Reply #16: Israel AND 'the nations' need to provide a light unto themselves first! [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

Countries that started an illegal war in Iraq that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and continue an occupation there/ treat their own racial and religious minorities as scapegoats/ reward super-rich and irresponsible bankers while drastically cutting services to poor people/ undermine vital public services or never establish them in the first place/ etc. need to reform themselves before they have much right to boycott a similarly (not more or less) delinquent country - and that is just about democratic nations!

As for Israel itself, it does need to reform itself - or, even if it survives, it may cease to be a real democracy. 60% of young people consider strong leadership as more important than democracy = a big threat to the democratic state. They need to provide a light unto their own new generations, before they can provide a light unto anyone else.

What would be good, is for the nations to support and facilitate the establishment of an independent Palestinian state - but it's not just Israel that's been undermining that; it's Hamas too!!