"Sure it's relevant. What are you really askin? "
Well I'm just trying to clear something up that has me confused. I thought the Israeli government had encouraged settlement in these "buffer zones" and now that they're forcing everyone out, it seems like this is a problem the Israeli government created. If I'm not mistaken, you seem to agree with me on that point. But in my opinion, while the heavy-handed, no tolerance, no exceptions method of enforcement of policy makes sense when you're used to dealing with crazies who'll blow themselves up to get to you, at the point at which it becomes standard operating procedure for everything, you've cut your nose off to spite your face.
The point where we diverge, I guess, is that I see examples of those kinds of mistakes made against non-Jews in the area, I see it as furthering the misunderstand of a government or class oppression for a racially motivated oppression. It was much the same in the US when organizations like the Black Panthers saw every flaw in the white establishment as an overt racial attack.
As for the notion that "Isreal's right to exist is provacation" I'm of the opinion that NO nation has a right to exist, and nationalism is just a symptom of inbreds who think their "pure-blood" makes them anything other than prone to disease and disfunction. But I doubt that particular human condition could be overlooked short of a global threat from another species of life, and so far no alien race has shown up for us to unite against in our natural desire to band together to fight our enemies. It's just as well, they'd prolly obliterate us.
