Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Hezbolla and Hamas's Value of Life I just watched a video on my computer this morning by a famous news reporter reporting the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon. Though Keven explained how media can be used as propaganda, he continues to do exactly that and presented a very one-sided program viewing the Lebanese Hezbolla as innocent victims and Israel as the advanced technically armed army, and therefore the bad guys. There are some differences. Israel received statehood after waiting 2,000 years for it. We never forgot Jerusalem, and remembering it has been in our prayers ever since. "Next year in Jerusalem" is said every year by our families. Israel was born again May 14, 1948 through the U.N.'s vote. We are a certifiable state. One of the things we have had to do is to keep an army and be updated in whatever armies use. The difference between the USA and Israel's army is that every man and many women in Israel have to serve. We're a very small group of people. Work just about comes to a halt and no one takes your place when there is a crisis. The population becomes the army. I was there in 1982 when Israel went into Lebanon and saw this firsthand, being I was living in Safed, which is very close to Lebanon. Suddenly all the men teachers were called into service and I volunteered to cover their classes. It was horrible. It was a traumatic time for all of us, more so for the civilians-turned-soldiers who had to rush to their posts. We work very hard to protect our citizens from the attacks of terrorists, which continue at this time from Gaza. When you're attacked, you have to try to stop it. I am appalled at the populations who have been taught to hate us, our neighbors in Lebanon and Gaza. They attack us and then cry and scream when we retaliate in defense. Do they think we will just throw stones at them? It's like a teeny dog attacking a huge dog and getting the worst of it. One has to have the sense not to take on an opponent who will obviously win. So I come to the conclusion that our enemies do not value the life of their compatriots. They use them as pawns in their propaganda fight against us. Getting people to side with them is more important than the lives they say they are working for. All their crying and screaming means that they have succeeded in rousing their people in a hatred for us. They cry for Israel to lift its import and export punishment and return the electricity to them, but they continue to bomb us. We have had to use something as punishment for attacking us, thus the cutting of electricity during certain hours and hurting them economically. What we should have done was just go in and attack them with our army, I suppose, and kill them all. I think that's what they would have done to us, and is what Iran is threatening to do with atomic weapons. They have bombed our station that supplies them with electricity and then they cry about it. These people are showing that their value system is completely different from ours. We will not be driven into the sea, as our neighbors have threatened to do to us. We are fighting very hard for a "next year in Jerusalem and another year in Jerusalem." We mean to stay, cousins. Since there are millions and millions of Arabs and only about 5 million Jews, I am grateful that the numbers of casualties reflect this difference between countries. If we lost the same numbers as they, it would certainly be lopsided. Kevin, realize the difference in population when you print loss of lives on both sides. Perhaps percentages would be a more accurate number. And remember, we didn't start this war. We don't want it or need it. Posted by Nadene Goldfoot at 9:15 AM 0 comments

In response to your comment Mr. Nadene Goldfoot: You mentioned that Israel was born again in May 14, 1948--Where was Israel before that? Imagine you leave your house and land in any part of the world for just a year or so and then you decide to return to reclaim it again? Would that be easier for you to do so? and would that even make sense to the village people to see you returning reclaiming it? Obviously it's not going to be that easy especially when you leave the "land" for 2000 years and all the sadden you decide to return to it and ignore every human being who had actually lived there and invested there for more than 2000 year.--Same thing is saying "Native American should reclaim the state of New York and other states as well”. Now this is not to say Israel has no place in the world—not at all. But one needs to be balanced fair and just when it comes to resolving conflicts between people—certainly killing people, humiliating them and destroying their home is not one of the fair solution. God bless Palestine, God bless Israel, God bless the world!

There were some Jews in "Palestine" all the time, ever since 70AD when Rome had attacked. Others were there, also, but not many. The land was not worked and it was swampy, and almost uninhabitable. When Jews started returning again, others joined us seeking work, which they found with us. When Israel was proclaimed a state in 1948, it was attacked by all the neighboring states, about 7 of them. Everyone thought we'd lose. The Palestinians ran away at the direction of their leaders and promises of being able to take over the homes of Jews upon return. It didn't happen. We sustained the attack. We didn't tell people to leave the area and we didn't tell them to stay in camps. Notice that the people who became displaced did so out of their own choice, and greed. Not everyone deserted us. Some stayed and still live there. Some are even in the knesset. Israel is not a state such as Arab countries like Saudi Arabia where no Jews are allowed. All the woes of Palestinians are not all on the heads of the Jews there. They've been killed because they try to kill us first. They have not accepted Israel's existence. There's the crux of the problem. We're in the neighborhood and we're staying. We'd like to be good friends with our neighbors. Lots of benefits could happen between the two groups. It doesn't always have to be this way.

It is nice to know that Israelites are so content, In there country. I read the BBC time line, to catch up on what I never learned, they stated that Israel invaded Lebanon. That should never be condoned.

Neither should firing rockets into Israel. How about that? Is that okay?

Israel has taken the land from the Palestinians, right? Israel is being reprimanded by the entire world for all their actions, and to give back the land. When America decides to give back the land stolen from Mexico, Israel I'm sure will follow suit. In short: DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE.

We did not take the land from the Palestinians. What kind of history books are you reading? There has never even been a state or country of Palestine. In fact, we were promised a much larger section of land but settled for what the United Nations had given to us. The Palestinians were offered land for a state at the same time that Israel was created in 1948, but they refused it! Pretty dumb, huh! You had your chance then, and a lot of bloodshed could have been avoided. However, statehood wasn't the goal of the leaders. They just wanted to drive Israel into the sea. We're not giving back the land. You'll have to live with us, and how you do is up to you.

When Barak met with Arafat, the warmonger and criminal, he was offered a good deal for his people. He turned it down. The reason? He stood to make more money by skimming monies alloted for the Palestinian people, and through the war he could have stopped. Until ALL arab peoples admit the right for Israel to exist, there will be war. That is why Israel must always maintain a top notch military. Whenever I hear some hadji took a missle, or a car went boom!, I smile. You get wat you give.

NEVER give up land paid for in blood. We can only hope that a sub-human species comes to thier senses and accepts the realities. The US kicked Mexico out of the territories that are now US states, and we ain't giving it back. The Israeli's paid for that land in blood, and should keep it. Recognize thier right to exist, maybe the arabs will get some of it back. If not, Israel, as well as the US, reserves the right to strike when actionble intel presents itself.

NEVER give up land paid for in blood. We can only hope that a sub-human species comes to thier senses and accepts the realities. The US kicked Mexico out of the territories that are now US states, and we ain't giving it back. The Israeli's paid for that land in blood, and should keep it. Recognize thier right to exist, maybe the arabs will get some of it back. If not, Israel, as well as the US, reserves the right to strike when actionble intel presents itself.