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In reply to the discussion: I am going to take my leave from DU for a time: [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)and think about just why so many people are seeing Israeli actions as mirroring those of prior horrific violators of human rights, or are seriously angry with same.
Sometimes, when you see assholes all around you, there's really only one asshole. The one doing the looking.
'these difficult times in Israel'. What the Palestinians are going through is a thousand times more 'difficult' than what the Israelis are going through. Until Israelis would be willing to switch places with the Palestinians, we'll know that the Palestinians are still being oppressed by the Israelis.
I am glad that so many non-Israeli Jewish people around the world have condemned the open air prison that is Gaza as well as the slaughter and destruction, and even the small minority in Israel who can see that the path to a happy and peaceful Israel is not the destruction of the Palestinians people, their homes, schools, and hospitals.