The Big Middle Easy

Life is good in the ol' Middle Easy. If you have read this blog before, you stand a chance of recognizing that 'middle easy' is what I sometimes call the 'middle east'. This may be sarcasm. I forget. Anyhow, as people die, Tony Blair is giving interviews on how he will approach the whole mess. The Supreme Being apparently still tells George Bush ( who refers to the Supreme Being as " El Supremo") that his train is on track. You might think that since it is on the track that is wide and easy, George might have second thoughts about his beliefs, but that is not the case. ( note to self: self, talk to el Supremo about this Iraqi Attacki...) Meanwhile, we see: IDF Kills Palestinian Children Playing Tag from Tikum Olam "...It seems that three Palestinian Bedouins, 10-year-old Mahmoud Ghazal, his 12-year-old cousin, Yehiya Ghazal, and their 10-year-old cousin Sara Ghazal were playing tag last Tuesday in a Beit Hanun field just outside their home as children are wont to do. These particular kids had made a very bad mistake in playing near Palestinian rocket launchers. It so happens the launchers were being monitored by Israeli aerial reconnaissance. When the IDF saw the children approaching the launchers it too made a fateful error by assuming they were activating them. According to the IDF, while it saw the children approaching the launchers it only noticed they were children after artillery fire had been launched..." I suppose that when Secretary Rice heard the birth pangs of a new Middle East ( sic. her words) being born she may have thought about the old expression about breaking eggs to make omelets. These kids are the eggs to be scrambled for the new Middle East of the American Empire. One other note about the type of Israelis that our present Administration feels to need to cozy up to. Danny Rubinstein of Ha'aretz has called Israel an Apartheid State. http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/09/02/haaretzs-danny-rubeinstein-calls-israel-apartheid-state/#more-2623 "...Rubinstein, the Israeli newspaper's Arab affairs editor and a member of its editorial board, [said] "today Israel is an apartheid state with different status for different communities,” according to sources at the event, held at the European Parliament in Brussels. He went on to say that Palestinians living in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israel each had “a different status," according to a summary of his speech by a United Nations web site. …Rubinstein also said "Hamas won the election of the international community and Israel cannot ignore that” and argued that the security fence Israel was building could not be justified, sources said. And for this, British Jewry has put out a "not welcome" sign and cancelled his speaking engagement." As the wonderful Kurt Vonnegut used to pen and pack with infinite meaning: "So it goes!"