There is no case for Israel
According to Last Week's Poll
I was researching the Israel Lobby the other day for a post I was doing about Peter Rosenberg, and I noticed the similarity between the cover of the book The Israel Lobby, by Mearsheimer and Walt, and the cover of The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz.
I've often noticed the Dershowitz book on a shelf at the Borders I go to, when I'm looking for new books on contentious political issues, which is what I'll often do when I get tired of pr0n (for the evening), and it's occurred to me: Why would anyone even bother writing a book called The Case for Israel, unless there was no case for Israel? You don't see people writing books called The Case for a Ham Sandwich, now do you?
Last week's poll has to do with whether or not there's a case for Israel. Check the results.
Is there a case for Israel?
- No (57.1%)
- Yes (42.9%)
Total votes: 406
As it turns out, there is no case for Israel. Er, at least according to a majority of the people who voted in this poll, there isn't. Someone alert the United Nations.
No but really, if Kosha Dillz or somebody wants to chime in and explain the case for Israel, they're certainly free. I'd read the book, but who's got that kind of time? Plus, I heard it was plagiarized, and I don't trust information from plagiarists.
As far as the case against Israel, the strongest case, as far as I'm concerned, is the most obvious. That being that a) It was stolen out from underneath the people who were already living there; and, perhaps most importantly, b) They either didn't have the sense, or they didn't have the wherewithal to ethnically cleanse all of them, only a veritable shiteload of them. So, now the rest of the world gets to suffer.
The United States got our country from the Indians in a way that definitely didn't work out as well for them. But at least we've gotten to the point where most of them are out in Oklahoma, where they're free to gorge themselves of firewater and gamble in casinos. Worst case scenario, one of them might kill you on the highway out there, but why would you be on the highway in Oklahoma anyway? You could fuck around and get chased down the street by a Tornado, like in that movie Twister.
