26-11-2008, 09:26 AM
I have no problem with many Jews wanting to return to where they feel is their 'biblical home'. I DO have a problem with their taking the land, homes, water, all from those who were living there when they 'returned' - and keeping most of those persons [the Palastinians] as refugees in their own country or adjacent to it. Israel and Israelis could live in peace there, I believe - and I think more than half of Israelis would like to - but [as in the USA] the rulling elites are the right; the militarists and connected to a kind of 'western rule' of the world. There is a close parallel with what happened to the Native Americans in America and what is happening to the Palistinians in the Middle East and the same sense of empire and rascism was sadly behind both. There is one additional problem in the Middle East and that is the small size of Israel and the region....with nukes and even with conventional weapons there is good reason for the oppressor to worry if the oppressed might well seek justice - and they and their allies are just a hair's breath away. By the way, there is a large and sane anti-colonialist and peace movement in Israel. May they eventually prevail there and in America. In the meantime, Israel stands as a kind of permanent base for US and W. European Elites to keep control of the area. Israel far from being a pawn uses its important position to get what they want and even to spy on the western intelligence agencies more than they are spied upon by them.