| I appreciate your heart felt sentiments. I am wondering however if you have me mistaken for an Israeli, or someone who is in support of them? Perhaps I am wrong here, but the demeanor in which you were addressing Israel was as if I believed otherwise. I genuinely agree, though Israel is quite honestly something I see of very little relevance. To me, Israel is the Michael Jackson story of world news. It is so trivial yet so glamorized and exploited. There hasn’t been a problem pushed this close to explosion before, and I regret accepting that inevitably the tension will over boil, but it will, and this attention Israel and Palestine have gotten is going to make that explosion ten times larger.
Comparing Israel to South Africa was a good analogy. Imagine if South Africa had gotten the entire would to start pairing off, who supports which side in this racial battle. Say half of the Westernized world supported one side, and another half supported another. These sides pushing and pulling at the issue from all ends, tearing apart everyone involved until neither side of the issue had any credibility. Half the world condemning terrorist acts, the other half supporting it. Half the world condemning oppression, and the other half supporting it. Israel is no South Africa, not any more. Israel has become the most pivotal point for world events to come for decades. And when that explosion happens, it won’t just be Israelis and Palestinians; it will be the whole world.
It is too late to want peace in Israel, any chance with that has been gone since the Oslo Accords, maybe even earlier. It doesn’t matter who agrees with whom or which side is right at this point. All the matters is the issue is put to a stand still before that explosion. |