John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY CHRIS BLACK IN INVESTMENTWATCH
“Should President Trump Have Moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?”
Trump is just trying to buy his 2020 election. Principles get tossed. Israel's Lobby in America will see that he gets what he needs.
Trump's decision is totally illegal under international law and has no sanction from the UN.
But that kind of thing has never bothered Israel, the world's worst country so far as law-breaking and violating all principles of rule of law are concerned.
And the US anymore is not far behind. It has evolved into a truly ugly thing once outside of its borders. Extrajudicial killing. Torture. Coups. Mercenary wars. Pushing people around everywhere. Always ordering sanctions without any compliance with international institutions. Just a rogue state.
It almost makes me ill to my stomach to see someone using the friendly nickname "Bibi," as this author does, for one of the world's greatest mass killers (he's into his third Gaza massacre plus lots of other bloodshed) and a figure of utter corruption, Netanyahu.
This article is replete with ignorant statements. It’s a mind-numbing collection of clap-trap propaganda for anyone who knows anything.
Just consider this absurdity: "the Middle East doesn’t just belong to the Muslims, it belongs to Christians and Jews alike."
No, it belongs to the people who live there, the people of each country and community, including the great diversity of Syrians and the people of Gaza and the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
What we see in and from Israel is simply the ugly and dangerous principle of might makes right and absolutely nothing else.
You know that was the principle guiding all of our past dictators and tyrants.
Readers may enjoy:
https://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/understanding-israels-corrosive-influence-on-western-democracy/
https://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/understanding-modern-israel-why-it-is-driving-the-world-towards-madness/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/john-chuckman-comment-two-peas-in-a-pod-israel-and-saudi-arabia-what-they-have-in-common-and-its-a-whole-lot-more-than-you-might-think/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/john-chuckman-comment-another-gaza-massacre-by-israel-the-modern-re-creation-of-israel-has-sadly-proved-a-pretty-inglorious-chapter-in-modern-history-some-facts-behind-all-that-bloodshed/
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Response to another reader’s comment:
Yes, well said.
We hear endlessly from lobby organizations about increasing "anti-Semitism" in the "West."
Many of the claims, taken from data bases maintained by Jewish organizations, are likely spurious or counted in such a fashion that many would not agree. You have to analyze data before you just accept it as valid. someone with pre-conceived notions ticking off boxes on a form does not necessarily constitute valid data recording.
However, it is impossible that there would not be seriously negative feelings aroused in tens of millions of people by Israel's barbaric and savage behavior right before cameras and witnesses.
There is no other appropriate description for what is going on in Israel than "Nazi-like.'
And there's Trump's ridiculous daughter, smiling and twirling around in a costly dress, at the front door of this new (illegal) embassy while people are shot down by the score as though they were unwanted wild dogs.
It is chilling beyond words.
And I think it is going to become something of a turning point. It is too gross and overwhelming, and there will be effects for the horrible government of Israel.
AFTERWORD
I note in this morning's papers that the government of Israel has just threatened publicly to kill Gaza's leader, the head of the Hamas Party, if he does not stop holding public demonstrations.
Well, "the Middle East’s only democracy" has spoken, and you had better listen.
I guess Israeli soldiers are fatigued by yesterday’s heavy work of wounding 2,400 people and killing 58, six of whom were children. Even “the world’s most moral army” has its limits.
