COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Response to another
comment:
No one hates Israel per se, but millions are repulsed by Israel's
behavior, and quite rightly so.
Now, in any ethical or moral system, isn't that how we are
supposed to judge others, by their behavior, not by what they are?
No terrorist organization which exists has a record to match
Israel's, and that's just a regrettable and unpleasant fact.
500 kids killed in Gaza?
1,700 others?
The people of Gaza can't even import cement to repair homes,
schools, and sanitation?
Israel sprays a huge swath of Gaza with toxic herbicide,
likely to cause birth defects for generations?
And that's only a partial list of recent Israel behavior.
If Israel wants to be regarded as a state like any other
state, then it must act like one.
It does not.
And the great underlying, but generally ignored, truth of so
much Muslim anger is that it is a direct result of Israel’s behavior, which
never seems to be disapproved of in the West while Muslim violence is
ceaselessly condemned.
The prospect which Israel's behavior opens for the future is
a terrifying one.
If it is acceptable to behave as Israel does, then there are
no bounds, no rules, no laws in international affairs, and every group or
country may do just as it feels it is compelled to do.
