desertdude desertdude:
bootlegga bootlegga:
"Israel is absolutely, positively, 100% unfallable"
Correct, I'm starting to get that feeling too that most people here share the the US govt stand of that anybody involved in any altercation with Israel is guilty until proven innocent and not the other way round.
And why is everything always turns into being a Jew thing ? No one has never mentioned anything against jews in any of the posts here. They are directed to the rogue state of Israel or the IDF.
Why is it against the law or being antisemetic to criticse Israel or the IDF ?
Let me answer you as an American.
There is a feeling that Israel is the only democratic country in the region and as such needs to be defended.
There is a great temptation by Israel and very powerful Jewish groups to label criticism of the Republic of Israel as antisemitism. The reason they do is that it largely works. They call up images of the holocaust and say "never again". In 1965 Israel shot up an American Naval ship and the American Government covered it up as much as possible. If any other nation did something like this you could expect the same response as the 9-11 attack.
I agree Israel is a rogue state and needs to be reined in. Jews have their place and so do the Palestinians. Jerusalem is a problem. I personally think it should be its own city state run by the the three major religions jointly. That isn't going to happen. It will continue to be a sore point probably forever. There were points when peace was very close, but close doesn't count.
It should be a lot different, but the "automatic Israel 100% correct" nonsense is beginning to crack. I'm serious. The housing issue in East Jerusalem and the way it was presented did not sit well with the American government. The American government felt insulted as we were.
What is needed on the American stage is people like yourself. Moderate muslims to educate us. Most of what we hear about the mid east is what every Horse Shit Israel wants to feed us and up until now we have been digesting it well.
I signed on to Al-Jazera I was expecting to read some radical Islam thing calling for all American to be killed and so on. I was entirely wrong. It is a first class news agency that I found very educational and balance. It is Islamic Oriented but so what. People who won't talk to us talk to al-Jazerra.
I don't want to bore with a long essay here (If I haven't bored you already).
The super Israel fixation is cracking and the American Government is starting to look hard at how much trouble is Israel worth prior to this that was never even a consideration.
There is a world of difference between antisemitism and being critical of the Republic of Israel, just as there is a world of difference between a nation criticizing the United States and being anti American.