Why Can't We All Just Get Along? In the immortal words of that great American, Rodney King: Why can't we all just get along?
I, like many Americans, don't know a hell of a lot about the basis for the continued strife between the Israelis and the Palestinians. I only know what I've read in the history books and the newspapers . . . and y'all know how that goes. What are considered and accepted as facts, at one point, often turn out to be nothing but opinions after close scrutiny.
The only solid things that I have to go on are these: The Jewish people, throughout the centuries, have always been a tiny but tenacious minority--survivors if you will. Indeed they managed to survive, and thrive, and retain their identity throughout the centuries, whereas other groups, faced with similar circumstances, perhaps, would have given up and blended into the crowd, as it were, solely for the purpose of survival. And throughout much of their history, the Jews were not only continuously (and often brutally) persecuted and confined to Ghettos, but they faced a well-orchestrated/all out/almost successful effort dedicated to their literal extermination just three short generations ago.
Infants ripped from their mother's breasts, their heads smashed against walls; entire families thrown into ditches and machine-gunned, burned; packed into trains, like cattle, delivered to slaughter houses . . . . This is sick stuff, but what's even sicker is that the world, at the time, allowed it to happen. I'm not Jewish, but if I were, I'd be chronically pissed off over the entire affair and I wouldn't budge an inch . . . .
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at 20:25 on July 27th, 2009
Amen Brother
at 20:35 on July 27th, 2009
Perhaps we should all read the philosophy of Jesus Christ more closely concerning forgiveness and respect but even the Christians seemingly are very blind to all that he said.
Why should Jews dwell on the past most of us have forgiven and tried to forget and at least do not hold bad feelings towards the last big persecution in Europe to the descendants of those that supported the persecution.
But have the descendants of Black Africans that where brought to America as slaves or those that suffered human rights offenses after they where supposed to be free forgiven the USA white citizens. Most have but we must remember its not only Jew's that have been persecuted and how British, European and American imperialism is the blame for much more suffering and deaths than happened in Germany and its European empire during the last world war. There is a great history of persecution by those that have built empires through out time.
The Jews and Zionist in Israel are there mainly to do with lack of forethought by the main allies leaders and advisers of whom should of increased the allowed amount of Jewish refugee migrants, this factor alone gave power to Zionist to land grab land that their religion stated their God had given them. This fed hatred to the Muslim's seeing this exodus and the declaration of the state of Israel as a red rag flung in the face of a bull.. That's why they started the original war the start of the Arab Israeli conflict.
That has also sealed the constant persecution of Jews in Europe by fanatic Muslim's and given an excuse for the various so call nationalist parties in the elk of BNP aid in their continuing harisment of Jews.
The Jews in Israel are their own worst enemy concerning Jewish persecution and it's in fact a problem caused by leading nations that placed limits on migration.
The world can not be changed in a day and there will never be peace due to greed and resentments and religious and political struggles and those that do not care how they make a buck.
Mean while it will not only be jews that a persicuted and suffer human abuse. Many innocent people have died many babies have seen a brutal ending. I shed a tear for mankind and make a bold statement:
We are all to blame in some way or another, we are gulible to indocrination and to many want to kill to gain peace. The elite are of course the real problem as they cause all the wars normally for power, greed or for fanatic religious or political reasons etc.
at 14:30 on July 28th, 2009
Thanks Babel Fish! As I've mentioned in the story, I've got a lot to learn (as do most of us) in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. In regard to brutality and sheer numbers killed, I'd probably have to put my money on Stalin and Mao.Funny how we hear more about Hitler's atrocities than we do about Stalin's and Mao's. I think this has much to do with Hitler's so-called right-wing politics as opposed to Stalin's and Mao's left wing politics. There seems to be a double standard in that regard.My father in law went into one of the smaller concentration sub-camps during WWII with the 82nd Airborne. He said that it was the worst thing that he saw during the war. At times the world is beautiful and at other times it's brutal. And we'll never know why . . . .