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"The US Has Only Succeeded In Accelerating Middle East Disintegration"

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Submitted by James H Kunstler of Kunstler.com,

For public consumption, the fatuous haircut-in-search-of-a-brain, a.k.a. Secretary of State John Kerry, hauled out the dog-eared playbook for “negotiating a ceasefire” between the Palestinian Hamas leadership and Israel. Neither side takes him seriously, of course. In this historic moment of Islamic uproar across the entire region, Hamas is just following the larger script: act up and act out.

They would like to catch the momentum of rampaging ISIS next door, but Hamas is not a mobile force of mostly young male psychopaths. They’re stuck in Gaza embedded among their women and children doing what they can to eliminate Israel and replace it with an Islamic state. For the moment that means lobbing rockets from launch sites planted among the homes and institutions of daily life in the densely urbanized Gaza strip.

So far in the current offensive, they’ve launched over 700 missiles at Israel. Some of the rockets, purchased through the world’s arms bazaar from China, are powerful enough to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. But they are poorly-targeted and Israel’s “iron dome” anti-missile system can intercept some of them before they land on anything.

Unlike previous offensives, when Hamas rocketeers could set up mobile Qassam missiles in alleyways or rooftops, and beat it a few minutes after firing, the new larger rockets require sturdier installations. Thus they can be systematically discovered and targeted. Hamas is quite willing to sacrifice the women and children who eat and sleep around their rocket installations for the propaganda value of pretending that they were not deliberately put in harm’s way.

Israel has accepted the reality that Hamas deliberately uses its own people as human shields and has opted to destroy the missile-launch sites in any case, because the alternative is to give Hamas free reign in bombarding Israel. One would think that world opinion would understand this equation. But there is little sympathy for Israel’s predicament, and little appreciation for Hamas’s calculated ruthlessness vis-à-vis its own people.

The birth-rate in Gaza is among the highest in the world. If it is a deliberate result of social policy, it is a cruel bargain for the Palestinians, who are apparently regarded as expendable by the Hamas leadership. In a culture that glorifies suicide bombings, routine human sacrifice must be normal, though to a Western sensibility it seems tragic.

It shapes up as a struggle to the death that will not be impeded by reason, the good intentions of others, or sentimentality. What Israel remembers is that nobody was on the side of its people in 1939 and they’ll be damned to make the same mistake of not fighting back again. This certainly sets up a situation of extreme political danger in the region, but no more now than the ISIS juggernaut, or the larger beef between the two basic branches of Islam, or the fate of the fragile Saud monarchy.

This is not a region of the world than can support large populations of human beings of any religious persuasion, and in the new age of extreme resource limits blind circumstance itself more than personalities or doctrines will determine who gets to inhabit what rockpile.

What’s changed is the perception that the USA has any role to play any longer even in the diplomatic theatrics. The Middle East is disintegrating faster than any polity in historical memory. It appears that, if anything, the USA has only succeeded in accelerating the process wherever we turn our attentions. Since the 1970s, we haven’t felt the ultimate consequence of trouble in that part of the world, which would be an interruption in the oil supply coming out of there.

Back then, there might have been something we could do about it. Now there is nothing we can do but stand on the sidelines and wait. In the meantime, wouldn’t it be a good idea to attend to our own problems, especially the critical need to prepare for American life in a post-oil world?

 

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Mon, 07/14/2014 - 12:39 | 4955837 Joenobody12
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Divide and conquer - that has been the goal of the Jews in the middle East. Their project is almost complete. This piece of work here try to blame it on the US of A. Unintented consequence my ass.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 12:43 | 4955847 buzzsaw99
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those putz whackers either kvetch about the usa not bombing iran or they whine that the middle east is messed up. it was their plan to begin with! we give those whiny bitchez $4B per year worth of weapons so they can kill muzzies to their heart's content but oh no, that isn't good enough for them. fuck cunt ler

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 12:41 | 4955841 BobTheSlob
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There's nothing like a good ZH Middle East article to bring out the Jew haters and conspiracy theorists. I can see that this one had it's desired effect. Same stupid, different day:

>Da Joooos are conducting a zionist takeover of da world....check

>The US pulled of 911 as an inside job...check

>The US and Israel are staging a coup of the entire middle east...check

The Mooooslimes don't need any help in the whackadoodle department from the US or Israel, they have that one covered many times over.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 12:54 | 4955879 loonyleft
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Bobthenob,

so... you are saying the US and CIA aren't in the middle east? They don't fund rebels and opposition parties in Iraq, Iran, Syria? They don't have a petrodollar? They don't have a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia doesn't use their relationship and protection by the US to cause unrest in areas they don't like like Syria? You mean the US didn't support Saddam? Didn't turn a blind eye when he gassed the kurds? The west didn't help Saddam get those chemical weapons? The US didn't arm the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan? Israel hasn't increased it's territory above and beyond the original and beyond 1967? Israel hasn't used Mossad for assasinations in any of those countries, in Turkey, in Beirut, Iran, Iraq?

FUCK, my fingers are tired of typing. Maybe you can pick a country in the middle east that the US and/or Israel has not been interfering with. 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:16 | 4955943 BobTheSlob
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Well loony, those are conspiracy facts. The idea that the US wants to MANIPULATE the ME is a fact. The idea that they want to TAKE OVER the middle east is bonkers. Yet that's all you'll see here...da Jooos are trying to take over the world, the US pulled of 911, etc , etc.

Here's an example of pure delusion:

"Middle East is Israeli's empire, it is just that Muslims are too stupid or too deluded to know they are being brought to kill each other and destroy nations in aid of US and Israeli Imperial take overs of the Middle East."

We're simply just not that good and definitely not that committed. Just look at Libya.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:10 | 4956110 where_is the_nuke
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Fucking joo cunt.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:50 | 4956296 Jumbotron
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Fucking Muzzie dick licker

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:20 | 4956174 Dickweed Wang
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What a DICK!!

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:20 | 4956178 WTFx10
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Jesus Christ, isn't that the same fucking sentence you used yesterday?

Except for "Same stupid, different day" That's you!

How many bottle rockets injured the chosen ones today? Same as it ever was 0000000000000000000000000000.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:51 | 4956305 Jumbotron
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YAY !!   Palestinians 200+  Israel 0000000000000000000

That's how you win wars, boys.  Pour it on Israel.  Make them beg like the dogs they are.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 12:51 | 4955864 alexcojones
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James, James, James:

If anyone really cared about "scarce resources" as you say, they wouldn't be bulldozing olive trees - and the people who live besides them and earn money from them

And Rachel Corrie and other activists - Jew, Gentile and Muslim- like her

 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:03 | 4955910 Seize Mars
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Sorry I'm just not interested in any more "let's get to the bottom of who the REAL bad guy is here" stories.
I don't appreciate being forced to pay for this. The. End.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:04 | 4955918 bigrooster
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Fuck Israel and the ME.  We need to stay the fuck out of it.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:13 | 4955940 alexcojones
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My Letter to the Tylers

Dear Tyler(s)    As a longtime reader writer, I would never say bad things about my host site or the people who read it (below) Can you replace JK with AC? Alex Cojones  

    Henceforth, I'll always try to (a) provoke thought (b) provoke clicks (c) provide hotties.-like the one here Kindness Generates Kindness

   Here is what James had to say about Zerohedge. Kick him to the curb!

  "ZeroHedge.com. The mysterious person(s) behind this massive continuous stream of reports and analysis from the loony bin of Wall Street and beyond has a manic edge but accurately reflects the madness of the current situation. Zero Hedge seems to post virtually around the clock, every day. They are relentless and hugely comical, with exactly the right sharply malicious overtones required in these evil times. The characters who infest their comment section are some of the worst vermin in trolldom."

Moi? A Troll?

Sincerely,

Alex CoJones

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:41 | 4956018 deflator
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 If you can substitute a green chicklet for a missing tooth, you might be a troll.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:17 | 4956159 Dickweed Wang
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I, sir, am NOT a troll . . . . . I am an Orc.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 17:03 | 4956876 RichardENixon
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Kunstler was damning us with faint praise

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 13:13 | 4955944 Meat Hammer
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Looks like the media may be planting some seeds.

http://news.yahoo.com/online-rants-rightwing-extremism-fuel-fears-for-us...

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:12 | 4956128 Sandmann
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What Israel remembers is that nobody was on the side of its people in 1939

Is that the comment that betrays the author ?

In September 1939 Poland, Czechoslavia, France, and The British Empire including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India were AT WAR....the USA was NEUTRAL.

Israel did not exist as a national state.

Now, what would the world have been like if Hitler had been Jewish ? No doubt he would have a revered status for his Settlements in Poland and destroying Polish universities, cultural icons and intellectuals and priests.

He would probably enjoy lavish praise for his alliance with the USSR and its Marxist-Lenininst ideology.

It really gets tiresome to read that Palestinians breed like rabbits so Israelis can kill them and the US is a patsy that won't do Israel's job for it.

Clearly what we hear more and more 'in code' of course is for some new mass-extermination process to eradicate Palestinians, Russian-speaking Ukrainians, no doubt soon it will be Independence-minded Scots too...........no doubt they are working on pathogens to kill of Unwanted Populations and farm the rest

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:13 | 4956135 Dickweed Wang
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This article reads like it was extracted verbatim from the Zio-Nazi bible of propaganda.

Hamas would not be firing rockets in the first place if it wasn't for the fact that their land has been stolen from them (this practice continues in other areas of Palestine to this day) and that they are treated like sub-humans by their Jewish overlords.  You know you have a racist and genocidal society when you have mayors, and members of the national government, of a country advocating extermination of an ethnic or religious group of people.

The problem for us in the USA is that the Palestinian's blood is on all of our hands as the arms used to kill them are in large part directly supplied by the US government.  This has been made possible by our allowing a radical religious group (sorry, they are not a "race") to essentially take control of our country (government, media, banking, etc.). 

We need to collectively wake up and take our country back . . . . . if that is even possible at this point.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 15:16 | 4956415 mastersnark
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Washington, Madison and Jefferson all made it very clear: it is vital to American liberty that we all care deeply about who possesses a desert 10,000 miles away.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 17:16 | 4956944 falak pema
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W, M, J had not met Henry Ford and JD Rockafella and the age of oil n motor car; which led to the desert...

Your logic is missing a hundred years of industrial development going global. 

 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:20 | 4956180 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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American hegemony is based on petro-dollars being the world reserve currency. The so-called 'masters of the universe' in the USA are not even masters of their own fate anymore. American imperialism is defunct and

it is only a matter of time before the Americans wake up to smell the rot

of their lunatic fringe fascist politicians and dogmatic ideology. Let America burn to the ground and then send your letters of protest to the

post office so BIG Gubberment will have a heat source to burn in your cold dead American political hands. Face the facts of life America. You thought you could steal cookies from the cookie jar indefinately and the world would sit by and watch as you emptied the cookie jar with both hands every business quarter. Frankly, Americans have never heard the word NO before but you may as well get used to it now, my friends. There is NO fucking way the rest of us in the world will tolerate your hegemony or imperialism anymore. America is isolated and living in abject fear of the death that awaits you because of the ineptitude of

your leaders and your assbackward policies as well as ignorance. You are an inferior people with an inferiority complex that can no longer be masked by your delusions of grandure. The USA sucks and blows by global standards of ethics and business today. Get used to the notion that your ruling days are seriously numbered and get the fuck out of Dodge ASAP.

Signed, your loving neighbour to the north.

OCCUPY AMERICAN DELUSIONS - OCCUPY EVERYTHING

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:22 | 4956185 Duude
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Acceleration, yes?  But the root cause has been there for hundreds of years.  I say, lets hurry up and get where we're going.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:39 | 4956256 Dickweed Wang
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These folks have been at each others throats over the same parched scrubland for two thousand years . . .

This is typical Zio-Nazi propoganda bullshit.  The REAL problems in Palestine did not start until the Zionist Movement came on the scene at the turn of the last century and did not get to the out-of-control point until after the Jews were given/stole the Arabs land in that area. Prior to 1900 people lived in relative peace and harmony in that region.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 16:42 | 4956799 Jackagain
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They lived in peace because the map looked like this (without Jews in that little yellow area)

http://www.opinionbug.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mideast-map-occupation.jpg

Of course those crazy Shiites & Sunnis....

http://thelastgreatstand.com/lgs/2014/07/10/good-lord-an-ex-muslims-warningdo-yourself-a-favor-and-read-this/

 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 16:53 | 4956840 Duffy Duck
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cute map. of course it avoids that Jewish terrorists from Europe forcibly expelled 750k Arabs who had lived in what is now Israel for many hundreds of years.

It also lists a number of countries which aren't Arab.

Idiot.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 17:03 | 4956865 Jackagain
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They didn't steal it Daffy, they bought it....and they weren't all Arabs. The land was borderline worthless until the Jews made it a fertile country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine

The Palestinians sold it with glee figuring that after they got the money they would have the surrounding Arab countries invade Israel, kill all Jews

and then get their land back free. Of course we all know how that turned out...

Put aside your blind hatred for a second and get educated...

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hireview/content.php?type=article&issue=spring01/&name=myth

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 14:49 | 4956293 Duffy Duck
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First of all, having some bias or slant is forgivable, perhaps unavoidable, but Cuntsler isn't just yet another Jewish Zionist shill for whom Israel does not wrong by definition - he also appears to be a man of below average intelligence.

The largely Zionist-hijacked foreign policy apparatus was and is perfectly happy to 'accelerate' the disintegration of the Middle East.

for fucks sake that, in large part [and not oil] was the point of the Iraq War - with the petrodollar motivating other actors.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...

http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html

For fuck's sake the Ziocons have been on record for decades - from Oded Yinon through PNAC through Jeff Goldberg and Bill Kristol's most recent tantrums.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 15:09 | 4956367 mastersnark
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Yes, let's all pretend to search for a reason why the US, with giant oil reserves, is accelerating the disintegration of its oil-producing competitors.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 15:11 | 4956376 teslaberry
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KUNSTLER YOURE A KUNT.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 16:53 | 4956841 Jackagain
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This is an actual direct quote a famous person put in his last will & testiment:

“I charge the leaders of this country and it's people to resist mercilessly the universal poisoner of all nations, international Jewry”

Any guesses on who this was? (No, it wasn't Duffy Duck...)

 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 16:59 | 4956862 RichardENixon
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Wink Martindale?

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 17:25 | 4956893 falak pema
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Dear Henry and his ilk can now look back and ponder whether the 'shuttle diplomacy' that he initiated; --in the wake of the SUez dictat of 1956, denying Franco-Brit access to the ME, and in the context of oil spike and Yom Kippur War, which had resulted in the first oil price hike making Saudi led OPEC the king of the oil patch;-- heralding the age of Pax Americana and petrodollar hegemony's dystopian spiralling of ME destruction to ensure "our way of life"-- as follow on to Apocalypse Now in Nam--, was an EXPRESSION OF USA'S BENIGN AND VIRTUOUS legacy to the "civilized' world.

Our way of life non negotiable?...

go sleep with the fish, Mr K and your bunch of neo-con hegemonical follow on shills ! 

We keep watching the same movie here on ZH ! lol ! 

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 18:00 | 4957107 Laddie
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Kunstler, like virtually all Jews, has a STRONG JEWISH IDENTITY. Thus he is comfortable lying about the helpless, victimized Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim.

And the sad part is that it is OUR taxpayer dollars paying for this slow-motion genocide of the original inhabitants of that area, the Palestinians.
http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/251-washington-report-archives-2000-...

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 18:26 | 4957192 loregnum
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Which is exactly the intended purpose. Why does this writer and others like him not get this? Why are so many adults so naive to think this is some happy happy joy joy fairy tale world where everyone loves and respects everyone else?

Mind boggling how clueless so many people are.

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 19:22 | 4957354 Promethus
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"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! 
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.  A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity.  The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.  

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.  No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.  Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.  It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” 

Winston Churchill

 

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