tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post6889601225758433972..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: The Failures of Progressive-Left Zionism: Political IslamMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-9248047024378787042012-12-29T07:51:16.855-08:002012-12-29T07:51:16.855-08:00It's what I have called the Palestinian coloni...It's what I have called the <a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2011/03/palestinian-colonization-of-jewish-mind.html" rel="nofollow">Palestinian colonization of the Jewish mind.</a><br /><br />It's the tendency among well-meaning Jewish liberals to view the conflict in terms laid out by Arab and Soviet propagandists.<br /><br />They honestly believe that the conflict is a conflict between a formidable nation, the nation of Israel, versus a tiny and helpless indigenous population, i.e., the Palestinians.<br /><br />And because they do tend to see the conflict through such a lens then this discrimination against their fellow Jews comes to make sense. <br /><br />The truth, of course, is that there are 5.5 million Jews living in the Middle East who remain under constant harassment by the much, much larger Arab-Muslim majority population there. The conflict is not between Israelis and Palestinians, but an ongoing war of aggression by the Arabs against the Jews because Jewish sovereignty on historically Jewish land is an abomination in the eyes of Allah.<br /><br />For 13 hundred years they kept us as an persecuted minority under the system of dhimmitude, but now we are free and they don't like it.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-55132815958814775052012-12-29T00:20:23.835-08:002012-12-29T00:20:23.835-08:00And then there's the issue of self-proclaimed ...And then there's the issue of self-proclaimed "anti-racists," accepting (and making) the bigoted argument that the presence of Jews in any given place is an impediment to 'peace.'<br /><br />We live in curious times, indeed, don't we?JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-42211154018423615552012-12-28T23:54:19.203-08:002012-12-28T23:54:19.203-08:00One of my central contentions is that Palestinian ...One of my central contentions is that Palestinian objections to the "settlers" is little more than anti-Jewish racism and that Jews justify that racism when we castigate these people for daring to live where Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama do not want them to live.<br /><br />I'm telling ya, man, our fundamental understanding of the conflict needs to be rethought and we need to strongly assert the historical truth that Israel is not a colonial project, but an <i>anti-colonial</i> project.<br /><br />Judea and Samaria are where Jews come from and we lived there for many centuries before the Arabs showed up, kicking in skulls and forcing dhimmitude down our throats.<br /><br />History is on our side.<br /><br />Justice is on our side.<br /><br />And the truth is on our side, but we must be willing to speak that historical truth.<br /><br />Bielak is right.<br /><br />There can be two states for two peoples, but it won't be a solution and it won't come through negotiations.<br /><br />That much is certain.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-58386619345707623252012-12-28T20:59:09.965-08:002012-12-28T20:59:09.965-08:00Exactly. Yet I'm sure a considerable number o...Exactly. Yet I'm sure a considerable number of <i>Daily Kos</i> 'progressives' would somehow find a way to defend this abhorrent bigotry, too.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-5771193007250218822012-12-28T18:08:35.353-08:002012-12-28T18:08:35.353-08:00Your link amazes me. That's a quite creative ...<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4325694,00.html" rel="nofollow">Your link</a> amazes me. That's a quite creative use of the word 'settlers,' isn't it? The 'KKK' comment attached to the article nails it.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.com