
Hopes and Fears: A Presbyterian Journey to Palestine
6 months ago
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1947 we was all given a chance of peace and coexistence.
And the Arabs choose the way of violence, attacking us with all the neighboring countrys determined to annihilate and they lost.
since then the same pattern continued until today, Arabs choose violence get slapped and cry, sorry but no tears for the bullies.
this video does not reflect the realty.
15 years ago every arab could go every where in Israel, we supplied them work, education, food water, medical care everything.
but they choose violace and started bombing morning buses of women and children on their way to school.
so we added check points, so they started sending women, children, cripled to blow up
in one case one woman pretended to go to labor so the soldier rushed to help her and then she blew them
so we added more protection, the places where we built the security fence its upto 15 minutes walk for a bomber to mall
after it was built those attacks dropped from weekly tragedy to almost 0.
same is for those houses mentioned, which allowed the Palestinian terrorist snipe civilians and send them molotov presents.
or using UN ambulances as bombs and terroist taxy service or attacking the same border post who is getting in food and supplies ...
10 years ago they was offered a country with more than they getting now, araft choose not to, as he sought he can get more by way of violence.
so we defend our self by building check point fences using very expensive hardware to surgicly strike at those terrorist who shoot rockets (not at the army but at homes kindergardens schools etc.. the more killed the batter) they do it from civilian locations because they know we want shoot back and then they go hiding behind their women and children.
if it was any other country, russia for example at their latest conflict defenses, surgical strikes? they burned georgy and they leveled Sheshney(city the size of tel aviv is nothing but a rubble there)
but we are using extreme force by defending our self's
every street every document is in Hebrew English and Arabic everyone is welcomed here but if i step to the Palestinian territory i'll be linched by the mob.
but its we who in human and what ever.
and while we speak of peace and tolerance and development
they teahc that all non muslim are apes using summer camps to train kids to kill jews shoot rockets and use weapons.
they dont build foundation for a country they dont build infrastracture education industry hospital ...
they build weapon smuggling tunnels and bigger rockets and a whole generation of hate.
It's easy to sit back from a distance and label an entire population of people "terrorists." It's much harder to dig a bit deeper and find out why they feel they need to resort of the tactic of terrorism.
Either way, the wall, the road blocks, and the Israeli settlements aren't going to work out for Israel in the long run. You can't have a peaceful relationship with a neighbor you can't trust. It's a bad example to looks to the uncompleted and nonsensical border fence between Mexico and the US. It's a much better example to look at the walls built in Northern Ireland and apartheid South Africa to see a hint of the future Israel has in store for it if it continues with the tactics of apartheid and segregation.
We can definitely agree on the fact that the Bush administration has an historic policy of "segregation and apartheid" when it deals with other countries. This being said, I would hate to have my house demolished, my children beaten, or my land taken from me because of something George W. Bush did. This is something all Palestinian people have to live with everyday.
You'll notice in the film that the Palestinians that are interviewed are all Christians. Add to that the Israeli's that are interviewed and I think that the film is bringing to light a truth that is hard to hear, that the Palestinian people are being unjustly persecuted and segregated by the Israeli military and government and as long as it continues that Israel's chances for a PEACEFUL two state solution are diminishing quickly.
I'm planning to travel to the West Bank this August.