Give Me A Break!

When the attacks on Gaza first started, you could turn to the front page of every newspaper in the world and see Palestinians wailing and gnashing their teeth because their "loved ones" have been killed by Israeli rockets. Like they really care about their loved ones!

I say to both of the "Children of Abraham," "A pox on both of your houses! You are living the lives that you have chosen."

People in most countries of the world want to live in peace and security. The Israelis and the Palestinians, on the other hand, have chosen perpetual war because their gods "want it."

Only it isn't their gods that want it; they are the ones that want it.

There's a perverse symbiosis here. The Israeli military gets the lion's share of that country's budget because the members of Hamas fire rockets into Israel for something to do on a Saturday night. Then, when the Israelis retaliate and Palestinian women and children get killed, the Palestinian extremists say, "See? I told you those Zionists were evil!"

That's a symbiotic relationship. If you want a steady job in that part of the world, you can either become a full-time member of the Israeli Defence Force or a member of Hamas. Would that laid-off auto workers in Michigan and Ontario had it that good.

What that part of the world really needs is a decade of atheism. Then, maybe Israel could scale down its military machine while the leaders of the Palestinian Authority concern themselves with things like garbage pickup and running water.

Until then, I wish that the press would take the same interest in Israel and the Gaza Strip that it does when a civil war breaks out somewhere in Africa, because I don't want to hear about it anymore.