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Originally Posted by roachboy
but maybe it doesnt go that far: maybe its more obvious in that the logic is more in front of us: maybe the us and israel are both thinking only in very short-term ways and at the forefront is the possibility of propping up internally weak regimes in israel and the us by creating the "security threats" that these governments can "respond to" and in responding legitimate themselves.
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The main problem seem to be that the US and Israel doesn't know really what they want to do. In effect the Israeli leadership and political system is as fractured as the Palestinian, only it's a much more stable political system. Basically Israel is a nation in crisis, but this fact is overlooked because Palestine is so extraordinarily bad as it is.
The economy is a shambles, the military's aura of invincibility is broken, the far-right orthodox Jews are in effect threatening with civil war, the settlers are continuing their acts of provocation against the Israeli administration and the Palestinians, the balance of the political system is changed with Kadima's new position on the middle and hence the political system is still trying to find a center of balance and finally and finally internally the lines between Right and Left would make the apparent fractions between "blue and red" in America seem like a Politburo meeting of old.
Meanwhile the two major government parties are left with leaderships without legitimacy, Olmert and newly elected Barak are both tainted by their failures, ancient or recent. The government coalition is a strange creature made up of former Likud members, people from "The Pensioners Party" who seem to not really know what they want, Labour, who sits on the exact different side of the political spectrum when compared to Yisrael Beitenu, who more or less favour deportation of the Palestinians and a "Greater Israel", then factor in the last member Shas, made up of Ultra-Orthodox Jews and there's a complete lack of clear political strategy, which has only been made the worse by the complete failure in Lebanon and the incapacitation of the military and political leadership, which was the result thereof. And what is the alternative? Well, there is none. A Likud that has become ultra-rightist? A coalition of left-wing parties and Labour with the Arab parties? Not likely... And what of the ultra-rightists? Well, they're separated into 4 parties with distinctly different agendas. While the Palestinian struggle for power is a fight between black and white, the Israeli power play is a struggle between a thousand shades of grey.