(Re)cycle Violence? How Environmental!

(Hat tip:Backspin Media)
For those of deperate to find sanity and logic in the media, there is only person to turn to. For those looking for some-one to not play by the same PC rhetoric or agenda of the MSM, there is only person to fill that void. That person is Charles Krauthammer. An immensely talented journalist, who tells it the way he sees it; not the way the MSM requires him to. He is not bound by the agenda and bias of the MSM, and he shows it. Whether it's in regards to US policy or international happenstance, he doesn't play by the MSM's rules.

This week, he wrote another excellent piece of journalism. As the husband and I have already written a few articles and a number of rebuttal comments to other bloggers in regards to the false yet rhetorically popular notion that what is currently going on and what has been going on in Israel for years is nothing more than a "cycle of violence", it is only fortuitous that Mr Krauthammer has wrote an article for Time Magazine about that very concept. It is, as always, well written, concise, and brilliantly backed up by immovable logic.

Israel Invades Gaza. That is in response to an attack from Gaza that killed two Israelis and wounded another, who was kidnapped and brought back to Gaza ...which, in turn, was in response to Israel's targeted killing of terrorist leaders in Gaza...which, in turn, was in response to the indiscriminate shelling of Israeli towns by rockets launched from Gaza.

Of all the conflicts in the world, the one that seems the most tediously and hopelessly endless is the Arab-Israeli dispute, which has been going on in much the same way, it seems, for 60 years. Just about every story you'll see will characterize Israel's invasion of Gaza as a continuation of the cycle of violence.

What is so remarkable about the current wave of violence in Gaza is that the event at the origin of the "cycle" is not at all historical, but very contemporary. The event is not buried in the mists of history. It occurred less than one year ago. Before the eyes of the whole world, Israel left Gaza. Every Jew, every soldier, every military installation, every remnant of Israeli occupation was uprooted and taken away.

How do the Palestinians respond? What have they done with Gaza, the first Palestinian territory in history to be independent, something neither the Ottomans nor the British nor the Egyptians nor the Jordanians, all of whom ruled Palestinians before the Israelis, ever permitted? On the very day of Israel's final pullout, the Palestinians began firing rockets out of Gaza into Israeli towns on the other side of the border. And remember: those are attacks not on settlers but on civilians in Israel proper, the pre-1967 Israel that the international community recognizes as legitimately part of sovereign Israel, a member state of the U.N. A thousand rockets have fallen since. Read the whole article...