tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post1230648283646724095..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Tom Friedman partially gets it, partially doesn'tMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-25544336952016672382014-07-19T23:45:45.676-07:002014-07-19T23:45:45.676-07:00Yes, to materially support an enemy population tha...Yes, to materially support an enemy population that celebrates news of the kidnapping and killing of members of one's own kinspeople is not good.<br /><br />The way to protect Israel and Jewish people in general and the whole world -- is just to tell the truth -- <a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2012/12/its-about-standing-up-for-human-rights_17.html" rel="nofollow">essential facts of the situation</a> (essential facts of history, and essential facts of contemporary events). It's as simple as that.<br /><br />Of course, people who are fanatically bigoted against the Jewish people and against Israel probably won't, by the telling of essential facts to them, be persuaded away from holding the fanatical anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli bigotry which they hold. But most people are not fanatically bigoted against the Jewish people and against Israel. Most people are simply ignorant of the essential facts of the situation that Israel is in.<br /><br />By the way:<br /><br />“Whatever sort of seed is sown,<br />That is the sort of fruit one reaps:<br />The doer of good reaps good;<br />The doer of evil reaps evil.<br />By you, dear, has the seed been sown;<br />Thus you will experience the fruit.”<br /><br />-- The Buddha, Samyutta Nikaya 11.10 - Isayosamuddaka: "Seers by the Ocean", Excerpt<br /><br />“‘He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.’ Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.”<br /><br />“‘He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.’ Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.”<br /><br />“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.”<br /><br />“There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”<br /><br />-- The Buddha, Dhammapada, Chapter 1 – Yamakavagga: "Pairs", verses 3-6<br /><br />“Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.”<br /><br />-- The Buddha, Dhammapada, Chapter 17 - Kodhavagga: "Anger", verse 223<br /><br />And, by the way: I remember hearing, in a documentary about India that I once heard and saw on PBS (the public television station in the U.S.), expressed that Jewish merchants traveled to India at the time of Jesus (the time period around when Jesus of Nazareth -- Yeshua of Natz'rat -- was alive). And I have heard of accounts of Jesus of Nazareth having visited India and, I think, Nepal.<br /><br />----<br /><br />‘Palestinian’ Arab Jordanian political leader and writer Mudar Zahran:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Mudar+Zahran" rel="nofollow">Writings by Mudar Zahran</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/1979/anti-semitism-20" rel="nofollow"><b>“Anti-Semitism 2.0”, by Mudar Zahran</b></a><br /><br />----<br /><br />‘Palestinian’ Arab Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Mudar+Zahran" rel="nofollow">Writings by Khaled Abu Toameh</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4376/palestinians-kidnapped-israelis" rel="nofollow">“Kidnapped Israeli Teenagers - A Palestinian View”, by Khaled Abu Toameh</a><br /><br />----<br /><br />“Palestinian”: ‘Palestinian’ Arab<br /><br />Documentaries:<br /><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/77053361" rel="nofollow"><b>“WHAT IS PALESTINE? WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?”</b></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVsjNzXojCM" rel="nofollow"><b>“Give Peace A Chance”</b></a><br />Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-41744104329720199092014-07-19T10:51:36.719-07:002014-07-19T10:51:36.719-07:00I don't think that Israel should depend on any...I don't think that Israel should depend on any Arabs for the well-being of Israelis.<br /><br />If I could wave a magic wand and have Israel do my bidding, I would have them declare their finals borders, according to security needs, and remove the IDF to behind those borders and call it a day.<br /><br />I would also cut off any and all relations with those Arabs remaining in the parts of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza that are not annexed by Israel.<br /><br />Anything that they need, say, for example, electricity, they can provide for themselves, or they can get their western patrons to take care of such matters, perhaps, but there is no reason to support, in any manner, an enemy population that hands out candy at the news of kidnapped and murdered Jews.<br /><br />Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.com