GabonX wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:a6mzero wrote:Israel could agree to go back to pre 1967 borders and make Jerusalem an open city and ThePalestinians would take that offering and continue to launch rockets and blow up buses and teach all their kindergarden age kids to aspire to kill jews. Israel trying to coexist peacefully with Palestinians is like a person trying to share their house with a rattlesnake.
Nice. You just implied that Palestinians are less than human.
You certainly are worth taking seriously.
Tell us how you feel about black people, Hispanics, and the Roma people.
You're going to call him on this, but you don't have anything to say about what Saxitoxin says about Israelis?
I pretty much like what Mets has to say about sax and bias.
I don't agree that saxi is an anti-Semite, but it's possible; I'm just not convinced. Based on a previous discussion years ago about Israel and Palestine, saxi is referring to the Israeli government when he says Israel. If he says Israelis, then he's referring to the citizens who support/push the Israeli government's policies toward the Palestinians. The latter stance is rough because many people vote, thus to some degree support whatever their government does (e.g. by implication, when Americans vote, then they 'approve' of the US invasion of Iraq, US executive sanctioning the torturing 1000s in the two recent wars, drone strikes that kill a few suspected terrorists but mostly innocents civilians, etc.).
About sax and the Israelis:
There's definitely a loud minority within Israel that exercises a disproportionate control over government. These people are the Orthodox Jews (they have some special name which I forget). Dur, not all Orthodox are as pro-war and fanatical, but you get what I mean. When I think of Isreali foreign policy, these are the people I have in mind, and sax is right in calling out this group as fanatical and cultish.
The other group of Israelis which support this kind of way of handling the problem are very similar to the millions of Americans who rallied around the flag, approved of the two wars, believed in the absurd claims of reconstruction, and continue to maintain this view of American Exceptionalism, of unreal capabilities of government, etc. Those kind of people explain much of the stupidity in politics, and unsurprisingly Israel has plenty of them (just like nearly all democracies). I have mixed opinions about the uninformed participating in the democratic process.