"Perhaps you can spare some of your vitriol...."
And now we have the apoligists scurrying into their anti-Semitism bunkers.
Are you really claiming that the way Arab women are treated justifies Israeli war crimes and that those of us who are opposed to those crimes support such treatment?
If this thread in any way reflects the outside world, the support that the Israelis are getting for their actions come from the rabid right - from those who would "wish the Irish to return from where they came from" or would support or excuse military brutality against civilians or throw their weight behind sectarian bullying - here acting as apologists for chemical warfare, the persecution, killing and ghettoisation of a people whose existance is an inconvenience.
I have no vitriol. My generation grew up with the images of skeletons emerging from the death camps and from stories of the attempted anihilation of the Jewish people. We are now witnessing continuing and growing anti-Semitism and as far as I am concerned, Israeli behahavior feeds that anti-Semitism and is an essential part of that growth.
Jim Carroll