rogue state

the words no one is using about Israel. A regime that's in a condition of advanced psychopathic bloodlust. The world's third largest military power gone berserk, raining death and destruction in all directions on hapless civilian populations.

What Israel is doing in Lebanon, in Gaza, are campaigns of deliberate, full-scale terrorism. Violations of every tenet of international law. Wars of unabashed aggression, aimed at non-combatants, that the Israeli government doesn't even try to sugar-coat.

I track each fresh atrocity, from the computer in my hotel lobby in Zanzibar. Nowhere to put the outrage that wells up and spills out of me. I think how easily it could have been my homeland, my people - in 1896, the "Uganda Plan" proposed the creation of Israel in what is now Northern Uganda.