10-03-2010, 11:33 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:The timing was clearly designed to stall the peace process:
That's right David, and the Palestinians would understandably say 'what peace process?'.
As the world watches in disbelief, Israel seems to be making the humiliation of its main ally a grotesque national sport. I get the feeling that in the US the penny has finally dropped. Years of mollycoddling, protecting and encouraging Israel's special brand of self-delusion (ie. we are God's chosen people) has created an incorrigible spoilt brat of a nation, unable to understand that others besides themselves have rights, and utterly incapable of taking their place among the global community of responsible nation states.
All those decades of shielding Israel from the criticism and sanction its actions warranted hasn't done them any good at all. Now what remains is a massive problem for the rest of the world.