Meanwhile on the International front....

The whole issue of the term 'zionism' wrapped up.

My understanding of Zionism is from reading 'The Chosen One' in high school and the kid's father was against Israel because he believed Jews would only return to the Holy Land with the Second Coming. Did I get that right?

 

Exactly.

Neither side is going to resolve their problems by killing enough of the other.

We tried that tactic for 20 years. Terrorism won the War on Terror.

 

The book is "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok. And yes, one kid's father was opposed to establishing a state of Israel after the Holocaust without the coming of the Messiah (he was a fictional character who was the head of a fictional Hasidic sect with that belief. In real life, that was not a common belief, but it was the belief of some, though not all Hasidic sects -- some of whom lived and still live in Jerusalem and B'nei B'rak). In the 1982 film adaptation, which was pretty good, but not as good as the novel itself or the sequel novel, "The Promise," the Hasidic kid was played by Robby Benson and his father, the Rebbe, was played by Rod Steiger.

 

All of that can be true, and yet Israel will still never solve its problems by blowing up the correct number of Palestinians.

 

Bill Maher gets his ass handed to him.

 

It might be nice to see some campus protests for what's going on in Haiti. You know, the place in our own hemisphere where a lot of migrants who come here are fleeing for their lives.
Maybe instead of protesting for the Middle East, they could go to class at these universities and learn about the Roosevelt Corollary with a splash of Monroe Doctrine on the side.

 

They can take a step in the right direction by killing the right ones. Unfortunately, they are killing too many of the wrong ones in the process. Who do you think keeps making sure it happens that way? I'll give you one guess and it isn't Israel.

 

Israel certainly plays a part in it. You can go after the targeted individuals, doing your best to do limited collateral damage, or you can kill people in wholesale lots and hope some of the targeted are included in the dead. It's a choice.

 

The problem is that some of the real targets are almost definitely hiding outside of Gaza in places that it is an entirely different matter if Israel goes in and starts killing people.

 

Mossad has been known to use fake passports to get to Hamas targets.

Ireland orders Israeli diplomat out of embassy over forged passports

They're not the only ones, I imagine, but the point is that they can get to these guys if they want to.