To Internutters Only (Skip This If You're Sane)
I refer to myself as being Pro-Israel because, as I've said before, for lack of a better term, I am - Pro-Israel. Not that I believe one can really be Pro a country, but, as the Internet is all about semantics, I'll go with Pro-Israel for $1,000 Alex.
And ignore how stupid it sounds - I guess.
Now, because I in no way support the politics of The Right - no matter the country - I don't support the current government of Israel. And because I believe that this current rightwing government and previous rightwing governments of Israel have made a series of tragic mistakes in how they have treated the Palestinians (tragic both for Israelis and for Palestinians, I think) - I have no qualms about saying so.
In fact, I delight in it. I find it invigorating. It makes me... feel good. Holy, almost. Like how Jesus would feel if he played an Irksome Git on the Internet.
Because, Virginia - this is the Internet, afterall. (And here is where you may notice I have turned off my comments - again - on all my other blog entries except this one.) Would I criticize the policies of leftwing governments of Israel? No. No I would not. I would just hum along with the socialist chorus in my head assuming all was well and that tragic mistakes that in no way better the lives of anyone were NOT being made.
Over and over and over.
I'd probably never even post about Israel. NOT THAT I WOULDN'T STILL BE PRO-ISRAEL, YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!! I'd just be quieter about it. To the point of probably not paying any attention whatsoever to Israel, because, really - what would there be to say except "My but that Israel is looking good these days".
Sadly (or hilariously, I'm never sure...), one cannot criticize any aspect of the policies of Israel's current and previous rightwing government(s) without rightwingers here (and they monitor blogs like mine that allow comments both very supportive of Israel and very critical of Israel - truly, madly, deeply - except without making eye contact) running all over the Internet labelling one an Anti-Semite, either directly or through anonymous comments - it doesn't matter. They know not what they do except that they enjoy the freedom the Internet affords them of making drive-by character assassinations for no purpose other than to roll around in the shitstorms they cause, running back and forth to each other's blogs, leaving telltale shit tracks all over the Internet.
Human shit tracks. No one has stepped in doodoo, you understand. They shit, roll in it, and head out on the Internet.
After a while, you can smell them coming - it's the smell of human shit, you can't miss it - but I have a bad cold, so... I missed it this time.
Anyway, they do it for partisan political purposes or because they are just crazy and yes - it is pretty base behaviour and every once in a while I feel it necessary (for personal reasons and because I suffer from a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur) to clarify for the casual reader of my blog that my personal political views are very solidly on the side of Israelis and their right to live in Israel relatively free of the constant threat - real or rhetorical, quite frankly, because words DO matter - of annihilation that comes from the Arab Brotherhood, such as it is. A brotherhood, I mean. Which is really to say that it isn't.
So, I can't help but feel somewhat vindicated in my view that rightwing governments are bad, wrong, not good at all - no matter the country - when an article like this pops up in the news:
Interestingly, you won't find much comment on this reality from all those rightwingers on the Internet who spend their days monitoring the blogs of people with whom they disagree politically (you'll know them by the number of times they can use "Taliban Jack" in a sentence) or just personally (you'll know them by the number of times they use "hag, shrew, skank" when describing her) leaving nasty - and often, actionable - comments in the dead of night in the comments sections of their blogs.
I mean, what's to say about that article and now this one:
Other than to point out the much-criticized-by-The-Left fact that a series of rightwing governments in Israel engaged in a deliberate domestic policy to crowd out the Palestinians who were living and working there and being decent Israeli citizens in spite of being systematically stripped of their civil rights - by bringing in Neo-Nazis from Russia.
I call it ironic. I imagine the Palestinians who have been shot trying to slip into Israel from Gaza to find employment would call it schadenfreud.
Whatever. It's one thing for which the Israeli government has only itself to blame - the rightwing Israeli government. Because even I could have foretold that one backfiring in the worst way on the citizens of Israel.
So yeah, I feel pretty good about my Pro-Israelness today. Of course, just like all those rightwingers (who no doubt luvvvvv the rightwing government of Israel for bringing in Russian Neo-Nazis to crowd out the Palestinians), I don't have to actually live there and suffer under the policies of its rightwing government - do I.
Whoops! I almost forgot!
{{{Hugs, Israel}}}
