Or, why I loathe Israel and its actions
Rightwinger, with whom I normally sympathise, recently posted an article (Link) concerning the current conflict in Lebanon. What follows is the comment I posted on that thread. Since I took a profoundly anti-Israeli, anti-Christian stance, I fully expect Rightwinger to delete my response from his thread (as he has every right to do).
However, I am so incensed, so angered and revolted by the gist of what he had to say, so profoundly and utterly disgusted by the responses of KFC in particular, that I am determined that my response shall not simply disappear into the ether of the blogsphere. I am determined it shall have an independent existence in its own right: hence what follows, which is an exact reproduction of my thoughts as I posted them to Rightwingers thread.
There are certain aspects of the Israeli action in Lebanon that I admire and respect. In particular its ruthless prosecution of its perceived interests - a ruthlessness that could very well be emulated by the present (and future) governments of America. I deny no one's right to defend his life, the lives of those he loves; nor even his right to defend his property. What I condemn in Israel is not the ruthlessness of its actions, but its hypocrisy. I condemn its perpetual refusal to acknowledge and obey the Resolutions of the UN Security Council. I condemn its practice of apartheid; I condemn its murder of Palestinian children; I condemn its expropriation of land, its illegal incarceration of individuals denied due legal process; its kidnapping of those who speak out against it; its sanctioning, promotion, and support for militias responsible for the most heinous and atrocious crimes - including the crucifixion, while alive, of women and children in the massacres that took place at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
I condemn its use of tanks and automatic weapons aginst stone-throwing youths and children; I condemn its illegal expropriation of land; I condemn with my whole soul the entire process, an example non pareil of racial hegemony and the vilest racial prejudice, wherby the State of Israel 'treats' with those populations unfortunate enough to be subject to its mis-rule. And I condemn also the unthinking, supine, anti-democratic and unjust support which the USA provides to Israel, since that support is largely, and directly, responsible for the continuing anarchy and unmitigated suffering of the peoples of the Middle East.
I say, without equivocation, that it is to America's perpetual shame that it provides such support to Israel in its repugnant, criminal acts, when the USA could and ought to compel the murdering dogs of Israel to take part in honest and just negotiations for a lasting settlement in that region. Israel is America's beggar. Without the continuing support of the USA Israel could not have acheived, nor could it maintain, its position of intransigent barbarity and criminality with respect to the other nations of the region. Israel could not be what it presently is without the continuing support of the govenment of the United States of America - which makes of every American citizen a willing accomplice in the murder of every Palestinian child killed by the State of Israel.
I accept no excuses. I accept no justification. There can be no acceptable reason, based upon the sufferings of a nation in the past, for the suffering inflicted upon innocents in the present - especially when the nation responsible claims, as a consequence of its past miseries, to be the custodian of the moral conscience of the world.
I have already testified that I accept the right of everyone to defend their lives when they honestly understand their lives to be under direct threat. Who is more directly threatened than those who suffer the tyrrany of Israel? Whose land is it that is constantly stolen? Whose leaders are constantly under threat of murder by Gunship? Whose children are killed in the streets of their hometowns by the armed military of an occupying power?
Do not bleat to me about terrorism and the right of the Israeli devils to defend themselves. There is no greater exponent of State terrorism in the Middle East, no more accomplished murderers, than the State of Israel. If I could I would expunge its vile existence from the face of the Earth, and I wholeheartedly support any act of resistance against its tyrrany. And if such acts of resistance are also barborous, and I do not deny that they are, then remember this; those who hold the balance of economic, military, and political power in any given situation are those who ought to use those resources in pursuit of a just settlement of any dispute. If they do not then those who oppose them, who are far weaker than they, ought not to be condemned if they, too, respond to barbarism with barbarism.
May God remember and hold to account all those who are responsible for the horrors which occur, every day, in that miserably unfortunate region of the world.
Bearing all of this in mind, here is what I found it in me to say to both Rightwinger and that vile creature, KFC:
"I loathe Israel. I abominate, despise, detest, and would happily dance on the grave of every reeking Israeli corpse (just so you know where I stand). I loathe even more deeply those (primarily) American apologists for a regime that was birthed in terrostic violence (ask the widows of those murdered British servicemen killed by the likes of the prating hypocrites Begin and Ben Gurion). Any regime that would routinely murder children (dear me they're throwing stones again, let's fire up the automatic weapons; after all, they might scratch the paintwork on the tank) and excuse such vile acts is not fit to be tolerated by civil human beings.
I swear, I smile whenever I hear that yet another of these murderous devils has been slaughtered and had I my way in such things Israel would, indeed, long since have been eradicated from the face of the Earth.
I grow ever more nauseated by the apologetics of apparently intelligent people for a regime which routinely practices extra-judicial killing by Gunship; which routinely targets the civilian populations of other nations for slaughter simply because they are unwilling to kowtow to the filthy swine that makes national policy of land expropriation, illegal incarceration, kidnapping (anyone remember Vannunu? I thought not) and which blithely sponsors the crucifixion of women and children because they happen to be of the wrong ethnicity (no one remembers Sabra and Shatila either, right?)
Do not come bleating to me of the wrongs suffered by the Jews throughout the ages. Are the Palestinians of the generation suffering illegal occupation in Gaza responsible for the deaths in the extermination camps? No. Are they responsible for the Czarist pograms in Russia? No. Are they in any way culpable for any past wrong done to the Jewish nation? No.
But still the sympathisers with State terror, the apologists for apartheid, the excusers of child murder, prate endlessly of the wrongs suffered by Jews in the past; as if this excuses, or worse still, legitimates, the wrongs perpetrated every day against those innocent of any other crime than being Palestinian now, today. Crimes perpetrated by those who possess overwhelmingly greater resources, who use F16 Fighters to bomb neighborhoods devoid of even the remotest intimation of terrorist activity, who claim to be bastions of civilization and democracy.
But what disgusts me beyond measure is the palpable xenophobia, the stinking self-seeking prejudice of abominations such as KFC. In the name of Christ they claim justification for child-killers because, so they believe, they bring Armageddon (and their own supposed sanctification thereby) that little bit closer. In the name of Christianity, and the supposed 'rapture' of like-minded hypocrites and idolaters, they espouse the exact antithesis of Christian morality. May your God remember it against you, KFC, and judge you accordingly, along with all your fellow-travellers in hypocrisy, cant, and moral perversion who also claim to be 'Christians'. You revolt me beyond any capacity of words to make plain.
The one nation on earth that could make a positive, creative, and ultimately successful intervention in that wracked and wretched region by compelling the rabid dogs of Israel to negotiate honestly, the USA, will not do so. It is the greatest shame, and the true mark of Cain, that America refuses to do what it so easily could: refuses, because it is besotted by the idiot myth promulgated by such detestable vermin as KFC, moral pariahs and murderers by proxy all, that support for criminals such as Sharon (indicted and convicted by his own people as being directly involved in the horrors of Sabra and Shatila) must be unthinking, devoid of any element of criticism, and absolutely unstinting - no matter what horrors are practiced by the State of Israel in the name of its 'security' - because to do so brings closer, by some infinitesimal margin, the hoped for apotheosis of Christian history, the Second Coming of Christ.
More simply put, 'christians' such as KFC support the subjugation of innocents because they believe they will profit from their misery, since it brings the return of Jesus that much closer. May the spirits of dead Palestinian children torment you in Hell, KFC. There is so little of Christ in you that you might just as well be Muslim.
I hope he does come back: and that when he does you learn (you, personally, KFC) the truth of that old Tshirt slogan - Jesus is coming and is he pissed. You are a poster-child for everything you profess to stand against.
And you, Rightwinger: do you support Islamist cells in their attacks on civilians? Did you rejoice when the Saudi Jihadis murdered 3000 in New York? No? Then why support those who deny judicial process through murder by Gunship? You lament and decry the inability of the UN to be effective: do you also decry the flagrant breach of every Security Council Resolution levied against it by Israel? No.
Instead you mouth nonsense such as this: "Isreal, at the behest of its Western Allies, such as they are, has spent decades in negotiation, talking and talking until it is blue in the face, to no avail."
Israel has talked for no other reason than to bamboozle the world with its stinking hypocrisy, and to secure for itself the unthinking support of American politicians and diplomats. In its refusal to implement the unending stream of Security Council Resolutions demanding that it cease from its barbarous and criminal acts it has marked itself, for all to see, as a criminal regime, an exponent and past master of State terrorism, and an exemplar of the most shameless racial hegemony, not seen since the destruction of the former apartheid State of South Africa (with whom it was the firmest of friends and allies).
But that, of course, is excusable since its Israel that does these things: may your God remember it against you also, and hold you to account. Where in the American Constitution does it say that those who murder children are to be praised and supported? Nowhere.
But it hardly matters that the most cherished values of American civilization are spat upon every day, does it? Not so long as these vile acts are carried on by Israel, that great friend to the American people, who until today was happily prepared to bombard the airport in which American citizens had taken shelter.
Does the word 'traitor' have any meaning for you? I doubt it."