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powerclown:
what is that a relevant question?
it is 2006, powerclown: it is obvious that israel exists.
there are no threats to it at this level.
it is a regional military superpower: no combination of forces is able to pose anything remotely like a threat to its existence.
the question is moot.
i have no problem at all with the fact of israel.
but i oppose the policies of the israeli right. i do not think them rational, nor are they the only alternative.
i oppose israel's treatment of the palestinians. i find it continually shocking to see institutionalized racism directed at the palestinians from the israeli military, supported by the israeli right. you would think that, if any population on earth shold understand the horrifying implications of racism, it would be that of israel. many in israel do register this as a problem, and a fundamental problem, ethically and politically. you just do not hear much from these folk in the states.
i think the dominant ideological view of the situation in israel that you encounter in the states is totally incoherent.
i see nothing legitimate about the collapse of all support of israel, at any level, into an unthinking support for the policies of likud.
and i do not see what purpose you imagine is served by asking me that question.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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