{"id":11295,"date":"2010-06-07T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11295"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:52:19","slug":"business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11295","title":{"rendered":"Business As Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just so we’re clear on things – this blog is an unabashed supporter of Israel.\u00a0 I say this as a firmly committed goy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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That is not to say Israel is perfect; it is <\/em>to say that the Jewish State has extended itself in the interest of peace, over and over again, and gotten slapped for it by the “international community” every time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yoram Dori – an advisor to Shimon Peres – responds to Helen “Send ’em back to Warsaw” Thomas by noting that his parents, like so many Israelis, come to Israel from <\/em>those countries for very good reason; his father and mother were the only survivors of their families from Austria and Poland, respectively.\u00a0 Over two out of three German Jews died during World War II; nine out of ten Polish Jews died as well.<\/p>\n

That is why they went to Israel in the first place<\/em>; because the only parts of the “international community” that didn’t let them down during the war were the parts that were actively hoping for their deaths.\u00a0 Just like today.<\/p>\n

IN THE 62 years of our existence, we have had seven wars, thousands of terror attacks, buses which have exploded in streets, firing into schools, mortars fired on kindergartens. Yet you wish to exile us back to the inferno, as if nothing happened 65 years ago in Europe, as if our hands have not been stretched out for peace since the establishment of the state?<\/p>\n

We were victorious in the wars imposed upon us by Egypt and we signed a peace agreement with it after yielding all the territory and all the oil. We signed a peace agreement with Jordan. We yielded all the territory and much water. We withdrew from Lebanon to the international border and, in return, we received Hizbullah katyushas on our citizens. We left Gaza and in return, we received massive firing on our citizens in the South. Are you aware, Ms. Thomas, that many children from Sderot and the area around Gaza wet their beds until a late age out of fear of the Hamas missiles? And it is us that you wish to exile? Why? Because you think that we are weak or because it annoys you that we are not defeated?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lest you think Dori is a fire breathing Tea Matzo Partier…:<\/p>\n

As someone, who throughout his adult life has been a member of the Israeli \u201cpeace camp,\u201d notwithstanding you and your strange and angering views, my friends and I (and I hope also my government) will continue to turn over every stone and scour every corner to attain peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would that it could be.<\/p>\n

Thomas is only the most public, risible example of her kind.<\/p>\n

Last year on Marty Owings’ “Radio Free Nation”, I got a chance to ask Representative Keith Ellison <\/a>if he, in his capacity as the first Muslim in Congress and one of the most powerful people in the Islamic world, repudiated the Hamas charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel and the extinction of the Jews.<\/p>\n

His response:\u00a0 “How many Palestinians do you know?”<\/p>\n

Y’see, I was the bad guy for asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just so we’re clear on things – this blog is an unabashed supporter of Israel.\u00a0 I say this as a firmly committed goy. That is not to say Israel is perfect; it is to say that the Jewish State has extended itself in the interest of peace, over and over again, and gotten slapped for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22373,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions\/22373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}