Dec 5 2023
Opinions: December 5, 2023
Arab kids in Arab schools in Gaza are brought up to hate Jews.
There are shooting of Jews and in Judea and Samaria every year tens of hundreds of Arabs and Jews are killed in that area, not greater Israel. But compare 70,000 killings in
poor communities in Chicago, Oakland, etc. in the United States or 100,000 drug deaths in the United States. Compared to Iraq and Iran wars of Muslims 600,000 dead in Syria, Civil War hundreds of thousand deaths. Yemen tens of thousands of dead. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran war hundreds of thousands of deaths, Ethiopia Muslim wars, Somalia, Niger, Sudan unknown deaths.
Oddly to protest on those deaths on College campuses in the United States or Europe? These students seem to only protest Jews or Israel.
Hamas and Iran who makes a fortune selling oil we could attacking Israel, massacres children, women, gouging eyes, cutting off limbs, burning alive put in Israel in impossible position. They have pressure from families of hostages. Pressure from United States which under President Biden has been excellent with his flying to Israel and sending fleets. Israel pressured to stop going after Hamas leaders by invasion, hostage return will be dragged out for a s long as Hamas can. Hamas will try to reason (how where), Iran will laugh at the United States and Israel. Iran and Hamas will put children in front line to die so they will be killed, and the world look to Israel as killers when they are not. It’s Hamas.
In our country, all colleges must hire in future half conservative half progressive for balance. Now it’s “so called” progressive molding 90% of our youth, or we must cut all funding. This is diversity inclusion. As for European colonialism, most students have no idea and point out 600,000 Arabs moved to Jordan about 20 miles away after they attacked Israel in 1949. Nine hundred thousand Jews were pushed off Egypt, Syria, Iran, Yemen. Many came to Israel not Europeans. Many had never even been to Europe. Yes many others were refugees from Europe after Hitler and his Holocaust.
A very bright lawyer friend believes Judea and Samaria, West Bank is occupied by Israel. 1) It’s not a country and 2)600,000 Jews is not “occupying power” of Israel. It is people who want to live there like the 10-20 million who came to the United States through southern border the last four years. They are called undocumented residents by NY Times who at the same time calls Jews occupiers. That makes old town Jerusalem where Jews were not allowed until they won the war in 1967 after being attacked in Golan Heights where they were attacked by Syrians in 1973 Yom Kippur War. I ask attorney friend what is status of Sinai that Israel conquered and let go and Golan Heights?
Palestinians now about 9 million from 400,000 a hundred years ago many from other Arab countries could work with modern Israel, build up Emirates type areas. But they have been brainwashed to hate Israel. This is based in tribalism jealousy but as shown by Emirates and other Abraham across countries it need not be that way.
Peter Dwares