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- TheBlueOne0
You know, this is always a difficult topic for me. I try to understand on empathetic and real politik levels the issues and emotions of both sides. It's not hard to find ample justifications on both sides for their actions based on history, recent and older.
And while I have some serious issues with the Palestinian cause and how it's portrayed and used by the Arab world in general and with the Palestianians themselves to prop up questionable authorities, Israel is the one with the organized state and army and no compunctions to use it.
Speaking selfishly, as an American citizen, I am sick and tired of tying so much of American foreign policy to Israel. Perhaps at some point during the Cold War, Israel represented something of a vital national interest to us, however those days are past. I am not a fan of my nation using the Israeli military as a testing ground for our weapon systems, especially when it creates such furor among that part of the world were we derive our national energy sources from. US energy - vital US interest. Friendship with Israel, nice, but not a vital interest in my view. The candle of Israeli friendship is not worth the game anymore.
Of course, this type of opinion can not be expressed "publically" in the US. The media is biased against it. Especially living in NYC, this is something you dare not express in conversation. But you can say "Wow, those crazy arabs..." and no one will bat an eyelash.
No matter what side of the debate you are on, at least in the US, it's well past the time where we must stop fearing a true and open debate about this in the public square, but still that's not "allowed"....