Reply #46: Criticism of the Israeli government is not necessarily Anti-Semitic

[Selatius]

Am I angry with the Israeli government's colonialist policies in the West Bank/Gaza Strip? Am I disappointed that the US government would wage a damn war in the name of disarming a country that supposedly has WMD even though the state of Israel has far greater destructive capacity with its own stockpile of nuclear weapons? Do I feel anger at the Israeli government's attack on the USS Liberty and the whitewashing by the damn federal government even though it is beyond question those American sailors were deliberately, systematically attacked?

Yes, I'm angry at all of this as well as a litany of other wrongs committed by the state of Israel or the US federal government, not to mention the UN resolutions Israel continues to ignore and the others the US has vetoed to death, but does that mean I hate Jewish people? No. A person can hate a government but hold no ill-will towards its subjects (the people). I detest the federal government, for instance, but that does not necessarily equate to detesting the citizens of the US. I am NOT a self-hating American.

Even though it is true that certain high level government officials are Jewish (i.e. Wolfowitz, also an avowed Zionist), my complaint with the current regime is their corrupt policies (or no policy whatsoever), not their religion. I could give two shits what their religion is. Wolfowitz belongs on the same list of people I detest the same as Bush and Cheney because of their corporatism, not their religion.

BTW, if you want to know what corporatism is, just read my signature.