Fair is Fair
December 23rd 2009
In 1947, the United Nations voted in favor to partition Palestine into a homeland for the Jewish people, as well as a homeland for the Arab population that was living in the area at the time. It was passed at 33 against 13, with 10 abstentions. Not surprisingly, the 13 nations that voted against the bill were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen. From that very moment, Israel’s neighboring Arab countries have sought to remove that Jewish homeland from the region in practically every way that was in their power. I digress:
Following the vote, the Jewish population happily accepted this plan, even though their portion was not contiguous, and included hundreds of miles of desert land. The Arab population rejected the bill, and immediately (literally, the next day) launched a massive, multi-front war against the Jewish population. Unfortunately for them, they lost. The Israelis survived the attack, outnumbered 10 to 1, and even pushed the Arab population back to setup defense paremeters. The Israelis sustained over 6,000 casualties in a matter of months.
Ever since then, the Arab world (with overwhelming support in the UN) has attempted to extract more and more “land for peace” trades with Israel, whilst igniting 8 regional wars against it in a period of 60 years, and bombarding it with terrorist attacks in the forms of suicide bombers, rocket launches into Israeli cities, machine gunning school kids to death, explosive booby traps, and much much more. They have also kidnapped Israeli soldiers, trading them back to Israel at a ratio of 1000:1, hijacked planes full of Israelis, and have continuously smuggled lethal weapons from all parts of the globe into the region, to murder Israelis with.
To be very blunt, the world hasn’t said shit about any of this. Instead, the UN has filed more motions against Israel’s behavior than any country on earth (by a long shot), and has labeled the country racist, comparing them to the Nazi regime, and the situation to the South African apartheid.
So let me get this straight: In 1967, when Israel miraculously survived a 5-way coordinated attack against it with a hail mary preemptive strike, THEY were the ones to blame? During that war, the Israelis pushed the Syrians off of the Golan Heights, seeking an end to the 19 years of daily shelling against it from the Syrians. And Israel is the occupier? When the Jordanians attacked West Jerusalem from East Jerusalem, and Israel ousted them there as well, again, THEY were the ones to blame? If Israel had just stood there and let themselves be raped and hacked to pieces - I suppose that may have found more favor in the eyes of the UN? Literally, every single step Israel has taken to protect its citizens in the last 62 years has been met with worldwide protests and uproar.
After Israel won the 1948 war, the Arabs said “okay, just withdraw to the previous borders, and then there will be peace.” Oh really? So why wasn’t there peace before the war then? They said the same exact thing in 1956, 1967, 1973, and have been saying it every day since. The current saying is “withdraw to the 1967 borders, and THEN there will definitely be peace.” Give me a break.
Meanwhile, every UN resolution against Arab terrorist organizations has been 100% ignored, and nobody has said a single word about it. UN resolution 1701 demands the Lebanese government disarm the Iranian-supported terrorist organization Hezbollah, which sits on the northern border of Israel. This resolution was passed in 2006, in order to get Israel to stop bombing Hezbollah infrastructure and weapon caches. At the time, they had 7,000 rockets in their arsenal. Now, not only do they have an estimated 30,000 - 80,000 rockets, but they were also voted into the Lebanese parliament. Amazing.
Let me just say that for the last 62 years (and even before then), Israel’s stance has not changed one iota: Stop attacking and killing us, and we will stop having to defend ourselves. Simple as that. But no, that doesn’t exactly work for the world. Instead, the world demonizes Israel for its US backing, and world class military. Why do you think Israel seeks such a military? Well with 8+ wars having been waged against it, and a non-stop barrage of terrorist attacks, I can kind of see why.
As I write this, a German mediator is attempting to negotiate the Hamas terrorist organization trading 1 Israeli soldier who has never killed a human being in his life, for 1000 Palestinian terrorists, who combined have killed hundreds, if not thousands of Israeli men, women, and children. And American news channels are covering the story as though it’s totally normal. “Yeah, I wonder if Israel will agree. Hmmmm, how interesting.” How come nobody has yet said “Are you fucking kidding me?”
Fair is fair. I rest my case.
On September 11, 2001, approximately 3,000 American citizens were murdered in an act of terror against the United States. This occurrence literally paralyzed the country in many respects, and as was repeatedly reported, “changed the world forever.” — or so we were told.
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