Katie-sez
The UN’s “long history of writing Israel up on infractions” is explained by the fact that Israel has an equally long history of committing them. This is not about supporting Islam. It is about holding war criminals to account. If that threatens the US…

Talk about existential threats from a Middle Eastern country with absolutely no accountability! All they care about is not losing their monopoly.

The Jews of Iraq by Naeim Giladi
http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html

Although the Iraqi police later provided our embassy with evidence to show that the synagogue and library bombings, as well as the anti-Jewish and anti-American leaflet campaigns, had been the work of an underground Zionist organization, most of the world believed reports that Arab terrorism had motivated the flight of the Iraqi Jews whom the Zionists had “rescued” really just in order to increase Israel’s Jewish population.”

Re: Hans Schmidt and buffoon – it was not college professors but my humanist Jewish friends that helped me change my perspective. Prior to 9/11, I was of the mind that the Israelis were exclusively the “white hats” and the Arabs/Muslims the “black hats.” Looking into it a little further I found that the “official narrative” was incredibly one-sided. The arguments presented and parroted by their supporters are most often short on fact and heavy on hypocritical rhetoric that does not apply a consistent standard. That the media chooses the side to back based not on a superior argument but on an agenda is troubling. Even still, accusations of anti-Semitism are thrown out regularly as there are no consequences for false allegations.

Your question: “Does the fact that the IDF is domiciled in Israel make the entire country a legitimate target”

That is the whole point of the discussion…Islamofascists believe Israel in her entirety is a legitimate target whether the IDF is there or not. Israel has the capability to eradicate the Palestinians; that they restrict their targets to known enemy “encampments” located in civilian neighborhoods and hit them with pretty damn good accuracy is testament to their desire not to broadly hit civilians.

The goal of the Islamofascists is to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

Apparently in you, they have a great ally.

Julie

That is just intellectual dishonesty. How do you define “civilian area”? Does the fact that the IDF is domiciled in Israel make the entire country a legitimate target (as Israel insisted re: Hizbullah in its war with Lebanon)? Or an entire village where a few houses are militarily occupied (as in Gaza)? What is the morality of bombing sewerage works, electricity stations and other civilian infrastructure and institutions? Of using cluster bombs and white phosphorus in areas with huge civilian concentrations? Such conduct of war is expressly outlawed.

Especially given that much of the world already hates Israel about as much as is possible. Beginning with those handy neighborhood psychopaths and barbarians. But not excluding the increasingly-anti-Semitic and fascistic Europeon Neo-Soviet’s latest crop of dreamers after those who most-closely-ever represented their various component state’s electorates: Mussolini, Chamberlain, Petain, Seyss-Inquart, Hitler et al — and the Russians.

Shalom Shalom