A Voice from Israel

[arisbe]

This war is not a just war. Israel is using excessive force without distinguishing between civilian population and enemy, whose sole purpose is extortion. That is not to say that morality and justice are on Hezbollah's side. Most certainly not. But the fact that Hezbollah "started it" when it kidnapped soldiers from across an international border does not even begin to tilt the scales of justice toward our side. -- Ze'ev Maoz in Haaretz

Even in the midst of war the Israelis are freer than we are, or so it seems from the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Comments

Ahhh....Now I Get It

[bela.livejournal.com]

Although it's impolite to point it out, large portions of the American media are owned by rabidly Zionist Jews. (Pointing out media types who happen to be Jewish is also anti-Semitic, of course.)
The same holds true here in Canada, where the largest media conglomerate, CanWest Global, is owned by Zionist Jews who have a habit of firing people who dare to voice opinions opposed to Israeli foreign/domestic policy.
Fortunately I've never been one to worry about accusations of any kind. P.J. O'Rourke once wrote that he didn't mind being called a fascist, since nobody fantasized about being tied up by someone dressed as a liberal. I concur....although I admit that my own politics probably meets most peoples' rather lazy definition of fascism.

Re: Ahhh....Now I Get It

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of Jews who aren't Zionists, and read about a lot of gentiles (I don't want to call them Christians, though that's what they call themselves) who are.

Not everybody who hopes Israel will survive in some form or other is a Zionist in the bad sense of the term. Not everybody who hopes Lebanon will survive is an antisemite or a terrorist, though some will say so.

Re: Ahhh....Now I Get It

[bela.livejournal.com]

The 'Christian' Zionists especially disturb me, since part of their reasoning is that by supporting Israel they are helping to hasten Armageddon. (That kind of logic is just one glass of kool-aid away from being worthy of Heaven's Gate.)