I am deeply troubled by Israel's brutality.
The claim is always that they cannot trust anyone to protect them, that they alone are responsible for their security. This leads to aggresiveness toward their neighbors, which makes Israel even less popular than they would be if they had "only" claimed half of Palestine. Palestinians are treated as potential crimals, one and all, which provides each with reason to hate Israel.
I understand that there needs to be a place where the Jewish people know that they are safe, where there will never be another Holocaust. How about Brooklyn? I am only half kidding. Despite the fact that the Jewish people originated in Israel, displacing the Palestinians has been disasterous. Imagine if the Irish Americans were so mistreated in America that the world community felt the best solution was to resettle them in Ireland.
Giving Israel unconditional support menas that Israel will do as it will. The only way to eliminate a threat from some population for all eternity is to eliminate them for all eternity. That is no more acceptable in Palestine than Poland. Safety is an illusion. Different groups will have conflict, and the shape of future conflict is impossible to forcast.
By the way, Israelis are fed a lot of propaganda growing up. They are taught in school that the Israeli army begged the Palestinians to stay and be neighbors to the Jewish people. Ask Palestinians who were displaced about that.
The claim is always that they cannot trust anyone to protect them, that they alone are responsible for their security. This leads to aggresiveness toward their neighbors, which makes Israel even less popular than they would be if they had "only" claimed half of Palestine. Palestinians are treated as potential crimals, one and all, which provides each with reason to hate Israel.
I understand that there needs to be a place where the Jewish people know that they are safe, where there will never be another Holocaust. How about Brooklyn? I am only half kidding. Despite the fact that the Jewish people originated in Israel, displacing the Palestinians has been disasterous. Imagine if the Irish Americans were so mistreated in America that the world community felt the best solution was to resettle them in Ireland.
Giving Israel unconditional support menas that Israel will do as it will. The only way to eliminate a threat from some population for all eternity is to eliminate them for all eternity. That is no more acceptable in Palestine than Poland. Safety is an illusion. Different groups will have conflict, and the shape of future conflict is impossible to forcast.
By the way, Israelis are fed a lot of propaganda growing up. They are taught in school that the Israeli army begged the Palestinians to stay and be neighbors to the Jewish people. Ask Palestinians who were displaced about that.