It's Time To Cut Israel Loose

Last night, Israel attacked a flotilla of ships in international waters who were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, the same people whom Israel is slowly starving to death and who have been cut off from the rest of the world by an Israeli blockade. A number of peace activists who resisted this act of aggression were killed, and many more wounded.  By all accounts, this appears to be a war crime, and yet, as in the past, any attempt to sanction or even criticize Israel through the United Nations will be blocked by the United States.

How much longer can the United States unconditionally support Israel? Its actions are universally condemned by the world community with the exception of the US, and it is only our continued military and financial aid which is allowing Israel to act in the manner it does.

The cost of this relationship to the United States can hardly be overstated. Our support for Israel at the expense of the Palestinians is widely acknowledged to be one of the prime reasons for the ongoing radicalization of the Islamic world, and has probably done more to ensure a steady supply of recruits to Islamic terror organizations than anything else we've done, even including our barbarous and criminal invasion and destruction of Iraq.

It is becoming abundantly clear to the citizens of the United States that Israel is a rogue country, and that we simply cannot justify our continued support of it, even as it continues to oppress the Palestinian people, murder them and steal their land. How much longer will it take for the Congress to reach the point where voters are so angry that they can no longer afford to allow the Israeli lobby to dictate the terms of US foreign policy towards Israel?

Israel has reached the point of no return with this attack. It has shown that has every intention of doing whatever it pleases, and that it could care less about the morality of its actions or the effects that they have on its allies.

Israel has been warned repeatedly by the United States and by the world, and it has ignored those warnings. It has exhausted the international goodwill that foolishly allowed it to appropriate land for a new nation in the wake of the Holocaust. It has become a terrorist state, and is guilty of crimes against humanity. It's time to cut it loose.