RE: should america support Israel?
July 13, 2014 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2014 at 12:20 pm by Brian37.)
Neither. Unless this stupid idea of religious nationalism by either side is scrapped and replaced with secular pluralism, religion as Hitchens put it, will be the poison that does not allow for peace.
I cannot support Palestine considering what it would set up if given a state, even though I agree that Israel is the bully. Religious tribalism is cause, and it is absolute bullshit to claim otherwise.
Fuck a Jewish state. Fuck an Islamic state. It makes me just as sick when Christians claim America is a "Christian Nation". Niether's boarders or religions were around 200,000 ago during the early era of our species.
This is nothing but "My sky hero can beat up your sky hero"
If Palestine under it's current leadership got everything it wanted do not try to lie to me that they would protect religious and political pluralism. What kind of rights would Christians or gays or atheists have in such a state? Would girls/women be allowed to chose their own paths or even which religion they belong to?
Israel should not be a "Jewish state" anymore than "Jesus" is written in the U.S. Constitution. I also do not like that they have a gang symbol on their national flag. That would be like if the American flag had a cross on it.
As Hitchens put it "The parties of God" are the poison pill preventing peace.
My attitude having seen this crap constantly since I was a kid in , my 47 years. Right now fuck them both.
I cannot support Palestine considering what it would set up if given a state, even though I agree that Israel is the bully. Religious tribalism is cause, and it is absolute bullshit to claim otherwise.
Fuck a Jewish state. Fuck an Islamic state. It makes me just as sick when Christians claim America is a "Christian Nation". Niether's boarders or religions were around 200,000 ago during the early era of our species.
This is nothing but "My sky hero can beat up your sky hero"
If Palestine under it's current leadership got everything it wanted do not try to lie to me that they would protect religious and political pluralism. What kind of rights would Christians or gays or atheists have in such a state? Would girls/women be allowed to chose their own paths or even which religion they belong to?
Israel should not be a "Jewish state" anymore than "Jesus" is written in the U.S. Constitution. I also do not like that they have a gang symbol on their national flag. That would be like if the American flag had a cross on it.
As Hitchens put it "The parties of God" are the poison pill preventing peace.
My attitude having seen this crap constantly since I was a kid in , my 47 years. Right now fuck them both.
