Of course. It’s Bush’s fault.
Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures
…The revelations from inside the UN come after another day of escalating violence in Gaza, when at least 26 Palestinians were killed after Hamas fighters launched a major assault. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, head of the rival Fatah group, warned he was facing an attempted coup. ~www.guardian.co.uk
I can’t help but laugh. — L. O. L.
The UN was supposed to be our salvation. But somehow the U.S., meaning the Bush Administration, prevented our all too delicate and mortal saviours from working their diplomatic necromancy (you know, by raising peace from the dead). So that instead of saving us all from the incredibly malevolent cycle-of-violence normally kept in motion by the United States and it’s affiliate fiendish powers (and by that I would never indicate the nation of Israel by any means, though others apparently are doing just that), the UN can only watch as the victims of this violent civil war, i.e. the participant, do Bush’s bidding by committing barbaric acts of war. (But as one possibly descended from some tribe of those proud people once called barbarians I take exception to that obviously racial slur.)
But one cannot help but imagine that if only these brave diplomats had been given more time, been able to engage in more diplomacy, been allowed to practice and employ their powerful art of obfuscation and conflict resolution that is their craft, there would be no civil war tonight in Palestine. No sir. The children of these unwitting participants in Bush’s war would be sleeping safely in their beds as they, their parents (both Hamas and Fatah), worked side-by-side in the balloon, flower, and lollipop factories that the evil zionist-crusader-jews keep bombing in order to oppress the poor and downtrodden, did I mention hardworking, palestinian people just like you and me?
No my friends, nothing except more diplomacy can bring possibly bring peace there. Remember that only diplomacy, and more of it, over a longer period of time, can possibly disarm a dictator bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction. So too, here, we must pray for the resumption of empty words and carefully articulated doublespeak.
And who is to blame for all this violence? Certainly not the participants. They are merely pawns reacting to the cycle of violence, insults, and disrespect that has been done to them.
Mr de Soto condemns Israel for setting unachievable preconditions for talks and the Palestinians for their violence. Western-led peace negotiations have become largely irrelevant, he says. ~www.guardian.co.uk
Strangely, or not so strangely depending on your perspective, the article does not mention anyone else so, “condemned,” by the UN official except possibly the United States. Then there are those pesky, “unachievable preconditions,” the Israeli’s use to avoid ‘proper’ diplomacy, like recognizing Israel’s right to exist and thereby condemning the wonton murder of Israeli citizens. Spiteful Jews. How dare they demand such a thing.