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If, as is implied here, there is some sort of double standard on the part of the United States in it's views towards Israel then where is the other half of it? Where is the country that the United States considered an ally/debtor/casual acquaintance that was dealing with an "indigenous" population in a heavy handed manner that the US started cutting ties, financial and diplomatic, with? Great Britain and the IRA? Canada and the FLQ? The Chinese and the Tibetans? Russia and the Chechnyans?
It seems like there is a single and solitary standard the United States has when it comes to these issues and it's one that is entirely consistent with the manner in which the United States acted when faced with the same problem. The standard is do what you want to put the bastards down. The only double standard here seems to be amongst the people who could give two craps about the peoples previously mentioned and focus so intently on the Palestinians and their plight. AIPAC, really, is just the other side of the coin to the thousands of journalists who descended on China this summer and came back with "Boy, that Michael Phelps sure can swim, can't he?" before wringing their hands about those awful Israelis.
