Perils of US micromanagement

I can't suggest the following link too highly:

http://www.maccabidesigns.com/~history/

There is nothing--just nothing--that cuts through many seemingly complex, convoluted and obtuse concerns--as does first-hand familiarity, or personal experience, either geographically or temporally.
Take the situation in Palestine:
How many people know the _factual_ history of the area? Tell me, who:
when the Palestinians had been descimated by the Jordanian National Guard and routed from Jordan (actually, the original Palestine):
1) Helped the Palestinian people with humanitarian aid
2) Armed the Palestinians
3) Trained and strengthened the Palestinian militia
4) Gave money and talent to the Palestinians
5) Took Yasir Arafat out of imposed exile in Libia and brought him back to the West Bank and reestablished him as the Palestinian leader?
...Answer: Israel
How many people know that, among their non-accomplishments, the Arab countries:
1) Have not spent a shekel of their incomparable wealth to:
2) Have not give humanitarian aid to the Palestinians
3) Have made no attempt to educate and raise up the Palestinians
4) Have offered no training or jobs and dwellings to the Palestinians
5) Have not built medical facilities or made such available to the Palestinians
6) Have--continually attempted to build bridges (not tunnels) to the Palestinians?
... And for a bonus question--who has done the opposite?
Answer...well, you probably got the hang of it by now.
--Moss David Posner, M.D.

Posted by: Moss Posner at May 30, 2004 6:58:07 AM