[lit-ideas] Re: [THEORIA] Illusions
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx" <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:23:32 -0400
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<<The bottom line is, there's a horrific problem in the Middle East, the WTC is
gone, we live under the threat and expense of terrorism, all because some guy
had this bright idea that this undefined thing called Jewish identity
shouldn't be lost? >>
Wait a minute. You're telling me you think the attacks on the Trade Towers
were because the Jews want to keep their State of Israel? Just trying to
clarify.....
A.A. I always tuned out the Middle East conflict except to have this vague idea
that Jews and Arabs were one ethnic group. I also had this vague ideat that
Israel was created in response to the Holocaust. In the back of my mind I knew
that Israel was created by throwing the Palestinians out of their homes and
usurping their land. I simply didn't know enough about it to care more than
that, leading me to buy into the myth that Israel was a keeper of democracy in
the Middle East. After reading that historical summary, it's clear that Israel
was planned long before the Holocaust, it is anything but a democracy, and its
very existence was brought about at gunpoint. If Gentiles acted like
barbarians toward Jews, Jews acted just as barbarically toward Palestinians.
Israel clearly has no legal right to exist where it has located itself. If
someone moved into your house and threw you out on the street, you'd be none
too happy about it. Yet the Palestinians have had to endure exactly this for
decades. Not to mention that Shamir was himself a terrorist. Here is a
country founded on usurpation and terrorism complaining about terrorism.
Barbarism comes full cycle.
Complicating this of course are the rabid Islamists who would force their
religion on everyone, also at gunpoint, and Israel's unclean hands gives them a
rallying point. The hatred that losing one's home has engendered has taken on
a life of its own. You asked me all those moral questions in that other post.
I now ask you if you were a Palestinian, living in a tent for decades because
your home was stolen, and you learned that the WTC, a supporter of your home
taker, was destroyed by a group that opposed your home takers, how would you
feel?
I think a solution to this conflict is to relocate everyone in the State of
Montana and give it to the Israelis. Seriously, and please tell me why this is
ludicrous while forcing Palestinians out of their homes is defendable? Why
such selective moral interest?
Personally, I am an atheist. I see all this religious/ethnic crap as hardly
worth defending in the first place, let alone dying for, let alone having my
country terrorized for. I now definitely see two sides to this issue, as well
as the price this country is paying for seeing only one side.
Andy Amago
Julie Krueger
mystified
========Original Message======== Subj:[THEORIA] Illusions
Date:7/27/05 8:17:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time
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Something's been bothering me. Up until now, I assumed, probably like most
people, that Israel was created after the Holocaust as a refuge for Jews.
After reading that history by Jodey Bateman, I understand that Israel was
planned long before the Holocaust as a place where Jewish identity (whatever
that is) could be preserved. In its early stages in fact, Israel had a hard
time maintaining a population of Jews. The bottom line is, there's a horrific
problem in the Middle East, the WTC is gone, we live under the threat and
expense of terrorism, all because some guy had this bright idea that this
undefined thing called Jewish identity shouldn't be lost? There is something
very wrong with this picture. I'll bet that most Jews have no idea that this
is the case either. I'm not saying that Jews are to blame for anything, least
of all for their persecution over the centuries (which as an atheist I never
understood, ! but that's a different story). I'm saying that this plac
e called Israel may not be what it's cracked up to be. Somebody help me out
here?
Andy Amago
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