How does Israel fit into the big picture?

[Magda Hassan]

Does this warehousing remind anyone else of the Warsaw Ghetto?

It reminds me exactly of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The two state solution is not viable. Palestine will never be permitted to prosper on its own terms even if it could given the dud hand it has been dealt by others. It must be subordinate to Israel especially economically. As we are seeing now the Palestinians have elected the wrong representatives and must be taught a lesson by being bombed into submission or oblivion. Other Arab nations are not all that interested in it either and have their own interests to persue.

The one state solution is no solution for the Israeli elite as they will eventually be out numbered demographically as the Palestinians are more in number and traditionally have larger families than the Israelis and since Israel is a 'democracy' the Palestinians could and probably would vote according to their needs (return of the Palestinian refugees) not Israeli Jewish needs (to maintain an exclusively Jewish homeland). They don't really want to test how 'democratic' they can be because they know the outcome and are not prepared to go there. Israel has had more in common with Iran being in effect more a theocracy than a democracy. Despite some secular institutions like some anarchist and communist kibbutzes (which have nearly all been privatized btw) religion seeps into everyday Israeli life in so many ways. All marriages and divorces must be done through a religion of one kind or another regardless of personal beliefs. They are in the process of trying to export as many Arab Israelis out of Israel as they can as they will eventually be a majority. So many Israelis just wish the Palestinian 'problem' would disappear. And it does for so many Israelis. Separate roads, phone books, housing, schools, language, tv, media. So much of the troubling issue of Palestinian existence has been cleansed from Israeli life and life is so unremittingly miserable for the majority of Palestinians they oblige and are happy to go anywhere else and get on with what remains of their lives much like Jewish tribes or families had to do not so long ago. So Palestinians are warehoused in tiny ghetto islands controlled by others unable to move freely to visit family, conduct business, go to work, farm, go to school, seek medical treatment, or have anything resembling a normal human life. The nazis regarded Jews as a security threat to the Reich too.

I wonder if it's merely a "radar station" or something with a little more sizzle.

I don't know but it will serve empire well even if it only has a fire cracker there. It will also serve Halliburton and all the rest of Satan's little helpers. It is part of pulling Israel into the NATO (even though it is 1,000's of miles from the North Atlantic) fold and is part of the Star Wars defense corporate welfare black hole.