JEWISH OR MUSLIM; THEY'RE JUST FANATICS.

There appears to be a growing expectation that the fanatical government of Israel is moving inexorably towards armed conflict with the equally fanatical government of Iran over the question of Iran's possible acquisition of nuclear weapons. The Israelis claim that any action taken by them would be simple self-defence while the Iranians would no doubt see invasion in a slightly different light.

 

Ever since the founding of the Israeli state in 1948, there has been conflict in the middle east, the conflict being based mostly on religious intolerance and hatred. Every time the Israelis are criticised or asked to modify their stance they roll out the now hackneyed story of the 'Holocaust' as justification for whatever they're doing. From the other side, the assorted Arab and muslim states talk about the way in which their land was taken from them in order to create Israel in the first place; they also have the more recent evidence of the appalling way in which the Israeli authorities have treated their Palestinian citizens.

 

In the case of Iran, the fanatical muslims who run this country are every bit as mad as those who populate al-Qaeda; they seem to believe that Israel is an abomination that should be wiped from the face of the earth. While the creation of Israel in the first place was undoubtedly a catastrophic error, mainly due to the actions of the USA, its existence today is a fact that cannot be denied and will not change. Most of the other countries of that region also owe their modern-day existence to similar political shenanigans, officials drawing lines in the sands to delineate the various nations with little regard to the local ethnic or religious groupings.

 

It does not help that the world's major powers, principally the USA and Soviet Union in the past and now the USA, Russia and China, have used the middle and east as an area for a proxy-war, drawing up their own battle lines through the support of one faction or another, one country or another. Today's problems with the madmen of Israel and Iran are simply the latest product of the games played by others over recent years; the only difference is that the current crisis may well lead to eventual nuclear war.