How is Israel expansionist?
It’s not.
What do you think about the Kurdish oil smuggling ?
~How is Israel expansionist?~
Well, technically Israel has grown a bit since it’s establishment if I’m not mistaking.
It is not if I’m blaming Israel, I think it won’t hurt them to grow some more.
Pieter, you think “expansionist Israel” is just a throw-away line that can be ignored in the context of your “greater article”.
Well, “throw-away lines” matter.
If you wrote a long piece on global warming and threw in a line about “global warming deniers are all in the pay of oil companies”, your entire piece would be suspect, no matter what else you put in it.
Your choice of wording — “expansionist Israel” — says that your brain works in a certain way that is alien to most of us here. None of us would ever make the “mistake” of saying “expansionist Israel”. It could only be said by someone who either believes it or is for some reason comfortable repeating it. Where’d you pick it up? Cocktail parties with liberals?