Re: Who's pulling who's what?
The only side to ever take in any conflict is against oppression, but if atrocities are not clearly visible to a sympathetic world audience it generally gets ignored, by that world.
Haiti's crushing poverty gets ignored between the occasional national disaster, and those relief efforts are reminiscent of politician waving their arms and posturing to look good in the news clips, instead of putting any effort toward correcting root causes. Sudan likewise is mostly below the radar screen and genocide there has been tolerated by the international community for years.
The Palestinian issue is complex and I won't take that bait besides offering in passing that IMO there is more going on there than meets the eye (or world news). This appears to be a proxy or surrogate war against israel whose very existence would be denied by several of their neighbors if it was within their power. The displaced Palestinians could have been absorbed into other countries by now, but that doesn't serve their larger purpose of keeping international pressure on Israel. I'd be willing to relocate that entire nation to somewhere in TX, but i believe they are tired of moving, and wouldn't come.
We can waste a lot of time and effort blaming numerous parties for how we got this way, but even perfecting that blame does not solve any problem. We need to stop killing each other for bad reasons. Not that there are ever good reasons.
JR
PS: in an interesting coincidence, there was an "old Armenian home" in the small town in north Jersey where i grew up in the 50's. They were very old and not very many by then, having been relocated to avoid ethnic killings several decades earlier. The world can be a mean and ugly place.
