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How is it that we can separate the American administration from America and Americans in our minds, but not the Israeli government from Israel and jewish people?
It is ok to hate what China does as a nation, it is not ok to hate the Chinese or China. It is ok to hate what America does as a nation...it is not ok to hate America and Americans. It is ok to hate what Israel does as a country...this does not mean hating Israel, Israelis or Jews.
Zionism is not Judaism. Jews are not all Zionists and Zionists do not speak for all the jewsh Diaspora. Zionism doesn't even speak for all Jews in Israel. There are many Israeli Jews working with Palestinians to alleviate their suffering and actively campaigning against their country's far-right, extremist, Zionist stance.
Either Israel is a country just like any other or it is a special case. If it's a country like any other then it can be held to account like any other without that account equating to hatred of the Jews. If it is a special case...does that mean it can do anyting it wants without sanction?
Personally, Radar, I find your stance to be a more anti-semitic stance (sorry anti-jewish) than mine or Queeq's. You have reduced them to a political agenda and held them to be uniquely unnaccountable. To truly see Jews as equal to other 'races' one must hold them to the same standards. You do not do this. You set them aside from the rest of humanity and say no....different rules apply. America is not its administration. Britain is not her Queen. Zimbabwe is not its Dictator. Iraq was not Saddam. Israel is not the Zionist agenda. Zionism and Judaism are two entirely different concepts.
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