If you don't approve of everything that Israel does, does that make you an anti-Semite?

Anybody who opposes anything that Israel does is automatically dubbed an anti-Semite.  There are folks who defend Israel regardless of what Israel does. I agree that social media is full of anti-Semites but it's also a platform where nasty hatemongers of all stripes congregate to spew their venom. The biggest social media game is the blame game - everybody blames another group of folks for perceived injustice.  As one who objectively tries to understand a very complicated situation through the prism of history and facts, I'm typically accused of being both an anti-Semite and a defender of Israel depending on who is judging me and my views.

I'm neither because I have spent considerable time researching Israel, its history, Islam, its history and that volatile place known as the Middle East.  My blog posts on these issues are very long research pieces and are certainly not for the judgmental Attention Deficit Disorder folks who have already formed biased conclusions.

In fact, I frequently post a DISCLOSURE on my religious and geopolitical views that involve Israel, Judaism and Islam.

Disclosure: The patch of dirt known as Israel, a nation about the size of New Jersey, has been one of the most fought over pieces of real estate in human history because it's where Judaism, Christianity and Islam have always theologically and geo-politically collided. This paradigm is not about to change and Israel will forever be controlled by whoever maintains the military superiority to control it. That is the way it has always been and always will be unless a merciful God decides that Israel should just fall into the Mediterranean Sea and is no longer available for anybody to fight over. The issue is further complicated by the fact that nearly all organized religions are nothing more than institutionalized violence and the two most violent religions that ever existed are Christianity and Islam simply because they were militarily successful in creating powerful and brutal empires. Man and his gods will forever be etched into the inhumanity of man vs. man.

While I have been critical of Israel, I have always vigorously defended its absolute right to exist and yes, this seriously offends the anti-Semites whose Nazi views demand that Jews be purged from the human landscape.  That said, I have two huge issues with Israel.  The first issue is simple and involves the brutality of disproportionate Israel military violence against the Palestinians. Destroying the homes, hospitals, schools and lands of a deeply impoverished and suffering people is an act of inhumane and totally unjustified brutality.  I will never defend what Israel does in Gaza.

The 2nd issue is a whole lot more complicated geopolitically because it involves the sinister US-Israeli-Saudi alliance, an alliance that I have indeed labeled the real axis of evil.  I'm no fan of Saudi Arabia and view the Sunni Salafist Wahhabist nation as pure concentrated evil and a threat to human civilization everywhere.  I've blogged about it:

Iran is NOT a terrorist nation. Saudi Arabia is the Kingpin of Islamist Terrorism.

Dear Muslims: Why Nobody Wants You In Their Country

Petro Dollar = ISIS Dollar, Saudi Arabia, Sunni Salafist Wahhabism and US Foreign Policy - Connect the Dots 

Exactly why the US and Israel are in bed with the savage Saudis is something that should concern all of us but it's most easily explained by understanding the petro dollar and how Saudi Arabia controls it.  The fact that the dollar is literally controlled by the Saudis, a situation so critically important that America will even genuflect before the filthy savage Saudis and fight their Wahhabist jihads for them, is an undeniable horror.  Israel goes along with anything that the US orders it to do because a lot is at stake, like Israel risking the loss of $38 billion in military aid, here.  As one who endorse ending all foreign aid to all nation including Israel, I find it appalling that US taxpayers give Israel billions every year and that the money is used to wage unjust military action against defenseless Palestinians.  Are we facilitating murder and mayhem to enrich US defense contractors?  It's a valid question.

Finally, if anybody truly seeks truth I suggest that they start with learning the truth and shedding their biased blinders and do it without the prejudice of religion.  The world is a complex and extremely volatile mixture of competing theologies, cultures and laws.  We either kill each other or figure out how to peacefully co-exist.  That is our ultimate challenge.

Meanwhile, truth seekers can start with:

With Charity Toward None, A History of Israel

A Cruise Through History: Islam, the West and the Rest of the World

The Making of the Modern Middle East 

In summary, I advocate for peace and liberty for all folks.  I am ferociously antiwar and view warmongers as the most evil and insidious folks on the planet.