The Stain of Israel
Yesterday I wrote how tragic and disheartening it was to see the proud nation of Israeli waste the goodwill felt by rational people around the world towards the state of Israel, as a consequence of its horrific past history in Europe. So many died, that the world, the entire world, felt an obligation to rectify what our species had done.
I warned that the increasingly fascist government of Netanyahu was about to stain the citizens of Israel with something they would not be able to wash off. When a democratic nation elects a war criminal and allows, even supports, the psychopathic actions, which we are seeing committed now against the Palestinians, then "People," who fail to stop the madmen, will wear the stain of having committed the austerities and the crimes against humanity, right along with the government that fired the missiles and dropped the bombs.
History will not separate Israeli citizens from the Israeli psychopaths at the top of government. We've seen that stain on people before, and we've seen it takes generations before trust can be rebuilt between those stained and the rest of the civilized world.
The American government and, it would appear, many, if not most, of its citizens support the actions of Israel. Regrettably, Americans have accepted the stain many times in the past 12 years, but they assume that America rules the world and the stain is something that can be ignored. America has commited war crimes, but now, by standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel, America is about to be stained again, and this stain may be much worse than any of the others.
The attached story strongly suggests that Israel is targeting UN refugee compounds, UN staff, and civilians sheltering in these compounds. This means Israel knows that the people in these locations are women, children, the sick, the disabled, and non-combatants, which also means Israel is intentionally, with malice and forethought, killing women, children, the sick, the disabled, and non-combatants. Americans do not and have NEVER supported anything as egregious as this. Such actions defile our nation, our history, and are quintessentially un-American. Americans DO NOT kill innocent, men, women, and children and if we support those who do, we ARE NO BETTER than those who do the killing.
This is a war crime that America has yet to be accused of; there may be no crimes more vial than that of targeting civilians. Our contempt for such actions empowered the men and women who fought in World War II to the point that they were truly invincible and their invincibility was based on a simple American principle. American DON'T kill innocents.
However, by remaining silent in the face of these barbaric attacks on civilians, this intentional murder of innocents, America and Americans are going to have to share in the disgrace, and bare the mark that accompanies such acts. The stain is about to be passed and the Americans who blindly support Israel and openly embrace the most recent disgrace by our species are about to be marked for life.
The world is watching, and it will not forget, because it has been there before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcIWSPZ7YZ8&list=UUzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw
