The Wall is not the solution that works towards peace.These people are not free, the wall confines both groups (Arabs and Jews) to a certain area. The wall is a step backwards in the movement towards peace because instead of uniting the groups, they are being divided which gives them one more thing to fight about.
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Not all Palestinians are terrorists and it is the regular dirt poor people who are just trying to feed there children, who are suffering from this wall. The wall and the closed borders are not beneficial to either side it is just a temporary easy fix to a conflict that is much more complex.Isolation is not the answer.
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When you look at two sides fighting and you see one is wealthy and one wallows in poverty, it isn’t hard to understand that the duty of the rich is to be as sympathetic and generous as possible. Otherwise there is no nobility. For the sake of a better standard of living for all, generous offers need to be made by the wealthy party. One can’t ask Palestinians to assimilate into the Israeli community.
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Only high level professional Palestinians achieve real acceptance; the rest are treated like blacks in 1950’s America. It makes my stomach churn to see Christians giving huge donations to the already wealthy Israelis so they can continue to build on lands that are being actively negotiated. Later, settlements on these properties have to be carefully routed around during treaties. It is a clever tactic to gain valuable property. It looks very greedy. Christ would not do this.
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Israelis are also even getting Christians and Jews from the US to inhabit the settlements and establish heavily populated communities.
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If you ask them about the strategy, they just use a scripture quote. They need to look at their greed in the face. Nobody blows himself up when he has enough to survive. These are battles of survival. One is clearly more justified in doing wrong than the other. Palestinians have been pushed into economic irrelevance and are kept there. Young suicide bombers make Israelis feel this same economic irrelevance when their homes and businesses are destroyed. I do not advocate violence in _any_ circumstance, but how can you sit idly by when there are people on the other side of the fence living in third world conditions, some of which are imposed upon them for “reasons of security”? Surely someone realizes the reason behind the violence and “reasons of security” has to do with being deprived of simple needs.
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I do know that these things are common sense and the arguments of “simple civility”. Some people have the gift to back up millions of miles away and look at human conflicts with the distance it takes to see things for what they are. Why fault Chomsky for this ability?
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Sorry for getting carried away…I had this saved in a folder….its to much to keep typing…easier to copy-n-paste!!!
The actions of the Zionist regime in Occupied Palestine are the least defensible undertakings in the developed world. Christians (North American Protestants in particular) who imagine there is some theological basis for these actions, need to straighten out their thinking. First off, Biblical references to “Israel” in the New Testament, are generally intended as a figure of speech, in reference to the community of all Christians on this planet, and certainly do not refer to any nation-state established since the Second World War. The very idea is preposterous. Additionally, there is no Christian “Holy Land.” That is clearly idolatry, and has no Biblical foundation what-so-ever. When Christians aid Zionist gangsters in their blood-drenched criminality, they reduce themselves to the level of accomplices to murder. They need to cease, desist, and pray for forgiveness.
A lot of Christian Zionist-types justify the crimes of the occupation regime on the basis of “the Palestinians are just Muslims.” Even if that were true (although I believe about 25 percent of Palestinians are actually their fellow Christians), that is clearly not an attitude in the best traditions of their professed faith, to put it gently. I’m reminded of some ridiculous Congressman from Texas, who made a joke about “nuking” Damascus, and justified it on the basis of the fact that the inhabitants of that city “are all Muslims.” Leaving aside the truism that such a statistic could not justify his barbarism, Damascus is 40 percent Christian. What an imbecile!
Of course, the secular American proponents of Zionism are arguably even more vile, but without the support of those who identify as “Christian Zionists,” the former would be much less effective.
On “The Event” scifi show, the aliens plan to kill 2+ billion humans in order to make room for the rest of their species to come here…their planet will soon be destroyed by their sun. It never stops…survival of the meanest.
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The Wall is not the solution that works towards peace.These people are not free, the wall confines both groups (Arabs and Jews) to a certain area. The wall is a step backwards in the movement towards peace because instead of uniting the groups, they are being divided which gives them one more thing to fight about.
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Not all Palestinians are terrorists and it is the regular dirt poor people who are just trying to feed there children, who are suffering from this wall. The wall and the closed borders are not beneficial to either side it is just a temporary easy fix to a conflict that is much more complex.Isolation is not the answer.
*
When you look at two sides fighting and you see one is wealthy and one wallows in poverty, it isn’t hard to understand that the duty of the rich is to be as sympathetic and generous as possible. Otherwise there is no nobility. For the sake of a better standard of living for all, generous offers need to be made by the wealthy party. One can’t ask Palestinians to assimilate into the Israeli community.
*
Only high level professional Palestinians achieve real acceptance; the rest are treated like blacks in 1950’s America. It makes my stomach churn to see Christians giving huge donations to the already wealthy Israelis so they can continue to build on lands that are being actively negotiated. Later, settlements on these properties have to be carefully routed around during treaties. It is a clever tactic to gain valuable property. It looks very greedy. Christ would not do this.
*
Israelis are also even getting Christians and Jews from the US to inhabit the settlements and establish heavily populated communities.
*
If you ask them about the strategy, they just use a scripture quote. They need to look at their greed in the face. Nobody blows himself up when he has enough to survive. These are battles of survival. One is clearly more justified in doing wrong than the other. Palestinians have been pushed into economic irrelevance and are kept there. Young suicide bombers make Israelis feel this same economic irrelevance when their homes and businesses are destroyed. I do not advocate violence in _any_ circumstance, but how can you sit idly by when there are people on the other side of the fence living in third world conditions, some of which are imposed upon them for “reasons of security”? Surely someone realizes the reason behind the violence and “reasons of security” has to do with being deprived of simple needs.
*
I do know that these things are common sense and the arguments of “simple civility”. Some people have the gift to back up millions of miles away and look at human conflicts with the distance it takes to see things for what they are. Why fault Chomsky for this ability?
Archived image unavailable
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Sorry for getting carried away…I had this saved in a folder….its to much to keep typing…easier to copy-n-paste!!!
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The actions of the Zionist regime in Occupied Palestine are the least defensible undertakings in the developed world. Christians (North American Protestants in particular) who imagine there is some theological basis for these actions, need to straighten out their thinking. First off, Biblical references to “Israel” in the New Testament, are generally intended as a figure of speech, in reference to the community of all Christians on this planet, and certainly do not refer to any nation-state established since the Second World War. The very idea is preposterous. Additionally, there is no Christian “Holy Land.” That is clearly idolatry, and has no Biblical foundation what-so-ever. When Christians aid Zionist gangsters in their blood-drenched criminality, they reduce themselves to the level of accomplices to murder. They need to cease, desist, and pray for forgiveness.
A lot of Christian Zionist-types justify the crimes of the occupation regime on the basis of “the Palestinians are just Muslims.” Even if that were true (although I believe about 25 percent of Palestinians are actually their fellow Christians), that is clearly not an attitude in the best traditions of their professed faith, to put it gently. I’m reminded of some ridiculous Congressman from Texas, who made a joke about “nuking” Damascus, and justified it on the basis of the fact that the inhabitants of that city “are all Muslims.” Leaving aside the truism that such a statistic could not justify his barbarism, Damascus is 40 percent Christian. What an imbecile!
Of course, the secular American proponents of Zionism are arguably even more vile, but without the support of those who identify as “Christian Zionists,” the former would be much less effective.
On “The Event” scifi show, the aliens plan to kill 2+ billion humans in order to make room for the rest of their species to come here…their planet will soon be destroyed by their sun. It never stops…survival of the meanest.