Inconvenient truths: Chaldea, Phoenicia . . will Syria and Persia be next

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Ben Tanosborn
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_999.shtml

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And the inconvenient truth is that the United States deserves the lion’s share of the blame; for it has been Israel’s reliance on American unequivocal support and assistance that has taken her to that crest of cockiness from where to dictate, instead of negotiate. This reliance has created a diplomatically unhealthy situation that prevents a fertile middle ground from which harmony can, if properly seeded, germinate.

Israel leaders will tell you that this is a matter of survival for their nation; it’s either show undisputed supremacy, or they might as well dismantle Israel and give up on the idea of Zion. The only problem with that reasoning, which so far appears to work for them, if at a very high price, is that supremacy is a transitional, generational thing; and that sooner or later, it decays and disappears. What then, will the hate now smoldering under that supremacy flare up into revenge?

You need not be an expert in the Israeli-Palestinian issue to realize that Israel’s recent destructive pounding of Lebanon’s infra-structure is not answering any particular belligerent act, or more specifically, the incursion of some Hezbollah militants into Israel and the sequestering of two Israeli soldiers. Nonsense! It’s nothing but an orchestrated show of force, carefully planned – perhaps for years – to take out Hezbollah's presence in Lebanon and show that country’s government, that Lebanon’s fortunes are tied to Israel’s . . . even if it has been six years since Israeli soldiers pulled back.

After all gets said and done, Lebanon will have to contend with much more than the rebuilding of its damaged infrastructure. The final tally, the economic cost to Lebanon, will go far beyond any short-term reconstruction. It will be measured in billions of dollars. Beirut’s luster, its renaissance, once again has sunk; and it’s unlikely that its economic base – from a business and banking headquarters, tourism and real estate – will flourish until a hopeful final chapter is written on a viable and friendly co-existence, and appropriate borders drawn, between Israel and Palestine. The entrepreneurial spirit of those sons and daughters of Tyre and Sidon will just have to wait for now . . . the psycho-political damage inflicted by Israel in the last few days has been far too great...

[heidler1]

1. IMO The inconvenient truth that the story meant is copied below.

Really, Mr. Bush, wouldn’t it be a lot easier to stop this madness once and for all, and go to the root cause of the problem, one that thanks to your lack of effort, and hands-off attitude, remains unresolved? Isn’t this a most pressing inconvenient truth . . . our unwillingness to promote peace between Israel and Palestine, when it’s in our power to make it happen, to influence the cause of peace?

Will the Israeli-Palestinian problem stay with us indefinitely as another inconvenient truth? At this moment, prospects look rather dim for America to face the truth.