tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221719.post5097221406720970135..comments2024-02-16T19:15:30.213-05:00Comments on Brian's Coffeehouse: Countering at the UNBrian Ulrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06986631330360998134noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221719.post-53052296742128257922012-11-16T12:23:37.954-05:002012-11-16T12:23:37.954-05:00Perhaps Israel's spokesmen overlook these fact...Perhaps Israel's spokesmen overlook these factors while remembering newspaper accounts of efforts to charge a sitting President of the United States with war crimes over the same sort of pre-emptive self-defense Israel frequently conducts. It doesn't make their arguments more logical or their position less hypocritical (not that any political body has achieved a monopoly on hypocrisy), but concerns of that sort do render Israeli feelings of fear fairly founded in fact.<br /><br />The question may better be what needs to be done to protect Palestine from being played as a puppet by forces with a political interest in causing misery in Israel. Palestine, when it exists, should be primarily motivated to protect Palestinians – shouldn't it? This is not my field, so I'd definitely like to know if there have been reasons for optimism that priorities in Palestinian government have been directed more in favor of its people than toward graft or against the interests of neighbors. The news leaves me with what I feel is a problematic gap in the knowledge I'd want before advocating specific policy.Jaded Consumerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631410690179296528noreply@blogger.com