it would be the directly applicable will of the Israeli government, whereas the brother seems to represent the indirectly applicable will of the Israeli people.  When communities grow to the size of nation/states and require governments with bureaucracies then the collective will is often subordinated to the decisions of the bureaucrates unless those government bureaucracies are turned over to private businesses whose primary goal is to make a profit.  That is where this nation stands with the republicans selling out to the greed of private contractors working for the DoD and our health industry.  Obama, IMHO, will want to reign in those impulses and take the profit incentive out of both defense and health care.
     The current Israeli governement, it appears, has politics rather than private greed driving it to the extremes we now see in Gaza.  I don't think the older brother would break both his younger brother's legs, arms, and neck while holding his head over a candle just to make a point.  The father (Israeli govt.), though, should be held accountable by the collective will of the larger community (ie. UN, NATO, Arab League, or other world body) and it is that entity (perhaps only public opinion) that will have to eventually prevail.  I hope and believe Barack Obama will lead in that effort on January 20th.

by gatekeeper50 on 01/07/2009 02:45:39 PM EST

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