by Stoneheart

Created on: January 20, 2009

If Israeli has a right to exist as a nation, invading Gaza was justified.

If Israelis have a right to be safe and feel secure in their homes, invading Gaza was justified.

This question beggars another. Why would anyone, other than to stir debate, think to ask this question?

Imagine raids and rockets across the border between Mexico and the U.S. Americans in San Diego or Calexico or Douglas or Nogales or El Paso or Laredo fleeing their homes, dying, living in fear.

Imagine raids and rockets across the border between Canada and the U.S. Americans in Detroit or Seattle or Niagra Falls or Elm Point fleeing their homes, dying, living in fear.

Imagine the government of Canada or Mexico failing to stop the attacks.

Imagine the government of Canada or Mexico supporting the attacks.

Imagine U.S. troops crossing into Canada or Mexico to stop the attacks and anyone asking if the U.S. was justified?

Why then is there any question about the right of Israeli to protect Israelis?

Oil is a reason oft proposed. The U.S. has relatively little and needs much, as do European Union countries, China, India and Japan. Angering Arabs risks having too little oil.

Israelis are Jews, though not all. Jews are untermensch; at least too on our planet many see them thus. The world turns a blind eye when millions of untermensch in Africa are massacred. Why be too concerned about Jews?

Israelis are trespassers, interlopers. The State of Israel should not exist where it does, if at all. Palestinians should be given back their homes. Let the Israelis go somewhere else.

Jews wandered for centuries before they returned home some 60 years ago. Had not the Roman Catholic Church demonized Jews and promoted their murder for centuries. Had not Christians made enemies of virtually every person who considered himself an Arab from the Crusades until England lost control its control of the Middle East in the 1940s. Jews might never have had to leave their home and wander. Millions for whom the land of Israeli was home before there was an Israel, the Palestinians, would not have lost their homeland so Jews could have their homeland back.

There is a point at which, I believe, a line need be drawn. What came 50 or 100 or 500 years before must be the past. What comes afterwards is the present.

As wrong as suffering and injustice in the past was, wrongs 50 or 100 or 500 years ago cannot be made right today.

Israeli is a nation. It is as sovereign as any other, as sovereign as China, England, France, Germany, India, Italy,

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