Sunday, 12 May 2013

The Cowardice at the Heart of Our Relationship with Israel

It has become apparent that AJ Balfour made the mistake of promising the Jewish popluation after WW2 a right to their Jewish homeland, something that decades later has only lead to gross human rights violations, broken promises, and minute slaps on the wrist for the atrocities they are committing in their conquest of obtaining a Jewish state. The argument can be made that after the Holocaust, one of the most well known atrocities on mankind, the Jews deserve some sort of compensation, and what better way then to give them their homeland back. Well, I know that thousands of Palestinians can disagree with this, not on the grounds of Jew vs Islam, or Jews vs. Arabs, but on the simple fact that you cannot just up and displace thousands of people to make way for thousands more. Ever since Balfour's declarations, Republicans and Conservative in the US and Britain have essentially back every choice made by Israel, of course not condoning their actions, but not taking the correct actions to assist them. Yes, it is true we tell Israel that they are being "bad" when performing acts we do not agree with, like their actions within the Lebanon War, but leaders such as Tony Blair REFUSED to call a ceasefire for quite some time. Granted Hauge and Cameron have been tried to be more robust in their campaigns, but can it be applauded considering that they are failing to even criticize Tel Aviv due to a fear of offending the US, or because of the strength of the Israeli lobby in Britain. Britain's government has a lovely formal posittion, but it holds no validity when the ministers refuse to take concrete steps to pursuing it. It seems that Israel will eventually continue until their state reaches from the Mediterranean to the borders of Jordan, but this provides another problem. What is Israel going to do when most of their inhabitants are Palestinian, another threat to their Jewish state. Will they retain its "democracy" or push itself into an apartheid that will further deny Palestinians of their basic rights?


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  1. Probably. Apartheid or a campaign of slow ethnic cleansing. Or they'll try to buy off the population to move away, or push them into Jordan. 10/10

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