I always get a kick out of these great moralists who would never take their own medicine. The latest is that Catholic, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Holy Land's top Roman Catholic clergyman, who said:
"If there's a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against."
Is he dismantling the Vatican? One thing for sure is that he blames Israel and the Jews for everything and re-writes history by claiming that Christianity and Islam have equal footing with Judaism in the Holy Land. "Minor" historical facts, such as chronology and that his Jesus was actually Jewish, are conveniently ignored.
Another of my favorites is US President George Bush, who keeps lecturing and threatening Israel about how to react to terrorism. Israeli civilians are under a constant barrage of Arab missiles and threats of destruction, but we're instructed to "turn the other cheek" and suffer, while Bush and his Condeleezza Rice keep shtupping the terrorists with more money.
The very existence of the United States has never been threatened, and as horrific as "9-11" was, proportionally it wasn't as dangerous to that country's stability and public safety as the Arab terrorism we've been suffering from.
If there was moral honesty in this world, 9-11 would have made America more sympathetic to the plight of Israelis. Instead the opposite happened. We've been chastised for defending ourselves while the Americans killed thousands and thousands of innocent civilians who lived thousands of miles away from the United States. America and its allies took over Iraq by force, killing over two thousand civilians in order to give Saddam Hussein a fair trial.
I'm sure you can add further examples of moral hypocrisy.
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The world looks at us in the same way that we look at ourselves.
After 9/11, President Bush would have liked nothing better than to hang Arafat and his minions from the highest tree. But from what I recall, the response of the Israeli government and Israel’s opinion-making elite was that there was now a golden opportunity for peace with Arafat; a process which very quickly led to the expulsion from Gush Katif (after Sharon sent his representative approx 10 times to Washington to persuade Pres Bush that the creation of another terrorist state will bring a solution to America’s problems).
The expulsion from Gush Katif, the promise of more expulsions and Tzippi Livni’s insinuation (in her UN speech of late) that we are here because of the holocaust proves to the world that we have no real roots here. And then we are surprised that Ahmedinajad says that Israel should be destroyed and that the Europeans should find a solution to the Jews within their territory.
It’s time for us to act as Macabees, and then the world will look at us differently, as it did in the years immediately after the 6-day war.
So true.
The good people shouldn't shy away from politics and the media.
Hows this for Moral Hypocracy:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's residence is being outfitted with a bunker that can withstand a nuclear or chemical attack, an Israeli daily reported Thursday. Workers at Olmert's official Jerusalem residence are thickening walls, digging, and installing air purification equipment capable of countering chemical agents, according to the report in the mass circulation
Yedioth Ahronoth. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Olmert, would not comment on the report. "But obviously all governments have an obligation to guarantee the ongoing and efficient functioning of the government in a crisis situation," Regev said.
I agree with you Mr Regev. the problem is that a bunker is already being built.
As part of the push to protect Israel's leaders from a non-conventional attack, the paper wrote, Israel is also building a giant nuclear bunker in the hills several kilometers (miles) outside Jerusalem that will be accessible via a tunnel leading from government offices inside the city. The bunker is supposed to house the military's headquarters and top government officials if the country comes under nuclear attack. Work on the bunker began several years ago and is expected to end in 2011, the report said.
Olmert has another place to go. And knowing Israel, I bet the bunker described above is replacing on that already exists some where else. But even a personal bunker loaded with all of the grease you use to keep those five hairs down in the middle of your bald spot wouldt be an issue if it weren't for the 2,500 Kassams that have been fired at the country during the last two years.
This morning a Kassam landed near a school:
Ten children, and eight others, are suffering from trauma in the Negev city of Sderot after a Kassam rocket slammed down just 40 meters from an elementary school. The attack occured around 11 AM.
One pupil reported that when the Color Red early warning system was sounded, his teacher told the class to remain in their seats because the class was reinforced. However, when they heard the crash and realized how close it had hit, some students and teachers began crying. The school's psychological and counseling staff is currently being bolstered with staff from other schools and nearby cities. (Source: Israel National News)
Forty Meters, a little over 130 feet. For those of you familiar with baseball, that is approximately the distance from home plate to the back of the infield where the dirt hits the grass---in other words, much too close for comfort. Yet, with all of this happening, Olmert's Defense Minister, Barak is delaying the implementation of a defense system for Sedrot for political reasons, because it was originally approved by his predecessor (see Barak LIED- Witholds Kassam Protection Funds). And now it seems that Prime Minister is too busy protecting his hind-quarters first to care about Sedrot.
Israel's leaders used to be famous for two words, "Follow Me !" They would always be on the front lines LEADING and protecting their people. It is sad that the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister has changed those words to "Me First," because Israel needs a great leader now more than ever !
Well, maybe they'll just lock themselves in and throw away the keys...
and think of all the money his cronies are making
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