POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PATRICK MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
The photo of Netanyahu included with this piece is surely the
very picture of evil .
A man who is at one and the same time a bellicose blowhard
and a coward.
He's determined to attack an innocent country, knowing full
well the United States will have to go to his assistance when Iran responds, as
it should.
And all for what?
So that Israel can keep stealing the homes and farms of
others, killing anyone it doesn't like, and starting any war it pleases.
I do believe that is the very definition of a rogue state.
We cannot have a peaceful world with psychopathic politicians
like Netanyahu determining affairs.
And beware, Canada, with Netanyahu's loyal retainer in
office in Ottawa, we could well get dragged into it this time.
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"If this is a
precursor to war, when many of the Israeli intelligence and military experts
have denounced the folly of it, then we will know who to blame for the
consequences.”
And knowing whom to blame changes precisely what?
We know Bush and Cheney were responsible for perhaps a
million deaths.
But our knowing saved no one.
And here we go again.
It is well past time for all citizens of democratic
countries to speak up about the ugly excesses of Israel.
Not even North Korea generates more threats and death and nastiness
than Israel.
It will only stop when our governments pressure Israel
instead of allowing themselves to always be pressured by Israel.
We could have peace tomorrow, were Israel willing.
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"We were right to
stay out of Iraq, but we should support Democratic Israel in all ways
possible.”
Democratic Israel?
Just where do you see that, except in their politicians'
speeches?
A country which steals the property of others weekly?
A country which constantly engages in extrajudicial murders?
A country which keeps thousands in prisons with no proper
legal process?
A country which keeps 4.5 million people in apartheid
bondage?
A country where citizenship, and the right to vote, are
based on ethnic identity?
A country which has attacked every neighbor that it has,
many twice?
If that's what you call democracy, the world would be a far
better place with fewer such democracies.
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"It is both
interesting and revealing that under every article about Israel, no matter the
content, the most popular comments are always the hateful ones.”
I think you have the cart before the horse, apart from
several other errors in logic and coherence.
Could it just happen to be the case that every article about
Israel is about some hateful act or threat?
I honestly cannot recall a single news story about something
good Israel has done.
And for such an insignificant country - in size and in
population - it manages to be in the news regularly.
People who have the courage to speak against pointless wars
and human rights atrocities are only anti-barbarism.
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"Yet, Israel, a
tiny country on the other side of the globe seems to generate so much hate and
condemnation especially considering that almost 21% of Israel's population are
Arabs"
Actually, it's closer to 19%.
And just who are those Arabs?
The men and women who failed to run from Israeli terror in
1948 - the Irgun, The Lehi, the Stern Gang, and the ragtag Israeli army of the
time whose ranks were full of foreigners.
Israel didn't succeed in scaring them off, so what was it to
do? Murder them? And there were advocates even for that.
As to their citizenship, you leave out far more than you
tell.
Israel treats them in every regard as second-class. Many
prominent Israelis speak publicly of expelling them sooner or later.
Their papers are marked to distinguish them from Jews.
They cannot enjoy many rights and privileges of Jewish
Israelis.
Israel always insists on being recognized as "the
Jewish nation." Were that ever to become the case, what would happen to
these non-Jewish, second-class citizens? I think we all know.
Some citizenship.
