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• Monday, January 5, 2009 08:33 AM

  Who cares?

  The Israeli left is tough and macho too. Neat. That's great and swell and all, but every civilian killed in Palestine will lead to dead Americans in the future.

  But who cares about Americans? The Government of Israel doesn't, it's lobby doesn't. Israel's moles in our media military industrial complex don't care. No matter that America is who ultimately gets blamed for enabling Israel, and that our enabling of Israeli war crimes will lead to retaliation, further resentment and undermining of what are supposedly American values, and increasing numbers of dead Americans. In fact, the American Government doesn't care about Americans either, for it is the American people that will suffer the consequences, not political elites that oh so politely justify barbarism while having civilized discussions about over steak dinners.

  All that matters is Israel, that looks tough, and that Zionists feel good. Timothy McVeigh cited Waco and Ruby Ridge as justifications for the OKC bombing. OBL cited American support for Israel (and the rest of the failed states we support in the region) as a justification for 9/11. Then we gave AQ and friends a gift beyond their wildest dreams, the invasion of Iraq. Israel, by its actions, and America, through its support of failed states that oppress Muslims, are the best recruiting tools AQ could ever ask for.

  While Israel shows its toughness, AQ gathers propaganda for recruitment videos and radicalizes more pissed off Muslims, "see, look, the west is not what it claims to be."

  —Chris Sinnard Read Chris Sinnard's other letters
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