A discussion about Gaza in a Eugene newspaper by Jay Knott (11/24/12) ⇌ (Israel and the US)
Many of the comments miss the point. Israel is a state based on the idea that the rights of one ethnic group trump the rights of all others. It is a racial supremacist state. Western countries such as the USA have abandoned such overt racial supremacy. It is only tolerated in one case: Jewish racial supremacy. It's no good complaining about each specific Israeli crime, or the disproportion between Palestinian and Israeli weapons. What's so special about Jews, that they are given privileges above everyone else? That is the issue; everything else is a diversion. Western societies have, uniquely in human history, abandoned racism, with just this one exception. Just one more step...