a retired colonel speaks herein on the subject that overwhelms most else these days: the ongoing genocide;

Our most precious Vice President, Ms. Harris, at COP 28 stated, to a somewhat numbed and possibly bored elite world, that “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.”

Had she taken questions, one should have been “How many innocent Palestinians should be killed?”  Because I have a feeling a lot of people in Israel have that answer, as do many Evangelical Christians in the United States.  Americans like former State Department and National Security advisor Stuart Seldowitz know the right number.

To the Israeli cabinet, no Palestinian is innocent; to use the openly spoken words of Israeli politicians and their loyal American cheerleaders, like Mark Levin, they are all “sub-human.”  Reporters in Gaza are specifically targeted, presumably they too are sub-human.  Narrative control is so essential in modern war, and it is in no way neglected in the ongoing destruction and Israeli takeover of Gaza.

The famously loquacious Kamala H.  –  on behalf of some fantasy United States government that has not existed in my lifetime, and possibly has never existed – also said that “…the United States will not permit the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank, the besieging of Gaza or the redrawing of Gaza’s borders.”

Her fellow second stringer in Washington, NSC Spokesman John Kirby – as the IDF-Hamas truce ended – echoes the disturbing blandness of the American perspective, noting that during the truce, water, food, medicine and “even fuel” had made its way into Gaza, and then launched into the obligatory on and on and on “…I think we’ve all seen the terrible news coming out of Jerusalem: a deadly shooting attack there where at least three people were killed. Hamas has claimed credit.  We obviously condemn this terrorist attack, this heinous violence. Just another example of the kind of threat that the Israeli people and the Israeli nation are under by — by Hamas.”

There are two lines of reasoning, and only one of them matters to Washington, the angry opportunistic and profitable Israeli side.  The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.  Everybody wants a good deal here, and if I were Bibi, notwithstanding my personal and political problems, I would be humming the Friendship Song 2023 as I merrily planned and pursued my personal best as an elected official.......more.......