I don’t agree at all. Israel was created in the aftermath of the worst genocide in the history of this planet as a safe homeland for the survivors. Whilst I utterly detest Netanyahu, Sharon, Likud and any other far-right politicians or parties I’d happily describe myself as a ‘friend of Israel’ as I support its core context. People on the Labour side likening it to the likes of Powell or Assad is exactly the kind of thing that will guarantee the Tories free reign to continue flushing the nation down the pan after the next election.
On that we fundamentally disagree then. I support the aims of the Palestinian people 100% and regard it as occupied Palestine with it's own indigenous people fighting a just war to return to the land which is rightly theirs in the same way as the French Resistance fought for freedom against Hitler. Whilst obviously the occupiers won't give a tinkers cuss what I think the only compromise I see as remotely acceptable is for "Israel" to return to it's original borders, the destruction of ALL settlements and for a two state solution which allows the Palestinians the same sovereignty, right to defend themselves with their own armed forces etc etc that we in the UK have.
Sorry to be patronising but if Hitler had initially won WW2 and occupied Britain then how the hell would we feel if during UN liberation of the UK it was declared that England is now lets say "Buddhastan" and a homeland for all Buddhists who will now take over all facilities and amenities and infrastructure and use them to best advantage incoming Buddhists at the cost and disadvantage to the English who could expect their homes and farmland confiscated and handed to leading Buddhists, all decent jobs to go to Buddhists, walls built to separate "nice" Buddhist areas from "nasty" English areas etc? If furthermore a superpower had equipped the Buddhist military so it could easily stomp on all descent from indigenous English people and largely because of the influence of wealthy and powerful Buddhists within the superpower who finance political parties there?
Whilst I'm glad that you "utterly detest Netanyahu, Sharon, Likud and any other far-right politicians" as most of us do, I can't see even a left leaning and more reasonable gov in "Israel" ever giving back "the occupied territories" and all the financial, military and "lebensraum" advantages they have come to enjoy as a result of the occupation unless FORCED to by international trade embargoes which include cutting it off from oil supplies etc etc in the same way as has been used against N. Korea, or by military defeat at the hands of Arab nations and Hamas, Hezbollah etc etc.
To once again state the obvious, the USA and UK are totally to blame for the present situation in terms both of initiating it and also providing unswerving support, financially and militarily for this far right apartheid regime to thrive and grow. As I said in another recent thread, I'm sure that if Israel started lining up Palestinians against the wailing wall and machine gunning them the USA would do no more than verbally "condemn it in the strongest terms" whilst behind the scenes offering them a mates rates on replacement machine gun ammunition.... They are already in contravention of over 250 UN resolutions against them, non of which has resulted in any enforcement of international law, and so yeah basically so long as USA has a policy of "Israel can literally do no wrong" I see no end to the conflict.
