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Where do you see it all ending up?
In increasing rejection of everything American. The real issue here isn't Israel, but policies in Washington which shape US's foreign policy to this region.
There is the aspect of regionalism, people living in the same region will have more interest in developments of this region then people living far away, for such people it is just simply news.
So, the question needs to be asked how much of the whole Palestine issue from the Palestinian point-of-view is reaching the American public. It is probably zero, as the Palestinians don't have the machinery like the Israelians do have to reach American households. We have to accept, that within the USA in terms of public discourse (media is influencing this) the Israelians have monopoly. And in Congress anyway.
So the Americans don't see the same pictures like we do on our Television through our journalists which do their field work on ground in Palestine. Just like they did in this thread, they will post a picture of a shopping-mall in Gaza and try to implant that picture in American's heads which read these kind of threads and who are not delivered pictures by objective journalism.
You can call me Anti-Semite, whatever you want I don't give a fuck:
The US has been hi-jacked when it comes to its policy to the Middle-East and in the backrooms of Washington there are enough people to ensure, that this will stay so.
You either adapt to the system or you get booted out of the system. See Obama in election-campaign and when becoming president. 2 different jackets.
Now to the answer of your original question, where all this will end up.
Israel is only a benefiter of current circumstances. As we already identified, the circumstances in USA within the power-balance of Washington won't change , but at least the capability of the USA to project its influence is decreasing. The economic problems in USA constitute maybe 10% of this decrease in power-projection capability. The other 90% is relative power-decrease of USA simply caused by other nations in this world gaining in strength at a fast pace, although this development won't bring any solution for the Palestinians in the imminent years. It is just a trend which would result in the USA going bankrupt if it wants to play Empire on impact levels like for example in the Bill Clinton years as the USA would have to divert more ressources to nullify the impact of the other powers that are on ascendance path and which are putting a lot of effort ($) into their own power-projection capability. The US already has lost, so to speak, if it wants to play that kind of Empire. There is a limit to financing Empire through debt and containing those powers who finance their ascendance on economic success within their own countries.
From the experience of the past decades the other obstacle has been identified as the Arab regimes which are, simply put, part of the current US empire. Those countries, many of them monarchies, are colonial products (British+French) and rely to 100% on whoever is/are the Superpower/s of their times to secure their survival. Those governments didn't pass their final test, which is their own population.
Likewise, organizations like Hamas or Hezbollah are products of their times, they have an expiration date. These organizations' base of existence is the non-existence of everyone else in the region, who have been bribed, divided and ruled by colonial or hegemonic countries leaving no one left to stand up for the Palestinians except these local resistance groups. So these organizations have organized themselves into local resistance with whomever wants to exploit them, playing exactly that game of exploitation.
None of the solutions of the last decades have worked. The only solutions are:
- Containing Israel into the 1967 borders
- De-Nuclearization of this region (Israel)
None of these solutions will work together with the Americans, under their guidance.
Just like it was in the last decades, status-quo or chaos whatever you may call it, so it will continue to be for the next years.
As an endnote:
On human-to-human relations between the Americans and the Muslims of the Middle-East this means, that in the psyche of the next generations populating this area there will continue to be a non-bridgeable divide. The Americans will simply be remembered by their actions. None of the actions of the Americans has benefited the people of this region maybe except for the local merchants around the US military bases who supply the basic daily needs of the American troops.
The US has brought War and the human-rights definition of the Brit's+French's Dictators exactly suiting also the US's designs for this region.
When these 2 above described solutions will come, has off course room for debate.
It depends on how fast the US Empire is challenged in other parts of this world.
So, the BEST thing you can do is systematically buy Brazil, British, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Russian, Turkish as a replacement for American products.
Every bought counts as it will accelerate bringing change.