Not often but sometimes I enter into articles on Facebook. And (you may not agree with me) I am basically on the Israeli side of the Gaza-Israeli troubles. You will note that I do not say Palestinian-Israeli war because I can’t get a clear understanding as to where or what Palestine is. “The term Palestine is also used to refer to a geographical region in the West Asia, comprising of modern-day Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza” is a quote which I think is tied into the British Mandate Proclamation in July 1922. Although many attempts have been made to subdivide ‘Palestine’ into portions for the Arabs who previously lived in the area and for the Jews who also previously lived in the area none have been successful. It is common and I think undoubted knowledge that it was in a large way meant to be a home for the many displaced Jews and this became the home of many more Jews particularly after WWII. The Arabs who basically live in this area are of Egyptian origin and what is now called Israel is open to mainly religious Jews but also Arabs (mainly Muslims) and Christians from many countries. To again quote what I find on Wikipedia ‘While most Israelis are Jewish, a growing share (currently about one-in-five adults) belong to other groups. Most non-Jewish residents of Israel are ethnically Arab and identify, religiously, as Muslims, Christians or Druze.’ (8 Mar 2016). Of course Judaism stretches from atheist to ultra-orthodox Judaism and so is a racial rather than a religious title.
It is obvious, and I think an indisputable truth, that antisemitism is rife throughout the world. Many nations (including most of the variously quoted 49-57 Muslim nations) are anti Israel. Many nations which claim to be friends of Israel have large populations of Muslims and sympathizers with the Arab Gazan people. This has been obvious in the anti-Israel often called pro-Palestinian demonstrations in many countries. Our own Prime Minister in spite of being careful about what he says these days doesn’t come out clearly on the Israeli’s side and his government has financed the terrorist (thus labelled officially in Australia) Hamas controlled Arab side of the struggle.
Which leads me to my question at the beginning – ‘What makes a majority right?’ I can remember a man now dead but very wise who taught us in a lunchtime, Government approved, Christian group in our school that ‘One man and God makes up a majority – and it doesn’t need the man.’
I am not claiming that this applies to my stand for Israel but I certainly don’t accept that the majority are correct in expecting Israel to allow the terrorist Hamas/Iran group, with a entrenched policy to exterminate not Israelis alone but all Jews. One of many quotes which are easily found and checked reads ‘On August 20, 2012, in a sermon broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas official Sheik Ahmad Bahr prayed, “Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, destroy the Americans and their supporters. Oh Allah, count them one by one, and kill them all, without leaving a single one.”’. In addition the founding documents of the group are clear in what they say!
I have been called many things for taking my pro Israeli stance – but the one which I hate the most is ‘you are a nazi’! And this is in spite of my saying that if I were younger and could get permission to work in a hospital through which terrorists couldn’t be involved, I would choose to be in Gaza helping to treat the suffering, which I believe is largely caused by the terrorists who want the Israelis to get a bad name!
Heated Stew 