Fuck Israel? So you judge all the people in the country based on this particular incident? I find it funny how so many here lash out against Israel instead of the people that did the deed. It seems that it's "ok" to attack the Jewish people and I am surprised it's not moderated.
Every country has bad people doing horrible things, but it seems that this thread turned in to attacking relations between Israel and US/Israel as whole. Israel has a lot of GOOD people living there and it's a very pleasant country overall.
For stuff like this it's probably necessary to have a degree of separation between the Israeli government and the Jewish community as a whole, just like separating the Pope from the whole of Christianity (he only really speaks for one sect anyways).
I don't think anybody in their right mind is attacking the entirety of the Jewish people for these things. They're attacking the people in charge of running Israel, and the people who are enforcing the laws there, because they are doing things like this,
and also forcing nonviolent Palestinians out of their homes that they've lived in for generations by claiming their land as the government's, and stating that the trees are "illegally planted on state land". In that sense, you can't necessarily say that this is an "isolated incident". It's a symptom of prejudice between Israel and Palestine.
In other words, we are attacking the actions of the government, and not necessarily attributing them to the entirety of the Jewish people. Are there bigots who are using Israel's actions to latch onto the chance to do the latter? Yeah, there are. It's kind of difficult to avoid that when Israel is labeled and presents itself as a Jewish state.
But I believe that dismissing all of the criticisms of the Israeli government - or of any government, really - as "attacking its people" is a huge mistake, because using that rhetoric distracts from the chance for further debate and allows shit like this to go on.
You're right in a general sense that we have to attack "bad people doing horrible things". But not just the people who stick out as symptoms. We have to attack the prejudice as well, and get people to unlearn it.
