World Idiots: Israel Gaza Raid Mess, North Korea Cartoons - 5 June 2010

From Denny: Israel created a world storm of fury against them when they used excessive force on a boat raid of Gaza activists. You just don't shoot a man in the head four times and call it self-defense.

While most reasonable people agree that a country has the right to fight terrorism and the right to search aid boats for bombs and weapons, everyone also agrees that excessive force is unnecessary. What is also in evidence is that if the aid workers want to be taken seriously then they have to not provide resistance against Israel when they run a military blockade. It's suicide by bullets.

This week the mostly Turkish aid workers used more wisdom and chose to be calm and cooperative when boarded. This time the situation did not get out of hand with both sides making a better effort. And the biggest winners were the starving people in Palestine suffering from the Israeli blockade. It was a good week.

North Korea continues to be as weird as ever, declaring war with this country and that. Whether another war blows up between South Korea and North Korea remains to be seen. The good news is that South Korea has built up a million man army over the decades America has been there keeping the peace. There is no longer a reason for America's 38,000 troops to remain in South Korea. They have stood up their army and can take care of themselves.




Israel:

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North Korea:

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Video: Mideast Conflict of Israel and Palestine

From Denny: While this may be a simplistic overview with an interesting twist - it really is a good video to familiarize you with the focus of what people are thinking and feeling in the Middle East. As someone who grew up in the American intelligence community it did give me an ironic smile to see they used the demographics from the CIA's World Factbook. Well, the CIA has been the clearinghouse for world statistics for decades now and practically invented the discipline of demographics.

Demographics is a good way to track trends and that is what these reporters are talking about: How the population trend among the Palestinians can possibly push the Israelis to a new stance on the two-state solution. Of course, what no one mentioned as to the reason for the Palestinian uptick in population is that they tend to die young - and violently - therefore creating greater fertility.

Any time a population, human or animal, faces a harsh march to achieving adulthood or a long life, they tend to have a lot of offspring - in the hopes some of those offspring achieve full flower. Let's hope and pray both sides get their heads screwed on straight, their hearts emptied of hate and revenge and get truly serious about a lasting peace effort.


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