YPU debates Israel
John Mearsheimer gets a lot of invitations to talk about his views.
He doesn’t attribute his popularity to his charm. He’s willing to say publicly what other academics won’t, he said.
Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, pushed for an end to the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel on Tuesday night at the Yale Political Union’s first debate of the year — an argument taken from his best-selling book.
The U.S. government supports Israel more than any other nation, he said — to the tune of $500 per Israeli per...
With friends like him, Israel doesn't need enemies.
How often have we heard the statement, some of my best friendsa are Jewish. Yeh, and hyenas are vegetarians!!!!!
It is an unfortunate error to consider Israel as a state as it does not meet a state's basic requirements or obligations. Israel has no borders recognized by contiguous states, Israel has no identifiable in residence population as more of those who claim to be Israelis live elsewhere. Israel is not a functioning social, military or economic entity as it is heavily subsidized by the US and would be unlikely to survive without it. Israel occupies surrounding territories containing populations which reject rule by Israel. Israel has more characteristics common to a protectorate than a state and should not have the advantages in international law common to states. Israel was not admitted to the United Nations as a state and has not met its obligations as a state.
I don't see why its wrong for Israel to be a "Jewish State." Or for that matter, why its wrong for Sweden to be a Swedish State, Japan a Japanese State, or Nigeria a Nigerian State? The Jewish people are a unique people who wish to preserve their own customs, culture, and genome. This shouldn't be too much to ask? This doesn't mean they can expand at the expense of their Arab neighbors, but all people are entitled a place on earth among those who they feel most comfortable with. While some claim "diversity" to be the answer to the world's problems, we also need to respect those who wish to live in places where the population is not a multicultural monstrosity. After all, how can we "respect diversity" if the world is no longer diverse?
It's not about rejecting the Jews as a people or their right to have a state, and it's not about how strong the Israel lobby is or to what extent they influence our decisions. What's important is the FACT that Israel is brutally oppressing a minority population, flouting international law, and getting away with it because of US! This must end.
Thank you to Mearsheimer/Walt for their courage and intellectual rigor.
But of course they haven't gone as far as they could have,in the critic of the organized Jewry.
To do that I will recommend Mr.Kevin Macdonald and his book:"The Culture Of Critique".
"Cicero's" definition of a "state" is imaginary and laughable. Israel is a legitimate state as any other state in the Middle East. It is also diversely inhabited by people from all over the world, including Ethiopian and Indian jews. Arabs living within Israel have better rights and a better standard of living than Arabs in other parts of the world.
"Arabs living within Israel have better rights and a better standard of living than Arabs in other parts of the world." (LPS)
LPS, while this may be correct, you need to be very careful when making this argument. I don't know where you're from, but when people apply this argument to Africans living in the US or Europe, it usually results in accusations of "racism" or "bigotry." Just thought I should warn you.....:)
Another guy probably funded by the PLO. His views are antisemitic and bigoted. Israel is the only legitimate democracy in the Middle East and shares much in common with the U.S.