The cause:an article telling about Israeli Defense Force personnel removing Palestinian laborers from Israeli buses.  Such brush over the context, which was last week’s bombing of bus in Tel Aviv: M.O. –> leave a package under the seat; give it a wake-up call with a cell phone.

I had two comments:

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Leaving the conflict to fester requires defensive actions against terror, and by definition, all of such actions (activities, policies) are intended to get in the way of the next explosion. The only way this ends is with, unbelievably, a pro-Israeli revolution from within the Arab ranks and the Ummah, as hard a thing to imagine as ever can be imagined, but with autocrats from Assad to Erdogan (add Morsi, possibly) failing their own states and Hamas exacting its toll on every business it can reach (add in the Ayatollah and Nasrallah for the headaches they’re creating in their own neighborhoods), something like it can happen and perhaps must.

In the U.S. southern states of 1860, there wasn’t a landowner who could not imagine life without plantations and slaves; by 1865, that world was gone forever.

And good riddance.

The adaptation of liberal humanism around the world (credit ancient Greece with the spirit) involves the desire for credible explanations about things and, possibly too (it’s easy to forget those old playwrights) integrity. When the lies stop, everyone will be welcomed on the bus.

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The problem here is the criminal controls the behavior. In old revolutionary circles — probably in contemporary ones too — sitting around and thinking up ways to provoke authorities into initiating excessively brutal crackdowns was the way toward seducing “the masses”. What may be changing — I think it is — is the world surrounding the world of the would-be old school (atheist or religious) revolutionary, who may be boasting (inventing) their triumphs while losing their stride. For a while, true of both stars in the sky and in Hollywood, they’ll burn brighter before going out.

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