I don’t know about you but I am having a hard time keeping all of the terrorist groups straight. First off, is it a rule in the terrorist handbook that if you decide to start a new terrorist group, or an off shoot of an existing one, that the name has to begin with an h? It seems like a pretty petty rule plus it makes all of us non terrorists get you all mixed up.
I get hamas, it was first out of the box with its invasion of israel, a move absolutely guaranteed to propel any group to a spot on the nyt front page above the fold. First off, as far as I can figure out hamas was duly elected in 2007 to govern the gaza strip, admittedly just a fraction of gazans voted, but the ones who did gave the thumbs up to hamas. So, just as in the ole us of a, minority of people voted in the winner of the election. Dems the breaks. However, despite gaza being an “independent” entity, israel effectively controls it and the u.n. considers gaza to be an occupied territory. Israel controls its air space, territorial waters, as well as the movement of gazans in and out of the territory. Israel is not what anyone would consider to be a friendly landlord, and treats the gazans like crap. Since israel controls the borders above ground, the gazans simply went underground and built a massive network of tunnels. Israel then decided to put the almighty retaliatory kibosh on gaza and bomb the living shit out of it, seemingly indiscriminately targeting schools and hospitals and killing lots and lots of everyday joe gazans. At this point I suspect israel is up to at least a ten to one kill rate with no sign of stopping. Their excuse for targeting civilian locations is that there are tunnels underneath. For god’s sake, there are tunnels under virtually every square inch of gaza and it’s only a matter of time before it just collapses. Sheesh israel, kick it old testament, be patient, remember job. Oyvey.
Hezbollah is a shia islamist terrorist group working out of lebanon. Frankly I am confused about why the hell the shias and the sunnis can’t get along. It sounds like a spat over who got more of mom’s silver. Who cares if the prophet died intestate or whether he wanted his 2nd cousin once removed to sit on the family pouf. Give it up, it’s a stupid argument, go fight some unrelated religion.
Then you’ve got the huthis in yemen who popped up again, probably feeling left out of the terrorist group grab ass going on. Their story is kind of like rinse and repeat. The huthis apparently are also not overly fond of the sunnis in their hood and keep a side hustle going with them. But primarily they use the same old playbook, hate the u.s. (boring) but they are also seen as a front for the Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy war. However, they have now started to take pot shots at ships in the red sea which pisses everybody off. Talk about punching above your weight!
So many wars and so little space. Is it any wonder that every once in a while a stray missile hits some other unrelated bitchfest? But try telling that to the people who got blown to bits. All of these groups are basically religious/tribal who have no interest in being part of, or faithful to any arbitrary territory imposed upon the region by some distant power.
Why do the world powers not seem to get the message? The terrorists have done everything but fly over the big shot countries with a plane trailing a banner that says “Mind your own business, your politics are a fucking mess, how about you sort that out before you stick your nose into ours.”
my jaundiced eye 