2nd Construction Terror Attack Exposes "Colonial" Aspect of Is / Pal

While I didn't have time to comment on it, having been both busy and sick in the early part of July,

today's second construction-vehicle terror attack in Jerusalem exposes what has become the classic "colonial" relationship between Israel and the Palestinians ...

It should be remembered that one of the most humanly disgusting and strategically vulnerable aspects of the relationship between European colonial powers and the native populations

was the fact that the locals were expected to do all the dirty work while the masters sipped drinks on the verandah ...

Once the anti-colonial liberation struggles commenced in earnest, this key fact gave the native populations not just huge legitimacy, but a major power leverage --

after all, THEY were the ones who were doing all the work, and, hence, on whom the colonial masters were dependent ...

That there have now been two terror events -- here I do think the label is accurate -- in barely three weeks --

both using heavy earth-moving equipment clearly being driven on a daily basis by Palestinians --

shows, sadly, how Israel -- which was built on the expropriation, NOT super/exploitation, of Arab labor -- has evolved into a classic colonial "master" over a subject population expected to do all the dirty work ...

Israel and its misguided enablers in the US may think this event demonstrates how Hamas has to be "crushed",

but a more intelligent reading of the situation would be that it shows how much it is in Israel's interest to end the current insane situation as soon as possible,

by recognizing the legitimate human and national rights of the Palestinian people as soon as possible ...

And maybe Baruch Obama will have the balls to say something to them privately ... and then DO something about it if and when he becomes President ...