The law is not the same as justice

[sovay]

I just checked very fast out of my other social media because it is (not) astonishing how many people cannot criticize Israel without stampeding straight for the anti-Semitism, but what the hell is the U.S. doing blocking council statements and sessions in the UN? The previous administration were a bunch of Evangelical Christian Zionists who would have been glad to see molten glass from the river to the sea if it sped up their Rapture timetable, but I expected less Armageddon from the people I voted for. Unless there is some back-channel diplomacy at work with an actual chance of succeeding if given the extra time, I don't get it. I hope there is something obvious I am missing.

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[dewline]

As far as I'm concerned, both Israel and Palestine deserve better than they're getting right now. Tragic, horrific and anger-inducing situation.

[sovay]

As far as I'm concerned, both Israel and Palestine deserve better than they're getting right now. Tragic, horrific and anger-inducing situation.

In my lifetime it looked as though a peace would be possible. And then Rabin was assassinated and it hasn't looked that way since—every year it feels it has looked less like it—and I hate it.

[dewline]

The one thing I'm certain of is that Rabin was assassinated to make room for someone who thinks as Netanyahu does. And that thought disgusts me.

[sovay]

The one thing I'm certain of is that Rabin was assassinated to make room for someone who thinks as Netanyahu does. And that thought disgusts me.

Rabin's assassination was certainly convenient for Likud, which opposed the Oslo Accords and of which Netanyahu was already the leader; I don't know that I believe in a grassy knoll outside of Kings of Israel Square. But it's one of the places I think the world broke, and Netanyahu has never been interested in healing it.

[dewline]

No conspiracy or grassy knoll needed here. Rabin's killer never hid their sympathies and antipathies, after all.