Why does the USA sanction 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Palestinian Lands, now called Israel?

Question

Didn't we go to war in Bosnia to stop the same behavior?

Don't we condemn the Sudanese?

So why is it OK in Israel?

Answer 1

Joe M, I stand in awe of your answer and I bow down before you!
Joe's response makes perfect sense...that it was a huge mistake to take Palestine and turn it into Israel. My feeling has always been that since Germany perpetrated the Holocaust, why not give Germany (or a portion of it) to the Jews? (And for the ignorant masses that claim Palestine never existed, I suggest you find yourself a vintage pre-1948 World Atlas).
And that "historic" offer of a Palestinin state turned down by Arafat was a joke...the so-called state was offered NO water rights! I think it's fairly obvious that a desert nation cannot rely on rainfall.
The problem with the United States' unilateral support of apartheid Israel falls on two fronts: the Zionist Jews (though not all Jews are Zionists) and the Zionist Christian Right. Between the two of them, they have a stranglehold on the government, and insist that some imaginary deity has somehow "bestowed the land of Israel" upon the Jews. It's the same supposed "god" that inspired the concept of Manifest Destiny---the idea that "god" wanted white European settlers to kill the native inhabitants of the Americas and steal their land.
He may be THEIR god, but he sure ain't mine, and nobody's god has any right to be in the real-estate business.

Answer 2

Israel (as it is today) is a racist state and it was a mistake to (re-)create it after WWII in the first place. But it's here now and the AIPAC has the US Gov't. by the balls, so that's the policy until the US Gov't gets some leadership that's strong enough to make decisions based on US interests, rather than Israel's interests. Originally (during the Cold War), the US saw Israel as a beachhead against Communism in the Middle East. Now it's good because the Israelis have some experience dealing with terrorism (and they were terrorists themselves once, too) and that helps the US now-a-days.

But in the long run, Israel is a drag on everyone. Remember that the Israelis and Palestinians share the same blood lines -- it's amazing how ridiculous the situation is.

Another problem is that radical religious people of all kinds are dangerous because they believe in fairy tales as fact. This behavior is sanctioned by moderate religious people because they like the same fairy tales -- the stories help them deal with suffering in a meaningless existence.

Answer 3

seem Israel/Palestine concern is the final unsolved colonial rule interior the worldwide. the two have the perfect to exist and the two could desire to remedy that colonial conflict like different former colonies. The Israeli colonist could desire to found out that their existence is predicated on the existence's of the community people of Palestine.

Answer 4

Placing Israel in the Middle East makes about as much sense as clearing the Swedes out of Stockholm and repopulating it with Rwandans.

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Answer 5

For them ethnic cleansing is already mission accomplished. They got most of that done many years ago. Now its just the standard opression most would say a kind of apartheid in the ME.

Answer 6

The Sudanese didn't have their own version of AIPAC.

Answer 7

call them what you will, the pals were ethnically cleansed from their land by zionist terrorists, says benny morris, a zionist historian.

Answer 8

Ethnic cleansing is never okay.
Terrorism is never okay either.

Answer 9

U.S foriegn policy is largely dictated by Zionist Jews.

Answer 10

Because there was no such thing as Palestine. It's a lie, generated in an attempt to justify irrational hatred of Jews, who's only crime in the middle east is not being Muslim. You can't just invent new history. Israel was taken from the broken Ottoman Empire, who took it from Israel.

That's why.