I think that it's more than fair to be suspicious of the motives of any state at all times, Jewish or otherwise. A state doesn't become automatically noble by virtue of being a Jewish state, which sounds so obvious as to not need saying. Would a state betray its own people? Well, yes, of course it would, even if that's probably not what happened in this case.
I think that it's more than fair to be suspicious of the motives of any state at all times, Jewish or otherwise. A state doesn't become automatically noble by virtue of being a Jewish state, which sounds so obvious as to not need saying. Would a state betray its own people? Well, yes, of course it would, even if that's probably not what happened in this case.
Look. I write from experience. My own government, that of the United States of America, lied straight up about WMD and precipitated the worst foreign policy and military disaster in U.S. history. And I'm supposed to extend some kind of proleptic pardon to the Israelis?
Agreed. I remember those days: I was a teenage lefty, back when there was an anti-war left (whatever happened to them?). I liked an album called *The Empire Strikes First*, by the punk band Bad Religion.
I think that it's more than fair to be suspicious of the motives of any state at all times, Jewish or otherwise. A state doesn't become automatically noble by virtue of being a Jewish state, which sounds so obvious as to not need saying. Would a state betray its own people? Well, yes, of course it would, even if that's probably not what happened in this case.
Look. I write from experience. My own government, that of the United States of America, lied straight up about WMD and precipitated the worst foreign policy and military disaster in U.S. history. And I'm supposed to extend some kind of proleptic pardon to the Israelis?
Agreed. I remember those days: I was a teenage lefty, back when there was an anti-war left (whatever happened to them?). I liked an album called *The Empire Strikes First*, by the punk band Bad Religion.
I was grown up. I knew that WMD was a crock by January 2002, largely because of who was peddling it. But we won't go into that.
The Anti-War Left only exists to protest wars started by Republican presidents. (I was there.)