What is wrong with acting in retaliation as a Nation defending its people? Peaceful Arabs are welcomed in Israel. Idk what the children are taught but they show a heck of restraint to be filled with so much hate. As much as they are attacked I am always surprised they are not going more offensive and taking land. Always trying to negotiate just to have the Palestinian leaders to spit in their face and claim the same old promise of wiping them off the Earth.
The US has had its times with antisemitism just as any other hate groups have deep roots in American history. Not as a whole nation but yes it existed and is still manifesting today during the recent shootings at places of worship. Regardless our actions are needed to help defend Israel because
Romans 11 New International Version (NIV)
The Remnant of Israel
11 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? 4 And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
They are still God's chosen Nation and a unknown remnant still miraculously stands. We must do all we can to keep the peace for their sake and our own. We have been at war with Islam since 1801. They consider us a Christian Nation and we must die. This idealogy doesn't fade away if we just simply walk away.
As for your tax paying statements. I am not sure how that is relevant to troops in Syria. But like I said I usually support most of what this administration has done or doing.
Oh, nothing is wrong with defending against an enemy that wants you totally destroyed. Though one might ponder the, turn the other cheek, love your enemy, passages of scripture to see how those would apply to today's Israel.
I have a friend who served in the documentary capacity for the ME years ago. She and her crew, a cameraman on this one day, decided to walk through Israel, Jerusalem if I'm not mistaken, to take in the culture of Jewish life and to interview people as to their perspective of the Arab issue and their future. Especially the children.
The cameraman is filming her as she walks up this one street , she has a scarf over her head so as to accommodate tradition on both sides, Jewish and Muslim. All the sudden she yelps, yelps again, turns.
The camera guy was not as vocal but he turns his camera about and there are these little boys, I'd say about 8 to 10 years of age(?) , following her and stoning her as she proceeds. Even as she turns to confront them.
They're yelling, filthy Arab! Die! And such as that, as she tries to explain she's an American doing a documentary. But she happened to have dark hair and a tan. That was good enough for these boys. Who continued to stone her, aiming for her face, head, body, as she spoke. Unrelenting until a older man came out of somewhere to the side of the frame , we couldn't see where he had actually come from, and spoke to them sharply in Hebrew to stop. They did.
So unless we've been there , especially if we have dark features or are even of Arab decent, I don't think we can say hatred is not part of the culture in Israel nor in Palestine. Hate is a virus. It spreads and multiplies with time.
Her video was put on YouTube a few years ago so as to provide free access to uncensored documentary reporting on the ground, sort of speak.
Last I looked, which was latter part of 2018, I couldn't find it. And the computer I had it saved on caught a virus and I was stupid enough to think it being relatively new I wouldn't need to backup my files as yet, so I don't even have the title of the video anymore.
But YT is known for censoring videos that don't comport with Google's world view so I'm really not surprised. Of course she got the Arab perspective in that feature as well. However, as she proceeded through their streets, and even into the Israeli prison so as to interview prisoners, she was not stoned nor accosted. I thought that was fascinating. Because she clearly was not Arab, as Arabs there would see, but she also could have easily been mistaken as a Hebrew woman, being her cameraman as I recall was Jewish.
Hate.
It's ugly.