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  • Guardian piece: obsession with Israel has rational basis, but is dangerous
    • Mr-X June 23, 2010 at 7:30 pm

      Speaking for myself as a citizen in the American democracy, I feel no small amount of responsibility for having perpetuated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After all, my nation's government has used it's Security Council veto on behalf of Israel more than on any other single issue. It's my nation's media that, beyond even that in Israel, consistently portrays the conflict in a flatly one-sided fashion, with heroic Israelis battling evil Palestinian terrorists. My own neighbors more often than not are unaware of the facts of the unjust and illegal expansion of territory that comprises the settlements, or the other mechanisms of apartheid, largely believing instead that Palestinian resistance is born out of ethnic rivalry and hatred of Jews akin to Nazi philosophy.

      With the idea firmly in mind that tunnel vision must be avoided, and in the firm belief that Israeli and Palestinian lives are no more or less valuable than those of Tibetans, Iranians, or Kyrgs, I cannot shake the feeling that more attention to the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from my fellow Americans is necessary to right those past wrongs, the positive growth of American culture, and building a more stable world.

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