Israel is not tainted by decadence that has taken hold of the West elsewhere. The meanings of Israelis and Palestinians have meaning. We have empty and meaningless lives. To those in the West, Israel (and Russia) present something of a torch.
Western civilisation is doomed. Though we have the opportunity to go to god honourably.
Nope. It is about the cultural heritage the West originated from, including Hebrew civilisation. This requires an aristocratic polity. While Israel was founded a democracy, its current feudal state of government was a happy 'mistake'.
Self-rule is undesirable in general, whether we are talking about Palestine, Switzerland, China or the United States. Since Palestine became the Jewish homeland, you will find out that Palestine has always been ruled externally (you can count the Crusaders if you like) in the absence of the Jews. A state is nothing but its ruling elite and diluting or destroying it is a recipe for another Somalia.
Though if Somalia is your cup of tea, I won't stop you!
I can't beieve people are still considering raw numbers as if Israel's response hasn't been "proportional", not that any articles of war ever mention the word, but not that it matters. What the numbers show is that one side , Israel, protects it's civilians from attack and th other side, Hamas, doesn't. But that doesn't matter because all that matters is the numbers of dead, not why they are dead, but don't forget that on past experience that the ratio has about 50/50 civilian militant deaths, which is rather remarkable considering the conditions they are against.
