Psychoblues
Senior Member
I am not a Jew nor do I adhere to Jewish principles beyond their shared views and mutual hands off attitudes towards interference in Christianity as well as other religions. Their WAR is against the Hezbullah is not religious in nature. Their protracted war with the Palestinians is also not religious in nature. Their wars are for self preservation and against enemies that seek only to destroy them, their nation and their religion for stated sole intent to simply destroy Israel. I will defend Israel on that accord. I will defend Israel as certainly as I have defended the United States Of America.
In many ways, I fault the present American administration for this recent anti-Israeli uprising. We have invaded and occupied a country that, aside from it's now deposed leader, has never seriously threatened Israel. That concept alone would require a book of it's own to explain. GWB continues to use his, I think false, Christianity to explain his motives and self-expressed higher calling. Over and over again I read statements, even here on USMB, that decrie complete misunderstanding of and wishes for demolition of the Islamic world. It is that kind of hate and war-mongering that got us into this mess and it is that kind of hate and war-mongering that will keep us at war for possibly decades to come. We, Americans, have intimidated the Islamists to the very point of desperation that they cannot live with any American interference whatsoever in their own national and political affairs. Thus, we have the conflict in Lebanon. Another book of it's own.
Nonetheless, I will defend Israel. The wars in Iraq and elsewhere that have the slightest hint of American corporate intervention continue to be out of bounds for me.
Psychoblues
Psychoblues
In many ways, I fault the present American administration for this recent anti-Israeli uprising. We have invaded and occupied a country that, aside from it's now deposed leader, has never seriously threatened Israel. That concept alone would require a book of it's own to explain. GWB continues to use his, I think false, Christianity to explain his motives and self-expressed higher calling. Over and over again I read statements, even here on USMB, that decrie complete misunderstanding of and wishes for demolition of the Islamic world. It is that kind of hate and war-mongering that got us into this mess and it is that kind of hate and war-mongering that will keep us at war for possibly decades to come. We, Americans, have intimidated the Islamists to the very point of desperation that they cannot live with any American interference whatsoever in their own national and political affairs. Thus, we have the conflict in Lebanon. Another book of it's own.
Nonetheless, I will defend Israel. The wars in Iraq and elsewhere that have the slightest hint of American corporate intervention continue to be out of bounds for me.
Psychoblues
Psychoblues