There Is No Plan

Bruvvas unite!

Here’s the reality of the London riots. Yes, they’re vandalism. Yes, they’re an incoherent expression of the hopelessness that these kids feel.

They’re not smart, they do have an unhealthy sense of entitlement, but to an extent these kids do have a right to feel marginalized and forgotten. Much of that feeling is their own fault. Much of that is their parents’ fault. Much of that is laziness, and poor choices (like where do they get those blackberries) in a pampered society. Some of it isn’t.

And here’s something else, life for American minority kids is way, way tougher than for the kids in the poorer areas of the UK.

But it boils down to this. Anyone – and that’s most people – who suggest that these kids are simply hooligans or just communards manning the barricades is being intellectually dishonest.

it's got to the point that israel needs to project raw power to secure a two-state solution.

From now on, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy in Israel. Promising “a disproportionate response” to Hamas for rocket attacks signals a new direction for Jerusalem. For years they have been on the wrong end of one of the most successful PR juggernauts of recent history – the Palestinians.

Nothing seems to dent the Palestinian love-bubble. The fact that Hamas has been targeting innocent Israelis for years through suicide bombings and rocket attacks seems to mean nothing, the fact that they use human shields means less, the fact that they brutally murder anyone remotely seen as an informer, irrelevant. Hamas has maintained lock-tight control on Gaza in order to further its longstanding total war against Israel. It gets as close as it can to starving its own people into hatred. The constant portrayal of Gazan as victim is incongruous with the fact that most of Hamas leadership has nothing to do with the place. To them maintaining the degradation of the world’s largest refugee camp is a means to an end.  Read the rest of this entry »