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Rattling the Cage: Our exclusive right to self-defense


Oct 7, 2009
Virtually all of Israel is now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report, against any attempt to blame us over the war in Gaza. We've honed our message to a sharp point and, inspired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's performance at the UN, we're delivering it with just the right tone of outrage:

How dare anyone deny us the right to self-defense! How dare anyone deny us the right to fight back against terrorism!
Very nice. Puts everyone else on the defensive. The right to self-defense is up there with motherhood and apple pie – who's going to come out against it, especially for us, for Israel, for the Jews, for the people of the Holocaust?

The right to self-defense – perfect.

But I'd like to ask: Do the Palestinians also have the right to self-defense?

We probably wouldn't admit it out loud, but in our heads we would say – again, in one voice – “No!”

This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism.

Phi Beta Iota: The Israeli assaults on Gaza are a perfect example of state-terrorism, especially when combined with the atrocities of Palestinian ghettos created with huge cement walls, and the clear discrimination between Jews and Palestinians nominally part of the same nation-state.  Israeli misbehavior must be understood by the US public because the US public is paying for 20% of the total Israeli government budget while also supporting Arab nations with military assistance that could be redirected toward a 50-year UN peace enforcement action that dismantles the walls, imposes equitable services across all boundaries, and raises a new generation that is not taught from birth that the others are “pigs and monkeys.”  See Zionish Howard Bloom's book, Global Brain, for insights on the latter.

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