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                                              November 14, 2006

For a long time I had a positive
feel about Israel -- though I've     BELOW_THE_FOLD
always understood that this could
just have been a result US media
bias.

Their most recent attack on
Lebanon (with the full            I get the feeling
public support of the bulk        that I'm not alone
of Congress) has finally          on this.
turned me against.                         
                                        Israel finally pulled one     
These people are committing             when Americans were paying     
atrocities, and doing it with our       attention to the Midddle East,    
support...  These are not entirely      when a lot of us were getting    
unprovoked atrocities but still,        disgusted with the the hawks... 
that's what they are: if some                                         
thugs kill a handful of Israelis,                 TIPPING_THE_BANDWAGON                    
the Israeli government will                       
slaughter a thousand civilians.   
                                   
                               
   And all of this only serves
   to make the thugs look good                  I didn't particularly
   in the eyes of the locals;                   want to have a side
   the Israeli actions are not                  in this, I feel like
   only evil, they're stupid.                   a side has been forced
                                                on me, because Israel
               A grand                          does these things,
               combination                      on our dime, with our
               we're seeing                     backing.
               all too much
               of, of late.                     United States funds
                                                around 20% of their
                                                military budget,
                                                and also supplies
                                                some moral sanction --

                                                        (What little
                                                         of it we
                                                         have left.)

      I'm left feeling                             If Israel wants
      embarrassed and                              our continued
      outraged at how                              support, we should
      long I sat on that                           tell them to knock
      fence...                                     it off.

          SLOW_ARC                                     (And if we want
                                                       our own support,
                                                       we should knock
                                                       it off, too.)

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