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Here's my brain fart on this subject incase people think that I have nothing to contribute except for humor.
Prior to October last year, Israel had established ongoing relationships with many of the Arabic countries in the Middle East like the UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Egypt etc.
They established and furthered bilateral trade relationships. Even Ryanair and Easyjet and other airlines were flying there.
In Tel Aviv, I was surprised to meet Arab Israelis. They were accepted and respected and the Jewish Israelis would interact with them, visit their restaurants and places of business.
Thousands of Gazans had permits to travel into Israel to work and earn money to support their families.
One could for once see a possible path to peace at some point in the future.
Then Hamas fecked it up. And what did Israel do? It reverted to it's military and went ballistic. That's what they do. It's known and it's expected.
Hamas could have returned those hostages in the first weeks or even the first month or two and there could have been an easing off in the level and scale of hostilities and celebrations on the Israeli side, perhaps followed by small targeted special forces operations. But it was never Hamas' intention to hand anyone over.
Almost one year later Hamas still maintains those hostages (if they are alive) to the detriment of their own people. As for the people, they are suffering like crazy. Why are those that are in the know, protecting Hamas and their structures by not outing them or calling them out? Surely Hamas are not invisible within their own communities.
Have a look at the Hezbollah funerals this week. Who are all those supposedly innocent ninja women attending the funerals of (presumably - according to media reports) Hezbollah (terrorist) members.
Israel and it's government do have their problems as well as extremism. That certainly needs to be curtailed, not promoted. For once I could see change though.
I struggle to see any change of any sort for the positive on the side of Hamas and Hezbollah.
I am not justifying what Israel has done, it is terrible. In the aftermath of October 7th their primordial brains went to the equivalent mode of (USA!! USA!! Semper Fi !!)
Every single one of them (with certain exceptions) including women are taught how to kill from a late teen / early adult stage. It is scary, but equally as scary is the fact that they have to do that at all.
Those kids don't want to go to war or into military service in the first place. When they finish their military service they get a payment to go of and rehab. Where do they go? To places that will help calm their minds and get them back to normal. Places like Kashmir and Thailand where they can just chillax, smoke some joints, have a few drinks, party (whatever they chose to do) before going back and starting university or vice versa and becoming contributing members of society and to the rest of the world.
Would you see Hamas or Hezbollah doing anything like that for their youngsters in terms of giving them such opportunities to rehab, relax, explore the world before returning to the rest of their lives? No. The leaders live billionaire lifestyles in Qatar, Kuwait, UAE etc figuring out how to plot the next bit of revenge, the next wave of attacks and how to regress their people further.
If they had any inclination at all, they could be building universities, schools etc elsewhere in the UAE so that their people could be educated in a different environment, learn what it's like to live a slightly better life and hopefully return to use their skills for the betterment of their own people - from engineering, to computing, medicine, law international politics etc.
But no, it does not happen because they need control in order to propagate their ideology.
What happened this week was an extension of the outcome of what happened in Munich in 1972. In 72 Black September murdered athletes at the Olympic Games.
Golda Meier ordered the establishment of assassination teams who went after them in a very co-ordinated and effective manner (for the time).
People here have watched the movies and applauded the outcome.
Guess what…those teams still exist, even though it's not the 1970's.
Yet they still have a job to do. They observe, identify, assess, plan, coordinate and execute.
The strangest thing is the history of assassins:
So, number 1, is that the original assassins were Muslims. Not only did they invent the numerical system that we use now, without which we couldn't have advanced, but instead they didn't progress it, they chose to progress death and destruction. It's still going on today and on both sides.
Number 2, is that militant fanatiscism in the region existed ~ a thousand years ago and is still there a thousand years later.
What the effing hell is going to change anything anytime soon?
Syria was a fantastic place to be, with fantastic, welcoming people. It's now gone to pot because of the little dictator.
Jordan has changed - lovely place
UAE - has its problems but it's getting getting there slowly.
Saudi - significantly more problems than the UAE and even slower. But progress is being made.
Qatar - spending their wealth fund, wanting to be the darling of the world.
Same with Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and the other emirates.
^^ Notice above, they are investing in themselves, their countries, their infrastructure, their people and ultimately their future.
Their other fanatic brethren though are just blowing it away. If you don't invest in your people and or your country then you get nowhere and just perpetuate the cycle.
Even MBS realises that (even though he's perpetuating a tiny bit of assassinations here and there. But even he got his royal hand internationally slapped - albeit very lightly).
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