tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post2758459784733107535..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Pearls of expression on the issue of flimsiness.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-55963773659332159072018-08-01T17:19:43.710-04:002018-08-01T17:19:43.710-04:00I agree. Israel's a sovereign state but the c...I agree. Israel's a sovereign state but the choice of a landing zone for the Jewish people was a poor one. Israel is faced with an impossible task of reconciling a lot of Arabs to its presence and status. I don't lie awake at night over displaced Arab Muslims, as their ancestors have been quite happy to humiliate, enslave, or kill infidels they found in their murderous rampages in and around the Mediterranean, in Europe, and in the Indian subcontinent. People who were merely displaced were the lucky ones.<br /><br />Why Israel is considered our BFF in the M.E., if not the world, escapes me as does the apparent necessity for us to send it from $3-$15B per year. It's easily understood, however, if one pays attention to the power of AIPAC, Adelson, Saban, and others who, as you note, effectively control America. Let's talk about <i>that</i> why don't we.<br /><br />Israel's claim to Palestine/Israel is itself flimsy. It's a rare people, tribe, or nation who or that does not have some memory of ancestral lands lost to conquerors. It's the only claim Israel can make as what is left is the uncomfortable claim of ownership by right of conquest (live by the sword, die by the sword) or, alternatively, by virtue of British "gift" when Britain itself had no sovereign or property claim to what they purported to give away.<br /><br />Flimsiness is pretty much the brooding omnipresent condition underlying just about every national and international phenomenon. Can Israel survive? Can there be an alternative home for the Jewish people? Is America afflicted with exceptionalism and, if so, does it entitle America to wage endless war in pursuit of a laughable, contemptible concept? Does supposed humanitarian (ha) purpose allow the U.S. to ignore the U.N. Charter? Is globalism anything but a pestilence? Is the United States no longer a representative republic? Have multiculturalism and open borders been employed as a weapon to destroy the white, European majority in the U.S.? Who engineered the utterly catastrophic flooding of Europe with third-world primitives?<br /><br />We've traveled on autopilot for a good many decades as the most basic precepts of our civilization and nation have been set one by one on the shelf. Autopilot is good if one adheres to the basics but it's been a disaster when the basics have been deliberately undermined. Promoting the evil of supposed Russian attacks on "our democracy" is laughable in the face of the beyond-obvious controlled media and one-dollar-one-vote system that we actually have. <br /><br />It's entirely possible I strayed a bit from your point.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-75805958069149091792018-08-01T09:10:02.755-04:002018-08-01T09:10:02.755-04:00If there is any country with which Presidents and ...If there is any country with which Presidents and Congressmen collude and conspire, it is Israel. In the case of our Middle East policies, they have control.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.com