chutzpah

below is a comment i left to a recent common dreams article regarding an israeli war crime whose victim was a dual citizen of america and palestine:

 'If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First administration." -from the article

when, if ever, has the american government stood up to israel? this is nothing new. perhaps most outrageously there was the time in 1967 when israeli armed forces attacked and tried to sink an american spy ship in the mediterranean. it’s been speculated that had they been successful, the attack would have been blamed on egypt (a false flag) to provide an impetus to drag america into that israeli war of aggression (the ‘6 day war’) anyhow, the ship was very nearly sunk, over 30 killed, over 170 wounded. the lame and obviously false explanation for the attack (the official narrative) was that it was all a big mistake, and no one was held accountable.

chutpah is a hebrew word, isn’t it? it’s quite apt in relation to israel and zionism. it means ‘extreme self-confidence or audacity’. they’ve always gotten away with bloody murder, war crimes, colonialist abuse of the indigenous population, so why shouldn’t they keep doing so?

the surreal mystery is what gives them such power? how do they get away with such audacious criminality with absolute impunity? what hold do they have over the ‘western’ alliance led by america such that they’re effectively the tail that wags that great big dog? is it just that they have the most money? in a world of perfidy and corruption, are they it’s top dogs, admired and feared by the rest? i’d love to know the answer. i may never know it, but i have hope that some day, the sooner the better, whatever that power is, it will dissipate, and zionism will die in utter disgrace, and that there will finally be some reckoning and justice, some truth and reconciliation.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence-west-bank