Repost (the proper way): Netanyahu's Speech

Posted: Mar 18, 2015

While writing this draft, I noticed TruthHurts has a very good post I don't want you to miss, which I really don't want to undermine by doing this, but in sincerely trying to listen to the, um...feedback I've gotten below on my earlier post... I've decided not to remove or alter that post myself (because THAT would be sneaky), so I will repost it without my opinion on a the separate subject of name-calling - hope THAT is okay. Below is the NYT piece on Netanyahu's speech, and the quote in question is: “Right-wing rule is in danger,” he said. “Arab voters are streaming in huge quantities to the polling stations.” Any thoughts? In my opinion, first let it be known that since a Jewish family virtually took me in as their own as a teenager and I adore them, though some of YOU called me an "anti-semite" below for disagreeing with Netanyahu's speech, just know that no one else on the free world would ever call me that, including my "surrogate" Jewish family. In fact, many in the Jewish faith believe they are to "wait in Faith" for Zion, rather than shed blood over it, largely because they believe Sarah made that exact same mistake already which caused the whole Jewish/Muslim problem - she did NOT wait in faith for God's promise for a child and used Hagar instead (resulting in Isaac and Ishmael). Their faith, as well as in the Christian bible, predict that Jewish/Muslim faiths will war for all time and as consequence of Sarah's mistake, their war to be a reminder of that. At most, they believe in self-defense in battle. Not to mention, also in Jewish faith, God told David he would never be part of building a temple because he had shed too much blood in God's name - so his son, Solomon did. And let us not forget the lesson we were all supposed to learn from the Holocaust is never to label with a literal or metaphoric golden star any group of people and subjugate them to slavery, confinement, objectification or persecution just BECAUSE they were a member of any group - religious, race, political or otherwise. Otherwise, I heard what you said, and thanks for allowing me the opportunity to repost my opinion :) (P.S. Don't forget, TruthHurts has posted a great post below me while I was writing this, for those of you truly wanting to discuss rather than fight :);