COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
And, I'm sorry to say, so have a good many others been
intimidated about speaking out, other worthy people who have consciences, Jimmy
Carter being a recent one.
Israel has been reduced to the lowest tactics possible to
defend what cannot be defended by any decent person.
Apart from its threatening behaviors, its efforts even get desperately
silly, as with its practice of paying Israeli students who post rubbish to
muddy discussions on any news site allowing comments.
I think that this state which recognizes no laws, no
conventions, no ethical claims, and pretends it is democratic will certainly go
the way of the old Soviet Union eventually.
It has a grossly inefficient economy, yields a poor life for
most ordinary Israelis, is dominated by a vast cancerous military and security
apparatus, holds millions in perpetual bondage, and starts wars with every
neighbor - that is not a long term formula for success, ever.
Neither are the practices of building massive walls, passing
discriminatory legislation, encouraging the passage of discriminatory legislation
abroad, and calling anyone, literally anyone, who questions your behavior ugly
names and insults.
Throw in many assassinations, a great deal of torture, a
huge number of illegal arrests, constant abuse of several million people in the
streets, and state-sponsored theft of the property of others.
The place would collapse today were it not for the support
its lobby buys for it in America, but that cannot go on indefinitely. Most
Americans do have some innate sense of fairness, and Israel violates it daily.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
The human capacity for cruelty seems to have no limits.
You might think a people who were so terribly treated in the
past could teach the world a lesson in enlightenment and fairness.
