Watson: Observations on Thetford’s recent vote on Article 23 - Vermont Daily Chronicle

Watson: Observations on Thetford’s recent vote on Article 23 - Vermont Daily Chronicle

By J.P. WatsonWhile folks in Thetford are crowing about passage of their Article 23 resolution condemning Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians, I thought it would be appropriate to point out a few facts that might have slipped their minds.Israel is a microscopically small country, a fingernail-shaped slip of land surrounded by an enormous mass of Muslim countries whose inhabitants overwhelmingly would like to push the entire population o…