Israel is Demented: Gaza is the Evidence

Part I: Israel is Demented. Part II: Gaza is the Evidence.

Israel is Demented

Yes, atrocities occur elsewhere in the world: the populations of the Sudan, the Congo, Tibet, Iraq and Afghanistan all suffer under the blow of atrocities. And? And atrocities are committed almost daily by the Jewish State - Israel - against the Palestinian population. That is a fact. Don’t be intimidated away from a fact. Misplaced guilt has no place here either. Face it. It’s the truth.

The Jewish State is barbaric. This is not a fact. It is an interpretation or a characterization of Israel’s daily onslaught of killing, land theft and subjugation of the Palestinians. Whether or not you find this characterization apt, however, is likely related to your interest in learning the truth about these daily atrocities. Look into it yourself (e.g., Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; Foundation for Middle East Peace; Public Committee Against Torture in Israel; The Electronic Intifada). Alternatively, look to Part II (to follow).

The State of the Jews ought to protect its citizens, of course, including its Palestinian population (sadly this cannot go without saying). However, Israel might consider other more plausible means to achieving state security than the near daily murdering of Palestinians. It might want to rethink starving people (see also) as a military tactic. Or of imprisoning over one million Palestinians in an area a mere 360 sq. km. It might want to rethink the consequences of flat out stealing Palestinian land, bit by bit through the work of legal sounding policies and criminal-zealot-settlers - a truly disgusting lot these colonizers. Or polluting or stealing their water and other resources. Or bombing the Gazans only electrical power plant. Or withholding medical supplies. Or letting Palestinians die waiting at check points. This is the State of the Jews. These (above) are merely a gloss on the brutal facts. It is not hyperbole, empty rhetoric nor anti-Semitism to state it. It is willful blindness to deny it. It is inhuman to ignore it. It is morally right to actively oppose it.

When I write that Israel is demented then, do not dismiss it too readily. There are facts to support that assessment. Nonetheless such an assessment, need only apply to those Israelis who idly watch or actively cheer on the destruction of Gaza and its inhabitants. You decide whether that applies merely to the twisted brutality of the Israeli State Military Apparatus (i.e, the government/military - look at its leaders over the years to understand that they are not separate) or whether there is also a criminally complicit citizenry of majority proportions.

more