Every issue surrounding the Holy Land is pock-marked by great balls of stupidity.  Esteemed Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice says Hamas is not a recognized political group and the U.S. will not open negotiations with them.  Former honorable and venerable President Carter says that ‘of course Hamas is a recognized political group, theirown Palestinian people elected them.’  While Carter has a point, Rice doesn’t really back up her sentiment, IN THE POLITICAL SENSE.  Yes, Hamas has carried out terrorist attacks, but even the political wing of Hamas says that they can’t control the military commanders on the ground.

For an example of how Hamas’s elected leaders can’t control their military wing, we can look towards Hezbollah.  The Observer, a part of the Guardian, UK, looked into how Hezbollah is training possibly thousands of new fighters, after their recent defeat at the hands of the Israelites.  They cited the great military might of Hezbollah and how it’s command structure operates by giving it’s commanders on the ground freedom to deny orders given from senior officials.  When Israel invaded Lebanon a couple of summers ago, Hezbollah senior leaders ordered it’s group out of certain town in Lebanon.  The military commanders on the ground refused the orders and held their ground, eventually defeating the Israeli’s and sticking it too the man, for lack of a better phrase.  This same freedom to accept and deny orders among the command not uncommon to the larger Middle East.  Turkey and Pakistan for example are always under the thumb of it’s military oligarchy, which in the case of those two countries is good thing because the military leadership is secular in nature - but the point to be had is that the Military in Middle Eastern culture is distinct from the Political hierarchy.  Establishing that difference one finds it odd why Rice holds the views she does, even while the U.S. OK’s Egypt to hold talks with Hamas.  So, it’s OK for the U.S. to hold Egypt as its middle man but we can’t talk to Hamas directly, like Carter did.

To further the idiocy of the Holy Land, Israel said they would offer Syria back the Golan Heights if Syria opened up to negotiations with the Israelites.  Syria said it will consider taking back the Golan Heights region, after President Bush leaves office.  What’s great about this line of reasoning is that Israel took the Golan Heights from Syria when Syria, & Friends, went to War with Israel, so the latter offering up the Golan Heights to the former and the former turning it down, just goes to show how meaningless all their stick-over-head beatings are really worth.

All the while the West Bank sits, twiddling their thumbs, while palatial homes are being built up on the hills through out the West Bank, homes that are apart of Israelite settlements in Palestinian Lands.  On the other end of the spectrum Hamas is lobbing rockets over into Israel just about everyday, rockets whose only function seems to be to harden Israel’s threat responsiveness to oncoming attacks, and kill about one person a year.

Ridiculous does not even begin to define this region.