Israel, Kicking Butt As Usual

I AM NOT a big fan of the nation of Israel, and never have been. The founding of modern Israel was incredibly violent towards the Palestinians, the treatment of whom has never improved. During the 1967 six day war I was twelve years old, and from watching the news I quickly got the idea that Israel was militarily kicking the crap out of Egypt, Syria, and one other country. It wasn't even close. So well had the United States and Great Britian armed the newly founded Jewish national homeland that almost from the moment of its inception in 1946, it packed a mite of military might. I shall never forget a television interview I saw in which a young religiously conservative hussitic rabbi, dressed in all black, with a fedora, and long uncut sideburns hanging down, expressed hiw views on the nation-state of Israel. He said he was opposed to the establishment and continuing existence of Israel as a recognized nation, because Judaism, he wuite reasonably asserted, is not intended to be a country, a military power, or a political entity, but rather, a religion. A religion, and nothing else. Makes sense, when you think about it. Islamic Arabs do not generally dispise the Judaic religion nearly as much, if at all, as they depise the imposition and establishment of a Jewish homeland-nation right smack dab in the middle of Arab lands, in Palestine. They would much prefer that Jews be widely dispersed and distributed throughout the middle east and the whole world, as,in fact, they are. Hebrew power diluted, rather than concentrated. Sometimes it almost seems as if American foreign policy, and indeed even domestic policy, is heavily controlled if not controlled outright by Israel and Isralei interests, so huge and powerful is the Zionist lobby in the halls of Congress. Israel is a sacred cow of a large part of both major American political parties, where support of and alliance with Israel is regarded as essential, indispensible, eternal.It is quite evident that the United States attack of Iran was carried out at the behest of America's overlord taskmaster, Israel. Preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear bombs by building them is as good a "reason" (excuse) as any for the U.S. to demonstrate its hegemony, regional, and global. We live in a world, for now, with a single hegemonic super power. It is a "pax America" which has endured since the end of World War Two, with first the Soviet Union and then Russia falling by the wayside as their power and influence waned. The world still runs on petroleum, and, somehow appropriately, it turns out that the United States has more of it stored underground than any other country, including Mexico and Saudi Arabia, both of which,among others, were once considered to be the prime repositories of oil on planet Earth. the dirty little secret, you beign to suspect, is that an ocean of oil lurks beneath every square inch of land on Earth, and that we never needed to bother arguing and fighting over it, it being as commom in nature as water and tennis balls. Our descendants ill, we must hope, laugh at us for our folly of fighting over decomposed plants and animals as if our very lives depended on it. You can now buy a machine which makes water out of thin air. Future machines might render every form of resource scarcity a relic of human history, a history of want and lack, transformed into a future of unlimited abundance. But for that to happen, we must find a way to outgrow our addiction to and dependence on plants and animals that died and decomposed eons ago. It has been asserted by historians that all wars are fought over mineral resources, mainly land itself. Fortunately, the universe appears to be full of planets and land, so we can take comfort knowing that as long as we humans choose to keep fighting with each other, we'll certainly have plenty to fight over.