Sarman, there's no oil in Gaza: <They care so much about the Libyan people to demand a regime change yet they turned their backs on the people of Gaza when Israel was slaughtering them.> Also, Israel was not "slaughtering them". Israel does an excellent job of targeting and killing individual evil-doers with minimal collateral killing and maiming.
If people in Gaza refrain from attacking Israelis, then Gazanians will be able to live happily ever after and enjoy economic association with Israel, which could use a lot of help.
People living near Israel should be thrilled that such an economic powerhouse has set up shop in the vicinity. I have worked for economic powerhouses and done well out of it. Unfortunately, I had to leave home to do it [going to live in foreign countries]. Palestinians can get well paid work right nearby, without leaving home. Taiwan has provided such economic opportunity over the border in China in a similar way.
Lucky lucky Palestinians. I was gainfully employed by a Jewish family picking tomatoes for them when I was young. Unfortunately, they emigrated to Israel decades ago so I had to get other work, which was easy enough because people in NZ don't [generally] go around attacking people who do good things.
<One must wonder why there were no intervention in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain where protesters had legitimate grievances and were shot at and killed by the regime. > They can't be everywhere. Also, Saudi Arabia hasn't shot Yvonne Fletcher, or bombed an airliner over Lockerbie, or bombed a Berlin night club. It's also a numbers game. Kent State shootings were against unarmed protestors but it wasn't a "kill the lot" policy.
Syria is now being lined up. So perhaps you should take that one off your list. Those drones are really annoying - flying quietly around and targeting people with pin point accuracy. The Syrian bosses had better mind their manners.
King George II expressed the wish that he was starting a general revolution in regimes like Iraq's. It looks as though he might be getting his wish. No doubt there will be unintended consequences as there were when Zbigniew Brzezinski and Jimmy Carter "gave USSR their own Vietnam" in Afghanistan. Mr Zbig didn't plan on his master stroke leading to the destruction of the Twin Towers.
It would have been much more sensible for the USA to side with Gorby and help him create civilization.
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