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Bibi Netanyahu is Conducting the Gaza War Like John Wesley Hardin

Bassem  Youssef was the Egyptian comedian most compared to Jon Stewart, in Stewart’s heyday. Youssef was wildly popular in Egypt; until, the regime called  him in,  for questioning on the one sidedness of his jokes. After that interview, his attorney advised him not to let the sun set on him in Egypt.    He fled Egypt, and now lives with his family in America. He recently gave a poignant ad pregnant interview on British television about the current Israeli/HAMAS war; and how insignificant the lives of Palestinians are, in comparison to seven foreign aid workers, killed in an Israeli drone strike. This Blogger sent a video of that interview to a friend, a Palestinian-American on the cup of celebrity. She was touched, and then asked would this Blogger comment on the current state of affairs in the Middle East? As this Blog is being written, Israel is  suffering a retaliatory attack by the Shiite Muslim nation of  Iran. Why?  Israel attacked the Iran...

As Foretold to Gerry Maxey, In Cairo, in 1991, Palestinians Waited for Stupid Israeli Leadership to Attack

  Back in 2009, this Blogger published a Blog which theorized that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be best understood, within the context of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. Interminable war, events foretold, magic realism turned deadly.   The event foretold, in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, was told to this Blogger, by a Christian Palestinian, over drinks, during the Gulf War, in 1991, in Cairo. This Blogger happened to be in Cairo, on vacation, during that war.   The Palestinian, who was an activist, revealed the Grand Strategy of the Palestinian collective purpose; to wait out the acknowledged brilliant leadership of the Israeli Founding Fathers; then strike when Israel self indulged in stupid leadership.   His theory was that all empires, nations, states, monarchies, autocracies, military juntas, regimes  and peoples, even companies, even artistic disciplines, throw up brilliant clusters of leadership, in a specific period of time. And then, inevit...