Gaza Massacre! Film at 11.


Basically, the shit is hitting the fan again in an entirely broken record sort of way. Palestinians fire rockets at Israelis for several days, during the holiday of Hanukkah no less. The embattled Israeli government, already under pressure to become more hawkish or risk the election of conservative nutjob Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu decides not to take the rocket firings lying down and batters down on Gaza with effortlessly disproportionate force. The UN cries about it. The impotent United States Government justifies Israel and continues to use its media to muddle an already convoluted and Byzantine tale of woe between Israelis and Palestinians. The destruction goes relatively ignored in a morass of power struggle and opportunism by both groups and at home the pressure is felt by an Israeli national like myself to respond to my friend's facebook comment by saying "Uh, its both sides that are playing war stupid, so how can the Israelis be committing the only war crimes."

It all gives me a gigantic headache and its not just the caffeine withdrawal of the past couple days. I am hoping that Obama will stabilize the region and convince this stupid politically driven killing to stop before a huge shit bomb flies itself over to the campus of Berkeley where Arab Israeli tempers flare up more frequently than bong loads. I want to start reading happier emails from my friend about the latest New York Gay Club and not about how disproportionately evil Tzipi Livni is compared to Ismail Haniyeh. Maybe I am selfish and helpless, but I really do feel exasperated for all of the children Arabs or Jews who can't play outside today because a few politicians could not do what is right and stop flinging bombs at eachother.