Saturday, December 29, 2012
On this Notion that Israel Somehow Practices Apartheid
It's absurd. Israel is the only nation in that shit-hole part of the world in which Jews, Arabs, and Christians are able to dine together, work together, shop together, and even serve in the government together (there are a lot of Arabs serving in the Knesset NOW). It's also a country in which Arabs (many of them residents of the West Bank) probably receive the best healthcare of any Arab population in the whole region (some hospitals having close to 40% Arab patients). Yes, they did build a wall along the West Bank but the only reason that they did that was to stop the suicide bombers who were coming in like a sieve and wreaking havoc (it's been successful, btw, terrorists acts are down 90%). Look, I'm not opposed to criticizing Israel and I've done it myself on occasion. But to have people like Jimmy Carter throwing around such loaded terms as apartheid is well beyond the pale, imo.
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Of course you are right. Jimmy Carter (the Peanut Farmer) not surprisingly continues to be nothing but a senile old man still looking for world acclaim. I guess he figures his chances are better pandering to terrorists and Muslims.
Carter's done some good things in his life (some of it actually involving the Middle East) but some of his more recent criticisms of Israel are more than a little off, I think....I mean, comparing Israel to South Africa, jeez.
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