@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
I'm not going to bother replying to any more of your posts. JTT is right about you. You take every opportunity to insult and denigrate my country whilst refusing to accept your country does any wrong. As far as you're concerned Britain is responsible for everything that's wrong with the world whilst America can do no wrong. You are as big a bigot as the others no matter how much you try to wrap it up in faux intellectualism. I am not going to sink to your level as I know a lot of very decent Americans who would be disgusted to read the sort of rubbish you post. If you had an ounce of intellectual curiosity you would take a far more even handed approach. You just cherry-pick facts to support your own racist ideology, and I'm sick of it.
I have long had JTT on ignore, so I don't see his posts. However once or twice a year I open one just to see if any of his monotone diatribes have changed: haven't seen any variation yet.
You started the fault-finding exclusively about Israel and U.S. support for it, without acknowledgment of any contribution to the persistent problems by the Palestinians or the Arab states in the region, or even any reference whatever to the origin of the whole mess at the hands of the European colonial powers (chiefly Britain, France and, to a lesser extent Italy), and in particular your country's dismemberment of the Ottoman state; occupation of its several parts; unkept promises to European Zionists and Arab Hashemites with respect to Palestine (if they would only help you overthrow the Ottomans in the case of the Arabs, or provide lots of money in the case of the European Zionists); and shameful abandonment of the resulting mess when things got hard in 1948. (I also suggested some similarities here to the British acceptance of bribes from the tyrant Ghadaffi for the release of the Lockerbie bomber.)
Very early in the dialoge I noted our fairly complete agreement about what should be the short-term objectives in Israel and the foolish irresponsibility of Israeli attempts to expropriate the land of the West Bank without also assimilating its people. We also largely asgreed on the factors that attended the resolution of the somewhat analogous situation in Northern Ireland, and the applicability of these factors to the situation in Palestine. In terms of the current situation we differed only in my expressed belief that restricting Israeli exports of beauty and processed food products made in the West Bank would not be a serious or meaningful action in the real world.
We also discussed our common descent from Ireland and the different viewpoints often taken by those who emigrated to America and those who stayed or went to the UK, as well as the presence in America (but not Europe) of well organized, politically active Jews who are understandably concerned about the fate of their fortmerly European breadhren who fled to Palestine after largely being rejected in their former European homelands after WWII.
The "faux intillectualism" to which you refer was merely a recitation of the key historical facts surrounding the creation and evolution of the intractable situation in Palestine during the last hundred years or so, and some references of their similarity to an analogous UK-created situation in Northern Ireland that spawned a similar conflict that lasted three hundred years (since the Ulster Plantation). I did not assert that Britain is responsible for everything that is wrong with the world - instead only some of it, and, along with the other states of Europe, the situation in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
There's nothing racist in my ideology, and I do not lack intellectual curiosity. I believe your outrage, on these two points in particular, may involve a little projection of your own failings in these areas on me.
I believe the real explanation for your rather girlish pique is that you ran out of excuses and evasions, and found yourself unable to deal with the obvious truth of a matter which you had falsely and probably deceitfully described.