“It’s an open secret that Israel has the most devastating weapons. It’s generally believed to be true that radical fundamentalists on the other side (a small minority among Islamic people) count life as cheap, have lots of money, are not otherwise stupid and could just possibly build a horrible weapon.” I absolutely agree.
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Hopefully folk will not resort to the usual “Let’s decide this on the basis of ‘our team'” thinking. Clearly both can’t be correct, but how to decide where the truth is?
]]>“It certainly reflects the increasing anti-Israeli tone which is rapidly becoming the norm among the American media.”
So, I take it you think anything not obsequiously syncophantic to the Netanyahu/Likud line is “anti-Israeli”?
You are either misinformed or wicked.
As I’m neither a Jew nor an Arab, I have no real “dog” in this fight, but I have spent time in Israel/Palestine and know quite a lot about the situation, which is nothing if not complex.
The one thing I am certain of is I don’t like it when non-Christians abuse and oppress my fellow Christians, using US tax dollars to do so.
If you have ever been to the West Bank, and are not totally brainwashed by hasbara, you will know what that occupation and oppression look like. To a civilized American, it would be a source of shame to be complicit in such things, in any way.
]]>What wasn’t stated in the video, but I bet I wasn’t the only one wondering about it… Once the Christians basically all leave will that fact be bruted about as a reason to lessen overall interest being a moderating factor over there? Use that plus our economic hard times as a reason to simply pull back from expensive interventions of various sorts aimed at violence minimization almost half a world away? Israel is doing little or nothing to make life tolerable for its Christians on the wrong side of their wall. Islamic folk are doing little to police their radicals to protect the Christian minority living among them. If this continues along current trends the forces pushing the US to withdraw materially will become stronger.
It’s an open secret that Israel has the most devastating weapons. It’s generally believed to be true that radical fundamentalists on the other side (a small minority among Islamic people) count life as cheap, have lots of money, are not otherwise stupid and could just possibly build a horrible weapon. Can Israel and the Islamic majority that prefers those weapons not be used near where they live not wake up to protect the Christians living there? It would be a very good idea, and right soon.
]]>Good for CBS here, I hope Americans were paying attention to what our billions of tax dollars annually are going to support, namely the oppression of Christians in the West Bank.
Before anyone jumps on me, I’ll be the first to admit that the Palestinians have often hurt the peace process, and terrorism is always wrong – but Americans need to understand that the core issue here is occupation, one which US tax dollars pay for, and one which is obliterating the Palestinian Christian community in real time.
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