Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Amnesty takes action against official’s tweets [View all]holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... what I'm saying here ... that people who take a vitriolic, hyperbolic, completely biased position against Israel. People who hold Israel to a higher standard than any other country in the world. People who believe that Israel can NEVER take a conciliatory position with the Palestinians (despite the evidence to the contrary) because it isn't in the "Israeli" nature. People who call Netanyahu the personification of Hitler and Hamas are just misunderstood freedom fighters. People who will scream from the church steeples about "outdoor prisons" and "starving Palestinians" but secretly smile about rocket attacks and bus bombers against Israel as "justified and excusable actions against the Zionist oppressor". People who ignore ten thousand brutal deaths in Sudan to spend 12 hours a day tweeting about a dozen deaths in Gaza.
Those people ( and they know who they are ) aren't doing so out of any love or compassion for the Palestinians. They have another, vile, motivation behind their false outrage.
Being against the occupation is fine -- I'm against it myself. But to pretend that Israel is the sole guilty party in this is so dogmatically skewed that there has to be an underlying reason.