Middle East Rochambeax

So Hamas kills Fatah, which begats Fatah to kill Hamas, which begats everyone to kill Israel. This is a new twist that no one didn’t see coming. Seems the Palestinians skipped that pesky rule set thing that goes along with self-rule and went straight to the civil war. I don’t think its considered racist anymore to observe that Palestinians have a propensity for self-destruction. But in truth this is more about the retention of power by a select few and fighting over the checkbook than anything the Israelis ever did. It’s just that it gets a little wearisome watching generation after generation self-immolate.

I’m only half-kidding when I offer the following suggestion. Why don’t the Palestinians clean up some of that rubble, make a trip to Home Depot, and build themselves a world class casino or two. Take a page from the Native/Original/Indigenous Americans. Do themselves a Dubai, if you will. If they can talk themselves around the Koran’s prohibitions against slaughtering innocents surely they can step around the gambling verses. Everybody sneers until the money starts rolling in. Besides, wouldn’t it be better for the Palestinian ego to have Israelis serving them drinks and cleaning their toilets, just like whitey does in Tunica and Cherokee? Because if they don’t get some sort of plan, some alternate trajectory, I’ve got two words that perfectly describe their evolution: Easter Island.

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