Revelations

This week Canada revealed it intends to recognize the Palestinian state. This revelation contains many caveats. In the first place, such a state can only happen in the context of the famous “two-state solution.” Further, the Palestinian Authority must make the reforms dictated by Israel’s allies. The fact that the PA has near-zero cred among Palestinians is irrelevant. The fact that Israel and its allies are trying to breathe fresh life into the totally corrupted and compromised PA is intended to take your eye off the hypocrisy of our imposing a government on Palestinians. Apparently some people are not worthy of democracy. The two-state solution is, as any reasonable analyst would have concluded at least a quarter century ago, deader than Yitzhak Rabin. You’ll remember him as the Israeli Prime Minister who signed the Oslo Accords. He was murdered by either a religious extremist or a Jewish patriot, nobody knows for sure. What every realist knows is the two-state solution is dead and long-gone. It is horked up from time to time by spineless countries like Canada, who now feign concern for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. For decades, every time Israel announced another new settlement on Palestinian land, the official word out of Ottawa was; “that’s not helpful for a two-state solution.” True that! It wasn’t helpful when the first settlements of a few dozen were announced. It’s not helpful now when thousands of new settler homes are announced. The Western “friends of the Palestinian people” have been denouncing illegal settlements for over 50 years. Now that there’s 750,000 Jewish settlers squatting on Palestinian lands they’re gonna crack down?… Not! Ironically enough, on the same day Carney announces our phony “recognition of Palestine,” the revelation comes out that, contrary to the reassurances of of both PM Boy Carnage, and PM Fluffy before him, we’ve been shipping lethal ordnance to Israel throughout the ongoing genocide. Yup, the fuckers have been lying to us. If you expected better, the joke’s on you! Spare me the sermonizing about Netanyahu’s genocide and Trump’s complicity; our hands are dirty too.