COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Mr Corbyn strikes me as an inherently fair-minded person.
Why should there be a relationship that is somehow different
than the relationships with all other groups?
The very idea that there should something extra here is pure
bias.
It is also an invitation to establishing the kind of
leverage the Israel Lobby (not some fetid fantasy but an established fact of
serious academic study) enjoys in the United States.
Nothing could be less fair than that special interest
relationship which sees a great nation's policies and acts distorted
unnaturally towards one very small nation.
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"...existential
threat to Israel from Iran and extremist organisations such as Hamas."
That is boiler-plate language from Israel's official
playbook.
There is no genuine threat of any kind from Hamas, let alone
"an existential one."
That is the most arrant nonsense and special interest
pleading.
The only existential threat to Israel is Israel.
Its behavior of occupation and abuse of millions cannot go
on indefinitely.
It will certainly go the way of the Soviet Union if it
doesn't behave as a nation of laws fair to all.
And living in the kind of dark security state Israel has
become is simply not attractive to most Jews in the world.
