why is it acceptable when Israel does it?

(P)(R)Tuesday, I explored the question of what if the Israeli military attack on a civilian group in international waters had been conducted by another country instead, like Iran or China.

What I'm interested in this afternoon is why Israel gets a free pass. What is so valuable about a militaristic right-wing government that we allow them to assault US citizens with impunity, even kids? Furkan Dogan wasn't just some no-name foreigner. He was a US citizen. And he was a teenager. Those quintessentially evil villains in the Dateline TV show 'to catch a predator' don't even kill their victims.

And you can't say the most recent aid flotilla was some anomaly, either. Another ship taking part in the movement to end the blockade is named the Rachel Corrie. You know why it's called that? Because Rachel Corrie was an American student who was killed by the Israeli government.

And the Israeli government just keeps on attacking Americans. Just this week, the IDF fired a tear gas canister directly in the face of student Emily Henochowicz. The artist whose profile picture is of somebody in an eyeball costume will never have the use of her left eye again. It's gone:



Note: image used under Creative Commons license courtesy of ISM.

It's a sad commentary on America when we can make fake noises about the evils of poor foreigners and protecting our borders and so forth, but when foreign governments are attacking actual Americans, we suddenly lack the capacity to do anything about it.

Why?