I was a strong supporter of the institution of Israel as a refuge from the centuries of slaughter of Jews by mainly Christian nations and authorities.
I have become increasingly horrified as Israel, itself, has become a tyrant abusing and slaughtering Palestinians. It is sometimes said that victims begin to imitate their abusers. The Holocaust is no excuse for Israel abusing the Palestinians who had nothing to do with the Holocaust and were sometimes its victims themselves.
This decline from admirable Zionist values has been a horror to watch as it has accelerated. Caring Jews everywhere are trying to halt this horror. Israel is not a democratic state. It is a tyrannical regime now bent apparently on driving out the Palestinians per the mythology of its origins.
One hears story after story of settlers abusing Palestinian children with impunity.
And Israel is in the process of making itself one of the world’s most despised nations.
I see no good ending here as Israel obviously does not plan to allow a Palestinian state and is stealing the lives and means of living of the Palestinians. Gaza has become a shameful nightmare.
How sad to see Jews of all people now abusing others and threatening G-d knows what it will do to Iran — a nuclear destruction?
There is no good end in sight here and I fear for Israel’s existence and that of my friends there.
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“A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope.” (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
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This article would be more believable if there was actually some real facts backing up plainly malicous, repetitive attacks against the state of Israel. It is a well known fact that Hamas terrorists hide in locations and homes that have innocent women and children as well as in ambulances in order to have these innocent people targeted and our sympathies raised. These extremists are the ones that have no respect for human life. Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak offered up a clear 2 state solution and Arafat refused. The extremists are not interested in ending this conflict, since they are backed by many nation states using the conflict as a negotiation play with the US.
One more point-Certain workers in the West bank and Gaza are closed to enter Israel as a result of extremists in their populance blowing up hundreds of people on buses, restaurants, and nightclubs. All the money that is being pumped in to support the Palestian nationhood by the US and the world-why is it not being used to build up the economy and jobs? As we saw with Arafat, their leaders steal many of these monies and purposely keep the situation down. Where are all the Arab nations trying to make these regions prosper?
Atrocities on both sides have been and are still being committed under the name of “religion”. It gives “religion” a very bad name. Those who truly love God will love others, whether or not they are different than themselves. This is only a selfish, egotistical power grab. If they were true believers in God, they would find a way to share. I feel for the innocents hurt in the process.
I hate the brutality on both sides, but The Jews were scattered widely around the world in time and space and there were several Jewish states prior to the time the Romans closed down the present claimed home from which the Palestinians are being expelled, Best, Ed
P.S. Israel is slaughtering Palestinians — and has others in nearby states and G-d help us if they attack Iran, too.
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