[lbo-talk] Settler Colonialism Seals Its Own Doom

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sat Dec 27 20:16:26 PST 2008


On Sat, December 27, 2008 11:57 am, Dennis Perrin wrote:


> You mean "one last ghastly crime" while Bush is in office, right?

I specifically said the oiligarchy, which has 28 or so more days in power. Then we'll have a new set of gangsters to deal with -- much smoother ones, admittedly.

But I'm serious about Israel sealing its doom as a colonialist state. You can get away with blockades for decades (just look at US policy vis-a-vis Cuba or Iraq). But as Gary Brecher I'm sure will soon point out, using F-16s to take out police stations is a colossal strategic blunder. It's an utterly short-term, pointless media stunt, which changes nothing on the ground. And it is precisely what Hamas wants. You'll never kill enough people to make a military or demographic difference -- but you will piss off the EU and Russia, and accelerate the arrival of Hezbollah II.

-- DRR



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