Double Standards

Do we support Israel because they help the balance of power in the Mideast? Similar to how we supported Iraq versus Iran, or Afghanistan versus the Soviet Union or how China helps out North Korea or Russia helps Iran or Venezuela helps Cuba? Each of these groups are looking to tie up the resources and focus of their global competitors via the creation of a greater number of enemies for their enemy...nothing surprising here I guess. The whole world is playing each other off of each other.

I see the double standard as Israel and a small portion of its Ultra-Orthodox population is sexist in the same way the south of the United States is racist or the same way the Taliban was oppressive. The world is a complicated beast that is tied up within itself. There are levels of complication inside of the levels of complication.

Hrmm...hypocrites. We are that sometimes. But is this pragmatism a needed evil in the world? Is pragmatism the excused used by those without the inner strength to stick with their morals? I find myself in spots where my logic and emotion and principle are at odds with what will get the short term job done and it pushes hard on me to decide whether I should make the powers that be happy in the short term or whether I should eschew their smiles in exchange for what I truly believe in. Gotta push. Gotta try.