It absolutely amazes me that so many Jews are die-hard Democrats while so many Democrats are so die-hard anti-Israel.
From a Kos “diary” by Hanyost entitled “Why the US can impose a one-state solution on Israel-Palestine” [editor's note: I do not link to Kos; I will not drive traffic to them. You find it on your own.]
In my diary of yesterday, I proposed that our party support the creation of a single secular democracy in the area now controlled by Israel, and I was impressed by the quality of responses. Based on this tiny sample of 100 or so Democrats, I’m thinking that maybe the average Democratic voter might be open to taking a more impartial role in the Middle East – and thus making our country less of an object of hatred by Muslims everywhere.
The most common objections to such a proposal is that the two sides hate each other too much to stop the killing and that outside forces, like the USA, cannot impose a solution.
However, I think that the US, as the prime, and virtually the only, supplier for the Israeli Defense Force for the past many decades has the capacity to force a settlement simply by cutting off that support.
What I am proposing for discussion is that our party break with this decades-old policy and formally announce that we will no longer provide any military aid to Israel so long as that government refuses to work toward the one-state solution which I proposed in a previous blog. Even a return to the pre-1967 borders would not be sufficient, since that still allows Israel to keep the indigenous peoples of the area in subjection.
As to the much reviled Syria and Iran, we should make it clear that they are no real threat to Israel, since the whole world knows that Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
In summary:
- “Create” a singular secular state, neither Israel nor Palestine, out of what is now referred to as Israel.
- “Force” this option by withholding support of Israel’s defense.
- Don’t worry about Syria or Iran because they’re not real threats.
And yet the Jews overwhelmingly vote year after year for Liberal Democrats. That’s like hiring your sworn enemy to be your healthcare provider and wondering why you’re suddenly feeling ill.
Israel, Democrat, Middle East, Syria, Iran
