God’s Chosen People
God’s
Chosen People
It
has been said, Pride goeth before a fall, meaning, “People who act
overconfident or too arrogant are likely to fall.” Oh, I remember
where that quote comes from. It’s in the Jewish Bible, God’s word to his chosen
people. (Proverbs 16:18)
As
Israel celebrates 70 years of stateism, it has become a nation of racism,
arrogance and bigotry. Bradley Burston, writing in Haaretz, a
leading newspaper in Israel, says:
It
hurts me to write what I’m about to. But it also hurts me to have to live in
this place today. This is Zionism as racism…As a public servant, as an Orthodox
rabbi, as a settler, you’re free to say anything, as long as it’s anti-Arab,
anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti- Palestinian anti-Nazi, anti-North American…For
sheer, unadulterated Zionist bigotry and hatred…no one can touch Benyamin
Netanyahu [i]
It’s amazing. Dov Lior, chief rabbi of Hebron issued a
religious edict saying:
A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s
fingernail. He also asserts that Arabs could be used for medical experiments.
Ovadia Yosef, a former Sephardi chief rabbi said:
“The sole purpose off non-Jews is to serve Jews.”
This declaration was endorsed by 250 Jewish religious
figures.[ii]
Again,
Allan Brownfeld writes:
Israel
repeatedly refers to itself as a “Jewish state,” but its current direction
represents a rejection of Jewish moral and ethical values. Slowly, more and
more American Jews, who believed Israel shared their values are coming to the
realization that it does not.
I used
to think of Israel as a century state, meaning that it would survive for about
100 years. Israel seems to thrive on creating enemies and I thought, one of
these days, one of them is going to stomp in and crush it.
No more.
I now think if Israel makes it ten more years it will be a miracle. Not because
some “enemy” will invade but because it will implode from within. Israel has no
foundation other than its illusions about itself, such as: Of all the people on
earth, we are God’s chosen. Jews are smarter and more valuable than other
people. Actually, Israel has little self-control, no constitution and
recognizes no borders. It has one true friend in the world, the United States, and
that could easily change as more and more young Jews reject the actions and
arrogance of Israel.
Most
Americans have supported Israel over the years as, “the only democracy in the
Middle East.” But what kind of democracy is it when Israel’s Jewish leadership
declares that it is not a nation for all its citizens but rather, its democracy
is for “Jews only?” It is pure Zionist bigotry.
Thomas
Are
June 26,
2018
[i] Allan C. Brownfeld,
Israel at 70: An Alarming Growth of Racism and Intolerance. Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2018, p. 40.
[ii] Also from Allan C.
Brownfeld, Israel at 70: An Alarming Growth of Racism and Intolerance. Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2018, p. 40.
POSTED BY THOMAS L. ARE AT 10:18 AM 6 COMMENTS: 
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2018
There is much to be admired about Nikki Haley, but her
blind excusing of Israel is not one of them. It seems that in her mind, Israel,
no matter what it does, is innocent and deserving to be given a pass. Israel
can do no wrong. If anybody says otherwise, she will not listen.
Last month at the United Nations Security Council
meeting, she described Israel’s forces at the Gaza border. ”No country in this
chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has.” When the
Palestinian Ambassador tried to explain some context to her remarks, that the
conflict at the border is a one sided massacre which has already killed
hundreds of Palestinians and wounded thousands more, including women
and children, Nikki Haley got up and walked out. So much for
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Just forget it.
Another story that Haley refuses to remember is that
of Arnon Sofer of Haifa University’s advise to
Ariel Sharon in 2004:
Withdraw Israeli forces from within Gaza, seal the
territory off from the outside world, and simply shoot anyone who tries to
break put. “When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it is going to
be a human catastrophe.” Those people will become even bigger animals than they
are today… So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and
kill, all day, every day.”[i]
The
facts that Haley currently refuses to hear include a report that on one day,
May 14th:
The
Israeli army shot and killed 60 Palestinians in Gaza – including 6 children –
and injured 3,000 others amid scenes of smoke, fire, teargas, dust, agony and
blood.[ii]
The “brave soldiers operating with restraint” to whom
she refers are of course snipers hiding behind barricades shooting unarmed
civilians from a safe distance of 1,000 yards or more.
No problem for Nikki Haley. If Israel does it, and it
seems harsh, just forget it.
Some wise soul has pointed out:
Erase memory and you wash away the blood from the
perpetrator’s hands, you undo the done deed, make it disappear from history.
Erase memories of atrocities and you tempt future perpetrators with immunity.[iii]
Nikki Haley is supposed to be our U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations. To use one of Donald Trump’s favorite words, it is
“unfair.” Actually, we have no ambassador to the U.N. Israel has
two.
Thomas Are
June 18, 2018
1
and 2 - Saree Makdisi, Kill and Kill and Kill, Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2018, p. 8
[iii] Miraslov
Volf, cited in Justin Schwegel, The Greenhouse Propaganda – How Gazan
History is Being Rewritten to dehumanize Palestinians. Mondoweiss.net,
August 10. 2014
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