Tuesday, August 15, 2006

 

The War That Wasn't A War

Two days now and it's been relatively quiet. There are a lot of questions, many of them so banal because the answers are so clear cut and obvious to those of us who have witnessed how Israel transformed itself from a social democracy into a crude and calculated, uncaring U.S. model of virulent capitalism.

This does not negate the fact that some areas of the social democratic model which helped this country flourish, such as universal healthcare, still exist and offer a level of healthcare unavailable anywhere else in the world. However...as Nethanyahu and Olmert, two smug and corrupt cronies from the same party go head to head - Most Israelis suffer silently because they believe that the real war has yet to begin. Hizbollah audacity was just the prelude to a greater confrontation to our existence which will materialize in the next year or two. Too many unused missiles, too many political alliances and money to be made from arms and oil. The Europeans did not learn their lesson from WWII and are acting identically as their forefathers who helped usher Hitler into power, except this time they are kissing the feet of the little devil in Iran.

But given the above, this lousy government should still fall. It abandoned its citizens for a month, leaving many of them without the basic supplies to survive. It sent our young men and women into the field unequipped, sometimes even without sustenance. Blunder after blunder compounded and fueled a war which was not a war, turning it into a useless venture...a venture where our people's lives were sacrificed for no reason.

There was only bravado and no planning, only political ambition responsible for needless deaths. Nothing has changed on the ground in Lebanon and the real protagonists, Syria and Iran are laughing even now as they plot a more destructive solution. Israel is in crisis. If it does not develop effective leadership both on a governmental and military level before the next confrontation - then we're all in deep shit. If Israelis so not stand up to change this country's social fabric...the results are too terrible to talk about.

The results of this war which was not a war are intrinsically linked to the cold shifts in Israeli society, the onslaught on social services and welfare and education, the onslaught by a new elite of criminal powerbrokers, most of them in cahoots with Israel's fifteen most powerful families. Thank you Mr. Nethanyahu and Mr. Olmert. Mr. Peretez wannabe something minister - go home to your moshav in Sderot. All the rest of you MKs...well...most of your should be in jail for corruption. And while all this was going on. Gilaed Sharon was acquitted. President Katsav is breathing a sigh of relief wondering when he will be forced to confront all the women who have accused him of sexual impropriety...and the rest of us are waiting to find out where the red line of our country is...how many dead will it take to destroy the Iranian/Syrian threat once and for all?

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