Israeli Borders

To All it Does Concern:

The conflict between Israel and Palestine extends past 1967. Not because Israel bullies its Palestinian neighbors, but because Israel has been standing up to the bully. Israel learned that in order to survive she must fight.

Remember that Israel can trace her roots to at least 1200 B.C and occupied her land until being driven out by Rome in 64 B.C. During World War II, the Jewish people were hunted by Hitler and when the war ended in 1945 most Jews were refugees without home and country. Three years later, only three years, Israel was declared a state and a people displaced for far too finally returned home, some of whom still bore the tattooed numbers that had replaced their names in the death camps. Their battle for freedom, however, had only just started.

Israel now faces an enemy equal to, or perhaps even more virulent, than in World War II. Consider the charter by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic political party governing the Gaza strip. Article Thirteen regarding peaceful solutions to disagreements between Israel and Palestine states: “[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion.” Article 15 explains that the only solution is Jihad: “When our enemies usurp some Islamic lands, Jihad becomes a duty binding on all Muslims. In order to face the usurpation of Palestine by the Jews, we have no escape from raising the banner of Jihad.”

Palestinians claim that all of Israel belongs to them. The charter goes so far as to urge teachers, youth, and elderly to propagate the message of stealing Israeli land through Jihad. It is no wonder that Israel refuses to attempt to soothe their “neighbors” by surrendering anything. Modern Israel has lived her entire life under the shadow of such insanity.

President Obama desires to accomplish “peace” by placating a beast. One that is hungry to gorge on innocent blood, a beast that scorns the President’s very involvement. Obama’s call to revert to Israel’s 1967 borders is tantamount to silver-plattering historical and holy sites for those who align themselves with Hamas’ hate-mongering . The remaining wall of Solomon’s Temple, also called the Wailing Wall, the Temple Mount, the Via Dolorosa, Golgotha (the hill where Jesus was crucified), and others would fall from safety into the clutches of those who despise the significance of these places. This in spite of Obama’s claim, soon after accepting the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, that Israel must remain undivided.

When a bully has, for over a century, backed you into a corner, slandered your mama, and feasted on the flesh of your innocents, what do you do? Ball up both fists and come out swinging. Israel has no other choice.

Sincerely,
One Who Pulls for the Underdog

Don’t believe me? Research it for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWrvPvo8yXc
http://middleeast.about.com/od/palestinepalestinians/a/me080106b_4.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel#Armistice
http://womenofgrace.com/breaking_news/?p=8097

Intolerance

I like words. I suppose that's not a surpise. Words like wrought and indicative and melee just really float my boat. Here's a word I don't loathe: intolerant. Why? Because it can't mean anything.

Here are the specifics of my least favorite word:

in·tol·er·ant 
[in-tol-er-uhnt]

–adjective
1. not tolerating or respecting beliefs, opinions, usages, manners, etc., different from one's own, as in political or religious matters; bigoted.

Intolerant labels people when their views don't line up with popular ideals. (As a Christian, intolerant frequently labels me when my beliefs don't line up with others'.) You'll notice intolerant is a "nicer" way of calling someone a bigot.

Here's where my problem presents itself. When someone accuses another person of being intolerant, the former is actually being intolerant. (Ever gone through a revolving door? Me neither. Hm... oh, I know. Ever seen a hamster on a wheel?) The sickness of going around and around and around in circles is the feeling intolerant evokes.

If you call me intolerant then you are being intolerant because you aren't tolerating my opinions.

Let me try to simplify that. If I'm a bigot then you're a bigot for saying that I am one. That's not just my opinion. That's by definition of the word.

I think I'll get off this hamster wheel, now. I'm feeling queasy from going around in circles.