“The simple fact is both of these attempts required the removal of the people who lived in the area who did not meet the specific genetic makeup required.”

Violence, weapons do not equal power
Commentary by Chris Dobson

Let me state first that my particular dislike for Israel has nothing to do with the people who populate the country or their religion, but rather toward the government and the state that use violence in the name of Israel.

All Semites should be treated equally with all the other people of the world, which is why I find the existence of Israel an abomination in this world.

Few people admit this but Jews and Palestinians are both historically derived from the seed of Abraham. To treat either of them as second-class peoples is to be anti-Semitic.

Adolf Hitler should no more be allowed to create his Aryan homeland, then to allow the Jews to create their Judaic homeland.

The simple fact is both of these attempts required the removal of the people who lived in the area who did not meet the specific genetic makeup required.

Hitler was an incredibly evil man bent on world domination and willing to systematically imprison and kill those he felt were not real humans. But when Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, stated the Jews sought “a land without people for a people without land,” his conception mimicked something popular among the rulers of our country, a complete disregard for the lifestyle of other people.

Our country was stolen from the Native Americans and not discovered by Columbus as our textbooks would like us to believe. Similarly, many Israeli leaders have pointed out there were no “Palestinians” before 1948, but were there“Indians” before Columbus?

There were no “Indians” before Columbus because the term “Indian” was a label applied by Columbus, as “Palestinian” was applied to the Arabs living in the area now occupied by Israel. Just as our “Manifest Destiny” justified the subjugation of the native populations, Abraham’s covenant is manipulated to justify an “apartheid-like system,” in the words of former Secretary of State George Schultz.

People need to have the rights to live peacefully and in security, but simply having bigger or better weapons provides neither.

Israel possesses a stockpile of nuclear weapons that directly contravenes the provisions of various nuclear anti-proliferation treaties and should prevent them from receiving any aid from the United States, but this fact is overlooked.

Instead, Israel is the leading recipient of United States aid, nearly $3 billion annually, mostly military aid that is then used to control the “Palestinians” in their enclaves.

While Palestinians use humans to move their bombs into position, Israel uses helicopters and missiles, provided by our tax dollars, to get their bombs into position. Both engage in assassinations of the other’s leaders to further their objectives and neither cares if innocent civilians are hurt in the process. Yet, the seizure of an arms shipment justifies calling Palestinians terrorists despite our lavish, by comparison, arms shipments to Israel.

In any fairness, one cannot call either of these groups terrorists without including the other.

Chris Dobson is a senior history major from Arlington. He can be contacted at (c.p.dobson@student.tcu.edu).

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