Monday, May 16, 2011

Israel's Right to Self-Defense

Israel can kill every Arab in the Middle East, blow up each and every country surrounding it, and I fear the world will still say it had a right to defend itself.

But Palestinians? They don't have a right to anything.

Yesterday, for the first time as far as I know, thousands of Palestinian refugees, some Lebanese, Syrians and Jordanians, marched towards the borders of Israel to mark the 63rd anniversary of the start of Al Nakba. (Before, they would have been stopped by their own regimes, but this is a New Middle East).

It was a symbolic Freedom March for Palestine and a reiteration of Palestinians' right of return to their homeland.

Beautiful in its simplicity in the middle of all the blood that is currently staining the Arab uprisings. Why shouldn't they just enter their homeland?

On the Syrian border, several did. They climbed over the fence, kissed and hugged their neighbors and brothers in the occupied Golan Heights. Imagine.

But of course, Israel had a right to defend itself against this terrible act of... not sure, but marching, I guess. (Kind of like Qaddafi and Assad are defending themselves, too).

And so Israel reportedly killed four on the Syrian border and ten at the Lebanese border, one in Gaza, and not to forget, one in Jerusalem the day before. Scores injured.

I found this picture on Facebook. It's of a young Palestinian man in Lebanon carrying his grandmother towards the border yesterday.


"I will take my grandmother home," he said.


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3 comments:

couponsforzipcodes said...

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Fowl Ideas said...

A crime is only a crime when a low status party attacks a comparatively high status party. When a high status party attacks a comparatively low status party, it's not considered a crime.

Every American school child has that lesson beaten into them at a very early age.

http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-bully-enablers.html

Rebeccah said...

That is true all around the world. And if anyone should suggest that a high status party such as Israel HAS committed a crime, there's always the US veto in the UN Security Council.