Why Does The State Of Israel Exist?
The reason the modern State of Israel exists is simple and it has nothing to do with religion or biblical prophecy or any claim Jews have overthe land of Palestine. They have as much claim to the land as a Mexican Christian has to Nazareth and Bethlehem, or an Indonesian Muslim has to Mecca and Medina. Sacred and holy places, yes, faith-based country, no!
The Middle East and the third world in general has long been the traditional dumping grounds for Europe’s rejects; Europe's Jews were just at the top of that list. Many Jews willingly left Europe at the end of the Second World War, refusing to live among people who at the very least stood by quietly while their loved ones were gassed to death. Frankly, I don’t blame them for leaving and choosing to settle in Palestine. If anything the influx of European Jews enriched Palestinian society in the 20s and 30s, or so my father used to tell me as he lived in Palestine until he was 18.
To absolve Europe and the Europeans of any blame for the 63-year-old Israeli Palestinian tragedy is to white wash history; it’s like saying Hitler was not a European! We think of the EU today as this haven for the destitute and desperate, escaping the political and economic turmoil of the third world, when in fact it is a land with a deep seated hate for anything or anyone that is different from them.
Arab Muslims, Christians and Jews had lived together in peace until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. But the adherents of political Zionism lobbying for a national Jewish homeland in Palestine raised objections from Ottoman officials, Palestinian Arabs and other Arabs too, because no portion of the Holy Lands can ever belong exclusively to one faith, and that includes the entire territory of Palestine not just Jerusalem.
A political country and government need to exist, certainly, but such a government has to be all encompassing and inclusive of all faiths and ethnicities, above all, it has to embrace all the children of this land now living in exile as refugees and longing to return. To call Israel a Jewish State implies exclusivity and that will never be acceptable to Palestinians as long as Palestinians exist. Mr. Obama to maintain and support the status quo that is Israel is unfair and unjust and will be a black spot on your Presidency.
The Pilate-like hand washing exercise of the British in 1948, when they abandoned their mandate responsibilities and the Palestinian people to the whims and cruelties of the Jewish gangs, is unforgivable.
Today Europeans enjoy all the spoils of erstwhile empire building as they learned to live in peace with one another after centuries of recurring European wars, first wars over faith then wars over empire and finally wars over national identity and racial purity. But Europe still needs to make things right for all the Palestinian refugees displaced and lingering in squalid camps to this day, those whose fait was sealed with the first European gas chamber built by the Nazis!
Today, fickle, stuck up Europe rejects those who do not adhere to its pontificating laws and rules of national and international conduct, dictating to dysfunctional Arab regimes and people alike how they must act and what is and is not acceptable behavior. Who do they think they are?
The last thing Europe wants now is a flood of Jewish refugees, the grandchildren of Europe’s erstwhile rejects returning to Europe along with a flood of Muslim refugees from revolution-riddled Arabia. Such a horrific scenario would certainly do irreparable damage to Europe’s self image as a haven primarily and almost exclusively for White Christians!
Jews and Arabs are equal parts victim in this mess of a six decade old crisis and to blame any victim is to absolve the criminal from all responsibility. Winston Churchill’s use of mustard gas against Kurds and Arabs in Northern Iraq in the 1920s or Hitler’s use of gas chambers against European Jews, it’s the same principle, to Europeans we are as animals of the fields. We should realize that Jews and Arabs are in fact one people, cousins and brethren with one common enemy. Maybe then we can hope to learn to live together in one country and in one Middle East.
The Middle East and the third world in general has long been the traditional dumping grounds for Europe’s rejects; Europe's Jews were just at the top of that list. Many Jews willingly left Europe at the end of the Second World War, refusing to live among people who at the very least stood by quietly while their loved ones were gassed to death. Frankly, I don’t blame them for leaving and choosing to settle in Palestine. If anything the influx of European Jews enriched Palestinian society in the 20s and 30s, or so my father used to tell me as he lived in Palestine until he was 18.
To absolve Europe and the Europeans of any blame for the 63-year-old Israeli Palestinian tragedy is to white wash history; it’s like saying Hitler was not a European! We think of the EU today as this haven for the destitute and desperate, escaping the political and economic turmoil of the third world, when in fact it is a land with a deep seated hate for anything or anyone that is different from them.
Arab Muslims, Christians and Jews had lived together in peace until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. But the adherents of political Zionism lobbying for a national Jewish homeland in Palestine raised objections from Ottoman officials, Palestinian Arabs and other Arabs too, because no portion of the Holy Lands can ever belong exclusively to one faith, and that includes the entire territory of Palestine not just Jerusalem.
A political country and government need to exist, certainly, but such a government has to be all encompassing and inclusive of all faiths and ethnicities, above all, it has to embrace all the children of this land now living in exile as refugees and longing to return. To call Israel a Jewish State implies exclusivity and that will never be acceptable to Palestinians as long as Palestinians exist. Mr. Obama to maintain and support the status quo that is Israel is unfair and unjust and will be a black spot on your Presidency.
The Pilate-like hand washing exercise of the British in 1948, when they abandoned their mandate responsibilities and the Palestinian people to the whims and cruelties of the Jewish gangs, is unforgivable.
Today Europeans enjoy all the spoils of erstwhile empire building as they learned to live in peace with one another after centuries of recurring European wars, first wars over faith then wars over empire and finally wars over national identity and racial purity. But Europe still needs to make things right for all the Palestinian refugees displaced and lingering in squalid camps to this day, those whose fait was sealed with the first European gas chamber built by the Nazis!
Today, fickle, stuck up Europe rejects those who do not adhere to its pontificating laws and rules of national and international conduct, dictating to dysfunctional Arab regimes and people alike how they must act and what is and is not acceptable behavior. Who do they think they are?
The last thing Europe wants now is a flood of Jewish refugees, the grandchildren of Europe’s erstwhile rejects returning to Europe along with a flood of Muslim refugees from revolution-riddled Arabia. Such a horrific scenario would certainly do irreparable damage to Europe’s self image as a haven primarily and almost exclusively for White Christians!
Jews and Arabs are equal parts victim in this mess of a six decade old crisis and to blame any victim is to absolve the criminal from all responsibility. Winston Churchill’s use of mustard gas against Kurds and Arabs in Northern Iraq in the 1920s or Hitler’s use of gas chambers against European Jews, it’s the same principle, to Europeans we are as animals of the fields. We should realize that Jews and Arabs are in fact one people, cousins and brethren with one common enemy. Maybe then we can hope to learn to live together in one country and in one Middle East.
it's too long! you should make it more concise so it's easier to read
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