I’m not a Jew. I didn’t even play one on TV. But you’ll be hard pressed to find a more full-throated defender and supporter of the Jewish state than me. My love for Israel is not a recently acquired taste, due to politics. It happened 42 years ago, when I first visited there as a 17-year-old. In my dozens of subsequent visits, including three last year, I’ve seen the dry bones come to life and the desert bloom — even as this tiny, New Jersey-sized piece of real estate remains the most contested land on earth.
When I first visited in 1973, Israel was a proud, but struggling, 25 year-old nation. Many of its people lived in kibbutzim out of necessity. To support their economy, they largely grew oranges, cultivated vegetables, and hosted tourists who came to walk in in the footsteps of Jesus and the prophets. It’s fair to say that Israel has not spent the last 40 years simply wandering around the desert.
Modern Israel has given us the mobile phone, the drip irrigation system, the USB thumb drive, many of the most effective cancer killing drugs in use, voice mail, video on demand, and cherry tomatoes. But Israel’s real contribution to America has nothing to do with life-saving or life-improving products.
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Modern Israel guarentee's we'll lose every freedom we cherish trying to stop retaliation from every people they screw over.
ReplyDeleteIt guarentee's a never ending guilt put upon the American people for a "holocaust deportation" they had zero to do with.
Let the Christians who support it and wish to fight wars on its behalf take the plane on over with their kids and have at it. Leave the rest of us alone.
If we leave the rest of you alone , you will be doomed , idiot. Get your friggin head out of the sand or your a$$.
ReplyDeletethose that curse Israel will be cursed by God. those that bless Israel will be blessed by God...
ReplyDeleteO, and one more thing. Telling Israel to fight its own battles isn't cursing Israel. Nor is murdering in it's name blessing it. Furthermore, where is this blessing we have received so far for doing it's bidding?
ReplyDeleteMisinterpretation and delusional zealotry do not a prophecy make.