Israel in Eyes of Liberials

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Today's article deals with the how the liberal left views the State of Israel though the eyes of the Hankyoreh, which deals with the practices of Israel's illegal detention of Palestine activists. Needless to say, the article is harshly negative about the practice, calling in both illegal in the context of the international law and immoral in context of state ethics, and lastly unwise in the consideration of Israel's many strategical weakness. The article and the commentary does not hesitate to draw negative comparison between the current Israel regime and the old military dictatorship in Korea.

While I can understand the discomfort that the newspaper feels about these illegal detention, since many of the editors today have experienced those detentions themselves, I found it difficult to equate that with the old military regime in Korea. After all, Israel is bi-racial state with at least some Jews viewing the arrests and interrogation as (sadly) necessarily undertaking in survival of Israel. Even considering the similarities between the two nations, it is overly-stretching the truth to argue overly on the linking the two regimes together. Israel is sill a functioning democracy unlike the 1970s Korea. Still, it was refreshing to read a article about something else than oil price, or pro-Israeli puff piece.