As a certified/diploma-ed (not cuckoo) English teacher I know that there are idioms which don't mean what the words taken separately mean. That's no comfort when I hear American politicians promising to "stand by Israel," because one of that verb's accepted meanings is just to observe:
stand by
1. To be ready or available to act.
2. To wait for something, such as a broadcast, to resume.
3. To remain uninvolved; refrain from acting: stood by and let him get away.4. To remain loyal to; aid or support: stands by her friends.
5. To keep or maintain: stood by her decision.
I don't want the world to watch us being attacked and then debate suitable response, judge who's guilty and then sympathize with our enemies. We all know that the world--including the United States of America-- is more concerned with satisfying the Arabs than defending our needs.
And about the concept of "taking risks for peace," that's even more outrageous. Let's say Biden has a daughter who has been attacked and abused by a boyfriend or husband, will he tell her to go back and "take risks" for the good of their marriage/relationship? Would US President Barack Hussein Obama send one of his daughters back in the schoolyard to be bullied in order to "take risks for peace" in the classroom?
No they wouldn't!
The Arab terrorism against us predates the State of Israel. For decades now we've been taking risks for peace, and it has only brought us death and wars. I'm a pragmatist, not a loony dreamer. I'm also a survivor of an Arab terror attack. I was injured, thank G-d, very lightly. I don't need any American officials to stand by and watch more Israelis die, because that's all they've ever done. And honestly, I don't want foreign troops here. I don't want us to be dependent on anyone but ourselves and G-d.
I don't like the fact that foreign countries are financially and morally supporting the Arab terrorists who are out to destroy us. Biden, if you really are a friend of Israel, clean that up.
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The truth is that we'd be better off without "friends" (other nations). It would cause us to rely on Hashem only and engender achdut between all factions.
Its already that way, there are just some who will not read the handwriting on the wall.
Baruch Hashem that you you weren't injured more extensively in the terror attack you wrote about.
Thanks, exactly
Shalom!
Should we also "give peace a chance"? Peace is made or forged, sometimes after a war in which all those who don't want peace have been neutralized, which sometimes means sending them into the next world.
Even if Biden had said "support" and not "stand by", what difference would that have made? America would never support Israel, or any other country, if it didn't benefit America.
they mean they'll standby while nations attack Israel...
Hadassa, you know very well, that we've tried and tried, but that "now peace" is so illusive. Whenever we've done something to get it, it goes further away.
jwm, yes, that's it; we're singing the same song, the same tune.
Stand by...as when FDR refused to directly help Jews in the concentration camps but towed the "rescue through victory" in the war.
Every nation eventually stabs Israel in the back. Israel needs to stand alone.
Keli, exactly.
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