But . . .

While the armed conflict in Gaza/Israel is driving all of Trump’s free media coverage to near zero, there are a few things that now seem apparent. The coverage of the conflict seems hopelessly biased. The politics of the conflict seems hopelessly biased.

For example, a pro-Israel commentator stated that the “two state solution,” you know the one promised by the UN, wasn’t possible because the Palestinian territories weren’t even contiguous. She stated that from the United States in which one of the states so united has a major chunk of Canada between it and the other states and another has thousands of miles of ocean between it and the others.

Some points that I can state. This conflict is yet another episode stemming from the “Great Powers” carving up the Middle East as they saw fit after WW2. Israel wasn’t created by the peoples involved, it was created by the UN. Since it was created, Israel has fought several wars to continue to exist but since then it has behaved much like all of the other occupying powers around the globe.

The conditions in the Gaza Strip are truly horrific, only because of actions of Israel. Do a little research and check to see how it is almost impossible to get a normal stream of goods and supplies into and out of that region.

Why are the civilians being attacked always “innocent civilians” when they consistently vote into office troglodytes like Bibi Netanyahu, who promotes settlements in territory the Palestinians were supposedly granted and other draconian policies.

Why are the talking heads always saying things like Hamas has “signed its death warrant,” when this did not happen the last time Hamas did this, or the time before, or the time before that. Actually, Hamas’s weaponry has gotten ever more sophisticated over that time, so it seems they are thriving.

Hamas is also stated as “uncaring” of the people of Gaza as those “innocents” are being racked up as casualties of the Israeli counter moves. But if you look at the state of the people in Gaza they were dying, just not as rapidly as in a war, from lack of all essential services, job opportunities, etc. And when people are desperate, they predictably take desperate actions, even when they are not the official representatives of the people involved.

And, the Israeli army, which achieved such renown back when it actually fought wars is nowhere near its former abilities, having been reduced to an occupying army, much as the U.S. army experienced in the Iraq War, when it rolled up the opposition in days and then struggled for years when the enemy didn’t present itself for easy defeats.

It may seem that I am on the Palestinian side here, but actually I am not on either side. To do so would be like throwing starving rats into close quarters, which then battle to see who eats whom, and then taking bets on who wins and loses the battles.

I just wonder why my government has such unequivocal support for just one side in this conflict. We send a billion dollars of “economic aid” to Israel every day and a half! In other words we are propping up the existence of that state. We also send them over $3 billion dollars of military aid every year and the first comments of our politicians were to promise to replenish their ammunition stocks for all they are using on basically defenseless Gaza. Why?

The Palestinians get some “humanitarian aid” but not to the likes of the Israelis.

Gosh, do you think it could be that our politicians are pandering to Jewish-American voters and donors? If that is so, we are allowing another people to be slowly ground into dust for the political gain of our politicians and that is despicable. If you know why our support of Israel is so unequivocal, I would like to know why.