A Blight Unto the Nations

[kpete]

A Blight Unto the Nations

I've felt many emotions about the Israelis before. I've admired them for their accomplishments -- building a flourishing state out of almost nothing. I've hated them for their systematic dispossession of the Palestinians -- even as they smugly congratulated themselves for being the Middle East's only "democracy." I've pitied them for the cruel fate history inflicted on the Jewish diaspora, respected them for their boldness and daring, honored them for their cultural and intellectual achievements. But the one thing I've never felt, at least up until now, is contempt.

But that is what I'm feeling now. The military and political leaders of the Jewish state are doing and saying things that go way beyond the blustering arrogance of a powerful nation at war. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they are behaving like a gang of miltaristic thugs -- whose reply to any criticism or reproach is an expletive deleted and the smash of an iron fist.

The most brutal public example would probably be the suggestion by the Israeli Justice Minister (!) that the IDF now has the world's blessing to simply line up the artillery and turn every village in southern Lebanon into a rubble pile -- lest too much Jewish blood be spilled in the vicious door-to-door fighting required to "make something happen" on the ground.

more at:
http://billmon.org/archives/002581.html

[theoldman]

1. They are getting to be more like us.

Have we not set the example? We boast about being the most powerful country on earth. The fact is that we have more weapons than any other country. Israel has more weapons than any other Middle East country. The US supplied the money for these weapons.

[Burried News]

2. Sooner or later war teaches you to respect your enemies.

Hopefully the world will not be obliterated before that happens.

[theoldman]

3. If you think your enemy is stupid, you have already lot the war.

This is an old Chinese wisdom.