Why Do Liberals Hate Israel?

By: Shane

Why do liberals hate Israel? An interesting question with a simple answer; Israel stands for everything liberals seem to be fighting to destroy: peace, freedom, and democracy. Israel, for a long time, was the only functioning democracy in the Middle East until we ("we" being conservative Americans) blew the crap out of Saddam's regime and the Taliban, planting the seeds of democracy in the Middle East. Soon we had a free Iraq, a free Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon crying for freedom from the occupying Syrians, Egypt holding free but faulty elections, and even the Saudis implementing some semblance of local government, freely elected but without real power.

Liberals have long hated the idea of the United States, or anyone for that matter, battling large, totalitarian, oppressive regimes. Liberals chose to contain rather than combat communism. Liberals chose to ignore rather than combat islamo-fascism. Liberals chose to appease and ignore rather than combat terrorists. Israel, a free society in a sea of oppressive Islamic states, no doubt angers liberals because it stands for freedom.

Liberals hate war, fighting, and violence. However, they see the only reasonable response to terrorism to do nothing at all. Why escalate the violence? Why fight back? If we just sit back and take it, maybe less people will die! Less terrorists maybe, but not less of us! Terrorists will never stop attacking innocents until either all the innocents are dead and gone, or all the terrorists dead and in hell. American conservatives know this, the Israelis know this, and terrorists know this. Liberals might know this, but if they do, they pretend not to.

Liberals probably agree with the old communist way of thinking (as is common of liberals); there will be no more fighting when people stop resisting communism. The same may be true of terrorism, but is that any reason to stop fighting it? No! Absolutely not!

If Israel where to give up its freedom and stop fighting against terrorists, liberals might begin to respect them. However, the point would be moot as Israel would soon be wiped off of the map.

The fight for freedom in the world should not be a political issue. Left and Right should agree that all people deserve to be free. Conservatives believe this, and have shown that they are willing to fight for it. Regardless of liberals' feelings on the issue, they have shown that they believe there is nothing worth fighting for. The majority of Israelis agree with American conservatives that freedom is worth fighting and dying for. Israelis therefore disagree with liberals, and there is the root of liberal hatred of Israel.

Israel has had to put up with constant military and terrorist attacks since its very forming. When Israel was created (or rather, when the Jews where given back the land that God originally bestowed upon them) Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq soon attacked to destroy the nation. The Israelis fought back and fended off the attacks, and have since had to put up with various military campaigns against them, not to mention decades of terrorist attacks.

The Israelis have finally grown tired of the ridiculous concept of a "proportional response." For decades, every time a terrorist blew up a restaurant or checkpoint, the Israelis responded with puny, "proportional" retaliatory attacks. These "proportional" attacks really did nothing but kill a small portion of the terrorists, kill some civilians, and forever vilify Israel in the eyes of American liberals.

Israel has finally decided to go all out on the terrorist organizations of Hezbollah and Hamas, two of their oldest and worst attackers. Now the very liberals who treated Israelis like war criminals for their decades-long policy of "proportional responses," are begging them to return to the policy. But Israel has decided it is time to put a serious dent in the terrorist organizations.

Israel has begun a very large military campaign against terrorist, including Hezbollah, who currently occupy Lebanon, and Hamas, who is in the "territory" of "Palestine." Word has it that Israel is prepared to stop the attacks in exchange for a two-kilometer "security" buffer between their nation and Lebanon. But the damage is done.

Israel has shown the world, including liberals, that it is willing to fight for freedom, even if it means killing thousands of terrorists and causing possible civilian causalities. There is no forgiveness from liberals for the great "sin" of defending one's self through the mechanism of war. Let's be honest, liberals never liked Israel because they were a beacon of freedom in the Middle East and were willing to fight for freedom. Now that they've shown they are still willing to fight for the right to be free, they aren't going to be winning any popularity contests with liberals anytime soon.

Shane is a writer for the conservative news blog UnrestInTheForest.BlogSpot.com. His other articles can be found here.