Roberto, your knowledge of my activities with regard to human rights is confined to two threads in the Mudcat. That doesn't qualify you to disagree with me when I say that I don't differentiate between groups on the subject of human rights. When I state the the US and Israel are responsible for most of the problems in the world, I'm just stating a fact. And that website you posted a link for is pitifully incomplete. And it also doesn't discuss how many of the atrocities it lists are the product of interference by countries like the US and Israel. Let's take the killing fields of Cambodia. That never would have happened had the US not already killed millions of people there through its covert bombing campaign of that country. Pol Pot was able to rise to power because of the anger the people of Cambodia felt towards the president of Cambodia, who had assured the people of that country that they would not be bombed by the US, and because we utterly destroyed that society and its ability to function. Your list doesn't even mention the US' covert bombing campaign of Cambodia or the millions of people killed by it. Let's pick Somalia as an example of a conflict for which the US is responsible. Every time the people in Somalia try to create order in their country and assert their right to self-determination, the US, though covert means and with the assistance of the Kenyan military, which the US supports, destroys it. The US is fighting a proxy resource war in Somalia and has no intention of allowing the Somalis to assert their right to self-determination. Other Western countries have been complicit in the state of affairs in that country also, through over fishing and dumping toxic waste in Somali waters. We never hear about the atrocities being committed in Somalia by the US and other Western countries (sometimes through their proxies, the Kenyans). We only ever hear about the bad things done by Somalis. I support the right of the Somalis to be left alone to live their lives without the interference of powerful Western governments. As long as Somalia has oil and it's easy for Western countries to take advantage of its lack of ability to defend itself from other countries over fishing and dumping toxic waste in its waters, I don't see any possibility that they will ever be free of such interference. Let's look at Sudan. We always hear about the terrible things the Sudanese government is doing, but we don't ever hear about the atrocities being committed by the rebels who are being backed by the US and Israel. Sudan is yet another proxy war in which atrocities are being committed by the people who are being supported by the US and also Israel. Let's look at Sri Lanka and the massacres of civilians there not too long ago. The Sri Lankan military was trained (and no doubt armed) by Israel. Most of the dictatorial regimes in the world were put in place and are being propped up by the US. We have training schools in this country for despots to learn how to take power and keep it. If you scratch the surface of almost every conflict in the world, you will see just below it the activities of the CIA and/or Mossad, and you will see some valuable resource or balance of power equation at the bottom of it. And that's not even beginning to address economic atrocities being committed by the US, and the strife and human rights catastrophes that arise from those. Roberto, unlike you, I do not support the privileging of any group(s) over any other group(s). I am a passionate supporter of human rights for all groups of people, not just the Palestinians. I will admit that I do side with the indigenes whenever there is a conflict between them and any interlopers in their territory. A group's right to self-determination does not include a right to dispossess, displace, or subjugate another people. I do not differentiate between groups of people with regard to human rights.
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