After Oklahoma City and Sept. 11, all Americans should empathize with Israel’s situation. What if the terrorists that carried out the mass murders of innocent people in Oklahoma and New York lived, trained and recruited bombers in Texas and Virginia? What if, in response, the U.S. troops “occupied” these states, temporarily imposed curfews and closed state border crossings? Would we call this an occupation of Texas and Virginia by the U.S. troops? No, we’d call it what it is; the U.S. taking military action for the safety of its citizens and to secure its borders – a right of every country in the world.
What if the Texan and Virginian governments continued to finance, sponsor and carry out terrorist bombings in the U.S. in places frequented by women and children? What if they built up an arsenal during peace negotiations and agreed that since they could not defeat the U.S. militarily, they would kill civilians until the U.S. agreed to peace by making Texas and Virginia separate countries with the capital in Washington D.C.? What if the U.S. agreed to give the terrorists their independent states and then walk away from the peace talks? Would U.S. citizens, tolerate this? No!
Think about this hypothetical situation the next time you question Israel’s response to the Palestinians sending off one of their promising youth strapped with a bomb to commit murder of innocent Israeli people. If you give legitimacy to the Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, then you’re saying that any country in the world that disagrees with the U.S. has the same right to murder American civilians.
Everett
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