John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Bless you, Jimmy Carter, a man who genuinely deserved a
Nobel Peace Prize.
Carter, a man of immense integrity and great understanding,
is one of the only prominent people in the Western world to speak truth about
Israel's unending brutality.
Our press goes on and on about natural disasters like
Nepal's earthquake, yet almost never gives notice to the very unnatural
disaster Israel has created before our eyes.
And Mr. Carter’s reward? To be called an anti-Semite by many
Israelis.
Using what happened three-quarters of a century ago in
another country in another continent in extraordinary circumstances of war and
hate to justify such atrocities makes no sense to any honest, impartial, and informed
person.
Injustice is injustice no matter what history you may cite.
If you want a society of laws, then you must abide by laws.
You cannot stand outside the law, as Israel has done for its
entire existence, and create anything worth creating.
The logic of Israel’s excuses is the logic shared by every
tyrant and conqueror and criminal through history, all of them having their own
important reasons for doing what they did, and it goes nowhere towards
establishing the rule of law that is the only true refuge we have against the
powerful and hateful and mad.
