I don't have a big issue with Israel holding strategic land to prevent attacks by militia funded by the Sauds and the Iranians.
I don't even personally have a huge moral issue with Israelis settling on the Golan Heights (I was invited to a wedding there in 2002), even though I think its dumb for a long-term solution.
And I certainly don't have an issue with Israel defending itself against aggression from its neighbours. Israel has a right to exist and its citizens have a right to live without fear of terror attacks.
But I have a huge problem with this brutal statistic:
* Number of Israelis killed by rocket attacks out of Gaza since the Israeli handover: 1. More people die in traffic accidents in my city every week. We're not talking SAM-type quality ordnance. Those rockets are jokes, made of scrap metals in people's garages.
* Number of Palestinians killed in the last two weeks since the invasion: over 1000, mostly civilians and 30 kids in a school. That's around half of the people who died in the WTC attacks. The Israeli army is blowing up schools and hospitals to prove a point to Hamas that Hamas can't hide military command centres under them. What the fuck?
Now it easy for me to sit back and condemn Israel from the comfort of my suburban house in remote and safe Australia, when I don't have to live with the concern of a Hamas rocket killing my kids while they sleep.
But at the same time I'm not living in rubble in Gaza while the Israelis indiscriminately kill my family and my neighbours with tanks and helicopter gunships in the most disproportionate display of military intervention by a Western democracy I can recall.
My sense of injustice is overwhelmed by my fury with Ehud Barak and the warmongering fucks running Israel right now.
Since I am powerless to do anything about it I instead sincerely hope the Old Testement God still has jurisdiction in that part of the world, and that the Israeli cabinet all slowly burn in hell.
