How awful do you have to be for Israel’s right-wing fellow traveler, our American ambassador Mike Huckabee, to call you a terrorist (if you are a Jewish Israeli)?

Personally, my perpetual anger at right-wing offenses on our eastern side has turned to outright revulsion. I am a nauseated at the thought of a nurse getting shot through the spine by rampaging settlers, by families in the village of Qusra under siege and barricaded in their homes, by the army removing villagers from their homes rather than arresting and removing the offending settlers, thus preventing them from returning to their new “settlement.”

Our government has made it ever-so-clear that the upcoming elections and pandering to their parties’ “bases” are more important than either human rights or international opinion. They remove the settlers, send the army in to do the unpleasant job, and then turn their backs when the settlers return, like bloodthirsty locusts, to other people’s doorsteps. Led by Bibi, they refuse to condemn the settlers’ actions, or to offer real protection to villagers.

How destructive do you have to be for the Israeli army to send whole units after you, for the army’s major general to repeatedly warn lawmakers........

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