Bob Maistros

See Bibi.  Bibi is the leader of Israel.  Israel is a in a place called the Middle East.  Israel is a nice warm, sunny place to live with lots of milk and honey.  Bibi and Israel should be very happy.  Hooray, Bibi and Israel!

Bibi, go to the corner.

See Barack and Hillary.  Barack is the president of America.  Hillary is the Secretary of State of America.  Hillary talks to other countries for America.  Her job is to help our friends and scare our enemies.  Hooray, Barack and Hillary!

See Barack and Hillary say nice things about Israel and Bibi in front of the cameras.  Barack and Hillary say America is Israel’s best friend.   Hooray, America!

See the other Middle East countries.  The other Middle East countries hate Bibi and Israel.  The other Middle East countries want Israel to go away.  The other Middle East countries started three wars with Israel.  Boo!  Israel won all three wars.  Hooray!

When Israel won the wars, Israel took away some land from the other Middle East countries so that they can be safer.  Israel uses some of the land to build houses for its people.   Now the other Middle East countries hate Israel even more.

See the Palestinians.  The Palestinians are people who live on either side of Israel.  They are not a country, even though they have a government.  The Palestinians especially want Israel to go away.

See Hamas.  Hamas is a group of Palestinians that does mean things to Israel.  See Hamas drop missiles on Israel.  See Hamas blow up places and people in Israel.  See the other Middle East countries send money and guns and bombs for Hamas to do mean things to Israel.   Bad Hamas!

See the Palestinian Authority.  The Authority represents the “moderate” Palestinians.  “Moderate” means that they want “peace” with Israel.  See the Authority name streets after bombers who blow up Israelis.  See the Authority make maps that make Israel disappear.  See the Authority teach children bad things about Israel so they will hate Israel, too.  Peaceful Authority!

See the Iranians.  The Iranians want to make a nuclear bomb.  A nuclear bomb makes a really, really big boom!  The Iranians want to drop the nuclear bomb on Israel.  Then Israel really would go away.

See Bibi and Israel get angry.  Bibi and Israel kill the bad Hamas Palestinians with the missiles and bombs and guns who do mean things to Israel.  Bibi and Israel say they will stop Iran from making a nuclear bomb if no one else does.

See the whole world.  The whole world is angry at Israel for taking the land and building the houses and killing the bad Palestinians and warning Iran.

See Barack and Hillary again.  Even though Israel is our friend, Barack and Hillary are angry at Israel for building the houses and killing the bad Palestinians, too.  That does not seem fair, does it?

Remember when you were in first grade? Miss Jones put you in a row with the bad kids.  Then, when Miss Jones turned to the blackboard, the bad kids hit you.  The bad kids poked you in the eye.  The bad kids pulled your hair.  Then, just as you pushed back and moved your desk away, Miss Jones turned around.  You got in trouble.  Poor you!

See Barack and Hillary act like Miss Jones.  Except Barack and Hillary are not turned to the blackboard.  Barack and Hillary are watching the bad things the Palestinians are doing.  But Barack and Hillary are not doing anything about it.

Barack and Hillary say Bibi needs to “take risks for peace.”  Israel should not hit back.  Israel should not use the land it took to build houses.  Not even land the Palestinians do not want.  The Authority will not talk to Israel anymore about “peace.”

Bibi remembers first grade, too.  Bibi remembers the playground without Miss Jones there.  On the playground, Israel could bang the bad kids’ heads together.   And kick their bottoms.  And maybe knock out a couple of teeth, not to mention their nuclear bombs.  Then the bad kids would leave Israel alone.

One day, the school bell will ring.  Bibi will no longer care what Barack and Hillary say.  The playground in the Middle East will become a very interesting place.  Do you know what “interesting” means?  So do the other Middle East countries and the Palestinians and Hamas and Iran.

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