Do you have to support Israel no matter what?

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Originally Posted by seekerman

Given the choice, would it be better to live in Israel than Saudi Arabia? What middle eastern country would be a better place to live than Israel?

I can think of none. It's not because of it's religious leanings though, it's because of the personal freedoms which exist there that do not exist in other middle eastern countries.

This is why it's important to align with Israel.

in particular, as we are discussing the situation associated with the liked story from SLATE, we have a situation in this freedom loving nation that they are trying to correct.


Lets suppose that IN AMERICA there was a population of people, living nomadically within the boarders of this country on land that was not "owned" by anyone and these same people lived a subsistance poverty stricken existance. And they refused to allow their children to attend any schools. In particular, they kept their daughters illiterate on purpose, utterly without any education and utterly dependant on a domanant male population. These girls were given away in marriage at ages as young as 12 or 13.

What would be the sentiment? Would be be wringing our hands about "taking their land" which they do not own. Would we be upset that these peoples "way of life" was being exterminated?

Or would we put a stop to the utter horror of what they were doing?

Do we really care that these people have been living this way since the middle ages or before? Do we really care about that?