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In reply to the discussion: Israel Broadens Bombing in Gaza to Civilian Sites [View all]billh58
(6,655 posts)comparison is way overboard. The point that many people confuse, however, is that a dislike of Israeli politicians and their government is NOT anti-Semitic. The Likud does not represent Judaism, although they play the "anti-Semitic" card when their anti-Palestinian policies are attacked. They hide behind their religion in order to justify their hateful neoconservative agenda, much like the American Christian neocons.
Until a more progressive Liberal and caring government is established in Israel, the neoconservative idiots now in power will never agree to an amicable settlement or the establishment of a Palestinian State. Netenyahu is the ideological soul-mate of Donald Rumsfeld and the PNAC crowd, and they are accomplishing their right-wing agenda by playing on the sympathies of the US government to get funding for their self-imposed problems.
Yes Israel has a right to defend themselves, but they must also take responsibility for inciting the Palestinian people to violence by denying them basic human rights and dignity.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the Jewish religion, and everything to do with right-wing neoconservatism, and is aided and abetted by the American Republican "Christian" Party.