Disliking Israel

I DON'T LIKE ISRAEL, and I never have. I think its because I have somehow gotten the impression that Israel is a propped up military power, whose need to defend itself and is very existence has evolved, over the years, into a messaged ideology that the nation of Israel is the exclusive victim in constant dire peril, constantly fighting for its existence against the evil forces of its powerful, ruthless, relentless enemies. This, I now believe, and would flatly asset, is complete and utter nonsense.It truly seems as if Israel controls the United States government. It doesn't buy the control. The money for this comes streaming in from the United States, and has since Israels' inception on May 15, 1948. The pro Israeli lobby in Congress, among the strongest, best funded such efforts on Capitol Hill, has the full support of millions of American Jewish benefactors, and many other pro Isralei donors.I am not a Christian, am not anti-semitic, and have nothing against Jews, Christians, or anyone. But the nation-state of Israel under Neyanyahu has become a terorist monstrosity. This description includes and is partly based upon its recent treatment of Gaza, and all of its other neighbors. My impression and understanding is that almost from the moment of its declaration of nationhood, Israel naturally had the sacred and inviolable right to defend itself, and has done so with great success, with American and British assistance. But soon thereafter it became increasingly obvious that Israel and its leaders would not be content to remain peacefully within it own original borders, but would conduct its foreign policy as an aggressive, expanionist politial and military entity. Staunch American supporters of Israel fume and chafe at the very notion of anyone not being pro Israel, not being firmly, toally Zionist, and not being completely hateful towards Iarael's mostly Islamic enemies. If one does not like the Judaic religion, or any religion, or religion generally, there is no necessary association with this point of view with hatred of the nation of Israel. What we all must avoid doing is disliking or discriminating against Jews, or anybody else, as human beings, based upon merely religious considerations. Disliking governments and countries is an entirely different matter. Some governments and whole countries, by virtue of their behavior and the support of their citizens of their behavior, deserve only contempt, censure, and condemnation, if only temporarily. My belief, over the years, is that the United States, its government and foreign relations establishment, has always been much too closely allied, aligned with Israel, with an imbalanced foreign policy skewed against the Islamic countries and Islamic international community. I confess that I have a far less favorable attitude towards religions other than my own, which is essentially pantheism, or deism. Recognizing this limitation, I have determined to be more openminded and tolerant. Surely every intelligent person of faith in the world has the potential to openmindedly comprehend and accept the wisdom and beauty inherent in all of the world's more than forty two hundred known organized religious faiths. I embrace and rejoice in my Uniterian pantheism, which, from the Christian viewpoint, is nearly indistinguishable from atheism. In terms of some anthropomorphic Biblial or Koranic deity, I am indeed an atheist. Thus go our individual differences. Let us embrace the reality that Goethe was speaking the truth when he said; "When I realized that everyone invents his own religion, I decided to invent mine."