Interesting omission in the BBC

[skull_bearer]

I can't find the page, but I read a few days ago on the BBC website that a recent investigation into Israel's attack on the Turkish flotilla last year found the Israeli forces not guilty of wrongdoing. My mindset on the topic is that it doesn't matter what happened on the flotilla, since it's endangered Israel's relations with one of its few Middle Eastern allies, Turkey. But anyway, todday I was browsing the Al-Jazeera website, and found that this investigation was actually done by the Israelis.

I didn't go into too much detail, I know Al-Jazeera's stance on Israel and my stance is simply that if Israel carries on the way it has there isn't going to be an Israel in 50 years whether I support them or not, so whether or not they fudged the document is beside the point. My puzzlement is simply, why didn't the BBC say this? It seems like a pretty vital piece of info.

Anyway, just typing out loud here.

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[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Would you like it? Do you like Jews? Whether you do or not, do you acknowledge the right of Israel to exist, or do you feel differently?

I'm curious about all these questions. As a Jew who knows that in no period of history has there ever been a time when there wasn't someone, somewhere, who wished me and my family dead because we are Jews I would hope it would survive. I have lived with this knowledge since I was eight years old and saw Bergen-Belsen.

I mean, my response to people who complain about Israel is come on. Either kill us all or let us have our own country, but stop bitching about out it because we do. I don't in any way condone some of the aggressive acts that Israel has made, but I certainly understand them. What other country is surrounded completely by countries that want its people wiped from the face of the earth? And why is it okay for the USA and other countries to carry out preemptive attacks without any threat but it's not all right for Israel to do so when there is that threat? Are they all just being uppity Jews?

The fact of the matter is that people hate the Jews. They want them - and Israel - dead. Gone. Kaput. My choice is to give them their wish and die, or to go on living and hope that other Jews can do the same, and that there can at least be one place in the world where I might actually be welcome, and not have to worry what people will think of me when they hear my Jewish last name.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but the only answer to this is: What?

I just said that it doesn't matter if I like Jews at all, any more than it matters if I like Koreans when it comes to the actions of North Korea. If you really want to know, yes, I think Israel has a right to exist, yes Jews can have their own fucking country. The problem is that Israel has pretty systematically pissed off every ally it has in some fashion so that now it is still surrounded but a lot of very pissed-off arab neighbours, with no-one at its side but an increasibly bankrupt America. It doesn't matter who peoples Israel, they could be Jews, Christians, muslims, atheists or little green men from outer space. Historically speaking when you have one small country surrounded by a lot of enemies and an increasinly shrinking number of allies, THIS IS BAD!