Israeli_Cleansing

By: Lorenzo Dee Belveal

This reporter has ceased trying to understand - much less, make sense of -
the endless atrocities that define ongoing 'relationships' between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as they pursue their medieval war of attrition.  

Their battles vastly predate history. They are rooted in biblical, blood feuds, lost in antiquity, but resurrected by reincarnated, implacable warriors (read Sharon, Arafat, et al) for whom nothing less than absolute obliteration of their opponent(s) will fully suffice and perhaps bring peace. As such, this fight to the finish is not one that can be explained to a rational mind. It can not be arbitrated. It can not be adjusted. It can not be mediated. It can ostensibly not be ended by anything short of virtual - or total - eradication of one camp or the other. Hence, the most expeditiously that end can be realized, the faster blessed tranquility might be expected to come to that embattled sector of our planet. 

In the meantime, their perpetual conflict only serves to terrorize and outrage their more sensible neighbors, while keeping the entire region of the world in which the combatants play out their horrors in a state of unrelieved tension and dread.

 Theirs, ipso facto, is an engagement in which no rational individual or nation can find a sensible involvement. It is tantamount to a fight between blood-crazed dogs: The only end that will suffice is total destruction of one or the other - by any means, fair or foul - over any imaginable period of time. It will only end when there are no
more opposing combatants who claim to "remember" ancient religious admonitions, and real or imagined ethnic "wrongs" that - to their respective obsessions - seem still cry out for mortal retribution. 

In view of these realities, involvement of third parties, individual or national, can only complicate and extend their fight to the death. We outsiders, whether as private citizens or as a national entities, have nothing to gain and everything to lose by seeking to intervene in the endless struggle. This, regardless of the noble motivations we may claim in justification of our meddling. We can add nothing to the solution. All we can do is delay its long overdue resolution. 

The Israelis and the Palestinians are born to their eternal conflict. They know no other mode of existence. They consider it their "holy" mandate to fight, to prevail - or to die in the effort. 

So let them do it. Intelligent interests should neither intervene, finance, seek to influence or otherwise take a hand in the contest. This confrontation has been ongoing for as long as the two entities have definitively existed. It is as old as their genetic origins. It will end when one side is no more. Then and only then will the fires of their fight to the death perhaps begin to cool. 

With a millennium of murderous confrontation behind them, it strains reason to the breaking point to think their struggles for socio/religious ascendancy will cease at any time in the foreseeable future. 

In view of this background, by what flight of illogic do "outsiders" of whatever class or stripe honestly expect to materially alter the deadly, perpetual equation? Thinking so is nothing more than a pretense, an affectation, and a meddling in ancient affairs that are, de facto, none of the 'outsiders'  business. Only the respective opposing co-religionists can find justifiable involvement in this madness. 

The rest of the world should strictly limit its involvement to observation - and as little of that as we can comfortably muster.