Have you ever heard that the media is biased? But, we're talking Associated Press today, not left-wing rags like the NYT or WaPo or even Daily Kos. We're talking about major feed to all of the smaller markets of the US and even the world. We're talking about shaping events to lead to a conclusion that is patently absurd, yet will be trundled out repeatedly in the days to come. We're talking about major United Nations talking points here:
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Did you get that? We've got this chunk of hell that Israel owned and shed blood for and which they voluntarily ceded to the Palestinians in an attempt to gain some semblance of security. Gaza is a perfect example of the sort of failure which the Arafat legacy has meant. More than 50% of the population is totally dependent upon welfare--government subsistence. The government, of course, produces nothing but is totally dependent upon aid from other nations. The whole thing generates what Ross Perot would call a "giant sucking sound."
Do the leadership of first the PLO, then Fatah, and now Hamas seek to build a flourishing economy and raise the people to a reasonable level of society? Nope, they lob rockets into Israel, haphazardly killing innocents. Why? They have no rational justification other than the whining about their pathetic state. And, every so often, Israel gets tired of absorbing this crap and kicks some ass.
Predictably then, the MSM starts to sympathize with the Palestinians who brought the punishment on themselves and failed to exercise any restraint. It is those Zionist agressors, of course.
Miles of tunnels, used to undermine the security of Israel, bring in weapons and provide a route for terrorists get destroyed. And, the AP paints it as a bustling commericial thoroughfare providing food for the Palestinian children!
Gimme a break!
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Gaza has evolved into a permanent bridgehead on the edge of Israel. That's Gaza's main industry, and the basis of their economy. Hamas is kind of like a corporation with investors from across the Arab and Persian world (and elsewhere, Swiss, maybe, Grand Cayman?). As Ian Fleming conceived it in James Bond, Spectre (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) was an underground organization. But that was mid-20th century thinking. Now with the demise of the nation-state there is no force with the political will to break the phenomenon apart. Spectre, so to speak, is no longer underground. Fifty years ago this scenario would have made the plot for an incredible science fiction novel. Today it is merely geopolitics as usual in the "Global Village."
And, yep, being an organ of postmodern Globalist thinking, AP can't (or refuses) to put the picture together. I'm getting that Orwell feeling again....
Final word: Ian Fleming knew his business.
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