Back in 1900 , Mark Twain , commenting on the U.S war against the Philippines concluded that " We do not intent to free , but to subjugate the people of the Philippines..... And so I am an anti-imperialist." In his best sarcastic narrative he continues with a short story entitled THE WAR PRAYER ; " O Lord our God , help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells ; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriotic dead ; .... help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief ; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children wandering and unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land ."
It should be said at once , that along side this well intended and very sarcastic message by Mr. Twain ; history is repeating itself with the newly acquired Israeli imperialistic impulses and tendencies , driving their politics and wars . Extreme right wing policies , imperialistic ambitions , strategic annexation calculations plus the usual assumptions of racial superiority .
The history of regular Israeli interventions and wars with all their neighbors , and the treatment of their under-occupation populations , which is continuing to the present day , has been very bloody , very cruel and disappointing , to say the least , unless judged through an imperialistic and expansionist perspective .
It is difficult and very sad at times , not to conclude that , annexation of the Palestinian territories and the creation of one democratic country , could have constituted the best solution for both people , and all concerned in the Middle-East and the world . Unfortunately , demographic calculations and racial purity and superiority presented a very serious obstacle , and is still preventing such a solution , while the establishment of two separate independent states is still feasible , it is politically refused by Israel's governing neocons , and mostly for expansionist calculations and dreams .
As for the United States , I believe that we ought to obstinately enforce our brokerage efforts , impose a fair deal on both entities , clean-up that situation once and for all , or simply get out of there and stay out , we surely have the means to do it , if we can find the will .
I'm again on the same topic , but honestly there's no escape , as it is such a cruel and an unjust everlasting situation ..... where every one of us ought to feel a bit ashamed for our silence and hypocrisy . Israel continues to try and portray itself as a kind of great , peaceful Switzerland , whereas they are in fact a major and very dangerous expanding world imperial power .
My , as always , many thanks to all my readers .
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