Military might will not suffice to hold down a captive Palestinian population forever. World opinion has turned against Israel. The next U.S. president will face the same hopeless situation that has been such a burden for President Obama.
It is sad to see a brilliant president with so much promise, like Barack Obama have to grovel and utter Israel's mantra of this year, "Israel has a right to defend itself."
What sort of a neighbor will Israel be in the future?
"Mowing the grass" to routinely kill men, women and children, destroy their homes, hospitals and schools, and deprive them of the freedom to enjoy a normal existence, sounds more like a 20th century Nazi tactic than a tactic appropriate for a 21st century democracy.
It is also a tactic that will fail, because Palestinians will find other ways to resist oppression.
And just maybe a future U.S. president, told to repeat another Israeli talking point on the order of noxious, "Israel has a right to defend itself," will gag, and refuse to do so.
Like Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant revolution, that future U.S. president just might refuse to degrade himself or herself, tear up the script, and say, with Martin Luther, "here I stand, I can do no other."
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