This is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with our President, Barack Obama:
Well the other day our president spouted off about the possibility of Israel and Palestine achieving an ever lasting peace in the "Holy Land." Obama made a proposal, the same proposal made by Bush, Clinton, Bush41, Reagan, Carter, and so many other foreign nationals. Obama proposed that Israel and Palestine return to the borders that were in place in 1967 and those look like this:
Now maybe you notice a trend here, slowly but surely the Palestinians have lost their land. Now after WW2 the British (who controlled this land), aligned themselves with the United Nations, and settled on the plan second from the left, in 1947. The idea was to give the Jewish people a claim to their "Holy Land," while keeping a balance with long time nemesis the Palestinians. The ultimate prize for both has been the Gaza Strip, and of course Jerusalem. And now after thousands of years of fighting for this land over stupid bullshit religion, and lots and lots and lots of money and support from America (the land of we love jews, not as much as christians, but more than muslims), the Israelis have squandered Palestine and taken a vast majority of the land away from the Palestinians.
Now look, I myself do not think the 67' borders are sufficient enough, I think the 1947 border is good, but in terms for negotiation and foreign affairs, the 67' borders are a good starting point. Now for my whole life, and the life of just about every other person on earth, you turn on the news at night and yet another assault, murder, bombing, etc has happened between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Anti-Semitic, and Anti-Palestinian propaganda has been spewed by both sides for years and now I, yes I will cut the bullshit and give you my humble opinion on this.
We all know of the long hardship of the Jewish community. From being enslaved by the Egyptians, to ransacked by Christians and Muslims during the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust,and numerous other atrocities have been committed against the Jews. Even though the Jewish faith is substantially older than its Christian and Muslim counterparts. Hell both of those base their religious texts off the Old Testament. And that Jesus guy, yeah he was Jewish too. But all that aside, we all know the hardships the Jews have faced, we have been learning about it since grade school, and I can not state the importance of NEVER allowing these actions and history to repeat themselves. But there is a darker side to all of this.
You see Israel got wise when they buddied up to the United States. They foresaw something that could be very beneficial to them. And they were right. The United States eventually would send millions upon millions of dollars in aid, weapons, and other commodities to the Israelis. The United States essentially (my take, not fact) helped create the Israeli army, we aided Israel and support(ed) Israel in every way possible. We defended them against "radical" Muslim nations in the middle east, we aided them in defense of their land, we gave them millions of our own money, and never asked or wanted for anything from them. To many it seems just, and right to support and help the most shit on people the world has ever known. But through all of that, the Palestinians lost land, and were pushed further and further back as their land shrank more and more over the years.
Now the Palestinians did not just up and say "Hey yeah sure the Jews can have all of the land we will just take these tiny little slivers on the edge and be hapyp with that." No it didn't go down that way. The Palestinians knew that MR. Imperial (United States) would help Israel achieve whatever goals they pleased. And if the Israelis goal was to have all of Israel to themselves, then that was ok. So all that military equipment we sent over there, the Jews took, and decided to use it, not in defense, but for offense to kick the Palestinians out....for good. Let it be known that those guns in Israeli soldiers hands are American guns, with American ammunition. The bomb, are American bombs, the planes that drop those bombs are American planes. And if they are not American military equipment, then you better believe that the money used to pay for them most certainly was good old fashioned American green with Ben Franklin and that smart ass smirk of his. Yes how the tables did turn, and have turned for that matter.
And just the other day, President Obama proposed returning to 1967 borders. But when he said that, Fox News and the right wing immediately attacked him and pretty much (my words not theirs) began to paint him as Anti-Israel. The main reason being to take that long time strangle hold the Democrats have had on Jewish voters, and turn it in their favor. And the day after that speech, who but Benjamin Netanyahu shows up at the White House, calling the proposal a non-starter for peace negotiations, and claiming it to be completely irrational.
Well let me lay this out for you Prime Minister Netanyahu, I get what your doing. Your playing the "Im Jewish, and you should feel sympathetic to me" card. Yep I said it folks, go ahead brand me, hang me, stone me, call me Anti-Semitic. Im not, I am simply a realist who understands that this is nothing more than Israel playing the sympathy card......again. I get it Israel, you have been shit on for centuries, your people are considered the worst people to ever live by radical, dangerous, and evil people. You have had a tough run of things, and I for one find it empowering that each time you come back swinging, and come out on top. But playing this card while murdering in cold blood thousands of Palestinians is outrageous and un called for.
So Prime Minister, let me ask you something. If the United States came out tomorrow and said if you don't return to the 1967 borders, we will revoke our support of your state and consider you to be an ally with which we do nothing but trade with, no foreign aid, no military expenditures, no money, and most of all no backing you when those wild and crazy muslims come knocking on Jerusalem's door. Then what would you do? I am about positive you would shit your pants and come crying to the United States for help. You are like the United States of the middle east (just not as big and your all Jews), your flagrant, you don't give a shit what anybody thinks, you place yourself on a pedestal above all those other middle eastern nations, and most of all you commit the same kind of atrocities on the Palestinians that you once received yourselves.
Face the facts, you share a home land with the other two major religions in the world. You live in a place considered by BILLIONS of people to be the most holy place in the world. You have a responsibility to make that place not only "holy" but safe for those who come to worship and be apart of that city. Even more so you have the responsibility of being the "Moderate" middle eastern nation. You are suppose to be the ones promoting Democracy, freedom of expression and religion in the middle east. Not the one promoting violence, hatred, and stubbornness, which is exactly what you do every time you discard the idea of re-drawing borders and achieving ever lasting peace with Palestine.
The Palestinians deserve plenty of blame as well for their radicalized leadership of the past, their violent methods of negotiation, and their flagrant disrespect for non-violent pace talks. But the Palestinians are not the ones receiving money and military aid from the worlds richest and most militarily advanced nation in the world.
Until Israel steps to the plate and agrees to give the Palestinians some of their land back, and agrees for a peaceful resolution to the non-stop violence that afflicts that region, we will always be burdened with this moronic, religious based struggle. So Israel the ball is in your hands, will you lead the path to prosperity and peace, or will you lead the path of death, destruction, and hatred?
Then again all of this arguing from both sides could be fixed in one easy step:
STOP BUYING INTO ALL THAT RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT
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