We’ve reached a stage in american politics where it’s about politicians, not politics (totally different issue). It’s as if ideas don’t even matter anymore; which is kind of the point of a democracy.
Once upon a time Nazis executed millions of jews. Who paid for it ?…Palestinians. They were evicted from their homes and they are constantly under seige by Israel. The idea that Israel is fighting for their right to be in their homeland is a myth. How many wars have you heard of that last 7 days ? Israel is heavily armed, heavily supported, and they are in no danger of losing their country. I’ll admit that the “palestinian leaders” haven’t done a good job of getting international support with their terrorist tactics; Arafat was no gandhi.
What’s strange is I read a poll the other day that suggested 80% of Israeli citizens support Obama, while something like 20% approve of their own leader. Google it.
The problem is whenever we discuss the middle east nobody wants to look at the details. They always assume that muslims are a bunch of terrorists and our hands are clean. We used Osama to fight russia in afghanistan, armed saddam to fight iran for a decade, and even tried to put in our own leader in iran which was later killed, and so on…Israel is no exception. We support Israel as a state, give no real thought about a palestinian state, and go on believing Israel is our democratic ally and the palestinians are a bunch of terrorists and that’s that.
I don’t have anything against Israel; for years I thought they were decent people who wanted to live in their home land and were constantly being attacted because of their religion. I got that idea probably from the media, but after a little research I realized I was very very wrong.
