Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

As those of you who read this article know, it explained with the aid of compelling historical evidence that the shocking Middle Eastern phrases "wipe Israel off the map" and "drive the Jews into the sea" refer figuratively to the repatriation of dispossessed Palestinians. I understand that this concept may be difficult to grasp, given the repeated lie of the mainstream media that such language is definitive proof of genocidal intentions from every Arab leader who utters it. Realizing how quickly this article could be misconstrued as an attack on the Jewish people, I placed a disclaimer at the beginning which stated that I wrote the piece to reveal candid facts, not to prejudice any of the ordinary human rights which God has given to the Jewish people as well as to all other peoples.

I am aware that some people may have been unhappy with this anti-Semitic disclaimer and thus voted "Abstain". Like the majority of twenty-first century inhabitants on earth, I am upset and horrified at the myriad crimes committed by the Israeli government and military and by a small minority of Jewish individuals in the state of Israel and elsewhere over past decades. I agree that the perpetrators of such crimes should be brought to justice. At the same time, all peoples have rights, including the right to their own state. Thus, both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have a right to their own nation-state. I stand firmly on this point. Those who claim that "Israel has no right to exist" due to crimes committed by and within that state ought to feel the ground beneath their feet tremble. If Israel has no right to exist, then the United States has no right to exist either because we dispossessed the native Americans, allowed sweatshops to flourish, bombed Japan, marginalized and assassinated civil rights leaders, and so on.

Perhaps some members of this site read my disclaimer and thought I was pandering to neocons and Zionist radicals. Far from it. My main goals in writing the disclaimer were, first, to clearly distinguish between the evil crimes of a few individuals and the rights of all peoples, and second, to discourage hatred, revenge and violence against innocent Jews for the crimes of some of their fellow men and women. It is not anti-Semitic to relate acts of injustice and evil carried out by a handful of Jews. It is anti-Semitic to deny the Jewish people in general their political rights.  

I look forward to your questions, comments and suggestions regarding "Rhetoric of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." In the end, as a lover of democracy, I will respect the decision of Political Cortex members as to publication of this article. What I will not do is compromise any of my principles.