On Israel

I think that Vice-Presidents need to be under a gag order, both when they are in and out of office. I don’t believe that any of the last three have said anything worth while, Al Gore just likes to make himself sound important when 90+% of Americans don’t care a bit about him, Dick Cheney has made it abundantly clear that he is going crazy, and Joe Biden, well, it is plain to see that he is an idiot.

I mean really Mr. Vice-President Biden, criticize Israel, for building some houses? If any country in history deserves some slack it would be Isreal. There have been at least 4 instances in their history where people have tried to destroy them. Although it would be 2 times once you discount the “exiles” in the bible, since they were actually taken as hostages, since a standard practice of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires was to relocate portions of the population in trouble areas to break apart the power base. Even with those instances discounted that still leaves the attempts by the Nazis and then the prolonged attempt by the Arabs by prolonged I am going back several hundred years, and including the persecution that the few Jews who remained in the Middle East faced at the hands of the Muslim and Christian rulers who held power there through various points over the past millennium.

I would say that they are better people than those who are fight them, they have never stated any desire to destroy the Palestinian people or all the Muslim peoples, in contrast to the leaders of Iran who have expressed a desire to destroy Israel and have repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened. To make it more astounding people expect the leaders of Israel to meet with the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, this would be akin to the British meeting with the leaders of Sinn Féin when the Provisional IRA was highly active during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and expecting to get anything done. While the Fatah Party and not Hamas is in control of the PA, and Fatah is not technically recognized as a terrorist organization by their own organizational constitution they seek the "complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence." (http://www.alzaytouna.net/arabic/?c=1598&a=97061) They are also known to be supporters of multiple terrorist organizations, once again with the goal of destroying Israel. I also consider the Occupation of the Golan Heights and the West Bank to be perfectly justified, if for no other reason than to insure the long term strategic security of the State. Also I enjoy watching the UN pass all these resolutions condemning whatever Israel does in these areas and watching Israel ignore the UN. AHHH the futility of the UN makes me smile.

So Joe Biden, shut up.

As a final thought, I want whoever reads this to go to the following link and listen to the song that is there, I couldn’t find a good Youtube clip and Blogger won’t let me upload the actual song, there are several versions of this song out there but I prefer the Stan Rogers version but alas, The Tannahill Weavers will have to do.

http://tinyurl.com/ye9ql2q

Lyrics can be found here:

http://www.southernbranch.com/dramtreeo/watersd.html#pointed