“There was absolutely no justification, either in law or in ethics, for Hezbollah’s blatant violation of sovereign Israeli territory on July 12″

But I’m sure Rubenstein has no problem justifying the hundreds of cross-border raids the IDF has made since 2000.

I’ll assume then leo that your lack of moral empathy is a result of poor upbringing, or that you simply don’t know whats going on but feel like passing judgement anyway.

Being a ziomnist means never having to say you’re sorry. I guess “never again” has become a universal theme for them.

Israel is very demonstrably under very rigorous amoral and immoral and moral scrutiny from within Israel and from the outside. Anyone who clainms otherwise is an ostrich or a dimwit.

What is really intersting is why other states ARE NOT subjected to the same rigorous moral scrutiny.

Your right Leo, I feel I should acknowledge you on this one, Israel is under constant scrutiny by other nations and the UN… what I should have said is that THEY DONT CARE. Or that as orang put it, they have “the most powerful countries backing their every whim”.

This is a very interesting site, for any who care to look.

All that’s drilled into me is to not accept things simply because I am told or I read it.

I’ll assume then leo that your lack of moral empathy is a result of poor upbringing, or that you simply don’t know whats going on but feel like passing judgement anyway.

What is really intersting is why other states ARE NOT subjected to the same rigorous moral scrutiny.

Right. If that were true, then the US adn Britain woul not be labelling Hezbollah, as well as the insurgents in Iraq, as terrorists, but as noble freedom fighters. Israel would be internationally condemed as a terrorist state.

viva, the drama queen…”made my skin crawl”..

Orang, it’s probably one fo those conditions. You know, like what happens to Vampires when the sun comes up?

Well its a long story – I’ll give you the condensed version. For 50 years plus we’ve been told how pure and holy the brave state of Israel is surrounded by all those evil Arabs. The rhetoric and lies have been incessant …No Partner for Peace” yada yada..We are actually very fucking sick of hearing about how wonderful they are from them and their fucking fan clubs. The facts are the complete opposite of what they try and ram down our throats. They have stolen Palestinan land, continue to steal and make destitute the Palestinians, kill Lebanese apparently for fun and some of us are FUCKING SICK OF IT!!! Couple this with the most powerful countries backing their every whim and no, sorry they won’t escape rigorous moral scrutiny-nice try though, it could have worked if this was a bunch of 5 year olds reading the posts here.

Israel is very demonstrably under very rigorous amoral and immoral and moral scrutiny from within Israel and from the outside. Anyone who clainms otherwise is an ostrich or a dimwit.

What is really intersting is why other states ARE NOT subjected to the same rigorous moral scrutiny.

The press in Israel is certainly more likely to break cover on issues that reflect badly on current Israeli policies- here the enormous pressure put on the press by the likes of Rubenstein et al has had an impact- they would have been screaming bias if the ABC for eg had screened this

It took Channel two in Israel to break ranks and screen it – then the west followed. But the reaction from Israeli officials is revealing- they call for more media self-censorship.

Reading your post made my skin crawl. You must be a truly ugly person to get so ugly over a dreary journalist.