If a group of people choose death for their children and the children of others first, then these “people” need not exist. Were the world to truly know the truth as Arafat screamed it to his people for over 70 years, and the Muslim world didn’t yell for the total annihilation of every Jew on the planet, I might be pressed to accept that the far-left might even accept the “respect” you convey.
Jew hating is a propaganda slogan by murderers to achieve their goal of a 100% Muslim region where killing is an every day fact of life. Where women are treated worse than animals. Where children are taught to hate from birth. Where honor killings are trumpeted. Where every man awaits his 72 virgins. And, to be fair, it is a stick in the eye of the Palestinians and the Muslim world to see a tiny country so far ahead in its lifestyle that the contradiction is beyond absurd! How do you explain to a man dying of thirst why he cannot drink the water two feet from his body!
When did accusing the innocent become the norm in this world. When did truly evil people get a broader hearing and acceptance in this world. Why does the tinfoil hatted leftist loons want the Jews exterminated once again? Their bloodlust should certainly be appeased by the death of over 200 million people in the last century alone by the despots the Left didn’t wish to offend.
Did you ever think that these progressive might love Israel enough to try to save it from itself? G-d had nothing to do with Zionism–it is secular movement so this idea that the settlers are where Hashem wants them is bunk. The government has supported them and needs to stop. We need a just and peaceful resolution to this conflict.
Perhaps these leftists are angry that you do not answer the big question: how do you justify a nationalism that created a state where people already lived. Yes, I know: we bought the land from the Ottomans and the Arabs; however, we still displaced people. Humans still lived there. We Jews have never been able to answer that one–we simply require people to say “Israel has a right to exist.” Why? because G-d said so? Sorry, does not wash.
Chaim:
Go back 4-5 thousand years and tell me who lived where and how anybody got to be where they are now. Someone has always lived some place that someone else wanted. Neanderthal was there over 100,000 years ago before Cro Magnon. So?
I don’t have the conceit to “know” what any diety wants. Humans have rewritten everything so many times that is impossible to know the truth of anything, particularly in the past 30 thirty years.
Every human or nation has a right to exist. What it doesn’t have the right to do is MURDER in an effort to achieve their aims. The Palestinians have proven that the only thing they have going for them is hate and murder, period. As long as the world supports them in their welfare state, they can continue to murder at will and no one, no one will stop them. Make sense to anybody?