Mesquite, NV
October 10, 2023
by Rich Scheck
Haaretz, one of Israel’s top newspapers, blames Bibi Netanyahu for the unfolding tragedy in Israel. I agree! https://archive.ph/V57kX
Biden, Trump, RFK, West, Manchin and anyone else running for president should condition further aid to Israel on his removal as Prime Minister.
Netanyahu has failed to bring peace to the region and enabled religious extremists to exacerbate the tensions inherent in the claims of the 3 Abrahamic faiths.
As usual, innocent civilians are the victims of their righteous leaders who are puffed-up with self-importance and grandiose ideas of conquest in the name of their God.
Some observers believe Israel stood down to allow Hamas to infiltrate and slaughter women, children and young party goers to afford Bibi a pretext for attacking Iran. That seems plausible to the extent its intelligence forces are considered the world’s best.
Irrespective of whether they actually were surprised or somehow enabled this obviously long-planned operation, Haaretz is correct that Netanyahu must take the blame.
Bibi’s latest tenure as PM has been marked by enormous dissension among Israelis who are deeply concerned by his authoritarian thrusts against the nation’s judiciary as well as his indulgence of the hard right coalition partners who insist on provoking all of Islam by such actions as defiling The Temple Mount area sacred to Muslims.
These repeated provocations have now led to the unleashing of the full fury of a deeply wounded, long-suffering people who have little sympathy for their antagonists’ demands for a Jewish State as reparation for the Holocaust or redemption of biblical prophecy.
The unhealed pain of both of these hostile groups provides the perfect fuel for exploitation by outside forces who benefit from interfering in the conflict under the guise of promoting peace because it provides them with access to precious resources like oil, fosters huge profits from arms sales and/or allows them to please domestic constituents who feel entitled to dominate the Holy Land.
To the extent these outside forces are superpowers armed with nukes like Russia and the U. S., we have the formula for catastrophe lurking every moment, waiting to be triggered, unleashing the savagery we witnessed again on Saturday.
Somehow, sanity must prevail if we are to survive as a planetary civilization. Somehow, we must put an end to this unending cycle of violence. The UN has proven to be impotent while religious leaders are too locked into their own dogma to transcend the madness.
Obviously, the arrival of a Spiritual Master would arguably help. Absent Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Maitreya or an ET that can get our full attention to humble humanity while bringing a cessation of the killing, those of us appalled by this gruesome spectacle must endure the tragedy as best we can.
Until that prayerful moment arrives, as a baby-step towards improving the situation, it’s clear to me, Netanyahu must go. Bye, bye Bibi!