Some Blogger Labeled Me a “Hater of Israel” and I am Steamed

This is how I responded:

I do not hate Israel. I do detest the current slate of fundamentalist, ultraconservative leaders of your country. They insist that the Bible is a land grant giving them the “right to exist” which it does not. Israel exists because of the right of conquest, just like all other countries. But that means if they are conquered, no more Israel, so they have to be on guard. I rooted for Israel for decades as the little “David” conquered the “Goliaths” set against it. But I no longer support Israel. They treated Gaza as if it were a doormat, starving Gazans for energy, water, and food … for decades, declaring them to be second or maybe third class “citizens.” What did you expect them to do? So, in their mostly symbolic attack, they killed 1200 Israelis, the majority of whom were active duty military. They then responded by killing ten times that number of Gazans, mostly civilians. When will this body count be enough to show that Israel will return 10 times the woe it was treated to? Or is it to be 100 times? We don’t know because Israel made a pact with the devil to only list kills confirmed by both sides, so possibly tens of thousands of others are dead and uncounted.

Israel has lost the respect of people like me, who have never “hated” Israel, by supporting leaders who are perpetrating a genocide, while still eliciting support for the genocides directed at them. It is a bad look, very bad, and has lost the support of people like me, who do not appreciate being listed by fools as “haters of Israel.” This smacks of the typical “you are either with me or against me.” If you present me with that choice, as you have, then I am against you.

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This is how authoritarians behave. They slap labels upon people, e.g. Enemy of the State, so they will be perceived based upon the label rather than their arguments or other statements. This is Donald Trump strategy. I wonder if the Donald learned it from Bibi or Bibi learned it from the Donald. At this point I almost wish Hell existed so there would be a place to send both of them