Hijinx
Well-Known Member
Great stuff! Very interesting and a great big "So what?"
Do we give Texas back to Mexico? Return California? How about giving native American's their land back? Should we devolve every nation and every state back to it's 'original' roots? Or maybe to the people who 'owned' it before those people did? Where do we stop?
This is complete utter nonsense. What matters are OUR interests. Sometimes that means we'd like things the way they were; kick Iraq out of Kuwait. Sometimes, we'd like things to change; Cuban throw off their communist ties. Other times, we just sort of muddle through. However, something needs to guide our reasoning and that is freedom and liberty. I think we made a grave mistake killing those things in their crib in Iran in the 1950's. I think we're doing the right thing siding with Israel over the years.
Why? Because, like Iran in the 50's, Israel is an adherent to the ideas and philosophies of individual liberty and responsibility and justice. Most any one of us would be at home and do just fine in Israel. I don't think many, if any, of us would do well and be fine in Palestine. or Egypt. Or Saudi. Or Beirut.
The oppression is not just coming from the Israeli's in terms of Gaza. We tend to forget, if we even realize it, how the Arab nations have, over the years, done more than their fair share to oppress, fence in and control Palestinians. It serves THEIR interests to focus attention on Israel instead of their own problems.
We can coffee shop talk forever about what belongs to whom and when and why or we can, as Westerners, say, hey, we have a lot more in common with Israel than Palestinians. And it all boils down to this;
If the Palestinians laid down their arms today and vowed to live in peace with Israel, there would be peace between the two sides.
If the Jews laid down their arms today and vowed to live in peace with the Palestinians, there would not be peace. There would be a lot of dead Jews.
Unless and until that second part of the equation changes, there will not be peace and it will be the fault of the Palestinians and their like-minded friends.
It's that simple.
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Do we give Texas back to Mexico? Return California? Barry is working on that.