Palestine

I have little sympathy for the Palestinians. You seem to be fixated on an issue that was created by the Palestinians and other Arab aggressors. The Palestinians were at one point in the area of trans Jordan. But, were thrown out of Jordan due to rampant violence and lawlessness. Whenever you initiate an unprovoked war, there is always the chance of losing and suffering the consequences of that defeat. In addition, prior to 1967, there were no settlements. Israel offered to make peace at that time as well and as usual was turned down. if the Palestinians came to a fair agreement, that was genuine and enforceable, I am sure Israel would have no problem returning the settlements. Even though it is part of Israel. How would you feel if you walked your kid to the bus stop in the morning to go to school. Everything seems normal, but just as you are returning home, you hear a loud bang and flames are in the air. You run down the street and discover, it was bombed by terrorists. How about hearing a siren going off warning of an impending rocket attack. You have about twenty seconds after hearing that siren to seek shelter, you were able to escape but a family member wasn’t as fortunate and was killed. What would you do if you were a father of a teenage girl, it is well after the time she usually comes home. as the hours pass, you are getting increasingly worried. You call your daughter’s friends asking if they saw her and they say no. Days go by and your daughter still isn’t found so you go to the police station to fill out a missing persons report. After a few more weeks pass, you finally get a phone call from the police asking you to come down to the station. When you arrive, you are ushered to the morgue. A sheet is lowered and you see it’s your daughter’s broken, battered, beaten, raped, and murdered body. It’s Friday night and sabot is about to begin. Suddenly, you hear a strange noise. four men wearing ski masked proceed to slash the throat of the entire family. Your twelve year old daughter returns from a neighbors house and walks into the house where your entire family was butchered to death. Right after this story broke, Palestinians were seen dancing in the streets and passing around candy. All of the stories i just recanted actually happened and continue to happen on a regular basis. If this is what you are defending, then there is something seriously wrong with your moral compass.

My beliefs are based off of what’s right and what’s not. It’s not right to be attacked simultaneously by six different countries just minutes after being recognized as a Jewish state. It’s not right to perpetrate terrorism on innocent people. It’s not right to be pelted with rocks and Molotov cocktails, while your trying to pray. It’s not right to lie and slander other people. It’s not right to turn down every legitimate peace offer and return the favor by increasing violence and barbarism. It’s not right to try to usurp direct negotiations and try to gain statehood through the U.N. My opinions of the Palestinians are not strange at all. What is strange is that you support such devious, unscrupulous, and evil Palestinian behavior.

Perhaps there may be a few Palestinians that would like to live like civilized human beings. But, keep in mind that Abbas is a member of Fatah formerly known as the PLO, which is a terrorist group. In addition, Hamas, another terrorist group, came to power by elections. Who are voting these groups into elected office, the Palestinian people, they are well aware of what these groups represent and they openly and freely voted for these terrorist groups. A few years ago, when the “Fogul family massacre” took place, which was when a group of Palestinian terrorists broke into an Israeli family’s home and proceeded to murder the entire family by slashing their throats, what was the response of the Palestinian people. Where they shocked, no. Where they appalled, no. Were they outraged, no. Instead, we saw the Palestinians dancing in the street, singing, and passing out candy. Just as they did when 9/11 took place, and just as they did last week, when three Israeli youths were kidnapped. According to a poll, two thirds of the Palestinian people agreed with this kidnapping. This certainly does not indicate in any way that the majority of the Palestinian people want to live in peace with Israel, it does indicate that they would like to annihilate Israel. Until this mindset changes, there will be no realistic hope of ending the violence. I would also like to point out that despite what the main stream media likes to portray, Israel only responds proportionally to the level of violence that is perpetrated against them. When Hamas was attacking Israel with rockets, Israel could have easily went into Gaza and completely wiped out Hamas, which is what they should have done. But, instead they only responded to slow down the rocket attacks, not completely stop the rocket attacks. Why did Israel do this, because they knew if they were to completely stop Hamas’s rocket assaults, it would cause more Palestinian civilians to be killed. In contrast, the Palestinians stage events for the media so it will look like Israel is the aggressor. The Palestinians will even use their own children as human shields. Israel shows more concern for the Palestinian peoples welfare than their own government does. But, the Palestinian people continue to vote for extremists, that should tell you where the Palestinian peoples mindset and values are.

My problem is not with individual Palestinians. There may be some who are reform minded and have a desire to live in peace with Israel. But, the fact remains, that the regime that is in power right now was elected by the people. This regime has had and continues to have the primary goal of not normalizing relations with Israel but instead perpetuating their long standing policy of death and destruction against Israel. I think the same can be said about getting to know Israelis. When Abbas’s wife recently needed medical attention, where did he go, not to a Palestinian hospital but to an Israeli one. Several Syrians who were badly injured by the ongoing fighting there, were sent to Israel and received life saving medical attention, free of charge. The Syrian people were so indoctrinated to hate Israel, this is the first time they got a glimpse of the real Israel and began to understand that they have been fed lies by their own government. This is the case in most Arab countries. What the Palestinians and the people of several other Arab nations need to understand is that it’s not Israel that is the cause of their suffering but their own government. As long as these regimes can continue to keep the people uneducated and misinformed, they can continue to demonize and slander Israel. This allows them to usurp responsibility for the failures of the iron fist and repressive Arab regimes that rule many of these countries.