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MattTheSkywalker said:
This is the same kind of ass-stupidity that prolongs the crisis and makes this world difficult to live in. Read my whole post before you respond.
Egypt gets the exact same amount of money. Additionally, at the commencement of the first gulf war,the US forgave all debt to Middle eastern nations except Israel. So in net terms, other Middle eastern nations have gottennearly as much aid as Israel. Egypt has netted more. That's irrelevant to this thread, but you should know your facts before you advocate stopping aid and start calling names.
What we have is basically butchery on both sides. Israel is being attacked by terrorists. So they fight back, viciously. Israel probably kills innocent people and destroys the homes of other innocent people.
Unfortuantely, in the case of fighting terrorists, there is a lot of collateral damage. The US killed 30 people at an Afghani wedding when we were looking for one guy.
Instead of looking for the moral high ground, and trying to get a better world opinion, both sides need to talk about solutions that will work now. Both sides need to stop indicting the other side for the past, and build for the future. How the fuck is a protestor going to stop a 1000 year old war?
If I am a bulldozer driver, and I am fighting an enemy that has tried to kill me, my family and whoever else, I am not going to stop because some girl is in the way. it could be a booby trap, could be a distraction, whatever.
We all miss the reality of the situation when we think that this is a construction site where someone can just stop, get off the bulldozer, get a court injunction and have the girl arrested. In our comparably serene American paradise, we gaze with curiosty whena guy chains himself to a tree. The prperty developer jumps through hoops to not offend anyone, and a compromise is reached.
The Middle east is not America. This bulldozer guy is doing this with tanks watching him so he is not attacked. They don't watch this shit on CNN and say "isn;t that a shame". When a suicide bomb explodes, Isralei's know a victim. when the Israeli Army goes into the west bank and kills 12 people, the families are right there. It is personal to them, and it is the height of American (or in 2thick's case, Canadian) arrogance to think we can go there and just stop their actions.
Really sad.
Great post.