Boy, the Israeli government sure know how to lose the support or empathy of everyone other than their own blindly arrogant support team!
Yesterday’s news that they are punitively withholding tax income owed to the Palestinian authorities, and will build more settlements near Jerusalem that will split the West Bank in two, was for me the last straw in my years-long attempts to feel some sympathy for Israelis.
This in response for them not getting their own way at the United Nations, where Palestine has successfully (and rightfully in my opinion) gained some formal recognition as a state.
This sort of petulant, macho behaviour finally proves for all to see – that the government of Israel and its far-right fundamentalist supporters have no intention of treating Palestine as anything other than a state to be subjugated and, next, destroyed. Not necessarily by bombs, but by incrementally slow strangulation and oppressive psychological torture.
With every escalation of fighting such as the recent events in Gaza, I have tried to at least see the Israeli side, even if I struggled to make sense of their deliberate escalation of hostilities. I think that time is now past. All I see now, following the arrogant display of revenge yesterday, is a bully state which knows it has infinitely more powerful weaponry, and a grip on US policy, and is using that to psychologically batter and squeeze Palestine into submission on its 100% own terms.
This brief article offers no great new insight into the situation, and I’m sure no-one in power will read it so it will have no effect. I’m just using it to state that for me the debate about the rights and wrongs of Israel’s policy is over. Pretty much whatever the Palestinian people do now to resist the humiliation and oppression imposed on them by their arrogant occupiers is okay by me.
Hi David. I’d be interested to know if you get any response from the NZ Jewish/Zionist lobby after publishing this (my sentiments too except they lost me a long time ago).
They are usually highly pro-active in coming to the defence of any apparent slight upon their being.
I would love to know.
Thanks
Cedric Watkins (Tom’s young? brother)
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Hi Cedric. Yes, I do remember meeting you. I’ll let you know if I get any such responses.
Thanks for this article David. My sentiments too. Once the truth about 9/11 becomes generally known then the state of Israel will be on shaky ground. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BsDtvu2uTuA#!
I really believe this particular blog post , “Israel has now lost whatever sympathy I had for
them I may be wrong but . . . .”, especially
pleasurable not to mention the blog post was in fact a fantastic read.
Thanks a lot,Edgar