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The ethnic and the religious

July 21, 2008 - 4:19 am - by Richard Fernandez
Barry Meislin
2008-07-22 00:31:52

to keep Jihad down and “beloved Special Friend” Israel safe

Might this possibly mean that the alternative preferred by all decent people everywhere is “keeping Jihad up and ‘beloved Special Friend’ Israel unsafe”?

(Sounds of Pavlovian drooling….)

And might there possibly be some connection between keeping “‘beloved Special Friend’ Israel safe” (or at least feeling not under dire threat) and the maintaining of some sort of stability in the Middle-East (all things being relative, of course), meaning, in more concrete terms, the unhindered (relative once again) flow of oil?

(Just another reason why the US is keeping Egypt awash in cash, or at least certain, um, sectors in Egypt.)

Actually, what is so confoundedly cornfusing is, who really is America’s “beloved Special Friend”? Israel or Saudi Arabia (or for that matter, those lesser concubines, Egypt or even the Palestinians?, the latter being promised a state they don’t want, because to accept such a state they would have to accept Israel’s secure existence, which to their credit (at least they’re honest about someting) they have no intention of doing—and since they’re being mightily funded not to accept it, why should they even consider it?….)

So takes your pick!!

Goshdarn! Oughtn’t the US to choose its beloved more unequivocally? (And man, all that oil is a pretty darn attractive proposition, when it comes down to it…. Keeping in mind that if it weren’t for Israel, those Iranians would be oh-so friendly, kind of like Turkey, actually). As for those Jew-Zionists, all they can do is cause trouble, because for some reason (inexplicable to all decent people everywhere) they, with the exception of a few pretty intense ones for good measure, would prefer that the state of Israel not be massacreed, scalped, disappeared, kaboomed, erased.

For some inexplicable, unfathomable reason.

(Meanwhile, the sound of Pavlovian drooling is getting louder ‘n louder.)