[quote=barnaby33]
I find that all the anti-Israel pushers out there are strangely silent on all of the other horrible conflicts in the world, but this one gets them going. Congo, South Sudan, Syria. Soft bigotry of low expectations, or just letting the availability of grisly images delivered effortlessly to your tv tug at your heart strings?
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I, for one, don’t think what goes on in the congo is relevant to the ongoing 60 year ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Do you think what goes on in the Congo justifies Palestinian ethnic cleansing?
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is no different, in essence, from the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous peoples who inhabited North America who were also dehumanized by the European settlers which, as with the Zionists, was a prerequisite for the massive crimes they were about to commit.
One may argue that at the time the North American continent was being settled, our species had not come to realize the inhumanity inherent in such actions but those zionists who dispossessed the Palestinians in 1948, destroyed 500 of their villages, and forced over 750,000 of them to flee, have no such excuses. They had established their intent to do those very things years before the Nazi holocaust and thus neither they nor the state they worship have a moral leg to stand on.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/oct/23/israel-the-alternative/ The problem with Israel, in short, is not—as is sometimes suggested—that it is a European “enclave” in the Arab world; but rather that it arrived too late. It has imported a characteristically late-nineteenth-century separatist project into a world that has moved on, a world of individual rights, open frontiers, and international law. The very idea of a “Jewish state”—a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded—is rooted in another time and place. Israel, in short, is an anachronism.
