Posted on 04/22/2006 11:01:35 PM PDT by anotherview
Posted by Chana | Sat, Apr 22, 2006, 4:19pm
This continues my posting of an edited form of my response to an anti-American, anti-Israel rant by a young American woman on a mailing list in the beginning of the month. Part 3 received more responses than any of my other posts to Blogs of Zion to date, so since there is interest I have decided to post the remainder.
This young woman went on to call American and Israeli leaders "psychopaths". Addressing Israeli leadership I wrote:
Israel's leaders are psychopaths? The current leader [Prime Minister Ehud Olmert] was elected on a platform of unilateral withdrawal from territory with nothing in return and the handing over of that territory to Hamas, an organization with a charter that reads like Mein Kampf. Perhaps that is psychopathic, but not in the sense you describe.
Prime Minister Sharon also handed over Gaza without condition and now missiles rain down on nearby Israeli towns -- missiles launched from Gaza. These aren't just home made Qassam rockets anymore. Last week the first Katyusha fired from Gaza landed in Israel proper. Every Israeli Prime Minister since Rabin has been committed to peace and the creation of a Palestinian state.
When has Israel threatened even one of their neighbors? Israel has fought strictly defensive wars. Israel is surrounded by mostly hostile neighbors, some of which openly call for genocide of the Jewish people in terms not heard since World War II. I, for one, am not willing to have my family slaughtered. Israel has a right to self-defense.
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I guess it's a good thing nothing like what you describe has happened.
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