I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.
September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."
The justice of a war basically refers to the question whether there is a right to attack in the first place. Justice in a war is concerned with whether the fighting happens in accordance with the international laws of war.
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
