Problems

The last couple of days have been a time of meditation for me.
Those that know me already know I spend some time getting in touch with what's happening around the world, observing the evolution of events that one way or another touches our daily lives. I'm sure all can see the effects I hint towards.
Rising gas prices due to the Iran crisis, military bases being built and borrowed by US army to deal with the Iraq crisis, tighter surveillance from intelligence agencies all around the world.
It's hard not to feel threatened when an event or another hits some aspect that's close to you. Other times it's hard not to react when people blatantly cast aside all moral values they claim as their own for some obscure reason.
If there's one country in the world that shoud have no claim to religion or morality, that's Israel. Built of rivers of arab blood and following unthinkable crimes against both muslims and europeans, the jewish state seems to be on an everlasting hunger for power and land. Following the waves of immigration under British supervision in which they carefully drove away the arab inhabitants, the Irgun and Stern gangs turned on the british administration with a string of terrorist attacks and assasinations, while continuing the persecution of arabs.
Not satisfied with the Partition Plan that split the land between Palestine and Israel, the jewish settlers enganged in the so-called war of independence, cleasing most of the land of british and arabs, eventually declaring Israel.
1948 saw another arab-israeli confrontation, with Israel taking most of the land give to Palestine, while losing the Gaza Strip and West Bank to Egypt and Jordan. When Egypt closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli ships, Israel used the pretext to attack its three arab neighbours while conducting more ethnic cleansing mission producing over half a million arab refugees fleeing persecution. In this war Israel gained Gaza, West Bank, Sinai and Golan heights, but returned Sinai to Egypt after the signing of a peace treaty.
Bombing schools, refugee camps and hospitals were not uncommon among Israeli military, which saw next the War of Attrition and then the Yom Kippur War which was eventually followed by Israel's first recognition by an arab state: Egypt.
Yet the opression against palestinian population continued with unsactioned abuses and violence, degrading laws, constant checks and lifted rights. With Egypt leaving the struggle for freeing the occupied territories, the palestinians began their own uprising, the first Intifada realizing they were facing constant Israeli colonization. The string of mutual violence started in October 1987 when an israeli settler shot in the back an arab schoolgirl, killing her. In same year's december, UN condemned (as it did times before) Israeli's practice of violence against palestinian civilians as Israel tried to drown the uprising in blood. The violence was followed by peaceful protests by arabs which decided to withhold taxes that were used by Israel to fund illegal settlements. Israel began a campaign of imprisoning protestors and activits but facing an escalation they began imposing heavier taxes and colleting goods even from people's homes.
The string of UN condemnations against Israel continued and so did Israel's history of violence against palestinians. The Intifada saw 1164 palestinians dead and another 160 israelis and a few dozen UN rezolutions ignored by Israel. Even though the palestinian population did not have the modern weaponry of the Israeli military, they eventually managed to draw public atention, especially from human rights organizations.
Another Intifada (dubbed the Al-Aqsa Intifada) broke in late 2000 after Ariel Sharon accused muslim clergy of damaging archaeological artefacts in the Old City of Jerusalem. The beginning of the Intifada saw the greatest hatred uprising of jewish settlers against the arab population which responded in kind, though lacking the fancy weaponry of the jews. This Intifada saw the bombing of more refugee camps and the famous Battle of Jenin (formerly known as the Massacre of Jenin) where many palestinian civilians lost their lives agains the Israeli forces. The body count was also dettered by Israeli army killing UN personnel (such as Iain Hook, killed by a sniper).
Today the situation hasn't changed much, save for a partial withdrawal by Israel. Or is it a withdrawal? Palestinian territory isn't connected and Israel permanently holds a 2.4 km range outside it's borders as a buffer zone where Israeli troops usually shoot to kill (hundreds of civilians have lost their lives by simply trying to work their land). The palestinians don't have the right to airspace and israeli tactics of terror include flying supersonic military jets at low altitudes, snap checks and house intrusions, not to mention the recent siege of a palestinian police station.
There are many questions to be asked, the most pregnant being why haven't palestinian received practical support along the way? Until the Munich attacks the world paid little attention to Palestine, save for unenforced UN resolution which achieved nothing. Why didn't UN enforce its resolutions through sanctions? They are good at threatening states that talk menacingly but don't do something those that act violently against others.
Why did US, France and UK support Israel with weapons? They talked against Israel's treatment of arabs and condemned Israel's practice of torture (documented by Amnesty) but in practice they supported Israel all the way.
No measures were taken as Israel conquered land outside the UN partition, most countries silently approved of the conquest that reminds me of middle-ages practices when the lawless world allowed for the stronges to take what it wanted. It's the law of the jungle, not of civilization.
So where is the justice? Israel is silently allowed to own nuclear weapons, a country which doesn't threatens, it just kills, conquers, invades, tortures and desecrates any norm of humanity in existance. Such a country is not sanctioned in practice at all, despite the fact that its leadearship stems from the miltiary leadership of the past and continues the same policy of violence as soldier would. Diplomacy? Morality? Seems the people of Israel know nothing of this. They just take and kill opposition. They weren't satisfied with the land given to them by the ashamed western powers after the WWII, they took more and more and were allowed to do so. It seems to me as a nation unable to coexist in peace with another, not even now.
The people of Palestine asked the conquered land be given back. They don't ask for the entire land, though they have claim. Given the recent campaign of violence against them, it's amazing there are still Palestinians to inhabit the land. They don't ask for the partitioned land either, though they still have claim. They want the land before 1967. The conquerors say no, of course. They have modern weaponry, they get billions of dollars in aid to get their military up and running, they serve US and are being served by US.
I wonder how hypocrite can they be when they wonder why do Palestinians fight back. Hello jews!! Wake up! You kill them by thousands using modern machine guns, grenades, tanks, bulldozers, bombers, jets, snipers. You're suprised when they hit back with bombs, rockets and Molotov cocktails and call this tactics terrorists. Why is that? Because they don't have a country and thus deprived of the luxury of a regular army? Because they explode and not shoot? Have you thought that they barely have enough money to eat, not to spend on tanks and the like so they can kill you in a civilized manner and not a 'terrorist' one?
Try this for a change: clear a strip of land between their territories, give them back the money their people earned working in your country, give them an airspace, withdraw from the land you forcibly occupied and stop your tanks from bombing arab farmers. You might turn an enemy into a friend.
And as a change, allow UN inspections to your nuclear facilities, restore mr Vanunu's rights, allow Red Cross and Amnesty inspections to your jails and dump your former military leaders and elect some real politicians.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. For those of you that don't enjoy history, Mordechai Vanunu is the israeli scientist that blew the whistle on Israel's secret nuclear program. Well, it wasn't that secret since Israel cooperated with US and South Africa (the only state that reached nuclear level on its own and then publicly dismatled its arsenal) on making their bombs, but this way the entire world knew.
That's funny, a state known through its invasions and violations is allowed a nuclear arsenal in hte unstable environmnet of the Middle East. Why? The world again did nothing as Israel ignored international law and treaties, rejected the Non Proliferation Treaty and went ahead with making bombs. In the meantime they sought to punish the 'traitor' (probably the only jew with a conscience) by luring him out of UK (doesn't look nice to kidnapp someone who did the world a favor) into Italy and then kidnapped him from there, denied him any rights, tried him secretly and imprisoned him in solitary for ten years. Then they allowed him to walk a little.
Of course, they hide behind 'anti-semitism'.
What's that? I have no idea. There's no anti-americanism, anti-british, anti-french, anti-hungarian, anti-chinese laws. Why is this anti-semitism thing illegal and above that, what is it?
I believe all the question I wrote here are legitimate and back by historical fact. Hopefully I will get positive answers.