Israel, Right and Long

American Spectator ^ | 6/3/2010 | Quin Hillyer

[IbJensen]

To Will Barrett, the main character in Walker Percy's The Second Coming, it was a perfectly reasonable statement and question: "The historical phenomenon of the Jews cannot be accounted for by historical or sociological theory. Accordingly, they may be said to be in some fashion or other a sign. Wouldn't you agree?"

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And everything was portrayed as their fault. When terrorists killed their athletes, well, the surviving terrorists were mere political prisoners, willingly traded in return for the freeing of a hijacked airliner and given a heroes' welcome when they touched down in Libya as free men. When Hamas fired rockets into Israel and the Israelis retaliated, well, it was the retaliation that was blasted by the United Nations and by feckless spineless bigoted Europeans.

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And now, in four days, two new outrages are perpetrated against the Israelis. First, the United States -- itself led by a president too craven to call jihadist terrorism by its name, a president openly biased in favor of Islamists -- for the first time ever joined an international conference that began a call for Israel to renounce nuclear weapons, while making nary a mention of Iran's own nuke developments.

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The 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had it right. "Yes, I am a Jew," he said to a critic. "And when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon." And Solomon, as we know, was wise.

[IbJensen]

A wonderful piece about a literally wonderful people. The Jews of Israel are not perfect, of course, but try naming a half-dozen other countries wherein the citizens exhibit a fraction of the Israelis' industriousness and character.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In Moab on a mountain once,
I took my stave in hand,
And gazed out wistfully upon
The hoped-for promised land.
Then bade me Death my eyes to close,
And drew me far away,
Behind a rampant stallion,
In Heaven’s formless dray.
When here I stopped, in bonds of flesh,
I bound myself to Earth,
Again (who have with Pharaoh walked),
to know the dread of birth.
And have I come thus, far in time,
My bootless rod in hand,
To sigh upon a mountain-top,
For You, my Promised Land?

[isaiah55version11_0]

just wow.

[BwanaNdege]

Last night Mrs. BwanaNdege and I were talking about Israel and the latest crisis.

I said that no honest and objective observer could look at the history of the Jewish people, their continued survival after innumerable attacks & persecutions throughout the centuries and in multiple nations, plus their accomplishments and gifts to mankind, viz. Nobel prizes, without developing a strong suspicion that there is a super (that is, above, greater than ) natural power looking out for then.

In other words, they are God's chosen people, just like the Bible says.

[IbJensen]

Well, apparently so.

It’s all well and good that America’s first negro-muslim president should crap all over them.

To be today America’s foe can be an awesome thing, but to be an ally can be deadly!