Last night I talked to a housewife from St. Louis (at a non-Jewish family gathering) who said she was very uncomfortable about the fact that the world is now having to spend billions to rebuild Gaza– makes her wonder why we permitted it to be devastated in the first place? She's my bellwether. 5000 people demonstrated outside a tennis match in Malmo, Sweden, between a Swedish team and an Israeli one. Folks got a little unruly.
And here's Alice Walker going to Gaza, with Code Pink. She's concerned because it's such a "volatile" situation. Yes; the treatment of Palestinians was part of the motivation behind the 9/11 hijackers.
The world doesn't have to do anything. We could just not bother rebuilding it since it's only going to get wrecked again.
Where would the Israel state be without support from tons of people born Christians(even if agnostic or atheist now) around the world? No where.
This fact is inescapable.
The only question is how long will it take for born Christians, and the Christians who left the religion, gather to stop Israel in its racist colonial tracks.
It's going to get wrecked as many times as the anti-Semitism of the entire Gentile world provokes Zionists into wrecking it.
MM, please explain your comment. Thanks
'anti-Semitism of the entire Gentile world' — that don't sound like the MM we know and love.
Hasbarabots at work? Where is that proverbial 15-point IQ advantage … LOL.
add "the entire" + provokes which makes it slightly ironic, but I agree with you Jim. (has many times has)
I am not uncomfortable that the world helps the Palestinians, but yes I am very uncomfortable with the recurring pattern. Its a Sisyphean task. What I am very uncomfortable with in this context are these arguments: The Palestinians could have a flourishing economy by now. But their corrupt leaders steal all the money. How high was the damage estimate this time?
HAMAS won its election precisely because it was not corrupt–the other Pal entity is the one bribed by the USA and Israel. You don't get that, LeaNder?
Hamas is very corrupt, but in different ways than Fatah.
Richard Witty puts to shame his last name.
I did not know that you found corruption to be humorous.
Citizen, Captain Jim, worry not, that was merely another attempt at irony. It probably should've been posted under my pet Progressive American Zionist moniker.
Of course I don't actually think that Zionism's murderous deeds are really provoked by the anti-Semitism of the Gentile world. I just thought it deserved to be reinforced here that Zionist apologists actually do tend to think in such terms. If all these multitudinous Jew-haters would just stop hating the Jews for one second, Israel could finally stop behaving like a genocidal sociopath.
The accurate opinion of Israel is that it overreacts to stresses that none of its critics wouldn't overreact to.
The accurate opinion of Hamas, is respect for its social service efforts, and contempt for its DECISIONS to pursue resistance solely through terror on civilians.
The history of Palestine since mandate times is that Palestinian civil disobedience akin to what the Civil Rights groups did in the USA was always met with an iron fist, by both the Brits and the Jewish groups, then the state of Israel itself.
The accurate opinion of Israel is that it overreacts to stresses that none of its critics wouldn't overreact to.
This is an absurd hypothetical whose entire point is to relieve Israel of responsibility; of course, no other state in the world has expanding borders and exists in continual defiance of so many UN resolutions. Israel has chosen war–that isn't an "overreaction" or even a reaction. That is its choice. Witty is not even a slightly credible commentator, precisely because of bullshit like this. This is straight from hasbaraland.
"The history of Palestine since mandate times is that Palestinian civil disobedience akin to what the Civil Rights groups did in the USA was always met with an iron fist"
Perhaps you don't know of the length of time and degree of commitment that civil rights activists put into their struggle.
The courage of non-violent civil rights activists earned the consistent respect of their opponents and nearly all objective observers. The historic barbarity of Hamas has only created a condition where dissenters must hold their nose to defend their terror and "resistance". (Their social service deserves appreciation.)
It makes it LESS LIKELY to succeed in any humane description of the term.
MM,
The assessment of Israel's dilemma relative to a desparate neighbor that murders is commonly understood among ANY that are genuinely responsible as a state.
It is reasonable to criticize specific policies, and MUCH MORE mature to make informed proposals and undertake the diplomacy (state and on the street) to accomplish.
You don't do that MM.