-Liberals supported giving some land to the Jews out of guilt for the Holocaust, in spite of the normal left-wing tendency to engage in hatred of the Jews.
-Liberals felt like they could wash their hands of the Jews by giving them this land to assuage their guilty, and then looked on in horror as the Jews actually, *drum roll* defended their territory and then conquered more territory when invaded by the Arabs.
-Liberals now look on in horror as a nation founded by millions of survivors of state-sanctioned genocide, theft, rape and plunder defend themselves against their barbaric neighbors who wage war behind civilian human shields.
-Liberals look on in rage as many of their fellow Westerners and the majority of Israel don't feel bad that thousands of Palestinians get killed in the process in every "intifada" or resumption of hostilities because the Palestinian civilians allow themselves to be used as human shields.
Israel wasn't supposed to be a success. At best, it was supposed to end up like Liberia with a Jewish elite in an arab-dominated region living tenuously together. Realistically, the Jews were supposed to be wiped out by the 1948 war, so that the left could see them finally exterminated and have that subconscious pleasure, while being able to consciously feel solace in the fact that "they tried to make things right" by giving them 3 marginally connected scraps of land.
-Liberals felt like they could wash their hands of the Jews by giving them this land to assuage their guilty, and then looked on in horror as the Jews actually, *drum roll* defended their territory and then conquered more territory when invaded by the Arabs.
-Liberals now look on in horror as a nation founded by millions of survivors of state-sanctioned genocide, theft, rape and plunder defend themselves against their barbaric neighbors who wage war behind civilian human shields.
-Liberals look on in rage as many of their fellow Westerners and the majority of Israel don't feel bad that thousands of Palestinians get killed in the process in every "intifada" or resumption of hostilities because the Palestinian civilians allow themselves to be used as human shields.
Israel wasn't supposed to be a success. At best, it was supposed to end up like Liberia with a Jewish elite in an arab-dominated region living tenuously together. Realistically, the Jews were supposed to be wiped out by the 1948 war, so that the left could see them finally exterminated and have that subconscious pleasure, while being able to consciously feel solace in the fact that "they tried to make things right" by giving them 3 marginally connected scraps of land.
Interesting perspective. I hadn't really thought of it this way.
I sure do wish the liberals would stand aside let the Jews kick some ass. Moreover, I'm tired of American presidents always getting in between Jews and Arabs.
Just stand aside and let things settle as they may.
I don't give a rat's behind about the political state of Israel. And I find Arab claims on the ancestral home of Hebrews to be a bit obtuse. So I say let them duke it out until one side is wiped off the face of the earth.
The reason I wholeheartedly support the state of Israel when it is operating in its region, is that it is a civilized, modern state that has managed to protect and foster a fairly free society in a region beset by tribalism, primitivism and extreme hatred. That accomplishment has earned them the right to curb stomp anyone that even looks like the next amateur mujahadeen.
Let's not forget what shape the land was in when Israel took possession of it. It was trashed, figuratively and literally. The 'palestinian' people are notorious for this. Look what Gaza turned into after Israel left.Israel builds life, Hamas and the Gazan's, death. Pity that some on the left in this country side with Hamas, not just politically either.
I thought it was because the liberal/socialist/communist/progressive movement in the USA is dominated by Jews.