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Remove “Israel” and “Jew­ish” from the text and say Coun­try A and no one would dis­pute that Coun­try A is an evil coun­try, unde­mo­c­ra­tic, oppres­sive, out­law, and an enemy of the U.S.:

• Com­mits piracy on the high seas, killing pas­sen­gers, includ­ing an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, and hijack­ing ships to its port; note as well that these lat­est deadly attacks are against a treaty-​protected NATO part­ner and ally
• Engages in an expan­sion­ist pol­icy steal­ing and occu­py­ing lands out­side its borders
• Impris­ons com­mu­ni­ties and regions with mil­i­tary blockaids
• Mil­i­tar­ily attacks civil­ian pop­u­la­tions at the slight­est provocation
• Meets feable protests with deadly response
• Ignores inter­na­tional calls to honor bor­ders, respect human rights, and fol­low com­monly accepted or agreed upon civ­i­lized behavior
• Main­tains an apartheid régime that treats a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of its cit­i­zens as sec­ond class cit­i­zens and pris­on­ers within their own country
• Is respon­si­ble for killing and injur­ing more Amer­i­cans than have those who are the vic­tim of its mil­i­tary occupation

Any coun­try guilty of the above would be rightly be clas­si­fied as an enemy of the United States. The coun­try would be ostri­cized for its war crimes and human rights vio­la­tions. Mak­ing excuses oth­er­wise would be unheard of.

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Israel’s mur­der­ous reign of ter­ror on Pales­tini­ans is a war crime that under­mines Israel’s legit­i­macy. In my opin­ion, the state of Israel as it cur­rently exists and acts is a pariah state that should be iso­lated and dis­man­tled — begin­ning with the end of all Israeli occu­pa­tion of lands out­side its 1948 bor­ders and end to any and all actions to con­trol land, air, and sea access to Pales­tin­ian lands. Fur­ther, Israel must end its apartheid rule against its non-​Jewish res­i­dents and honor the right of return of all fam­i­lies who fled or were dri­ven from their homes when the Jew­ish state was cre­ated. Finally, Israeli lead­ers who have the blood of war crimes on their hands should be arrested and pros­e­cuted for their actions. Until these steps are taken, it is my rec­om­men­da­tion that no nation, com­pany, or indi­vid­ual should have any deal­ings with the state of Israel or its cit­i­zens, lest they be guilty of facil­i­tat­ing and sup­port­ing Israel’s war crimes.

As for the United States, Israel aggres­sion, oppres­sion, and war crimes do not reflect our val­ues, nor serve our inter­ests. Enough is enough — No more money, no more weapons, and no more sup­port. Period.

And a thought about Pales­tin­ian resis­tance. Any resis­tance is legit­i­mate and is no less than I’d claim if I were in their aggrieved posi­tion. Finally, whether Pales­tini­ans ulti­mately choose to rec­og­nize Israel or not is a ques­tion best left for the future as Israel does not deserve recog­ni­tion today.

Update: I guess I won’t be writ­ing any more diary entries or com­ments at Red​State​.com. It turns out that Red​State​.com is as opposed to dis­cus­sion and dif­fer­ing view­points as are the Obama Cult (Talk​ing​PointsMemo​.com) and the PC crowd (NoQuarterUSA.net) — in their case, Red​State​.com edi­tors responded with quick calls of anti-​semitism instead of racism but it is equally uno­rig­i­nal, untrue, and deroga­tory. In response to an pro-​Israel pro­pa­ganda post I shared that I did not agree with the writer’s knee jerk sup­port and shared my above opin­ion. The result was that I was almost imme­di­ately banned. Not only that, but RedState’s edi­tors trashed my com­ment. Ban­ning is one thing as it is their Web site, but to edit and trash the com­ment while still leav­ing my name on it is not only dis­re­spect­ful but shows incred­i­ble immaturity.

Rather, WHEN not IF. In my opin­ion it is only a mat­ter of time before George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rums­feld, Alberto Gon­za­les, John Ashcroft, Doug Feith, Paul Wol­fowitz, George Tenet, and many oth­ers will be charged with cred­i­ble and sub­stan­ti­ated war crimes. It is a sad predica­ment and our shame that Amer­ica has blood­ied its rep­u­ta­tion with state-​ordered and state-​sponsored kid­nap­ping, tor­ture, and secret pris­ons dur­ing the past eight years at the direc­tion of George Bush and his Administration.

Amer­ica is bet­ter than this.

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