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I know very little about Israel other the general history that I have described recently. I did not ever think I'd be writing about government, and I always describe myself as an amateur, because I am an amateur.
Over the past few years, as I have gotten used to discussions of world events (although I'm never really used to it and am moderately hyperventilating right now because it's so stressful), I have purposefully avoided spending hours reading about Israel because I felt too emotionally attached to it.
I have only started to be involved more often in discussions of Israel because it finally seemed to me that latent anti-Semitism in the United States has been activated and is no longer latent. The Middle East is a patchwork of tyranny. Actual genocide has been taking place in Syria, whose cities have also been razed, by a dictator, for the sake of his remaining a dictator. That situation has not been carried into the mainstream, and constant, verbal attacks on Israel have. So, I'm talking. The German Jews thought they were safe before World War II.
I can't be leveraged to hurt Israel. People will have to forgive my mistakes and also try not to exploit them.
I thought the withholding of deceased bodies was probably not a one-time tactic. Now I know it's not.
I don't think that Israel should withhold bodies, although the article would be quite misleading to anyone who knew nothing about Israel or the role of martyrdom in some capacities in Islam. I could probably give a more or less accurate hypothesis of what Israel's reasoning is, but to do so would place the emotional response of my cultural Jewishness in jarring proximity to a procedure which is anti-Jewish in every possible way. You can't keep bodies. You cannot keep bodies.
