Thank you so much for popping into muse with little ole' me from Indiana. I am not Jewish or Israeli but I will be sure to pass on your insane gentle message of maniacal hatred thoughtful concern.
I am sad you didn't leave your name. Alas, all I have is your city(Beirut) and IP address(80.81.150.85). I would be frustrated, too, if I were stuck on dial up. However, Firefox is a great choice in browser. My blog looks great in FF. ;) Anywho, until you properly introduce yourself, how about I call you, Mr. Beirut.
You want to remind people of their acts and forget your own.......... You have disobeyed your maker by coming back to this land and it is our job to clear you out of it and that is a work in progress that we will see to the finish
As I see it, you have two choices and we (the nonJew-hating world) are waiting with bated breath to see what path you choose. You can choose the path of Life through peace, acceptance and love for all....BTW, that is the one we (the nonJew-hating world) vote for...or choose plague and death where you will surely perish with the rest of the antisemites by the hand of our Creator who has His own message (since you brought Him into it) for all you Jew-haters.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. (Zechariah 14:12)
YIKES!!!! If you choose the path of peace with our friends the Jews/Israelis our Creator says:
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. (Isaiah 14:1)
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD. And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem." Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling. (Zechariah 2:10-13)
In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." (Isaiah 19:23-25)
Your choice. Choose WISELY!
My Dearest Mr. Beirut, that's what our most gracious God has to say...actually there is a whole lot more and I don't mean any disrespect to censor the Holy One (blessed be He). I am sure you understand I had to stop somewhere.
I would like to share another message for you from this very nice young Jewish man who has written a sincere country love song to you and your all Islamic Fundamentalist buddies.
You can now listen to this most inspiring Hamas sermon posted to Youtube. I encourage all of our Western Hamas supporters to sign up today, for this most honorable role of "Human-shieldom" and save a Palestinian Muslim child. After all, they are the future of Hamas. You can be all you can be by supporting Islamic terror and stand in front of these delightful men as they shoot rockets each day from your very own backyard or schoolyard, your choice. Perhaps, it will be your rocket that lands in the crib of sleeping baby in Sderot, Israel. After, a long day of rocketing, you then get treated to an evening of rioting and dancing in the streets, passing out candy, celebrating the terror inflicted on the civilians of Israel. You will enjoy worldwide support and adoration for your service dedicated to the UN sanctioned genocide of those tenacious Jews, who just refuse to be pushed into the sea.
The following letter written by Mr. David Harris to the Norwegian diplomat in Saudi Arabia, in my humble opinion, is an excellent admonishment for ALL western peoples who are condemning Israel for defending her civilians and her efforts of survival against the Islamic tyrannies that seek her destruction.
You were an unknown Norwegian diplomat till this month.
No longer.
As first secretary in the Norwegian Embassy in Saudi Arabia, you recently sent out an email on your office account in which you declared: "The grandchildren of Holocaust survivors from World War II are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazi Germany."
Accompanying your text were photos, with an emphasis on children, seeking to juxtapose the Holocaust with the recent Israeli military operation in Gaza.
Clearly, you are miscast in your role as a diplomat, all the more so of a nation that has sought to play a mediating role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In fact, you're desperately in need of some education.
Let's begin with your current posting. You've been in Riyadh since 2007.
If you're so anguished by human rights violations, perhaps you could have begun by devoting some of your attention - and email blasts - to what surrounds you.
Or were your eyes diplomatically shut?
Have you failed to notice the many legal executions, including beheadings, going on in your assigned country?
Have you ignored the often abysmal treatment of foreign workers, many from Asia, who also happen to be disproportionately counted among the victims of Saudi capital punishment?
Have you neglected the gender apartheid that surrounds you? Did you ever look out of your car to notice that Saudi women are proscribed from driving, and that's hardly the worst of it?
Have you checked the skyline of Riyadh or Jeddah lately to count the number of church spires or other non-Muslim houses of worship?
Have you bothered to inquire about the fate of homosexuals?
Okay, you were AWOL on those issues. Maybe you just didn't want to offend your hosts by speaking the truth, or maybe you're suffering from that diplomatic disease known as "localitis" or "clientitis."
But surely a woman like you, with such capacity for empathy for those in far-away places, and especially for children in danger, couldn't remain silent about other human rights transgressions, could she?
After all, could an individual so deeply moved by the plight of Palestinians in Gaza remain silent about what a New York Times columnist earlier this month described as "hell on earth" - Zimbabwe? Could a person so anguished by the fate of Palestinian children stay mum about a country where a girl's life expectancy at birth is 34, much less than half that of her Norwegian counterpart, and where the health care sector has vaporized, all thanks to the one-man rule of Robert Mugabe?
Could such a dedicated humanist possibly avert her eyes from the deadliest conflict since the Second World War, which has killed over five million people, many of them children, in the Congo in the past decade - not to mention the documented and widespread use of torture, rape, and arbitrary detention?
An observer of such acute sensitivity could hardly hold her tongue while Afghan girls attempting to go to school have been doused with acid by those who wish to deny young women access to education, reminiscent of the five years of Taliban rule, could she?
In neighboring Pakistan, where you served in the Norwegian embassy for three years, the beleaguered human rights community must have been fortunate to have such an impassioned voice for all that's wrong in this failing state. Or was that voice, perhaps, on mute?
The children of Sderot, the Israeli town near the Gaza border, have been in desperate need of just such a spokesperson as you for the past eight years.
After all, their town has been in the crosshairs of literally thousands of missiles and mortars fired from Gaza. Those Israeli children live with all the signs of trauma, knowing that, with only 15 seconds warning, they could be hit at any time in their schools, their parks, or their beds. Yet, during my visit there last week, for some reason, those children and their parents had yet to hear you speak out for them. What a pity!
And the children of Iran could use your help as well. According to human rights groups, Iran has no compunction about executing children or those who were children when their crimes were allegedly committed.
Oh, and by the way, your compassionate help would also undoubtedly be welcomed by others under the gun in Iran, including women's rights activists, union organizers, student protesters, independent journalists, reformist politicians, and religious minorities. And let's not forget, once again, the children of Israel, who, according to the Iranian president, don't have a right to live.
But wait! A Google search about you reveals nothing, not a single word, regarding your views on Zimbabwe, Congo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sderot, or Iran. Or, for that matter, Burma, Darfur, Syria. Shall I go on?
Only Israel, faced with those who wish to destroy it, manages to prompt your impassioned correspondence and righteous indignation. Why?
No less, your stunning lack of education extends beyond the contemporary world to 20th century history, specifically the Holocaust.
Your invocation of the Holocaust to describe what's taken place in Gaza is, frankly, nothing short of obscene.
Your claim that the grandchildren of the survivors are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them goes beyond any norm of decency, much less honesty.
Approve or disapprove of the Israeli military operation, but there is no basis whatsoever for such a comparison.
When Israel entered Gaza in a war of self-defense in 1967, the population was 360,000. After Israel withdrew totally from Gaza in 2005, it was estimated at 1.4 million.
Would that the Jewish population under Nazi rule had quadrupled!
When Israel entered Gaza in 1967, life expectancy for women was 46. When it left Gaza, it was 73.
Shall we even bother to discuss life expectancy for Jews under Nazi occupation?
The Second World War in Europe lasted from September 1, 1939 to May 8, 1945 - 68 months in all. That means an average monthly extermination rate of nearly 90,000 Jews.
Compare that to the total number of victims in Gaza over three weeks - roughly guesstimated at more or less 1,000 - and recall that the majority were armed fighters committed to Israel's destruction, who used civilians, including children, as human shields, mosques as arms depots, and hospitals as sanctuaries.
Believe me, Ms. Lilleng, if the "grandchildren of the Holocaust survivors" had wanted to do exactly what the Nazis did to their grandparents, they would have unleashed their full air, land, and sea power. They would have thrown the Israel Defense Forces' ethical guidelines to the wind, kicked out the UN and Red Cross personnel on the ground, stopped humanitarian transports of food, fuel, and medicine, prevented media reporting, and left absolutely nothing - and no one - standing.
Unless, of course, they needed slave labor, in which case they would have carted off the able-bodied to work in Auschwitz replicas until they dropped. Or material for ghoulish medical experimentation, in which case, in the spirit of Mengele, they would have kept Palestinian twins alive temporarily.
But Israel didn't do any of these things. It's a peace-seeking democracy dedicated to the rule of law - unlike so many of the countries whose horrific sins you blithely choose to overlook.
What are we to make of your selective moral outrage and rank hypocrisy?
You ought to take a look in the mirror and ask yourself why Israel, and only Israel, makes your blood boil and leads you to speak out, even at the risk of grossly distorting both reality and history.
The answer, Ms. Lilleng, should be painfully obvious.
Mr. Harris' eloquent message is trumped by One who is greater than us all. The Creator of the Universe sees all and it is His will that will be ultimately accomplished in the end. So, choose wisely...
They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.' (Psalms 83:4)(83:5)
Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they have called thee an outcast: 'She is Zion, there is none that careth for her.' (Jeremiah 30:16-17)
...why would they have democratically elected the violent terror organization, Hamas? Hamas clearly states that they reject a two-state solution and their objective is the destruction of the state of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people in the middle-east.
It is my contention that every civilian voter who cast their vote for Hamas, cast a vote for war. Therefore, they are NOT innocent civilians. They chose this path. They did NOT vote for peace. Hamas promised war and NOT peace.
Israel understands this, yet they spend millions in precision-guided munition in order to protect the same civilians who voted for their destruction.
The following video is short and definitely worth your time. I encourage all who care about truth and justice to watch it and pass it on.
I received this message from my Facebook friend Eric Voogd. It is his eye witness account of an insane anti-Israel rally in Chicago.
The scene in Chicago at the intersection of East Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue was incredibly ugly in front of the business complex housing the Israeli Consulate. Prior to the march across by this angry mob across the Chicago River, the police estimated nearly 3,000 Palestinian supporters gathered at the Chicago Tribune Plaza. They had megaphones and large speakers they carried so that everyone with a 3/4 mile radius could hear their angry ranting and raging in both Arabic and English. The scene was straight from hell as this angry mob marched in a frenzied circle in the Tribune Plaza; they literally sounded like the angry mobs of fanatics who surrounded Adolph Hitler. The language was vile and repugnant from this angry mob.
Our group numbered around 100 very cold supporters of Israel who began to assemble on the side of the street opposite of the business complex around 1:30pm CST. The mood was somber, as our group was screamed and cursed in vile hate language. One of the Palestinian supporters crossed the barriers and physically assaulted one of the members in our group, before the police took this individual into custody. We had stones and coins thrown at us by this angry mob, as we stood in silence watching this angry mob.
The Chicago Police Department had to provide us an armed escort to get us out this area just before 5pm CST, as we were literally surrounded on all three sides by this angry mob and had the Chicago River directly behind us. This angry mob first took their "Israeli" flag and placed it on the ground and spat upon the flag and then later took the flag and lit it on fire...the Chicago Police Department had no idea of what they were getting into yesterday afternoon. These Hamas terror supporters were being bussed in from all over Chicago...one bus after another came to drop them off at the Chicago Tribune Plaza. Before East Wacker Drive was closed off, these buses drove through the business complex of the Israeli Complex and then reentered Michigan Avenue.
Too bad, Mossad and US Department of Homeland Security was not present taking pictures and profiling this angry mob. Since we know the percentages state that at least 1/4 of these Palestinian supporters acknowledge that suicide bombing is justifiable, this being a percentage known much earlier in 2008, we can only figure that this number is even higher at this time. The police were deeply concerned for the security of our group and took us through a special exit point to get us underneath upper East Wacker Drive. At the end of the day, we clearly know some of the enemy in our midst in the United States.
Eric Voogd Director of Broadcast Media Relations, Israel Independent Television US Midwest Regional Coordinator for Israel Always
You want to remind people of their acts and forget your own.......... You have disobeyed your maker by coming back to this land and it is our job to clear you out of it and that is a work in progress that we will see to the finish