somebody else ordered, and it got delivered. the only problem is, you ended up having to pay the delivery guy the bill, and the delivery guy for god happens to be jesus. what do you end up having to pay jesus? faith. and what if you don’t have any? you will have to pay on credit, and go into faith debt. and don’t even get me started on how hard it is to come out of faith debt. i am trying to come out of faith debt right now, as a matter of fact. this guy “bob” runs a nonprofit corporation that makes money off showing people for free how to transform their debt into wealth, in what it calls “the transforming debt into wealth system”. according to the system, you make money in exchange for doing nothing, and this is called “slack”. i wonder if it works. hopefully it can help me pay off my faith debt to jesus. jesus is not going to collect on my debt until after i die, so hopefully i have a lot of time. i wonder how much indulgences cost? maybe the people in palestine have some answers. after all, these are the end times, and they live in the holy land.