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Jul. 25th, 2006 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerAgain, I'm sidetracked from writing the post I meant to. By rage.
As we're listening to denunciation after denunciation of terrorists, and explanations of why it's OK to destroy an entire country to root out a terrorist group, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Israel, along with many prominent Israelis such as former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are celebrating, celebrating the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946 that killed nearly 100 people.
We're penalizing the Palestinians for electing Hamas, who are unrepentant terrorists, and we're applauding the attacks on Lebanon that are somehow excused by Hezbollah's attacks on Israel. But we treat Israel as a staunch and beloved ally, despite their having elected to their highest office several unrepentant terrorists, including Menachem Begin, who ordered the King David attack (in retaliation for the *arrest* of Jews in Palestine and the seizure of papers). And this month Israelis are celebrating a terrorist attack that killed British and other servicemembers and civilians. Members of our Congress are trying to block the Iraqi prime minister from making an address to that body because they feel he isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel, but where is their outrage over the IDF using Palestinian civilians as human shields?
But of course, the Israelis are our allies, who share our values and our goals. After all, our leaders tell us so. And our leaders, like Brutus, are all honourable men.
As we're listening to denunciation after denunciation of terrorists, and explanations of why it's OK to destroy an entire country to root out a terrorist group, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Israel, along with many prominent Israelis such as former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are celebrating, celebrating the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946 that killed nearly 100 people.
We're penalizing the Palestinians for electing Hamas, who are unrepentant terrorists, and we're applauding the attacks on Lebanon that are somehow excused by Hezbollah's attacks on Israel. But we treat Israel as a staunch and beloved ally, despite their having elected to their highest office several unrepentant terrorists, including Menachem Begin, who ordered the King David attack (in retaliation for the *arrest* of Jews in Palestine and the seizure of papers). And this month Israelis are celebrating a terrorist attack that killed British and other servicemembers and civilians. Members of our Congress are trying to block the Iraqi prime minister from making an address to that body because they feel he isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel, but where is their outrage over the IDF using Palestinian civilians as human shields?
But of course, the Israelis are our allies, who share our values and our goals. After all, our leaders tell us so. And our leaders, like Brutus, are all honourable men.
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Date: 2006-07-25 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 10:00 pm (UTC)By a fellow nutjob.
Grrrrrr
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Date: 2006-07-25 10:01 pm (UTC)We have a lot to answer for on that score...
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Date: 2006-07-25 10:02 pm (UTC)Considering Sharon's record of the past few years, though, I wonder if he wasn't moderating a bit.
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Date: 2006-07-25 11:20 pm (UTC)Too true. But I'd like to think the Democrats are slightly less nutjobby, and they don't sound like it today.
Considering Sharon's record of the past few years, though, I wonder if he wasn't moderating a bit.
He may have been, or he may just have been being adaptable in pursuing his own goals. Some of the hawks are ultra-religious and are unwilling to accept any dimunition in the boundaries of Israel for any reason. I think some (most?) of them would actually like to expand them. I never saw Sharon as being that religious, more pragmatic: Israel above all else, and Israeli power, as brutal as need be, to ensure that Israel would be safe.
The one thing I do believe people of Sharon's stripe and people of the more religious stripe share is a belief that Arabs are simply subhuman, a lesser race, animals to be killed without remorse no matter what their age, gender, or combatant status if they offer you the least resistance.