Reply #37: and what about Israeli racism against Arabs?

[funnymanpants]

I am so sick of this line of reasoning, if you can call it that, that because there is racism in the Arab world, anything Israel does is okay. This response has become a knee-jerk reaction for the pro-Israel-no-matter-what crowd. Using this logic we should also cheer on the war in Iraq and any other war the US launches, because "the whole world hates us and wants to destroy us."

What especially infuriates me is that there is also racism amongst Israelis too:

Israeli Textbooks and Children’s Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and Arabs

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0999/9909019.html

Hatred of Arabs rising among teens in Israel

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6350/edition_id/118/format/html/displaystory.html

Top Israeli rabbi incites ethnic hatred against Arabs


http://canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/13890.shtml

And Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Palestinians because he thought them inferior human beings. israeli settlers put flowers on his grave and consider him a hero.

At Goldstein's eulogy Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba, another of his close friends in the Kach group, stated, "Goldstein could not continue to bear the humiliations and shame nowadays inflicted upon us; this was why he took action for no other reason than to
sanctify the holy name of God."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein#Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre

There is a party in Isarel called the Nationalist party that advocates transferring the Palestinians off their land. And right now, as we post, Israel is building more settlements, thus destroying the Palestinians. Olmert has announced he will build a new settlment bloc in the Jordan Valley so he can annex it for "security purposes." So while the Arabs talk about destroying Israel, Israel itself is actually doing the destruction right now.