It's always big brother's fault

How many of you have seen this dynamic play out:


Little brother is poking big brother. Big brother tells him to knock it off. Little brother laughs and fake sneezes on big brother spraying him with spit in the process. Big brother tells him to knock it off. Little brother laughs and calls big brother names. Big brother tells little brother “he’s asking for it” and to knock it off. Little brother laughs, picks his nose and wipes it on big brother. Big brother slugs little brother hard on the arm. Little brother whines like a baby. Mom comes in and yells at big brother for slugging his little brother on the arm. Big brother explains what happened to mom. Mom doesn’t care. He’s the big brother. After mom leaves, little brother laughs and calls big brother a farthead. Big brother tells him to knock it off…

The exact same dynamic has played out in the Middle East since I can remember. Big brother Israel is more and better developed than its other Middle East little brothers:

Militarily: Israel can fend for itself against any and all of its Middle East little brothers. In this sense Israel is Gulliver and the others nations are the Lilliputians.

Economically: Israel has a solid middle class and diverse economy. Israel’s little brothers are either poor or filthy rich or somewhere in between but few, if any offers the economic mobility available to all in Israel.

Socially: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where you might find a diverse tolerant society – outside of tourist location where anything – even women without veils - can be tolerated briefly for a few bucks.

Politically: Israel one is but of a few functioning democracy and by far the most stable.

So a lot is expected of big brother. But little brother has been antagonizing big brother for 50 years. Everything little brother does is a provocation. When big brother finally smacks the crap out little brother, who has begged for it, mom - in this case the UN and international opinion - steps in to scold and restrain big brother.

There is a theory that goes if you are going to get in trouble for doing something; you might as well make it worth the punishment. Israel ought to face international condemnation one more time. In this case, for pushing Palestinians into the sea.

On the oil spill:

When all else fails litigate. P-BO fresh out of ideas for fixing the problem has sent AG the Coward Holder to see if the government might make a few bucks off of BP’s woes.

There is talk of the government taking over BP. Hmmm, that probably won’t happen until the spill is under control. If they take it over now, they’ll have to blame themselves for not plugging the damn hole.

Does anyone else find it amusing that tthe very people responsible the disaster – enviro wackos and government regulators who pushed oil rigs ever further out sea into deeper and deeper waters where we finding out that it is much harder to plug the damn hole – are screeching the loudest?