1) None of you, none of you have ever lived in Israel. If you did you would understand one thing. The country is surrounded on all fronts by nations that wish nothing short of its utter destruction. The fake smiles from Jordan, Egypt, and recently a sinister smirk from Saudi Arabia, is due to the United States' alliance with Israel.
2) The #1 issue on the political agenda in Israel, for the reason mentioned above, is national security. By Israel being surrounded, and being in at least 1 war for every decade of the 20th century since their existence, this leads to a heightened level of stress amongst the population (many say this is why israelis drive like maniacs, they need to get to their destination before the next war starts)
3) When it comes to the middles east all rationality is put aside. The debate between religion and rationality evaporates when one tries to observe the middle east. People blowing themselves up, killing, kidnapping, in the name of religion is irrational. This lack of rationality flows into this issue as well. How? In many ways, a few of which i will state:
- Israel has let in trucks of food/blood supplies/ medical supplies into Gaza from the UN and the red cross, but the world isn't recognizing this
- Israel has actually called palestiniant civilians living near targets, as in on the phone, and told them a building near them is a target, and to evacuate their premises asap, so they've been warned
- Jews are a close knit community, an Israeli soldier dying causes the entire country to be in mourning for a week, when a bunch of them are killed by rocket attacks, and those shooting the rockets are punished accordingly, and then protests consisting of millions in London and throughout Europe occur against israel...no comment
- If your attacked by your neighbor and you don't do anything about it...that's irrational right? Thats whats happening here, and if any other nation was in the same position as Israel they would do the exact same thing, minus them getting international hate mail
- During negotiations for a ceasefire, Hamas rockets continued to reign down on Israel..they clearly don't care about stability in the region, they want the annihilation of Israel
The Bible isnt a reference for the existence of the nation of Israel. Lets take a quick history lesson shall we?
- League of Nations entrusts Britain and France (in certain areas) to govern over the middle east, they recieve dominion over it
- World War II occurs, 6 million jews murdered by Germans
-World has sympathy for Jews/ US and Britain see opportunity to institute a stronghold close to the growing power of the USSR
- 1948 with blessing of US/ Britain, UN resolution passed, state of Israel established as a result of a democratic vote being passed in the UN (democratic internationalism used to create a soveriegn state)
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