Are you suggesting that being “brutalised” entitles one to fire rockets into sovereign territory and make regular threats of more violence? Even conduct more violence against those in your own territory, further threatening the security of your neighbours? Do you not believe that Israel has a right to exist and keep its borders safe?
No, I’m suggesting nothing of the sort, but the fact that you raise the question of missiles as if they are somehow equivalent to the atocities committed by the Israelis, who are an occupying force, shows that, whatever you claim, you aren’t taking an honest view of the situation. I can believe that you have convinced yourself of your position but that is not the same thing about being honest about the dynamics of power. You don’t understand Christian Aid’s position because you don’t want to look at the situation as it actually is.
As for Israel’s right to exist. Well Israel does exist and nobody is making any credible threat to its borders. They took the land by force, and things are now at the stage where the clock can’t be turned back on the state of Israel. But the right of Israel to extend its borders beyond the 1967 boundaries is against international law, yet it has done just that, and still retained the support of the west. The Israeli lobby by powerful Jewish voices within western nations has seen to it that there has been no real pressure on them as they build settlement after settlement. The poor Palestinian farmer is pushed off his land, if he resists he is brutalised by the occupying forces.
The power imbalance is obvious. You won’t see it because you don’t want to see it. You want to paint those who say it as anti-semitic, I think that’s disgusting.
