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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Letter From Israel

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Worrying

A comment recently made about people in the West not having to worry about losing their butchers in suicide bus explosions made me contemplate worrying. It is personal, local, regional and national. It is, in fact, universal.

A plane overhead this morning, quietly making its way across a brilliantly blue sky, covers the width of Israel in about 10 seconds. Unless we’re at war, the skies over our small town are never disturbed by airplane noises.

So why does a plane cross our quiet sky this morning? Has Assad decided (in his palpable wisdom) that he’s the one who will finally bring us to destruction? Did Hezbollah at last accumulate the arsenal that Iran is trying to trans-ship across Syria? Too bad someone keeps interrupting that flow.

Will the border hold between Syria and the Golan Heights? Can the IDF stop an incursion there, or one of innumerable Syrian refugees from Jordan? Oh dear.

Both my daughters drive SUVs. Both have been involved in accidents where their cars were the definite winners. They assure me that they are as safe as safe can be. I have had two serious car accidents. Do their reassurances help assuage my unease? Not a bit (tfu, tfu, tfu). And let’s not even talk about lead-footed grandsons learning how to drive on our inconsiderate roads. I really don’t want to think about that.

I developed a theory a long time ago that we all have a worry space, something like a stomach which, when empty, insists on being refilled. I have no idea where it is. I have never investigated this theory—as is, it satisfies my personal disquiet—but I have a feeling it’s pretty much common. Health concerns feature prominently with haunting apprehension for the humans in your life. As soon as the tax bill is satisfied, worry shifts to the condition of the plumbing, until that’s fixed and then: The car. The job. The dog. You know what worries you.

Could they be training flights?

So those are the contents of my worry space. I’m happy to report that there is constant motion within the space; when one worry ceases or is solved, another takes its place. No need to feel overwhelmed; your worries are safe.

cross posted Geoffff's Joint

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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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