Comments on: Israel-Palestine And The World’s Forgotten Conflicts http://blog.z-word.com/2010/03/israel-palestine-and-the-worlds-forgotten-conflicts/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:12:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: RepublicanStones http://blog.z-word.com/2010/03/israel-palestine-and-the-worlds-forgotten-conflicts/#comment-10891 RepublicanStones Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:22:44 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1549#comment-10891 Well Eamonn, I for one am more vocal against Israeli human rights abuses because certain things make them unique among other unsavoury regimes. Firstly, I don't think we hear other regimes routinely lauded as a 'beacon, 'democracy', 'light unto the nations' etc. Secondly rarely if ever do hear we so called intellectuals in the west provide excuses for and attempt to defend the human rights abuses of those other unsavoury regimes. Unfortunately, excuses is one area where Israeli apologists excel at. Oh and the is the little matter of the aid, militarly, financially and diplomatically which Israel recieves, compared to other humans rights abusers. Perhpas if there wasn't so much hypocrisy with regard to all the above, people wouldn't be as vocal. But this question routinely pops up, even though the answer is so easily understood. The people posing the question, the apologists, simply seek to infer something more unsavoury bubbling away underneath, that must explain the frequency of articles and debate surrounding 'the only jewish state in the world'. Oh and on a personal note, as Im from Ireland (like yourself), i also take a keen interest in this conflict because it has Britain's fingerprints on it as well (the odious Balfour and botched mandate etc), we know too well the crime of colonization and disposession here in Ireland. Pity some of us tend to ignore our own history, isn't it Eamonn? Well Eamonn, I for one am more vocal against Israeli human rights abuses because certain things make them unique among other unsavoury regimes. Firstly, I don’t think we hear other regimes routinely lauded as a ‘beacon, ‘democracy’, ‘light unto the nations’ etc. Secondly rarely if ever do hear we so called intellectuals in the west provide excuses for and attempt to defend the human rights abuses of those other unsavoury regimes. Unfortunately, excuses is one area where Israeli apologists excel at. Oh and the is the little matter of the aid, militarly, financially and diplomatically which Israel recieves, compared to other humans rights abusers. Perhpas if there wasn’t so much hypocrisy with regard to all the above, people wouldn’t be as vocal. But this question routinely pops up, even though the answer is so easily understood. The people posing the question, the apologists, simply seek to infer something more unsavoury bubbling away underneath, that must explain the frequency of articles and debate surrounding ‘the only jewish state in the world’.

Oh and on a personal note, as Im from Ireland (like yourself), i also take a keen interest in this conflict because it has Britain’s fingerprints on it as well (the odious Balfour and botched mandate etc), we know too well the crime of colonization and disposession here in Ireland. Pity some of us tend to ignore our own history, isn’t it Eamonn?

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