Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Katie Halper"
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If he's a plagiarist, where's the smoking gun? It should be easy to prove. "Here's what Dershowitz wrote. Here's what someone wrote, before, that is lifted without attribution." With Claudine Gay, we all saw the side-by-side. Finkelstein makes the claim, but didn't come to the interview with receipts.
My take on Israel is that it was created by force as a last gasp of British colonialism Israel will always be embattled, and Israel will do whatever it feels it must, to survive as a nation-state. Many atrocities have been committed against and by Israel in this never ending existential struggle.
There are Arab nations in essentially the same predicament. British promises of statehood were bandied to every tribe and ethnic group in the region, in return for fighting foes of the British. The British ended up winning and immediately 'forgot' its promises. $o there's instability throughout the region, with rebels everywhere you look.
In my opinion, the U$A picked up where the British left off, playing a clumsy, ham-handed version of the "Great Game," not on behalf of the U$A, which doesn't need Middle East oil, but its European allies certainly do! This has kept Europe in America's debt. In return, the U$A has (had) European backing in all of its wars. Where the interests of one leaves off and the other begins is not very clear to a casual historian such as myself. What is clear is that the strategy of keeping the rest of the world destabilized is just storing up trouble for the so-called "free world," which is becoming less free by the day.
Israel is caught in the middle. It has to be extreme to survive. Of course Israel seeks to influence American politics. We're its sugar daddy! Of course America backs Israel no matter what. It's our proxy in the Middle East.
Dersh is a great lawyer. I don't think he's always honest or that he doesn't oversell his case and downplay any opposing case. There are ways to lie using the truth, and he's a master of the technique. He is a very hard-core zionist, so of course he's going to do his lawyerly best to justify anything Israel does. In this effort, any criticism of Israel is blatant anti-semitism. I don't judge Israel. I think it does what it believes it must.
I'm not sure what the best solution(s) is(are). I know we have committed atrocities, ourselves, in the name of national security and democracy, often to the detriment of both. One thing that I am pretty sure of is that sending billions in military and financial aid to the Middle East doesn't help the people in the Middle East. Yes, Israel is an apartheid state. I don't know what choice it has, given the pressure on it since its (mostly arbitrary) creation in 1948, by allies drunk on power and fueled by guilt over the holocaust.
Other tribes and ethnic groups were also promised statehood, and cast aside like yesterday's trash as soon as our or Britain's short-term goals were achieved. They have just as much right to self-determination as anyone else. Our apparent divide-and-conquer strategy has yielded great benefits for us and our allies for 80 years, but 80 years is an eyeblink in history, and I don't think it's a good strategy for lasting peace and prosperity for anyone.
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This isn't left vs right. It's war-pig establishment vs everybody else. As a libertarian, I think progressives' inordinate love for nanny government is not conducive to liberty or prosperity, but we have broad agreement on wanting to end forever war, opposing the military-industrial complex, and fighting the media-censorship complex.
Progressives are one giant cognitive dissonance, urging us to give more power to the state apparat to "help" the downtrodden, when everything about the last 50 years should teach progressives that the last people we should put in charge of health, education and welfare are the bureaucrats and the politicians who will always sell out to the corporations and vice-versa. Putting the government in charge means that multinationals need only bribe or coerce a handful at the top to impose their will on everyone. Get government out of everybody's business and business will not be able to move the needle by hijacking the state.
It's not just bad corporations and crony capitalism going in one direction. It's also the state imposing its will on business. Bad actors in government and business are enabled in their crimes by the progressive project, which should be a grassroots operation between consenting adults to do what they can to help their immediate neighbors and for God's sake, quit looking to government to solve the human condition through organizational charts and massive bureaucracies. Human problems are solved, one human at a time, by humans who care, not by civil servants who are out of a job as soon as they actually solve anything, so of course they solve nothing.
There are no perfect solutions, only trade-offs, and the question is "Who manages the trade-offs? Human beings directly concerned, or government bureaucracies 2,000 miles away?"
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