Facts on the Ground

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I actually went on to drink 14 beers (all 3.2 Natural Lights), and tonight I have 14 more, 2.5 of which I have already consumed.

Tonight's notes read:
Clueless in Gaza
Stoned cows
Women's new look
Cindy Sheehan - anti-Semite?
The choking game
Pat Robertson's pernicious prescription
BTK

Concerning the first note, the big news this week has been the Israeli evacuation of their settlements in Gaza. It seems, from what I have been able to glean from various newscasts, that the Israelis reached the conclusion that those settlements were too expensive to maintain. The settlements were also (small stomp above me) a political liability vis the USA (not to mention the rest of the West) which opposes excessive settlement of Arab Land. Furthermore, the Israelis are convinced that the American Jewish Establishment can guarantee that the US Congress - circumcised though it may be - will appropriate 2.2 billion taxpayer dollars to finance that Israeli project.

As I watched the spectacle on tv all week I learned a lot about 'playfighting,' but not very much about 'substance' until I saw an interview with Anan Ashwari (?) who put the situation in immediate perspective: 9000 Jews (more or less) had invaded Gaza, home of 1.3 million Arabs, and 'appropriated' 40 percent of the land and 60 percent of the water, leaving the Arabs to live in poverty. The Jews destroyed thousands of homes, uprooted trees, destroyed crops and generally fucked up Arab life in Gaza.

But apparently 1.3 million Arabs outfucked 9000 Jews as you would expect, and the 'demographic problem,' which is the 'elephant in the closet' so far as Israel is concerned, trumpeted a certain sense of reality into the Knesset. Did I get that right?

One point three million facts on the ground beats nine thousand facts on the ground every day.