Is Lemon Law representative of a political ideology or does he latch onto one that he believes is closest to his unyielding tolerance for such actions? Certainly one would be foolish to comment on a lynching of a black man with "Racism is horrible in any form. Look how the blacks beat up white kids" then seriously expect their first comment to be taken as sympathy for the hanged man.
Yet that comparison will be denied. Why? Because he simply hates Israel. That there are legitimate areas of discussion, the a priori approach taken nullifies any serious discourse.
It would seem to me that any individual act of good or evil stands on it's own as such. Bringing other issues is specious, and more than that painfully transparent.
It may be good at inciting others to react, but it does nothing to merit serious consideration, assuming that was the reason for posting at all.
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In all due respect Hayabusa Rider, Now that you are done playing arm chair Psychiatrist, its time to point out that I don't hate Israel, I hate Israeli government policies. There is a difference, because the latter says, reform your policies and you no longer earn hatreds.
IMHO, the mistakes were made in 1948, Israel then could have decided to be a government that granted equal rights to both all former residents of the former British mandate, but instead decided to become an apartheid State in which only Jews and a few selected Arabs had human rights.
The former policy assumes Palestinians and Jews can work together but practice their religions separately and the latter assumes that like oil and water, the two groups can't mix. And then we come to the fact that the former British Mandate was in fact a vast living laboratory, where exactly those types of experiments were conducted. IF we want to cherry pick antipodal evidence, we can find many areas of the former British mandate where Jews, Arabs, and Palestinian lived and worked together in harmony for the mutual benefit of all, we can find many areas where native Arabs and Palestinians behaved badly to new Jewish settlers, and we can find many areas where
new Jewish settlers behaved badly in regard to already established Palestinians and Arabs. And we can define behaving badly to every crime in the book up to and including murder and genocide. But if all three things were happening at the same time
and basic place, how do we decide which was true? And the answer is we have to look at the long term aggregate effect, and not concentrate on individual anecdotal incidences.
But here we are, 62 years down the road, Israel is an economically thriving nations of some 5.5 million Jews with full citizenship rights, some 1.75 Million Arabs with almost full citizenship rights, and some 3 plus million Palestinians with no human rights. And bottom line, as long as Israel can't solve the Palestinian problem, ISRAEL WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND ACCEPTANCE IN THE MID-EAST. Israel may be able to maintain itself by force of arms, but they never will know any peace until correct that defect in their aggregate behavior. Nor can Israel hold on to lands captured during the 1967&73 wars.
If we could go back in history and change the net aggregate Israeli behavior, and had Israel fairly treated the Palestinians, we would not have the problems we have today.
Now that 62 years have passed, now its a far harder problem because the problem is far harder to solve.
But Israel will never find peace and acceptance in the mid-east until it either helps form a Palestinians state or assimilates the Palestinians into the Israeli State with full citizenship rights plus compensations.
So why does the world keep kicking the can down the road? If we wait to long, either the terrorists will finally win or we are heading to a major bloodbath in the mid-east. In short, the present mid-east situation is unsustainable and is a ticking time bomb.
Nor do I think the past or present net aggregate behavior of Palestinians or surrounding Arab states is anything worth defending, but still, the greatest rascal has and still is the net aggregate behavior of the state of Israel.
But if anyone wants to paint me as a flaming anti Semitic Jew hater, you are welcome to watch all those synagogues I don't burn down and all of those swastikas I don't paint on the houses of my Jewish neighbors. And the reason is simply because I have no problems with any of my neighbors, be they Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever. Because that is what we got in the USA, a nation dedicated to the separation of church and State with no special citizenship rights based on religion. Long before you and I were born, the USA used to enslave human beings, we fought a civil war to prevent that, successfully assimilated our former slaves, again had to fight various civil rights battles during the 60's, and still have some civil rights battles today. And as we assimilate more people, the minor battles will be ongoing into the future.
If the USA can do, Israel can do it.
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