Israel's policies are not particularly brutal. It's just that people like you think Israel should play by the standards of Benelux, while making excuses for anything the Arabs do, no matter what. They send suicide bombers into crowds of women and children? They're "desperate", they can't help themselves.
Ironically, if Israel could be more brutal, I think lives would have been saved - because the Pals never would have tried this shit, just as they have never tried it on Syria, despite their truly oppressed condition in the Lebanese and Syria camps. But then, you don't care what Arabs do to each other, do you?
Israel is being fought as an American outpost in the Middle East. The fight may not have started that way, but it's that way now, particularly since the Euros decided to join the proxy war on the Pals side. Therefore, it is too late for America to try to disasociate itself from Israel, even if it wanted to. And Israel is the only liberal, Western democratic country in the Middle East, just as Taiwan is the only liberal, democratic country in Greater China. Israel and Taiwan are natural allies for America, and America will only look weak if it throws them over. |
