Their flaw is that they are growing soft as is indicated by their latest debacle in Lebanon and this will lead to Armageddon, as was foretold.
Only if you believe in one interpretation of Revelations. Hardly a sound basis of foreign policy.
If you note, it seems he took that actions, specifically to prevent Israel from using it.
You mean using an Egyptian canal and waterway? Perish the thought. Besides that was hardly the only reason, it gave Nasser a great deal of power as can be seen by France and Britain's response as nearly two-thirds of the western world's oil travelled through the canal. It was as much a battle over the last vestiges of colonialism as it was an Arab-Israeli conflict.
In any case, UN 17 concluded that they were illegally blocking Israeli transit
You do not want to get into United Nations resolutions and who broke what and when, Sirs. Besides, Nasser put his nation before the United Nations, I thought you right-wingers ate that stuff up
I referenced that Isreal largely RESPONDS to attacks, & that outside of the one attack on Iraq's Nuclear facility was the only really pre-emptive action taken.
And I demonstrated that there have been four major wars between 1948 and 1973. Israel used preemptive action in two of them. The Arabs used preemptive action in two of them. Justifications and rationalizations abound and are the tools of apologists, of which I'm not one for either side.
That said, they are not South Africa, this is not some equvilant apartheid
This is apartheid. There are towns within Israel where race and religion determine who may live there. There are roads in Israel and in Palestinian territories where Palestinians are not allowed to drive. There are neighborhoods and homes destroyed all the time by Israeli armored bulldozers. There have been peaceful protesters killed, including Americans, by the Israelis.
Henrik Verwoerd, the architect of South African apartheid, once admiringly stated that: "The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state."
Michael Ben-Yair, Attorney General of Israel from 1993 to 1996 wrote that Israel was to establish, "an apartheid regime in the occupied territories." This is the Attorney General of Israel, Sirs.
Uri Davis, a Jewish member of the PLO and a Doctor of Anthropology wrote a book titled
Israel: An Apartheid State in 1987.
Israel has a right to exist right where it is, and I support it's efforts to DEFEND itself, given the overt and frequent efforts to exterminate them. Yes, it is that simple
Defend racism and apartheid all you wish Sirs. I cannot.
In 2003 a Palestinian couple was denied the right to enter at a checkpoint east of Nablus. The husband argued vehemently with the Israeli guard as he was trying to get his pregnant wife to a hospital as the tiny impoverished village of Kafr Salem had no such medical facility. Apparently it was rare to let any vehicles through, even ambulances. The woman hunched over and was forced to give birth right there on the ground. The baby girl breathed a few times and then died. Rula and Daoud Ashtiya lost their child.
An investigation conducted by the IDF says that the couple were immediately allowed access to the ambulance and transported to the hospital. Interestingly, that version of the story was not supported by the ambulance driver, hospital midwife, or the doctor at the hospital.
Yeah. Such "investigations" and "official reports" often took place in South Africa as well.
I have no problem with Israel existing. I have a lot of problems with apartheid and treating your fellow man like dirt. This is systematic and anti-democratic action on the part of the Government of Israel. It isn't about "existing" it is about doing what is right.
