bill richardson is a bitch (and israel palestine explained)

bill richardson withdrew himself from consideration for secretary of commerce. as you see below, im not too thrilled with him in the first place or rather what he was billed as. if youd like to know the why, its because hes under investigation and he thought it was just about over. turns out it was just getting started. and the obama folks kind of nudged him out. works for me. but i do hope everything goes alright for him. hes one of the better governors out there.

i havent really been specifically asked to post a blog on the issue, but i think the recent bombing in the gaza strip may merit a little explanation. heres the set up in the israel.

a couple of years after world war ii, it was proposed, or demanded rather, that the territory that is now israel be settled so there would not be dispute over the shit. proposition 1: divide the land into autonomous israel and palestine. run jeruselum through the governing un body. why it failed: because some people (looks at lady liberty) are way too eager to not see palestine be independent. and those some people had veto power.

so the result was an independent israel and an unofficially recognized palestine with israel in charge of jeruselum and lots of pissy people.

here recently (im skipping over lots of conflict) the palestinians elected hamas, a known terrorist organization, to head their government. hamas are evil in that they want to wipe lots of people off the face of the earth. and good in that they are well managed and have made palestine a livable place unlike the fata which was thoroughly corrupt and thrown out like republican senators in 2008. hamas bombs israel.

israel responds by declaring all out war on palestine, specifically the gaza strip, a little area of land completely distinct from the rest of palestine in that it doesnt really share close borders. yeah. the lines are fucked. i guess gerrymandering is allowed. hahaha. state politics joke no one thought was funny.

so step back and heres what we have:
-a people in palestine who are looking out for their best interest and in so doing appointed thugs to the head of government because the former ruling party thought they were invincible
-jackasses in israel still unwilling to compromise and presently unable because of the point before
-a paralyzed un
-innocent people dying

theres not really a solution either. unless the leadership of palestine decides to make huge concessions after an election down the road or israel decides to sacrifice its security or america decides to step up to the plate and stop blocking anything dealing with israel from the un floor and force some shit to get done by their bitches at the un.

oh wait. that last thing can be done. fuck off israel. fuck off palestine. nut up america. end.