It doesn’t take much effort for one to see the hidden message behind the Independent’s Christmas appeal: Israel is evil. But let’s pause for a moment and, in a departure from the prevailing wisdom amongst the Independent’s hacks, look at the big picture.
Israel a liberal democracy – a novelty in the region – and friend of the West exists in a state of constant uncertainty; the kind of uncertainty that results from not knowing whether if when one boards a bus it will ever reach its destination. The threat of foreign terrorism is all too real in a state that wishes only to reside in peace. In focussing on apparently dispossessed Palestinian citizens the Independent all too readily ignores the Israeli citizens who live in the northern border regions and face the daily terror of Hezbollah rockets coming from southern Lebanon, and even more readily ignores the enormous fear felt by parents throughout Israel who wonder whether their children will return from a meeting with friends at the local pizza restaurant.
The suffering of innocent Palestinians is of course deeply concerning, but to focus on their plight in-and-of itself to the exclusion of all other considerations ironically results in the cause of that suffering being lost. Any Israeli action that may, accurately or not, be attributed to Palestinian suffering is not itself the cause of that suffering, it is rather a symptom of the real cause; the unwillingness of Palestinian terrorists to lay down their arms and come to the negotiating table with a country that has, time and time again, shown its willingness to work hard for long-lasting peace.
When Israel allows say half of the Palestinian refuges to return to within its 1967 borders (assuming that half originate from the occupied territories) and gives them the right to vote it will earn itself the right to be described as a liberal democracy.
Posted by: Buenaventura Durutti | January 26, 2007 at 15:13
Whilst it remains under constant attack from Islamofacists it will reserve the right to defend itself.
Posted by: Shane Greer | January 29, 2007 at 17:08
Once again thefisk.com shows that facts are irrelevant to any of it's discourse.
You will in fact find that Israel's neighbours and the Palestinians are under constant attack from Israel. I think you've not read much about what Avigdor Lieberman, deputy prime minister says (or maybe you have?? Would make sense)? Or that the Israel must be recognised, not only for it's right to exist (within unspecified borders - meaning Israel is anywhere it pleases) but also must be recognised as a “Jewish and democratic” state. Now a state can't be both Jewish and Democratic, just as it can't be Islamic and Democratic. Democracy doesn’t work like that, especially when large swathes of the population are not Jewish.
For further reading you should find anything by Alan Dershowitz who writes the kind of fiction that will help you to remain in your fantasy land and propogate your prejudices.
Posted by: Craig Mitchell | February 20, 2007 at 14:48
Just what is an Islamofascist, out of interest?
What's that? It's a handy one-size-fits-all term used to describe any Muslim terrorist, irrespective of the fact that fascism isn't their actual aim?
If you really want to get involved in a relavent discourse (and given your fairly dreadful writing I don't suggest you do), please try to stick to relevant arguments, instead of chucking around the term du jour. Doing otherwise cheapens the debate.
Posted by: Dave | February 26, 2007 at 00:23
Exactly what it says on the tin, I would have thought Dave.
Posted by: Anthony Broderick | March 01, 2007 at 11:47
I live in canada and I am Jewish and I do my best not to invest in anything or purchase anything that was made in England.
I refuse to go there and will never enter a Range Rover nor a Jaguar.
I know you all hate me.
Posted by: Jeff Burke | March 26, 2007 at 06:02
what ignorant garbarge. equivocating and rationalizing palestinian suffering, while ignoring the root causes thereof, while assuming that everything began with palestinian terrorism, is the kind of thinking that is scorned in every other place in the world except for the united states of america.
Posted by: jesus christ | March 24, 2008 at 09:09
WHILST PALESTINE COMES UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK, AND BRUTAL OCCUPATION, IT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF.
apaches and hellfires= defense, while katyushas and AK-47s =terrorism, right??!
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