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shira

(30,109 posts)
11. I'm not in denial about the UN's sick obsession with Israel...
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 08:46 PM
Nov 2016

....that intentionally causes it to ignore nearly every disgusting atrocity worldwide. It's discrimination if not outright racism, no better than focusing on the "legitimate" crimes of Blacks while ignoring the same or worse of Whites. No sense pretending otherwise. That's disingenuous to the max.

As occupations go, there are many others around the world that make Israel's look very tame in comparison. No similar UN resolutions. You also "forget" that if Israel simply ends it, Hamas likely takes over - or worse - ISIS, Iran, etc. So let's not pretend Israel's there for all the wrong reasons, especially since the Palestinians have rejected 3 offers in the past 15 years to end it.

And no other nation on the planet in the same situation (with neighboring leadership intent on genocide) would be any better WRT human rights. That's just a fact, as no other nation in combat or war is more careful WRT civilian lives of the enemy population as Israel.

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