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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Richnorth who wrote (197)9/7/2006 10:25:38 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 10087
 
Israel probably did get more widespread international support before 1967 but it was hardly universal. Israel had more than its share of criticism and negative world opinion even then. And of course they faced a strong continual enmity from the Arab countries, strong enough to be a threat to Israel's existence. Israel kept winning wars, but it really only had to lose in a major way once.

Since 1967 Israel has at times deserved criticism for its actions in the occupied territories, but that criticism is harsher and more wide spread than most countries would face from any similar action. Israel gets "Zionism is racism" in the UN, and condemnations from countries with far worse human rights records. While the Arabs get next to no notice for leveling Hama or other cases of mass slaughter of opponents of the regime.

That Israel can now stand in comparison with the Spain of General Franco in the eyes of young Americans ought to come as a shock and an eleventh-hour wake-up call to Israelis.

I don't think it does broadly stand in comparison with Franco's regime in the eyes of Americans, young or otherwise. Among Europeans maybe, even though such a comparison is quite illegitimate in a number of ways. To the extent that Israel is viewed that way it re-enforces the argument that Israel isn't treated fairly or reasonably in world opinion.
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