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This is the most in-depth, sophisticated article I've yet to read in Salon. Your analogy to America's genocide against its first inhabitants is not lost on me, an enrolled member of a midwest American Indian Nation. We've been vilified ever since the white man rolled onto the land, called subhumans, savages, terrorists, baby-killers, rapists of virtuous white women, all just because the white man wanted the land, so they made up vile names and took the land violently and illegally. Now the only reason we are even moderately tolerated is because of the advent of Indian casinos. They see more money and resource to be had.
Israel's genocidal practices are wrong, plain and simple. It's a ludicrous travesty to call their actions defensive actions. It is not defense, it is mass murder, like shooting weak, defenseless fish in a barrel, except these just so happen to be a poor starving people. It is blood-lust and rage, nothing even remotely connected to a desire for peace. Just the opposite, it is a desire for death, destruction and chaos. And as you point out, it is counterproductive and stupid, for Israel, America and the world. It is not ensuring peace, it is only ensuring continued violence.
I've never understood America's weak-kneed response to Israel. We call ourselves a great nation, yet we are overwhelmingly controlled by this tiny state, Israel, a state that would be nothing without the massive arms welfare that America annually supplies. We must intervene for peace or cut off the supply of arms.
Keep probing into this Israel myth of the Israel rule, because until America breaks its hold we will continue to be willing slaves to this rogue, blood-thirsty state. Israel is playing us for chumps.
