You who hate Israel
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You who hate Israel
Yes, I’m talking to you. You people who think that anything Israel does is a lie, is evil. You who see a small, geographically and demographically insignificant country that is not only surviving against its enemies but putting them to route, and you hate this, don’t you? You cheer on Hamas, a gang that committed a pogrom and called it resistance. You who boosted for Hezbollah and its thousands of rockets and its tunnels and its threats to invade and occupy northern Israel for no other reason than sheer psychotic rage. And then Israel carried out a plan that will go into the books on warfare and Hezbollah ran away, and you were depressed.
Now you cheer on Iran, a brutal clergy-fascist regime that actually beats to death women who transgress its laws, a regime that tortured to death a head of the local CIA branch and many others. A regime that killed 248 US marines because they were trying to bring some kind of peace to Lebanon and Iran would not tolerate that.
Iran, a country that interfered in Syria`s civil war and brought ruin to that country, just so that it could encircle and threaten Israel. You who hate Israel love that.
A group that assassinated leaders of Lebanon so that it could be brought under the sway of Syria, and hence of Iran. You who hate Israel love the country who did these things.
A country that, unlike any other, calls its proclaimed enemy a cancer to be eradicated, that has a clock in its capitol that counts down the days until that enemy is wiped out. A country that calls its enemy a “one-bomb state”, as in a nuclear bomb. You love that country because of its evil nature, because its wishes are your wishes and you are as evil as they are.
You call Israel a colonial project, even though Israel is the only country in the world that speaks Hebrew, which means it is a homeland. Spanish is spoken all over South America as a result of the Spanish conquests. England once had an empire upon which the sun never set. Where is the Hebrew- speaking country that gave birth to Israel? Or do you twist, distort and invent truths in order to justify your hatred?
We Jews have begged our God to return us to our homeland, the same one the Romans called Palestine after they defeated us in two wars, but they themselves called Judea, as in Judah. WE didn’t call it our land just to confound the Muslims, a religion born fifteen hundred years after we were first called the Children of Israel, and we had kings in that land. We have a written history, and your attempts to erase it show your own hatred and lies in full measure.
And about religion. The Koran has many sides to it, yet some of its faithful have singled out a hatred of Jews to be an article of faith. Not all, but enough of them.
The Shia branch of Islam does believe in an apocalyptic end of the world, especially an end for Israel and Jews. Any negotiations with Iran are pointless as long as that country is led by its version of holy men.
One last note, this one on national anthems.
The American national anthem, the Canadian, at least in the original French, the anthem of France, and Russia, all of them talk of armed struggle, or blood, bombs and battles.
The anthem of Israel has none of these. It’s called Hatikvah, the Hope. It only speaks of the Jewish soul yearning to return, after two thousand years, to its own land as a free nation.
And you who hate Israel will have to deal with that for a very long time.
Am Yisrael Chai.
I blame the socialists who supposedly are paid to be educators, but only teach hate and envy instead. The ones in goverment who so are frightened of a minority and pander to them as they desperatly need their votes so they can be in power. The ones who have no respect for a people who bought swamp and sand dunes and turned them green, and who offer to re-green sub sarharen africa, and who treat the arabs and druze who live within Israeli borders as equals.
I'm pretty critical of Netanyahu's policies and actions in some regards. I'm just as critical of the claim that he and Likud can't be criticized without it being linked to antisemitism. I think that in itself is connected to his own claims that any other political party gaining power in Israel would bring the country to ruin. He wasn't polling well before this war started, and as long as the war goes on that will remain irrelevant because the democratic process is largely suspended.
With all that being said, I also believe Israel has the right to exist, to protect its people, and to defend its interests within reason. Uou hit the Kazarian theorists right on the nose with your piece here. Some of them may even use Hebrew words for theological purposes while also claiming that it's nothing more than roleplay when Ashkenazi people speak the language in everyday interactions. Other than members of Beta Israel (who I have yet to see claim such a thing), such people have no connection to the Hebrew language in order to say who is and isn't a "real Hebrew." It's absurd replacement theology, and it was spread in the form of Nazi propaganda before afrocentrist groups like the Nation of Islam and the so-called Black Hebrew Israelites started making use of it.
While anticolonial progressives may not claim to believe in either nazi rhetoric or BHI replacement theology, they use Kazarian theory to back those claims and, well... that's where that comes from. Don't use 'nazi propaganda' as a bludgeon if you're going to use some of it for your own purposes. Smh.
A very good article overall. I'm critical of Israel at times just like I'm critical of the US, and I'm critical of what Mossad does at times just like I'm critical of US intelligence agencies. But I don't hate your country or love its enemies.