The Tragical Middle-Easterly Tour

The Middle East has always been at the junction of three continents, now known as: Africa, Asia and Europe. It has, almost continuously, been a contested region, because the one who controls said cross roads can put tolls and taxes on trade and travel through the region.

Transit through the region has been, determined by archaeologists, happening since before humans evolved. Our hominid ancestors left evidence of passage and residence in and through the area. Humans followed and, as we evolved, went from leaving remnants of evidence to recording the history of said trade, transit and conflict.

Thus began records of warring amongst a variety of different groups of people as they tried to determine who would control access to the area. Documents that record millennia of wars have accumulated since. The struggle for power and profit has continued to spill the blood of those who are simply trying to live in the region. Meanwhile the violent efforts of narcissists and megalomaniacs, who fancy themselves worthy of conquest and control of the middle east, continue unabated. This turmoil started well before the discovery of oil, gas; the potential of wind and solar energy prospects.

The Tragical Middle-Easterly Tour continues today in a conflict between Israel and the groups (Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi – 3H – provocateurs) that other nations employ to kill and be killed in near constant warfare with Israel.

The fighting is made worse by the current government of Israel that is led by, accused criminal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The aforementioned government is, literally, dead (the death of many others) set against a two state, peace proposal recommended by other governments in the region and around the world.

I've proposed a different version of the two state solution, that has yet to garner the attention of anyone of consequence. It calls for the creation of a new state, in the Sinai peninsula, to be known as New Palestine (details to be found here: https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-plan-for-peace-in-middle-east.html ).

It is my hope that at some point, in the near future, sanity and accompanying restraint will become a new norm... I holdeth not my breath.