Kilakhota kteh^cin hetucha.

Reading the rationalizations given for irrational acts, particularly regarding providing justifications for Israel's actions, leads me to ponder some questions that seem to elude most of those who are doing this. First, if they weren't Jewish, would they try so hard to do it? Second, why do they insist on forgetting (excusing) the behavior of the zionists in forging the nation-state in the first place? Third, are they so enraptured in the throes of Jewish ecstasy that they simply disregard international law whenever it might conflict with their personal biases?

One of the more rational of these irrationalists, insists that Israel has the right as a nation to defend itself against anyone who attacks it, regardless of the causality of the attack. Perhaps the attacks are responses to Israeli attacks but that no longer matters to these people. Perhaps the attacks, killing civilians (women and children indiscriminately) are lashing out at sixty years of terrorism (now fully sanctioned state sponsored, but originally the cowardly acts of the zionists), but that doesn't count either. Perhaps the attacks (wow, they kidnapped one guy and shot nine), were in response to the expansionist agenda (from the original 17% of Palestine to an armed occupation of nearly 85%) all carried out at the point of vicious weapons killing tens of thousands and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee, but somehow these people don't have any right to resist anything.

It is too easy to drape the flag of Israel having a right to defend itself because of some historical victimhood. It is also too easy to suggest that such a right allows Israel to attack other nations and populations because somehow (and clearly never specified, defined, proven, or verified) these nations are participating in efforts to destroy Israel. Unfortunately both of these views are wrong and need to be discredited. I would think that the best way to solve this problem, if violence is justified, would be to arm the Palestinians with the same weaponry as Israel (including nukes), give each 50% of the original land, and let them start the MAD chess match. Wouldn't that be fair, equitable, justifiable, reasonable? No?? Then why is any violence justified???