tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post114530046108745182..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Seth Greenland @ HuffingtonPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1145380829448829842006-04-18T13:20:00.000-04:002006-04-18T13:20:00.000-04:00On Seth Greenfield's post--Yawn, Yawn, Yawn. Ther...On Seth Greenfield's post--Yawn, Yawn, Yawn. There is no other place in the world, outside the U.S., where you can't have a reasonable debate about Israeli policy. In the U.S., you will find yourself caught in a whirlpool of over the top, sentimentalized, ignorant views of Israel and its supposed awful daily life, filled with terrorist bombings. What you're not allowed to witness and then say out loud in public is what daily life looks like from the ground up in places like Rafah. <BR/><BR/>I've spent a lot of time in both Israel and the Occupied Territories, and the difference in daily life is like night and day. Israel does suffer from terrorism but not on a daily basis. Most of the time life is like any first world country. Drive ten kilometers, and you are in a Third World country socio-economically. I've lived through missile attacks by the Israeli military. The weapons disparity between the two sides is one of the least understood aspects of what is not a war but a campaign aimed at keeping Palestinians imprisoned on what remains of their land and then making the world think that there's one embattled democracy against a vast irrational "entity" that must be punished for every act that one of "their's" commits. <BR/><BR/>Frankly, the entire discussion of Israel and the Palestinians in the U.S., except on the margins, is a great big bore and way behind what is discussed in Britain or Canada, even.freespeechloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925986545953519952noreply@blogger.com