Wednesday, January 24, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW BRAVE ISRAELI PILOTS WON'T FLY REFUGEES OUT - RESPONSE TO A BLIND CHARGE ABOUT HOW IRRATIONAL COMMENTS BECOME AT THE MENTION OF ISRAEL - WHY ISRAEL DISTURBS



COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT


Israeli pilots say they would refuse to fly deported asylum seekers back to Africa: 'I will not be a partner to this barbarity'
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Response to a comment “Strange how crazy, violent and irrational people's comments become when the word "Israel" is mentioned”:

And do you think that just might possibly be owing to the reality of what Israel does, week-in, week-out, to several million people?

Gaza is a concentration camp, an unimaginable thing given the history of the people enforcing it. An enforced filth-hole with infinite restrictions on a million and a half human beings just because they’re not Jewish.

But there you have it, plain as day, one of the most brutal behaviors by any government in the world today. Never mind Myanmar or other godawful places.

And others are supposed to just ignore it?

Isn't that exactly what encourages the worst evils, people ignoring them?

And here the same Israelis are in the press desperately maneuvering to send some poor black African refugees to their deaths. All because Mr. and Mrs. Netanyahu do not happen to like having black people in the neighborhood.

Nice to see a few brave pilots stand up against them.

But what week passes that Israel doesn't openly, violently steal someone else's home in the West Bank or East Jerusalem?

And surely you know that making threats against the UN, as Israel has done for months, gains it no friends or admirers.

Especially when those threats are simply a bad-tempered response to honest views and acts.

Imagine angrily leaving a fine agency like UNESCO, which does many good works in the world, just because it doesn't follow Israel's dictates, a country representing about one-tenth of one percent of the world’s people?

It's arrogant in the extreme, but it does come from a state which remains in contempt of literally dozens of Security Council Resolutions passed over many decades.