A “rogue nation” is one which shows willful disregard for international law and which flouts calls for action by the international community as futile. A rogue nation, quite simply, is one that sees itself as above any law that does not serve its own objectives, regardless how strongly those objectives offend morality, dignity, human rights or international security.
The most notable rogue nations today are Iran, Korea, Sudan and Israel.
In the case of Israel, the question is not a controversial one. Israel has itself publicly declared that it will not respect international law or the international community on matters such as the systematic destruction of Palestinian homes or the illegal construction of settlements on Palestinian lands.
Lest anyone doubt the breadth of Israel’s commitment to ignoring international law, the record can be easily checked. More than 40 years ago the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242 requiring Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, illegally seized during the 1967 war.
Israel has ignore that resolution with impunity.
Please note that Security Council resolutions are subject to veto by the permanent Member States including the Untied States and Russia – and in these cases those states acknowledged the state of international law.
In 1979 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 446 again condemning Israelis construction of settlements on occupied lands.
Again Israel ignored the law.
There are many, many resolutions at the United Nations, and numerous treaties on human rights that have been signed by Israel, that have been entirely ignored in their singled minded determination to treat Palestinians as something less than human.
Therefore, by its own statements Israel is truly a rogue nation.
Things are, however, much worse than that.
Israel has shown itself to be a sociopathic state.
A sociopath is one who has no moral compass. All “right” and “wrong” is defined purely in terms of the desires of the sociopath. Recent months have very clearly demonstrated this State pathology, but there is an history in which to understand it.
Israel is a state created by an act of the international community.
While there are ancient historical references to Jewish nation(s) they had no more validity in 1949 than the descendants of Phoenicia claiming the right to half of Israel in 2009.
Prior to the creation of Israel, there were “Zionist” terrorists who were committed to the founding of a Jewish Homeland, the very meaning of Zionism. Many people who went on to great fame and power in Israel began their political activities planting bombs and creating terror in pursuit of their own state.
More than any other reason, the international community in the form of the United Nations ended up carving Israel out of the region, out of a reflex of guilt at the world’s complicity in the holocaust.
Such an act today is inconceivable; even such a proposal would be met with outrage.
The goal of a free Palestine is not a goal that involves forcibly taking land away from any existing legal claimants. It is universally recognized that the occupied lands do not belong to Israel and those Arab states which may be in a position to press a claim have stood down and support the liberation of Palestine.
The only player who sees the creation of a free Palestine as a problem is the very nation that itself was created by the United Nations.
In other words, it is a primary example of Israel only understanding right and wrong in terms of its own desires.
Consider the response against the construction of further invasion settlements.
Israelis representatives have stated “the West Bank is the only place in the world where Israelis cannot build. That’s anti-Semitism.”
Of course a mentally stable person immediately recognizes the inherent madness of such a notion.
If I load up a boat with building supplies, beach on the coast of Israel and start building a settlement, it would take the Israelis military all of twenty seconds to blow me to hell – if I ever made it to the coast alive.
It is a clear case where Israel sees its unilateral, illegal use of someone else’s land as morally correct but if someone else were to try to do the same with Israelis land it would be morally incorrect.
One official was quoted as saying, “How can it be illegal for a Jew to build anywhere he wants? It can only be anti-Semitism.”
But Israelis cannot simply pick a spot in Canada and start building settlements. Is this to be condemned also as anti-Semitism?
If Palestinians destroy the homes of Israelis, it is morally wrong. If Israelis destroy the homes of Palestinians, it is morally correct.
This is the essence of sociopathic thinking.
Once Palestine is free, with a sovereign government, if then that government passes laws that specifically exclude Jews from building homes, it will be an ant-Semitic act. But until Israel recognizes the sovereignty of Palestinians, the only racism being practiced is that of Israel in insisting their actions are acceptable because they are actions against Palestine.
What makes Israel sociopathic is that they are genuinely convinced that anything they do to Palestinians is acceptable. They really believe it and they really believe that anyone who criticizes them is not only wrong, but anti-Semitic and evil. Diagnosis: sociopath.