Comments on: Protest Songs In The Face Of Military Aggression http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/29/backfromthebrinkplease/ Just another Firedoglake weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:52:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jimportlandor http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/29/backfromthebrinkplease/comment-page-1/#comment-5266 jimportlandor Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:24:38 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/29/backfromthebrinkplease/#comment-5266 <p>I don’t think Obama/Clinton/Gates will “encourage” a brink-pull-back either. Nor will the Congress. I’m pretty sure Obama wasn’t expecting this to be on the top of his pile on Jan. 20th, but I don’t see how he can support “destroying Hamas” and hold his US coalition together. </p> <p>Israel is in a multi-decade tragic play that has an ugly last act, yet to be written. </p> <p>At some point, Hamas/Hezbolah/PLO are perhaps going to unite and go postal in something really terrible, even supported perhaps by Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Jordan/Syria/Lebanon when the popular outcry can’t be ingnored without destabilization in their own countries. It won’t be a ‘67-type war, but more like Lebanon Plus, and Israel doesn’t seem to recognize that possibility. A fortress Israel is as likely to stand as Masada against the Romans if pure numbers mean anything.</p> I don’t think Obama/Clinton/Gates will “encourage” a brink-pull-back either. Nor will the Congress. I’m pretty sure Obama wasn’t expecting this to be on the top of his pile on Jan. 20th, but I don’t see how he can support “destroying Hamas” and hold his US coalition together.

Israel is in a multi-decade tragic play that has an ugly last act, yet to be written.

At some point, Hamas/Hezbolah/PLO are perhaps going to unite and go postal in something really terrible, even supported perhaps by Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Jordan/Syria/Lebanon when the popular outcry can’t be ingnored without destabilization in their own countries. It won’t be a ‘67-type war, but more like Lebanon Plus, and Israel doesn’t seem to recognize that possibility. A fortress Israel is as likely to stand as Masada against the Romans if pure numbers mean anything.

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