Israel (again!)Follow

So,

You may have read this, but my good friend Israel has bombed a sovereign nation again.



I think Israel has gone off the ledge to be honest. I don't think a direct attack garners them any support, especially a few weeks ago they were held in scrutiny over its refusal to sign the NPT, and its continual settlement of unrecognized occupied land.



But this is what I find most interesting. It is the the hypocritical choice we in the west must make. Israel has preemptively struck a sovereign nation. Violating UN Charters, and Treaties Signed by Israel. We have been hypocritical over many things with Israel over the last 40 years. We always lean on the "But the Holocaust" crutch. It was bad ****, there was a time for mourning, but it should not be a get out of world court free card. We have been appeasing them for decades. How would Israel fare if the US stopped paying them money to provoke war, when they can spend that money at home...similarly how can mine?

We hold other nations to be accountable to their treaties, and obligations to law and civility. We sanction those who do not, we punish those who invade others. Do we now throw the principles of our free societies aside to support Israel once again, appease them another deliberate violation of UN Charters. Or is it time we let Israel stand alone and be accountable for its actions, like a grown up country. Hell we hold Palestine more accountable, and they aren't even a real country.

I have a good friend in Israel, and like many of the citizens there, she's been more or less brainwashed and propagandized to not even realize that Israel does a lot of very, very bad things.

Israel is still the US's friend, but it's becoming the belligerent friend who gets up into bar fights and expects his bros to bail his *** out any time he's called out for his actions.

Edited, Feb 1st 2013 12:31am by catwho

They're like two gangsters, strolling down the boardwalk together.

Israel looks out to the sea. The sun is setting and the light makes silhouettes of the flocking gulls. He feels America behind him, his strong arm draped over his shoulders. What a mess pronouns can be, thought Israel. I'm premised on the imposition of a single racial identity on an already inhabited bit of land, he added. I'm fundamentally racist.

"It's okay, Israel," said America. He looked to the horizon, and Israel imagined he could see the visionary spark of the Founding Fathers in those deep, sort of greenish eyes. "You had to snuff some guys, you had to snuff 'em. America understands."

And then there was no need for words.

Ed Koch died yesterday. Seems timely as much american sentiment appears to be ebbing away from Israel.

Heavens, no. Not Syria. Next thing you know, they'll be covertly aiding and supplying the anti-government rebels there and then we'll really have to get mad...

Isn't that how it always starts?

Or earthquakes, birds and snakes, and aeroplanes.