Andrew Sullivan: To read Charles Krauthammer today is to enter a twilight zone of an alternate reality. A country permanently occupying and colonizing a neighboring region, and treating its original inhabitants as dangerous interlopers, is the victim. An elite commando unit attacking a ship carrying toys and wheelchairs in the hours before dawn are those we should feel pity for. A country with 150 nuclear warheads and the strongest military in its region, the victor in every conventional war it has always fought, is somehow also always fighting for its very existence. A country backed by the sole superpower, supplied with aid by huge majorities in the US Congress, is facing extinction. Self-defense requires not civilly disabling and inspecting the cargo of an unarmed ship but raiding it at dawn and killing nine and injuring dozens. Basic human revulsion at a military that can kill over a thousand people – including scores of women and children in a trapped, impoverished enclave – can only be a function of anti-Semitism. A territory that is being systematically populated with Israelis in illegal settlements in contravention of the Geneva Conventions is merely a “buffer zone”. You need to colonize buffer zones?
Invasion and occupation of neighboring countries is “forward defense”. And asking that a two-state solution be moved forward by freezing illegal settlement construction and allowing a blockade that, while interdicting arms, doesn’t seek to kill civilians and restrict the import of basic necessities is to deprive a country with 150 nuclear warheads of any legitimate form of self-defense.
This is a form of derangement, or of such a passionate commitment to a foreign country that any and all normal moral rules or even basic fairness are jettisoned. And you will notice one thing as well: no regret whatsoever for the loss of human life, just as the hideous murder of so many civilians in the Gaza war had to be the responsibility of the victims, not the attackers. There is no sense of the human here; just the tribe.
Something has been wrong here for a very long time, and now it is inescapable. Until the discourse is rescued from the victims of Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israel and America will slowly be drawn into wars they cannot ultimately win, lose every other ally they ever had, and embolden and fortify the very Islamist forces we are seeking to defuse and defeat.
I know you enjoyed his speech, therefore I am going to post it here for you
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138168
What an unproductive speech. Having such objectives for the US is just nonsensical. And I wish he would distinguish between Jews and Zionists… plenty of Jews oppose Israel’s murderous policies and on top of that, not all Zionists are Jews!
not all Zionists are jews, but 99.99% of Zionists are Jews.
Oh yeah, by the way 98% of Jews ARE ZIONISTS!
The speech was not unproductive. He is being honest about true intentions of the Arab world and muslim world. He is saying what they “actually” believe. I’d say he is the most honest man with regards to his feeling toward Jews and Israel.
So one man is now the representative of 1.5 billion people and knows their “true intentions”? boro baba.
99.99% of Zionists are Jews? Where do you get these fantasy numbers? There are more Christian Zionists than there are Jewish Zionists.
98% of Jews are Zionists? Again, where do you get these ridiculous stats from? It’s because of people like you who conflate Judaism and Zionism as one and the same that contribute to anti-Semitism. People should not confuse Judaism from a racist Apartheid-esq and murderous POLITICAL movement like Zionism. Thank you very much.
It is absolutely proper to call it a massacre. They didn’t go there and commit suicide for some devious political ploy. They went to break a barbaric and illegal Israeli imposed siege of the Gaza Strip and Israel enforced that siege with supreme lethality killing 9 civilians who sought to defend themselves when Israeli commandos unjustifiably raided them ship in international waters. Done.
By the way, Arash, next time you comment without using your real name, Im going to edit your name myself. I know you’re IP address and you will not be allowed to use false names to come and defend your outrageous views as if you are more than one person agreeing with yourself! haha.
Everyone else is free to post under alias user names but you since you do it for foul reasons!
And how do you like my new blog by the way? Isn’t it pretty, clean, and tech savvy? How’s your blog by the way? Still enjoying zero viewers? 😆 😆 😆