by Krashlia » Wed May 16, 2018 6:55 am
I Like Israel, partly for religious-fundamentalist reasons. The other part is because I think that, if all the Middle East as it is now had experienced its best day, Israel would shine brighter than its neighbors. Also I think that this isn't even necessarily about Israel, but some funny politics against the US.
So I can't be brought to hate it.
I think that it needs to be remembered that its relationship with the neighboring populations is less than warm, and that its actually a better country on account of the fact that its closer to being a secular democracy than others. But, I don't think its delusional to say that "it sort of needs to get its human rights issues together", and "we've made some less than optimal decisions in regards to our relationship to it and our involvement in its relationship with its neighbors".
It needs to refocus on securing its own borders, and not being harsher to one segment of the population than others. I mean, do we seriously need to think about the fundamental unfairness of destroying so Arabs home for something one terrorist member of the house did? Does expelling some family from their house and moving in some other guys and letting them keep the stuff once belonging to the other family sound right? Settler groups anyone? And, yeah, the Palestinian political groups have been playing tricks on the borders, creating propaganda, and supporting terrorist attacks against Jewish targets, and using missile attacks. But, that just highlights the importance of cutting out the selective treatment of citizens, desisting in playing chess with ethnic groups and living space, leaving Gaza behind, and securing the Israeli border, thus Reducing the complaints of the rivals to rather clear cases of crying wolf. This strategy would making being a friend much easier I think.
EDIT:
Theres nothing suspicious at all about the fact that democratic support for Israel has taken a straight dive in less than two years. I'm being sarcastic of course, and willing to bet that one of the reasons that this may be so is one that I could only think of as petty and irrational.