Posted on 04/06/2005 10:47:50 AM PDT by quidnunc
A friend of mine asked me how I would answer the following question: "By what right does Israel exist? Why does the world need such a hell-hole of a country, an apartheid-racist-war-mongering-Jewish theocracy?" I suggested that she consider the question as an opening for a conversation about the "right to exist" rather than as a challenge to Israel's character or to its right — or lack thereof — to exist.
The last 65 years of Arab hate-speech, hate-preach, and hate-teach make it pretty clear that some significant part of the Arab world really does not want Israel to exist. That same segment really does the best it can to end Israel's existence, with 65 years of terror war punctuated by 3 major attempts at invasion, conquest, and destruction. The rhetoric of annihilation and the diatribe of genocide match the actions of these same Arab states, whose commitment of massive resources to the destruction of Israel is an implicit rejection of Israel's right to exist.
In a similar vein, 20 years ago, when Arafat agreed to recognize the state of Israel, his doing so was acclaimed far and wide as a great concession. Only a few had the perspicacity to point out that acknowledging the existence of a state that already existed was no great concession to anything except reality. However, since Arafat continued to run a terror war against Israel and proclaim his desire to destroy Israel, his "concession" about Israel's existence was nothing more than a superficial bid to gain support in the USA. His continued psychotic desire to destroy Israel was an implicit rejection of Israel's right to exist.
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(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
"Israel brought in thousands of black Jews from Ethiopia. I have no doubt that they too endure some personal discrimination, human nature being what it is, but racists don't tend to give citizenship to people of other races."
And not just Ethiopian Jews. Did you hear that an Asian group, the Bnei Menashe from the India-Myanmar frontier, was declared Jewish last week? Some members of my church got to meet them in 2003, and I found the story of how they got to the Far East quite sensible. No doubt the rabbis waited this long to give them their seal of approval because they want to live in the land that belonged to their ancestors, the tribe of Manasseh. On a modern map of Israel, that would be the part of the West Bank around Jenin. Read all about the Bnei Menashe here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374681/posts
Next, I expect recognition will be given to the Lemba, a small tribe from South Africa that passed a Jewish DNA test in 1999:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362872/posts
yes, why not?
"Why does the world need such a hell-hole of a country, an apartheid-racist-war-mongering-Jewish theocracy?"
Quite a few Native Americans say similar words about the United States, the main exception being David Yeagley, the conservative Apache who writes BadEagle.com. If the USA has a right to exist, then why not Israel, which has committed far fewer atrocities against the people who have gotten in its way?
You're welcome, Sunkenciv. I appreciate my links being put to good use, even if it takes years to do so. :o)
I believe Yeagley is a Comanche.
You have a right to exist to the extent that you can impose your existence.
You have the privilege to exist to the extent that others voluntarily allow you to exist. Such a privilege becomes a recognized right to the extent that it serves the purpose of recognizing others' privilege to exist.
And then we all could get hit by an asteroid tomorrow.
Whoops, you're right. Sorry about that.
Whoops, you're right. Sorry about that.
Around here, I've seen a bumpersticker -- which I found amusing, others may not -- "U.S. Out of North America". Ain't happenin'. ;')
bttt
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