Posted on 05/15/2018 7:51:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Amidst the screaming headlines about massacre and war crimes and unsettling pictures of Arab casualties, keep in mind the central question: When is it the right time to do the right thing?
Thats the question President Trump faced when considering whether to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem. His three predecessors had used a loophole in the 1995 law requiring the move to give a consistent and increasingly cynical answer of, Not now, maybe later.
That dodge lasted 22 years, until Trump cut through the nonsense last December with a statement of resounding moral clarity. Now, he said, is the right time to do the right thing.
It was a singular decision and Mondays opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, righted a historic wrong. As both American and Israeli speakers noted, the custom throughout the world and throughout the ages is for foreign embassies to be located in the city designated by the host country as its capital.
And so now the rest of the world is out of step when it comes to Israel and only Israel. That would be a curious exception if the pattern werent so pronounced and the reason so obvious.
The worlds double standard against the Jewish state helps explain the decision by Hamas leaders in Gaza to mix armed terrorists and unarmed civilians and urge them to crash through the border fence. This was murder, and not by Israeli soldiers defending their country against a mass invasion.
The blood of the dead and wounded is on the hands of the merciless Hamas thugs who sent their people on a suicide mission that had zero chance of military success
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Who knows if there was even an actual baby. The PLO when reporting casualties has been caught lying pretty often.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
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Common sense
Assaulting a foreign nation with wire cutters is certain to get you killed
Hyped up and possibly drugged over zealous wire cutter armed were certain to be killed
Certainly not here.
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