Carroll: "Your pearl of wisdom re oligarchies v nationalists is missing an essential; piece - that of the fanatical God-botherers who have taken advantage of the situation - it is they who offer the most immediate threat at present, and they who have escalated the conflict into an international one."

Have you EVER considered this??....Perhaps those 'fanatical God-botherers' have been taken advantage of BY the global corporate oligarchy???....or is that to much of a stretch for you myopic view of the mid-east???

Carroll: "If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel."

Neither would Adolf Hitler....so you're in like-company!

You really should get over your flagrantly, out front disdain for Israel...the only reasonably close Democracy over there!...but see, the 'global corporate oligarchy', of which anti-Israeli bias you spout, doesn't give a rat's ass about any of the reasons you drivel on about....but they'll use it...the reason that they are 'not so happy' with Israel, is because their sense of nationalism is stronger than caving to the interests of the global corporate oligarchy's control, and it's demands. If that doesn't make sense to you, it's because you are blocked....but what the hell...you did it to yourself!
...and then expect everybody you feel who identifies with 'socialism', should agree with your VERY narrow view, and share your blindness.....blind to everything you COULD see, if it wasn't for your myopic, whole, wide angle view.
Just give it some thought..you may wish to re-examine both your mindset, your sources, and their agendas....of which you are just a mental and emotional casualty!

GfS