tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post3815366290953311385..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Ruth WisseMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-8188238811873066652013-01-18T12:11:03.573-08:002013-01-18T12:11:03.573-08:00Correction:
I wrote "garage", which sho...Correction:<br /><br />I wrote "garage", which should be "garbage".Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-7758745242957879922013-01-18T11:02:32.092-08:002013-01-18T11:02:32.092-08:00Note:
The occupiers to whom I referred are the Na...Note:<br /><br />The occupiers to whom I referred are <a href="http://danielbielak.blogspot.com/2011/09/haj-amin-al-husseini-founder-of.html" rel="nofollow">the Nazi organization Fatah-PLO</a> and the Muslim Brotherhood organization Hamas.<br /><br />BTW:<br /><br />The PLO Charter calls for the destruction of what the PLO Charter calls "the Zionist" "occupation" of "Palestine".<br /><br />The Hamas Charter (the Hamas Covenant) calls for the murder of every Jewish person in the world.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/pid/12363" rel="nofollow">The 1964 PLO Charter</a> (http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/pid/12363)<br /><br /><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp" rel="nofollow">The 1968 revised, and current, PLO Charter</a> (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp)<br /><br /><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" rel="nofollow">The Hamas Charter (The Hamas Covenant)</a> (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp)<br /><br />----<br /><br />"<i>I knew nothing about the fact that Jews were killed without any rational cause. I did not know that antisemites do not need a cause in order to kill.</i><br /><br />"<i>As a result of such ignorance, I blamed Israeli policies for the alleged despair of the Munich terrorists. If Israel stopped its policies, I believed, Palestinian terrorism would stop as well. That was how I thought and, as a result, I joined the anti-Zionist Left in Germany. If I had known more about the Holocaust and its lessons, I would probably have reached different conclusions.</i>"<br /><br />-- <a href="http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/matthias-kuentzel-was-presented-with-the-adl-human-rights-award" rel="nofollow">Matthias Küntzel</a>Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-64409971404087520662013-01-18T10:23:28.332-08:002013-01-18T10:23:28.332-08:00"...at sixty-two years -- we will be celebrat..."...<i>at sixty-two years -- we will be celebrating next month -- the accomplishments and achievements that the state of Israel </i>[has accomplished and achieved]<i>...can be an example to...the entire Western world. Believe me, that's not an exaggeration, it's a fact.</i> ..."<br /><br />-- Ishmael Khaldi, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v2gnxRVgLw<br /><br />"...<i>After much soul searching, I knew what I had once believed was wrong. I had to stand with Israel, with this tiny nation, free, democratic, making huge strides in medicine, research and development, yet the victim of the same lies and hatred that nearly consumed me.</i> ..."<br /><br />-- Kasim Hafeez, <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/56021/from-antisemite-zionist" rel="nofollow">From antisemite to Zionist</a><br /><br />"...<i>I support Israel, because no other state is vilified that way it is, no other state has the lies passed as fact about it as Israel does, I've experienced the real israel and more importantly once we say no </i>[to]<i> the hatred and try and find a balance, that's when we can talk and that's how peace begins.</i> ..."<br /><br />-- Kasim Hafeez, <a href="http://www.theisraelcampaign.org/blog/2012/06/08/Feels-like-home.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.theisraelcampaign.org/blog/2012/06/08/Feels-like-home.aspx</a><br /><br />"...<i>Now, if you look at the restrictions, let's say, </i>[to coming into Israel from 'the West Bank' and 'the Gaza strip']<i> that have been put in over a number of years, they didn't come instantly post-1967. They have been in response to terrorism and...security breaches. It's like this issue with...ambulances being stopped at checkpoints. Prior to a Palestinian </i>[a 'Palestinian' Arab]<i> ambulance volunteer using it to transport suicide bombers they weren't checked. I mean, it's an awful -- it's an awful -- situation. And, again, it highlights the uniqueness of Israel's security dilemma. And this is the thing -- when people talk about the security fence -- the security fence has only come into existence because of terrorism -- because of suicide bombings. So the issue really lies with: when the hatred stops -- when the terror stops -- checkpoints can come down, walls can come down, but those people who have died in terrorism, you can't...they can't come back. And that's really the thing</i>...."<br /><br />"...<i>My main issue with Israel is their drivers in Tel Aviv. They're absolutely crazy. That's a huge imperfection. They need to really work on that.</i> ..."<br /><br />"...<i>My support for Israel isn't based on religion. It's based on: it's a liberal democracy. ...It champions the values I hold dear as a citizen of the United Kingdom, and it's, you know, without being too cliche, it really is a country striving to be a light among nations in a very dark region.</i> ..."<br /> <br />-- Kasim Hafeez, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MMyFdWqoI<br />Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-81701036563411564442013-01-18T10:13:53.936-08:002013-01-18T10:13:53.936-08:00Furthermore:
Imagine that you keep your lawn in a...Furthermore:<br /><br />Imagine that you keep your lawn in a condition that is better than the condition in which all other people keep their lawns. And imagine that your immediate neighbors are throwing rocks at your windows, breaking your windows, and are throwing garage on your lawn, and are screaming at you that they are going to kill you and your family, and are screaming at you that they are going to take your house from you, and are telling everyone else a lie that you are not keeping your lawn clean, and are telling everyone else a lie that you stole your house from them. And imagine that everyone else, including your family members who don't live with you in your house, are now telling you that you should keep your lawn clean, and that your immediate neighbors have a right to throw rocks at your windows, and that if you don't clean your lawn, and that if you don't give half of your house to your immediate neighbors (who are currently occupying part of half of your house), your immediate neighbors have a right to take your house from you.<br /><br />This is the situation that Israel is in.<br /><br />The main reason that Israel is in this situation is because the leaders of the government of Israel have not told <a href="http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/2012/12/its-about-standing-up-for-human-rights_17.html" rel="nofollow">the facts of the history and current reality of the situation that Israel is in</a>.Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-52205414952036099602013-01-18T08:25:06.787-08:002013-01-18T08:25:06.787-08:00Thanks for this Mike
I'm going to snitch the ...Thanks for this Mike<br /><br />I'm going to snitch the metaphor word for word.geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-86042521919143746142013-01-17T20:25:34.537-08:002013-01-17T20:25:34.537-08:00I gotta tell ya, man, the screenshot that they cho...I gotta tell ya, man, the screenshot that they chose for the video... presuming it was actually chosen... makes her look like some crazed grandma.<br /><br />The thing of it is when someone is kicking your ass a friend is not one who stands by with his arms folded on his chest saying, "Yeah, I think that you pretty much suck, as well."<br /><br />That's what Israel's situation is like.<br /><br />Israel is a strong country, but it is the country of the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and also a country that is perpetually under siege and threat of war in which every Jew has to send his kid into the military.<br /><br />All those people want is to be left the hell alone to pursue their lives and, yet, millions upon millions of the surrounding Arabs blame them for virtually everything and scream to the world how they intend to kill them.<br /><br />And our friends on the political left honestly believe that it is the Jews of the Middle East that are primarily guilty for the hostility toward them.<br /><br />It's just sick, dude.<br /><br />And now we have a president of the United States who seem to honestly believe, hard as this may be to imagine, that the primary reason that Arabs can't stop trying to kill Jews is because Jews are building houses and day care centers and primary schools and second bathrooms in <i>Judea.</i><br /><br />Wisse says that the great attraction of anti-Semitism is that it is a bridge across political divisions.<br /><br />That makes considerable sense.<br />Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-30978045500287218032013-01-17T16:51:28.709-08:002013-01-17T16:51:28.709-08:00The 'lawn care' metaphor is a great one. ...The 'lawn care' metaphor is a great one. You really can picture it, unfortunately, at most if not all 'progressive' internet venues whenever the Arab-Israel conflict comes up.<br /><br />Which speaks to the ugly environment these people create, even as they pretend to be above this very same tendency which they decry in their political opponents on the right. Without realizing that in this situation and others, they are simply mirror images of each other.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.com