Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I support Western human rights, and you know it.
And I've condemned Hamas for unacceptable acts in this forum. What do I have to do, put denouncing Hamas and Fatah ahead of ANY other priority in this situation? Am I supposed to say that Palestinians should submit to being kept in one unjust situation because another country somehow, supposedly, knows better than them what they need? DO I have to support the status quo until Bibi says things can change?
Do you honestly think that it's even possible for one nation to make a second nation, in this day and age, "democratic" at the barrel of a gun? That "elections" imposed as an act of conquest can ever be legitimate?
How is that NOT imperialist? How is that NOT bloody arrogant?
You build democracy by letting a people come to it on their own terms...not by treating them as if they have to have it forced on them.