Quote Originally Posted by MrG View Post
If anybody thinks any of this makes me an anti-Semite, what should worry them is that I’m NOT an anti-Semite. This is not the doing of “The Jews” as racists on the flip side of the coin like to say—it is the doing of the State of Israel. Whatever pretext of “moral authority” it once presumed to take over the neighborhood has been lost. A two state solution is the best of bad situation, and if Israel can’t accept it, there will never be peace and it will destroy itself.
I agree that it is possible to criticize the State of Israel without being an anti-Semite; from what I read here and in similar threads over on Ajarn, it's not very common though.

Is it also possible to support Israel over the Palestinians without being a) a brainwashed flunky-victim of Joo media in the USA? b) a raghead hater? or c) an American radical right fundie?

I personally think that a good 2 state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict as it expresses itself in the Palestinian case would be to give Kuwait to the Palestinians. It would only be just, considering the Kuwaiti "ethnic-cleansing" of some 350.000 Palestinians after GW got their "country" back for them back in the 90s.

I really don't understand how anyone can argue about UN resolution this and International Law that regarding a region of the world whose political reality has been nothing more than an invention of Treaties and Resolutions and seat-of-your-pants improvisation by Europe and America since the Turks lost their Empire and started the long crawl to join Europe.

Israel has the power that it has and the friends that it has. It also has the land that it has. People, especially the Palestinians, need to recognize this, and get over it.