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Paul Marcel-Rene's avatar

No Andrea you're 100% incorrect the Arabs of Gaza and Samaria and Judea have not been impoverished by Israel whatsoever you are very uninformed of reality. It is only because of Israel that they have any Prosperity whatsoever. When Jordan had conquered the area, Jordan being the Palestinian state in that two State solution, they did nothing for these Arabs. There are no actual Palestinian people. Until Israel was reestablished in their ancestral Homeland which is Israel, Samaria, Judea, a Palestinian referred to a Jewish person. The mass invasion of Arabs only began after the Jews made the land bloom. It was mostly A Wasteland as noted by Mark Twain before the turn of the 1900s. They came for economic reasons. The Arabs never became a different people. Even their leaders acknowledge there's no difference between an Arab and Gaza and an Arab in Egypt or an Arab in Jordan or an Arab in the Saudi peninsula. If you like I can send you the direct quotes and a legitimate source for those quotes. This includes actual video of them acknowledging there are no such things as a Palestinian they're just Arabs. The problem is the lack of Education that it's never anything except for regaining and Islamic land, because Islam does not allow anything that was ever Islamic or conquered by Islam to be anything else but. They will not be satisfied if not one Jew was alive and all of Israel belong to them. They still have to reclaim Spain which was completely dominated by Islamic Conquest. These are the realities your statement does not consider and for which the majority do not know in the Western world or even amongst the Arabs themselves because they are not taught the reality they are taught propaganda lies which is an Islamic trait and obligation to lie to non-Muslims called Taqiyya.

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Diane Steiner's avatar

Great essay and the choir knows and hears this loud and clear. If only the uninformed, naive supporters of Hamas would understand what their words and shouts really mean. If only they would read this piece, it might wake up a few from their reverie. I've often wondered if they were given a choice to help out their wonderful "freedom fighters" if they would take a pass, but of course I knew the answer. Until their brains mature and they get out into the world of reality, they will continue to be spoonfed this propaganda. On another note, I am sorry to hear what has happened to you. Hopefully, with Canada's next election, things might begin to come back to normal. Thank you for a wonderful piece of reading.

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Regi's avatar

The Arabs of israel, Muslim and Christian whom I've worked with on numerous times, are content in their existence in the Jewish dominated Israel. Why? They don't profess to commit Jewish genocide. They have built a life for themselves and their family. The Arabs of Gaza and West bank are a wasted people. Brain washed and indoctrinated into a mindset of hate and murderous thoughts. From an early age they are taught to hate Jews. Why? They cannot accept their fore fathers defeat and "humiliation" at being concurred by Jews. Get over it and live your life for peace. I'm sure the Israelis would appreciate this. If you start now, in about 2 generations your Arab children and Jewish children will be playing together in the streets.

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Doug Israel's avatar

Such irony. No "people" in human history are less deserving of a state yet for no people in human history is the world wide demand greater.

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Puck's avatar

Freedom-to-Offend, your words are addressed to those with moral halitosis and cognitive hydrochephalitis.

Unfortunately, our Guardians of Virtue and Keepers of the Public Good — Mainstream Media, Academia, and the Politicians themselves — who tell us not to worry because they have everything well under control, have not tended to their own trypanosomiasis.

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Freedom To Offend's avatar

I’m too dumb to get the cognitive thingy

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Richard Hacker's avatar

Keffiyeh Boy just wants to get laid. And you, my friend, are probably looking at another six months. I suggest that you come down to Florida and warm up among friends while your lawyers work on your lawsuit.

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Freedom To Offend's avatar

I would love to.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Canada’s in bad shape. Trudeau is a total idiot who’s wrecked the country.

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Doug Israel's avatar

Keffiyeh Boy will never see this and if he does he will dismiss it out of hand. Western leftists have always screamed for Revolution. Today they can even do it from a keyboard. Yesterday it was for a brutal communism that brought terror and death to hundreds of millions. Today it is for a theocratic monstrosity that would spit on them right before it chops their heads off. They will only wake up when, God forbid, the revolution comes for them.

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Stephen Korn's avatar

Thoroughly enjoyed your esssy, Paul! Kol hakavod!

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Mark Urho's avatar

Excellent. Thank You. Baruch HASHEM. HASHEM gave Eretz Yisrael to Abraham for eternal homeland . At Sinai over 3300 years ago Ishmael and Esau rejected the Torah, only Jews ( first time as a nation) accepted the Torah. HASHEM gave each tribe their share of Eretz Yisrael. Two and half tribes have their land share on eastern side of Jordan River . Over 3000 years ago David HaMelech bought Mount Moriah for the Temple because the Tabernacle ( Mishkan) was only in the tent and David himself lived in the cedar tree Palace. The Third Temple and the Kingdom of Yisrael ( Davidic Dynasty) are eternal and Sanhedrin is also in the Third Temple Very Soon Baruch HASHEM. Final peace comes when Shechinah is dwelling in the Third Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem Very Soon Baruch HASHEM 🙌🙏🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱🙌🙏It is all about Jerusalem and Mount Moriah 🙌🙏🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱🙌🙏🙌🙏

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Kafr Dhimmi's avatar

Speaking of Sanhedrin let’s all visit Sanhedrin 72b. Some translators limit it to burglars others are more generic and leave it at: If a man comes to kill you rise and kill him first. Nuf said.

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Robin Alexander's avatar

Seriously, and for me that's not because I'm an observant Jew; that makes moral evolutionary survival sense.

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Jenn's avatar

Terrific essay!

This writer is a righteous gentile and deserves to be recognized as such.

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Alison's avatar

Pity the right people will never read this.

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Robin Alexander's avatar

Well done. Illuminating. Especially the part about 18,000 people who used to work in Israel. That perk is gone for good -- I hope. But, I am sorry you have been suspended. Two times recently I have read about how wonderful Canada is, especially and specifically in regard to diversity and ethnic groups -- Robert Reich published one such article in his blog by a Canadian journalist. (Reich is not a friend to Israel). As always, I commented that this is ridiculous, given how Canada has been treating its Jews. My comment was deleted.

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Harry's avatar

Good one. My very first day as a bond trader, a grizzled vet on the desk told me to read Dr. McKay’s book. It’s good on financial manias, but Elias Canetti’s (yet another Jewish Nobel prize winner) ‘Crowds and Power’ is more germane to the current keffiyeh hysteria, especially since Canetti’s interest in mob psychology was sparked by being caught in an actual Nazi riot and narrowly escaping.

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April's avatar

Excellent post.

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Thomas M Gregg's avatar

I agree with every word of this, but also I recognize its futility. These people are impervious to any argument founded on morality or common decency. Their ideology divorces them from civilized society. Like the Nazis, they scorn its precepts. But they’re also cowards who would never act on their own calls for genocide. The murderous actions of Hamas and its like provide Western “anti-Zionists” with the vicarious thrill they crave.

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Just an observer's avatar

Touching and eloquent. Alas, keffiyeh boys read different posts.

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Ronda Wells MD's avatar

Excellent essay.

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