One thing is claiming to be the victim all the time, over centuries. Another is acting in the same way, or worse, as those who are criticized for treating Jews badly. Certainly, Israel has the right to exist as a member of the international community…surely that is right but only if it behaves as such? An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth! Is that right or not? Human rights for those who behave as human beings, is then right. Obviously it is.
Therefore, those nations, which do not behave as members of the international community, logically, should forfeit their rights to membership, just like a member of a sports club should be banned if he does not pay the fees or breaks the rules.
So why is Israel always playing the victim card, when it violates international law? If Israel accepts the notion “an eye for an eye” then it cannot complain when inevitably the type of violations it commits daily go full cycle and are visited upon Tel Aviv. Is that right or not? However, to say such is anti-Semitism (an idiotic statement, because all the term means is “anti-Semitic” as regards Semitic languages, as per Hebrew and Arabic).
The main contributor towards the hatred in the international community towards Israel is not the Jews living their lives in Moscow, London, Teheran, Addis Ababa or Jerusalem, but rather, the actions of the state of Israel. Let us not pussyfoot around here, let us have it out.
Israel tries to hide behind cowardly fences it builds for itself, namely making it a crime to question the existence of the Holocaust in many countries. Why the hysteria, why the exponential ultra-defensive posture regarding what seems to be obvious? For many of those who have visited concentration camps from the Second World War, there was never any doubt, until it became a crime to doubt.
Who is trying to cover up what? But why? Who made it a crime to speak about the African Holocaust, slavery, which was visited not upon 6 (?) million souls but probably nearer to 70 million?
The way Israel behaves these days raises serious questions as to the integrity of this “people”, if indeed Israelis can be called a single people and not a motley collection of Ethiopians, Finns, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Americans, Palestinians and Russians, to name but a few.
While the actions of individuals are from those of the State, it is clear that Tel Aviv has a problem, a serious problem. That continuing problem places in question any continued goodwill towards the State of Israel’s right to exist, as it stands today, among many in the international community.
However, the Lord gave the promised of Israel to the Jews in 1948.
We are still living in Biblical times in that what God has said in the past must be fullfilled.
Over the years, it suffered attacks due to the abominable treatment of Palestinians (thrown out of their homes and lands as Jewish settlers started to arrive) and due to overwhelming military backing from the USA, managed to push back its original borders to areas claimed as a “Greater Israel” in Biblical texts.
By claiming the land that was promised to them by God in times gone by and then now going forth and claiming that land, in effect, they are not illegally occupying the land of the Palestinians if they were promised the land to begin with by God.
That is the case if they are occupying only land promised to them (in the first place) by God. That is not to say that if they are occupying land not given to them according to the scriptures then that occupation is illegal.
Israel is the promised land of the Jews, irrespective of if the Palestinians occupy it right now or not. It is their land and they are entitled to it. There is no one who is going to argue with God - least of all yours truly.
That is not to say that I think that the Judaism is the correct religion or that the Jews are Gods chosen people as they rejected Christ -- just as the majority are still rejecting him to this day. The land of Israel is the fulfilment of promise (by God) to the Jews to return to their homeland, and that is all it is.
That does not mean Israel still have to abide by international law even if that involves a two state solution to the current and ongoing crises in the region.
The solution to the current difficulties can only come when the Jews have occupied all of the land that was promised to them by God irrespective of whether or not that occupation is illegal in the eyes of the world or not.
It comes as no surprise that the Secretary-General of the UNO calls for an immediate halt to the illegal programme to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. Those who know Benjamin Netanyahu as an inconsequential office boy half a century ago would not be that surprised, because Benjamin Netanyahu has never been anything more than the puppet of the gray forces controlling him.
Not only are the new settlements illegal under international law, they also violate the terms of the Roadmap for Peace.
Apart from this, the Gaza blockade against innocent civilians, including women and children, is contributing towards fuelling more anti-Israeli hatred and worse, towards the creation of criminal networks supporting an illegal economy, according to UN reports. Alternatively, is this what Israel wants?
For every day that passes, the international community feels more admiration for the resilience and courage of Gaza citizens and more and more sullen hatred for the pariah regime that builds illegal colonies and strangles the rights of civilians, including women and children.
A country built on the basis of goodwill after the horrific and barbaric treatment meted out to Jews and after the 6 (?) million milestone became accepted finally among the international community after take 2 (WW2), Israel and Israelis could have done far better in terms of managing the process with a view to implementing a two-state policy in the region.
While there is no doubt whatsoever that the Holocaust took place (not only in Germany but also in the three Baltic States, Poland, Romania and practically every other country to have joined NATO recently.
Is this a pre-requisite for membership?) and while Israel’s right to exist is unquestionable, it is also true that if Israel wishes to become a member of the international community (and a very recent member at that) then it has the obligation to respect international law.
In addition, when we speak of the Holocaust, we are referring to gypsies, Slavs and other groups considered as "sub-human" by the Nazis, including several religious groups and persons whose sexuality was expressed in ways considered deviant by the Fuhrer.
