Lord Bodom, I am glad you're posting here. Its good for a jewish israeli, or someone besides me (who openly dislikes Israel) to support the jews and israelis against rather overwhelming opposition.
Although I recognize many of the horrible acts the Palestinians have committed, not to mention the once pan-arab desire to wipe Israel off the earth has probably created such a militaristic israeli state (although after the last conventional war-- the Yom Kippur war), you'd think it was obvious Israel had nothing to fear from a conventional attack.
However, the conditions in Palestine as we all know, including you, are horrendous. Israelis have broken every promise, offerred the Palestinians almost nothing, engage in idiotic and totally overblown military operations against terrorists that only impact normal citizens, and create more terrorists. And then we have your constant incursions into Lebanon that did nothing but kill innocents and strengthen the resolve and power of Hezbollah. Not to mention the fact that Palestinians are esentially not citizens, have to pass walls to get into Israel, have little infrastructure, no jobs, and so on and so forth.
America seems to be following Israel's tactics in Iraq, and we see how this is working out.
Also, the media in America is overwhelmingly pro-Israeli.
But I think the point everyone here is trying to make, and trying to get you to see, is how these violent, militaristic, hubristic, and definately racist/or prejudiced policies of Israel, are exactly the same things we white Christians (or fascist neo-pagans with homosexual leather uniforms) used against your people for thousands of years. We forced you into ghettoes; we didnt give you citizenship; we terrorized you; we took your land and possessions; we treated you like second class citizens. And here you are, doing the same thing to the Palestinians (and to the Lebanese when you decided to invade). That is what bothers us.
Finally, interestingly enough, when I was but a wee lad, I used to sit on yhe lap of my cool cousin, who still has one of the highest security clearances one can have in military intelligence agency. He was a very nice man, not at all prejudiced, who had been everywhere. I used to ask him if there were aliens, or if the soviets were coming, etc. But I always asked him who were the bad guys. And he always said israel (although I wasnt supposed to say anything about it), because they stole all of our stuff, destabilized a region, and we always did what they wanted, and didnt negotiate. Boy was he right.
