Comments on: Why I support Israel

By: Arik

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By: Beaman

Beaman — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:34:32 +0000

I enjoyed reading this post. It caught my eye because I too wrote a piece on why I support Israel. You maybe interested: http://beamansworld.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-i-strongly-support-israel.html

Best regards

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Thoughts By Seawitch » Thanks! — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:11:54 +0000

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By: The results from the Watcher’s Council « Bookworm Room

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:06:33 +0000

Ariella Jerushalmi: How do you respond to Israeli desires for their children to be able to attend school in Sderot without suffering Hamas rocket attacks, or for Israeli women and children to be able to take a bus in Jerusalem without being blown to pieces? That is also happening in 2007.

The Palestinians would have a shot at a country if they decided to negotiate instead of resorting to terror against innocent civilians.

By: Ariella Jerushalmi

Ariella Jerushalmi — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:48:50 +0000

I do not dispute the right of Israel to exist.But we have to remember the peoplw who live in the country. To ignor the right of the Palestinians for their counry is just a promise to have a counrt ,Israel, under seige and at war. I want my children ang grand children to be huminiterian abd not opressure. I do not care about the historian legitimation I live in 2007 and surrounding by so many counties who do not agree with the Israely’s occupation of the west bank.
To lough at the UN deciesion and regard The european counties as Antishemit is the easy flight when you are part of a Mass. But when you look at your sleeping Babies and you dream about their future Tell me again about the Israel right for a country on bouth side of the Jordan River.

By: More on the morality of supporting Israel, not the Palestinians « Bookworm Room

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:21:47 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:32:16 +0000

First, let me note that I wholeheartedly support Israel and am the son of a Machalnik. But I take issue with two of Thomas’ assertions:

They bought every square inch of territory they now hold. and As time progressed, after World War II and the approximately 12 million Jews that were murdered (NOT the reduced number of 6 million nor the further reduced number of 3 million, but at least 12 million. SS officials insisted that in the oblivious malignant narcissism that the number was much more than 12.

For you to state that you “agree wholeheartedly with both (of Thomas’) comments” serves to undermine what is otherwise excellent commentary by you on the subject.

I would like to see Thomas’ sources on both of these points.

While Israel did pay, and dearly, for land that she holds, it is a fallacy to state that she paid for all of that land. It is a fact that Israel holds much territory that was NOT purchased. It was won in wars between 1948 and the present. I take no issue with this. They are wars she did not start. But it is important to educate people on the history of the founding of Israel without gilding the lily.

As to the second, Yad Vashem is the premier authority in the world on the Holocaust. Yad Vashem asserts that approximately 6 million Jews annihilated in the Holocaust. It is generally accepted that twelve million persons perished as a direct result of the Holocaust. Six million were Jews, six million were others deemed undesirable: gypsies, blacks, homosexuals, political prisoners, the handicapped, the insane - you name it.

It is important for the facts to be presented honestly ion the argument about Israel’s right to exist. To do otherwise gives ammunition to those who insist that Israel and her supporters are guilty of the same propaganda tactics her enemies use with careless abandon.