Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

For Westerners to think the Middle East situation can be solved by talks and more talks, or for the Israelis to delude themselves that they can bomb, bulldoze or beat the Palestinians into even greater submission is frankly unrealistic, to say the least. It reveals a strange mindset in most of the Israeli population, since according to surveys 72% of Israelis of all factions support Sharon and his policies openly. That does not augur well for the future of both the Israelis and the Palestinians.

A circle of violence on every level, from the psychological to the reality of guns and suicide bombers has developed, from which no one can negotiate a way out. The Israelis, like every colonial power before them, in Africa, India, the Middle East, like the French first in Indochina and the Americans later in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos found out to their utter dismay and consternation: You cannot control or govern people unless these people are comfortable with or allow in their minds, hearts and souls to be governed by that authority.

The American white settlers in the early colonies, themselves land grabbers and invaders of Indian lands, who fought with the natives for centuries over the land grabs, felt arrogantly and unfairly dealt with and treated by their own King and the King's government in distant England where many of them had come from, the King's tax collectors and in the end by the King's soldiers, and they rebelled in a very similar fashion to the Mau Mau which rose against the British in Kenya and as other groups did in other colonies. Forget the influence of the Communists there; they only exploited the situation for their ends.

The Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories have been far, far more cruelly dealt with by the ruthless Israelis than any American colonists ever were by the British. The Kenyan or Rhodesian or Vietnamese, or even the South African Blacks under the apartheid regime, suffered not one-tenth or one-hundreds of the hurts, humiliations, tortures, beatings and dispossessions of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis and their powerful friends and protectors overseas. These people all rose eventually to throw off and expel their foreign dominators and installed governments - ironically very often far more incompetent, corrupt and brutal than their former white colonial masters, giving them chaos where there had been order, civil wars where there had been peace, squalor and illness where there had been orderliness and health. But they accepted those governments because they had the feeling, apparently satisfying to them, that they had a government of their own. Blacks were ruling Blacks. Palestinians will before long be ruled by Palestinians. The masses of India, Africa or Indochina have not risen up against their "own" governments, incompetent as they may be, and asked their former colonial governments to return to rule over them! Not in a single case!

That's the way it will be in Palestine in the end, mark my word! The ruins of the crusader castells topping the mountains and dotting the landscape in Libanon, Palestine and elsewhere bear mute witness to this inevitable end. This area is the graveyard of defeated and retreated Imperialist dreams.

Sharon and his religious zealots and fanatics, suffused with an ancient Jewish mysticism, following the genocidal dictums of ancient, 2000 year old "wise men", might well, in the short run, bomb, beat and bulldoze the Palestinians with one more vicious military campaign by unleashing their enormous fire power against the dispossessed, even against the Syrians, the Lebanese, the Iraqis, the Jordanians and the Egyptians - and militarily humiliate them singly or collectively and defeat them on the battle fields. They in their single-minded fanaticism and bloodthirsty will to power, driven by a messianic, cabbalistic, self-bestowed "God's Chosen People" syndrome, can and will, if they so decide, go on a rampage and "smite their enemies" with Old Testament-like ferocity. They can do it - at the cost of their ultimate survival as a people!

The sons of Israel, although victorious in every battlefield overt and covert, even in the political process of buying the support of foreign nations through bribes, PACs, and the sexual favors of their Monica Lewinskys and Chandra Levis in every area of society, will in the end succumb - for it is one thing to conquer an inferiorly armed, poorly led, unorganized tribe, or smaller nations of bushmen or nomadic shepherds, or corrupt oil sheiks who would rather gamble their people's money away in the casinos of Europe and play with their harems than set up efficient governments for their people. It is quite another to govern efficiently, supply the garrisons troops, military hardware, the fuel, the administrators and all that is necessary to occupy a large geographic area. The British learned that in their far-flung empire. The Germans learned that in Russia and in the Balkans. The French learned their lessons in Indochina, Algeria and Morocco. And I predict that a victorious Israel would very quickly learn the same painful lessons as the strutting sons of Zion, thinly spread in a hundred South Lebanons, would slowly bleed to death or succumb to the sweet loins of their conquered maidens. And there goes Israel - God's Chosen fantasy and all!