Reply #66: I agree with Mahatma Gandhi -- Israel did not need to exist. [View All]

[Larkspur]

Gandhi foresaw the violence that the state of Israel would cause in the region. He also saw Zionism as a mutation of Western European colonialism. Zionists asked Gandhi 4 times for his blessing for the state of Israel and he refused each time.

I'm anti-apartheid and Israel is an apartheid nation. Americans don't see the day-to-day brutal treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis. If we did, then Americans would have a viewpoint closer to Europe's about Israel and Palestine.

I've recently already had a debate with an American Jew who runs the stable where my horse use to live. He spouted the AIPAC garbage about how Palestinians were inferior because it was the Jews who turned a desert into a lush productive land. I told him that he was using racist language that was nearly verbatim used by the British who persecuted my Irish ancestors and was also used by my Irish American uncles to justify not hiring African Americans in their businesses. Just because he was a Jew, did not mean that he could not be a racist. He was also an anti-Semite because the Arab Palestinians are of Semitic origin and are closer to their Semitic roots than the Western and Eastern European Jews who colonized Palestine.

American Jews who support groups that choose to blind themselves to the evil that Israel has done are no friend to America. I especially despise American Jews who thought it was OK for Israel to kill with impunity American citizens like Rachel Corrie and our service men on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967.

Apartheid regimes are doomed to fail and will not be tolerated by most of the world. Just ask South Africa. Unfortunately, those regimes cause a lot of damage and loss of life before they go extinct. You know what's interesting, Israel was the lone developed nation to support the Apartheid regime in South Africa after the United States was pressured to withdraw support from it. Looks like Israel imported apartheid practices from South Africa to use against the Palestinians.

Unlike the European Jews who stole lands from the Palestinians and continue to this day to steal land from the Palestinians, my Irish and Lithuanian ancestors did not steal land from their new country. They bought the land they lived on. If America was not open to my ancestors, then they most likey would have stayed in their home origins, but famine and British oppression drove my Irish ancestors to America and Russian oppression and lack of economic opportunities drove my Lithuanian ancestors to America. The big difference between America and Israel -- America was not established as a Christian nation and Israel was established as a Jewish state. Prejudice was built-into the Israeli nation once it became a Jewish state and that is another reason why Mahatma Gandhi opposed the creation of the state of Israel.