It's Not Called Anti Semitism, It's Called Pro Fairness

60 Years ago today the State of Israel was formed.

How many of you know how that occurred? We can read lots of different versions on the events of the day, but after 60 years things that may have been done wrong at the time are overlooked and written off, especially from those who benefit from the situation.

60 years ago today after World War II and the atrocities that happened to the Jewish People in Nazi Germany and throughout Europe. The United Nations, and the United States with the urging of the Jewish People it was decided that a homeland was needed. After much discussion the Jewish People said that they had only one homeland and that was the Holy Land, where much of their ancient history took place. Thus with the support of the UN and the US the State of Israel was formed. It was formed dead center in the Holy Land where Christs very feet had trod. Where Solomon’s Temple once stood, where Jesus and Peter walked on water, and eventually where Christ died.

The only problem was, this area was owned and occupied by a nation called Palestine.

The Palestinians had lived there since Biblical Times as well, however due to issues that the Hebrews had they were exiled from their land, and after regaining their freedoms they scattered all over the earth, mostly Europe where they became very successful businessmen and woman.

Since the Palestinians had lived in this land for nearly two thousand years, they built homes and offices and schools, and gas stations and grocery stores, and manufacturing plants, and all of the things that go along with living in a country. These places belonged to these people.

Between the years of 1947 and 1949 over 700,000 civilians were displaced as an act of ethnic cleansing and over 149 villages were raised. To make way for their new inhabitants.

When it was decided that there was to be formed a Nation of Israel our Government and the UN went into Palestine and we bulldozed peoples home where people were living and sleeping. We bulldozed business’ where people were working, and after the bulldozing was finished we helped install barbed wire to keep the Palestinians out of this newly formed nation.

Our country supplied thousands of trailers for the new Israeli settlers to live in, and as an act of humanity we supplied the Palestinians with tents and blankets. The Palestinians became more than a little pissed and the two began fighting and they fight to this day.

The US has supported the State of Israel to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, not to mention equipping their military with the finest equipment money can buy.

Additionally, we have supported them in their quest for nuclear power and weaponry.

Each year the violence escalates, the Israelis’s give back a little land, then they take it back , then they give back a lot of land and build the biggest wall we have ever seen next to the Great Wall. This wall now divides neighborhoods. Imagine if a wall was placed between old town Pocomoke and Walmart, and in order to get to Walmart you had to wait in line to get through the gate that was manned by armed guards who wanted to see your passport, birth certificate, and tax bill to make sure you were current before you could pass to go and get your food. Oh and I almost forgot. Imagine if the wall opening was only 18 inches wide, and you had to leave your car on your side of the wall.

This is what life is like in Israel and Palestine each and every day. Instead of making it one country where they can peacefully coexist the government interfered and took these people properties and gave them to someone else.. They didn’t go in and buy them at a fair market and say something like “Hi, I’m a Jewish settler and this where my people were originally from and I would like to buy your house and your business” . No, the UN and the US helped them take it from the current owners and put them behind fences like animals.

Have you ever wondered why they just can’t get along? Plain and Simple…this is why.

How would you respond?

An interesting note. there is a group of older Jewish woman who have taken up the call to monitor the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints to make sure that the Palestinians are being treated fairly. Much abuse has been suffered at these checkpoints from completely ignoring the people trying to get through for hours on end to physically abusing and sometimes killing them. These women feel that their presence helps the situation because they are old and remind the soldiers of their grandmothers or aunts and they would never behave that way in front of them so they are hesitant to behave that way in front of these ladies. The group calls themselves Grandmothers Against the Occupation.

They believe that what the Israeli government is doing is occupying and think that it isn’t right. They go as far as demonstrating on the streets and asking that the occupation be abandoned as they feel that what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinian People is no different than what Hitler did to them.

To see a map and see the Israeli and Palestinian prospective from the people who live there click here and view the map. It is incredible Is our involvement serving humanity? Is our involvement serving justice? Is this something we need to continue to be involved in? Is this how we want to be perceived around the world