POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Quits?
Big deal.
Threatening the President's life is a crime in the United States.
The man belongs in prison.
This whole matter shows how sick and twisted the support for Israel has become.
Bad enough calling every critic of Israel's ugly policies an
anti-Semite, a favorite practice of frustrated supporters who do not get
what they want.
But now this?
It is not to be taken lightly that a prominent man feels he can do this.
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"The Israelites are given over to murdering people that they don't like .........
"Shamir and his Stern Gang murdered Count Bernadotte, the Swedish Peace Envoy ........."
Yes, indeed, along with literally hundreds of other murders and acts of terror in the 1940s.
Israel was born in terror, and instead of growing into a respectable
member of the world community, it has only gone on to become something
very unpleasant, violating all fair-minded people's sense of fairness
and decency.
And it comes as no surprise that its fervent supporters behave in the same fashion.
It was not that long ago that a prominent American lawyer advocated
in writing the execution of all family members of any Palestinian caught
in an act of terror.
And what single act in our day is more terrifying than Israel's
assault on Gaza, which is basically a refugee camp, killing 400
children, a thousand others, and lying about every detail of that
savagery since?
Then still imposing 4 years of illegal and inhumane embargo on the same people and using murderous acts of piracy to enforce it?
Israel, sadly, has become little more than a mafia state: it
murders, it steals, it oppresses, and it breaks all international law
with impunity, lying and shamelessly claiming the right to do things no
one has the right to do.
And the public is supposed to say fine because poor Israel feels threatened.
Israel is threatened seriously by absolutely no one or nothing but its own insanity.
The threat Obama represents, if it can even be called that, is that
Israel must eventually abide by rules and treaties, assuming its
previous borders, but Israel wants everything and it wants the non-Jews
gone.
Hardly a stance any person of ethics can be expected to agree with.
