Post by jeffolie on Nov 20, 2012 12:56:03 GMT -6
I agree about the "hot potato" Palistine population analogy ... no country wants them
Gaza is different than the societies of the WEST ... over 50% are young, under 18 yrs old
Gaza's population has the 'animal spirits' found in all youths that Ben of the FED wished our consumers had ... except more often than not the politics of manipulation the young "street" of Palistines includes motivating them towards violence against the "Occupiers" ... Hamas won elections sucessfully manipulating the "street" to empower Hamas in large part as the Champions to oppose the "Occupiers" { " Occupiers" are Jews }.
Israel has a movement to increase births as well ... adding to the "animal spirits" which Netty has sucessfully manipulated himself as the warrior champion to remain Israel's political leader.
The WEST is aging, America's birth rate and marriage rates are collapsing ... our society is different than the young oriented war 'animal spirits' driving the politics of the ME region.
THE IRON DOME ... GAME CHANGER
The politics of the iron dome significantly changed the current warfare because POLITICS MATTERS.
Netty bluffed the 'tanks into Gaza' because the Iron Dome created a political discomfort among Israelis ... few were actually hurt in Israel and most incoming missles fell harmlessly plus the protection from the Iron Dome dialed down the fear of the incoming Gaza missles, mortars. Without enough fear, Netty's political polling resulted in NO BACKING for the 'tanks into Gaza' action.
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]"Please allow me to explain a few things.
First, this place – the Middle East – is like nothing you’ve ever seen or visited or even heard of. The rules are different and really wacky, to put it mildly but you can relax, WW4 will not follow.
If you are looking for “who started this mess” blame the Brits. They started after WW1, giving away territories that did not belong to the them. The same rule applies today.
Israel snatched Gaza after the 6 Days War from Egypt. During the peace treaty in 1977 Mr. Sadat said he wanted to get back the territories captured by Israel “until the last grain of sacred Egyptian soil”.
But Israel could not convince him to get back Gaza and Israel was left holding the hot potato.
It would be like me asking you for $10 and then repaying it to your next door neighbor.
We got the occupied/liberated territories from Jordan but couldn’t give them back to the King. He doesn’t want them. We got a peace treaty with Jordan by keeping the other hot potato. Got the point?
Imagine a real huge 1001 Nights bazaar, flying carpet included, where everything is traded. Only one item nobody wants: the Palestinians (whoever they are since many people my age have their old Palestinian passport. Golda Meir had one she used to show when Palestinians were mentioned . Shimon Peres has one. )
The bazaar is opened 24/365 and very busy. Now the customers are trading blows, threats and missiles. The bazaar does very good on this type of commerce but – as always – when the customers get too noisy, the neighbors complain and demand peace and quiet.
We are at that stage.
On one side the idiots are running out of Grads, M75s, Fajars and so on. They are trying to get more but Uncle Mursi (Egypt) has closed the tent. Uncle Ahmedinajad is trying to send some but Uncle Mursi’s tent is in the middle of the path and the camel can’t pass.
My idiots have called the reserve and we have something like 40.000 guys and gals on the gates of Gaza so we have 40.000 people that are not working and costing lots of money. And the clincher is………..elections!!
We can’t have elections in January if the parties don’t go first through the primaries. We have something like 3 weeks to get through that so we have to finish the mess in 2.
So, the equation goes like this: idiots on the other side running out of the “with what” + idiots on this side spending zillions of bucks we don’t have+ elections in January + everybody in the neighborhood and outside is getting fed up = finish the mess inside two weeks, try for less. In a day or two you can expect the US, the UN, the EU and whoever else has a microphone to start shouting: You idiots (both sides) stop!
Then you can expect a wave of missiles going both ways just so one idiot or the other can say he had the last word and everybody leaves the bazaar for a few months.
The bazaar gets cleaned, swiped, made pretty, tents replaced and then – as always – here we go again. So Ure, don’t fret. It’s almost over. Until the next time. "
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Gaza is different than the societies of the WEST ... over 50% are young, under 18 yrs old
Gaza's population has the 'animal spirits' found in all youths that Ben of the FED wished our consumers had ... except more often than not the politics of manipulation the young "street" of Palistines includes motivating them towards violence against the "Occupiers" ... Hamas won elections sucessfully manipulating the "street" to empower Hamas in large part as the Champions to oppose the "Occupiers" { " Occupiers" are Jews }.
Israel has a movement to increase births as well ... adding to the "animal spirits" which Netty has sucessfully manipulated himself as the warrior champion to remain Israel's political leader.
The WEST is aging, America's birth rate and marriage rates are collapsing ... our society is different than the young oriented war 'animal spirits' driving the politics of the ME region.
THE IRON DOME ... GAME CHANGER
The politics of the iron dome significantly changed the current warfare because POLITICS MATTERS.
Netty bluffed the 'tanks into Gaza' because the Iron Dome created a political discomfort among Israelis ... few were actually hurt in Israel and most incoming missles fell harmlessly plus the protection from the Iron Dome dialed down the fear of the incoming Gaza missles, mortars. Without enough fear, Netty's political polling resulted in NO BACKING for the 'tanks into Gaza' action.
===================================
]"Please allow me to explain a few things.
First, this place – the Middle East – is like nothing you’ve ever seen or visited or even heard of. The rules are different and really wacky, to put it mildly but you can relax, WW4 will not follow.
If you are looking for “who started this mess” blame the Brits. They started after WW1, giving away territories that did not belong to the them. The same rule applies today.
Israel snatched Gaza after the 6 Days War from Egypt. During the peace treaty in 1977 Mr. Sadat said he wanted to get back the territories captured by Israel “until the last grain of sacred Egyptian soil”.
But Israel could not convince him to get back Gaza and Israel was left holding the hot potato.
It would be like me asking you for $10 and then repaying it to your next door neighbor.
We got the occupied/liberated territories from Jordan but couldn’t give them back to the King. He doesn’t want them. We got a peace treaty with Jordan by keeping the other hot potato. Got the point?
Imagine a real huge 1001 Nights bazaar, flying carpet included, where everything is traded. Only one item nobody wants: the Palestinians (whoever they are since many people my age have their old Palestinian passport. Golda Meir had one she used to show when Palestinians were mentioned . Shimon Peres has one. )
The bazaar is opened 24/365 and very busy. Now the customers are trading blows, threats and missiles. The bazaar does very good on this type of commerce but – as always – when the customers get too noisy, the neighbors complain and demand peace and quiet.
We are at that stage.
On one side the idiots are running out of Grads, M75s, Fajars and so on. They are trying to get more but Uncle Mursi (Egypt) has closed the tent. Uncle Ahmedinajad is trying to send some but Uncle Mursi’s tent is in the middle of the path and the camel can’t pass.
My idiots have called the reserve and we have something like 40.000 guys and gals on the gates of Gaza so we have 40.000 people that are not working and costing lots of money. And the clincher is………..elections!!
We can’t have elections in January if the parties don’t go first through the primaries. We have something like 3 weeks to get through that so we have to finish the mess in 2.
So, the equation goes like this: idiots on the other side running out of the “with what” + idiots on this side spending zillions of bucks we don’t have+ elections in January + everybody in the neighborhood and outside is getting fed up = finish the mess inside two weeks, try for less. In a day or two you can expect the US, the UN, the EU and whoever else has a microphone to start shouting: You idiots (both sides) stop!
Then you can expect a wave of missiles going both ways just so one idiot or the other can say he had the last word and everybody leaves the bazaar for a few months.
The bazaar gets cleaned, swiped, made pretty, tents replaced and then – as always – here we go again. So Ure, don’t fret. It’s almost over. Until the next time. "
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