Anti-war Israelis getting the same treatment we got.

[Joanne98]

Just, because for three solid years the State of Israel bit its lips and acted with restraint. Just, because no country in the world can accept for an extended period of time a situation in which its citizens are forsaken and its sovereignty violated. Just, because there is no chance for peace in the Middle East if the Jewish state is viewed as easy prey bleeding in the water and attracting sharks.
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Operation Cast Lead is a tragic campaign. Tragic, because it is causing the deaths of hundreds and injuring thousands. Tragic, because it is causing physical and emotional injury to innocent Palestinians, including women and children. Tragic, because like every war it creates intolerable human hardship and heartbreaking suffering.

But the tragedy of Operation Cast Lead is unavoidable. It derives directly from the fact that the Palestinians did not take proper advantage of the historic opportunity given to them in 2005. It derives from the fact that when the Palestinians achieved self-government for the first time in their history they misused it. It derives from the fact that the Palestinian need to destroy Israel is still stronger than their need to build Palestine.

Israel-hating Israelis call Operation Cast Lead a war crime. They record the names of each and every Palestinian killed, denounce each and every Israeli action and portray their state as a bully. While the Egyptians are saying that Hamas is largely responsible for the tragedy of Gaza, Israel-hating Israelis place the whole responsibility on their government and military. While the international community silently understands that a sovereign state is duty-bound to protect its citizens' lives, Israel-hating Israelis believe that Israeli lives can be forfeited.

While the simple facts indicate that the violence in the south derives from the despicable actions of an extremist organization that turned the Strip into a district of terror, Israel-hating Israelis persist in their hatred of their people and homeland and defend the morality of Hamas' destructive aggression.

There is no call for hating the Israel-hating Israelis. At the end of the day, their position is a pathetic one. Their self-righteousness is not at all righteous, and their moralizing has no morality. Their inability to show compassion for the Israelis of Be'er Sheva, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Sderot shows that they possess a degree of callousness. Their inability to view the Arabs firing the Grad rockets as being responsible for their actions shows that they are not free of paternalism.

The real motivation of Israel-hating Israelis is not genuine concern for the Palestinians, but rather a form of reverse racism. By showing forgiveness toward Palestinian fascism they turn their backs not only on Israelis but also on moderate, freedom-loving Palestinians. Those who blame Israel for everything and exonerate the Palestinians of everything are neither serving the cause of peace nor helping to end the violence and occupation. All they are doing is proving the extent to which they are blinded by their burning self-hatred.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1051661.html

Reverse racism? WTF?

The Israeli peace movement is having a protest in a few days. I hope they get some support from the US groups.

[EFerrari]

1. This is the cognate charge to "the blame America first crowd".

Right wing bulleria.

[bemildred]

2. Your link is busted, a couple extra characters at the end I think. nt

[Joanne98]

4. Thanks. I fixed it.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. The sad thing is how many DUers would agree with that assessment.

[Joanne98]

6. I kind of interesting to watch it happen to someone else for a change.

We never get to see that. Looking at 'the traitor" rhetoric from outside. Makes it look like a global talking point.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Probably the same percentage that embraced Rick Warren

and post STFU threads against LGBT DUers and their hetero allies.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. "Israel-hating Israelis" = Self-hating Jews.

Never changes the hearts and/or minds of anyone. It's begging the question of whether this military action is moral and/or necessary.

[Joanne98]

7. Right-wingers are the same everywhere is guess. Just bullies!

[madrchsod]

8. racism?

arabs and jews are semites. the only people who would cry racism are the european jews

[LeftishBrit]

10. Yes, it's the same with peace movements everywhere

If you oppose your country's involvement in a war, you have to be prepared for unpopularity, and accusations of being crazy at best, disloyal at worst.

But 'burning self-hatred'; 'reverse racism' - that is some ascription of motivations.