The
temptation to wash one's hands of the whole conflict is understandable, but US
support of Israel is a central force driving it all
".....
As my Guardian colleague
Seumas Milne superbly detailed in
his column Tuesday night, the overarching fact of this conflict is that the
Palestinians, for decades now, have been brutally occupied, blockaded,
humiliated, deprived of the most basic human rights of statehood and autonomy
though the continuous application of brute, lawless force (for that reason,
those who like to righteously condemn Hamas' rockets (Pierce, defending Obama;
"he happened to be correct the other day. No country can tolerate the bombing of
its citizens") have the obligation to state what form of legitimate resistance
Palestinians have to all of this). Moreover, as these clear
numbers from the Economist demonstrate, the violence and carnage so
disproportionately harm the Palestinians that to suggest some form of
equivalence between the two sides borders on the obscene.
But the second reason, to me, is even clearer. The government which Americans fund and elect, and for which they thus bear at least some responsibility, is anything but neutral in this conflict. That government - certainly including the Democratic Party - is categorically, uncritically, and unfailingly on the side of Israel in every respect when it comes to violence and oppression against the Palestinians......"
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