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 don't wish harm to Israel and I'm not an antisemite. Just stop this interrogation. I've done nothing to deserve you treating me as if I'm your enemy, or as if I'm a dupe. Can you please just accept that all I am is a person who has a reasonable disagreement with you?
Here's what YOU don't see: there is just as much risk to Israel's security from keeping the Occupation in place as there would be in getting rid of it. Because the security of any occupying country is always ultimately endangered by allowing the rage of an occupied people to fester and grow. What, exactly, do you think is going to be made better by stalling? Has there ever been a situation that you know of in which maintaining an occupation has ever actually MODERATED the feelings of an occupied people? I've never heard of that happening at any point.
And you've truly got me wrong on one point...I'm not against people of one race living in a state governed by another. I'm fine with that-the issue is HOW they are governed. What I am against is people of one race holding people of another(and in this case, it may not even be racial, but simply ethnic or cultural)under their sway by force of arms. I'd favor, for example, something like Israel and Palestine setting up a Belgian-style federation-something that recognized the national entities but still provided full democracy for all. But, just as I'd object to Palestinian Arabs holding Israeli Jews under military dominance, as a person who believes in democracy I have to oppose the opposition situation-it's clearly equally wrong in both cases.
There's a difference between saying it's wrong for one ethnicity to be governed by a state led by another(which is the view you imply that I hold, but that I actually don't)and saying that one ethnicity should be held under the military dominance of another(which is what I actually oppose, and which most reasonable people would oppose anywhere).