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14:10 - Let's hear it for the good guys
http://www.palit.com/2002_06_16_tkl_archive.asp
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Blogging from India, Shuman Palit has a list of the top twenty reasons to like/love/admire Israel. Go read it, and be sure to also read the responses from Solly Ezekiel and Michael Trossman.
It's good to see that there are more countries on "our side" than just ourselves. What gets me, though, is that there's this unspoken rule that "you don't help the Israelis"-- almost as though the very fact that they've succeeded using the same methods as America did, with a culture of personal expression and individual freedom and innovation, lumps them into a hated category of countries that nobody is willing to emulate because of their success.
Nobody wants to be like the US, because capitalism and democracy and secularity are seen deep down in other parts of the world as dirty and dehumanizing. Nobody wants to be like Israel, because they've got all the bad aspects of the US, plus they're Jews.
If we weren't concerned with what the rest of the world thinks, or whether it would constitute treason or something, I can imagine that a lot of people in this country would happily form a militia to go to Israel and fight on the side of the people that represents a "right" that no accusations of Naziism can assail: this "right" is one where the only possible casualties are the romanticism and idealism of what has been called the "Old World" for centuries now.
If we were to gather together the countries who seem to "get it"-- America, Israel, Britain, India, Japan, perhaps a few others-- and secede and form our own planet, I've got a guess as to which planet would survive longer.
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