Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
This forum airways depresses the shit out of me. I remember the Iraq war threads and the Afghan war threads. All the dehumanising of the enemy. The callousness and casual uninterest in civilian death. The blithe faith that the established media truth and the actions and decisions of our leaders were the natural and best course of action.

When we read through history we come across injustices and crimes that at the time went largely unchallenged. There is no reason our era should be different.
Israel possesses nukes. They're willing to spread their joy a bit if it comes to the crunch. So all the sermonising about injustices will amount to nothing. It's terrorism in its pure form, but by heck it's effective. If you disapprove of Israel, then the most we can do is the course I favour, which is to isolate ourselves from them as far as is possible. Not that I approve of what the Palestinians do either, except to acknowledge the legal injustice of the West Bank settlements. I think they're within their rights to do whatever they see fit to expel the Israelis from those areas of the West Bank which the Israelis have agreed to be Palestinian as per the last agreement. But it's up to them to use this right to expel the Israelis. If they can't do it themselves, c'est la vie.