"I know I'm rambling but whats with black people defending Israel when there doesn't appear to be a significant alliance between blacks and Jews (and YES I know about the whole civil rights movement thing) what else besides that have we worked together on?"
One of the beautiful things about hosting a blog site is that you can respond to very thought provoking and sincere questions with an entire post.
Quite a few of you were taken by surprise and somewhat upset with my stance on Israel and the Jewish people. And given the unfortunate events taking place in the Middle East right now, I can honestly say that I understand where some of you are coming from.
But as sorry as I am for the innocent victims on the Palestinian side, I am just as sorry for the countless Israelis who have been killed by suicide bombers and other despicable acts of terror over the course of that country's history.
So why do I defend Israel? Wow, where do I begin?
First, a little history lesson: Many of you are under the false assumption that the Israelis took away the Palestinian homeland and are now occupiers in a land that they have no claim to. (Kind of like us folks in A-merry-ca and what we did to the Natives, I guess) But you would be incorrect. See, there was never a country called Palestine. Jews came from Judea not Palestine. There is no Palestinian language, no Palestinian culture distinct from other Arabs, and there has never been a land governed by Palestinians known as Palestine. NEVER!
Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. [I am not religious but I will play along, because I know that most of you are.] King David established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and Muhammad never visited Jerusalem even once. Jerusalem was under Turkish rule from 1517-1917 and under British rule from 1917 until 1948. Jewish prejudice caused many Jews to flee Arab countries and most Jews in Israel today are of Arab, not European decent.
Jews purchased that land from Arab landlords, and there was an Orthodox Jewish community living in Palestine long before the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany forced many Jews to flee Europe and settle in Israel.
Now I ask you, what were the Jews supposed to do? Our beloved A-merry-ca had turned many of them away after they tried to flee the tyranny of the evil one. (Read about the voyage of the St Louis sometime) So Jews established their own homeland. A homeland, by the way, which they have had to defend in four wars against Arab aggression. A homeland which is the only one they can call their own (the Arab world has over 20), and a homeland which they have managed to do a pretty good job of keeping their own citizens happy in. Oh come on field, what about the poor Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank? Don't they live under Israeli Occupation? You mean the Palestinians who can't get their own shit together? The ones who fight among themselves for control and power as much as they fight the Jews? Those Palestinians? Let me see now; Fatah rules the West Bank while Hamas rules Gaza. Nice. A "Two State Solution"? Try a three state solution, because I guarantee you that no matter what, those groups are going to be fighting among themselves for power.
But the Jews are such easy targets. Why isn't anyone blaming the other Arab states for leaving thousands of Palestinian refugees hanging after the 1948 Arab Israeli conflict? Why don't we point our trembling indignant fingers at that scum, King Abdullah of Jordan, for betraying the other Arab nations? Why aren't we outraged at that thief, Yasar Arafat, who stole millions from the Palestinian people? Because it's easier to blame the Jews? Why don't we blame the British for making three different promises with nefarious intentions in mind with their now infamous "Balfour Declaration" after World War I?
So why do I defend the Jews? Because they stood by my side when the chips were down. Hell, some of them hung by my side. Because they helped to start organizations like the Urban League, and the NAACP. Because of stories I hear about Ida Wells in Memphis, Tennessee when blacks organized a militia called the Tennessee Rifles to defend themselves, and it was a Jewish shopkeeper who risked his life to get them those rifles. Because I have mad love for Haile Selassie (Save the Rasta jokes) and when that tyrant, Colonel Mengistu Mariam, overthrew him and started persecuting the Beta Israel people in Ethiopia, it was the Israelis who took them in. (Yes, there are actually Jews from Africa.) Maybe I got tired of seeing Jews trying to just live their lives, only to have their heads cut off on the Internet to make a fucking point. Maybe I like the fact that it's a Jew who started the Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks racist groups in this country and is one of the best run organizations in A-merry-ca. Maybe I like the fact that they don't proselytize to me about their faith like some people.
I know that Jessie and the rest of Rev. Inc. has made it cool to demagogue against Jews in this country. And the only thing that many black folks and Jews have in common is love for a certain chosen one. If you are black and conscious, it's the chic thing to do; bash the Jews. Remember when Professor Grif of PE told the folks in London that "if the Palestinians took up arms and went into Israel and killed all the Jews it would be cool"?
Sorry, I won't bite. The Jews are the least of my problems. To steal a line from the aforementioned PE, I won't "believe the hype".
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 206 of 206And do you know what support they have for the current Israeli state? NONE. Most of those living outside of Israel consider its very existence blasphemous.
If you are referring to Neturei Karta, they are in the minority in the Jewish community.
I assure you, the Orthodox friends I have--and I mean black hatters--are definitely in support of Israel.
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine, a rebbetzin, yet, has sons who have raised monies for charities for Jewish programs in Israel. Charities which I have glady donated money to.
Ballsy post Field.
You're right, too many people forget that more than a few jews risked cracked skulls and death to help out black people when it was not popular to do so.
The Palestinians do have a homeland. It's called jordan. they're a majority of the population there but like some other arab states, a minority rules the majority.
Hamas wants to exterminate the jews and regularly commits warcrimes by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians with rockets, and yet no "progressive" westerners protest. If the Israelis decided to treat gaza with the same ideology and methods as hamas, they would exterminate all the palestinians in gaza. Instead the phone and warn em before they bomb them.
But western "progressives" have the bigotry of low expectations towards the arabs, so they don't call them out on their shit.
"Why isn't anyone blaming the other Arab states for leaving thousands of Palestinian refugees hanging after the 1948 Arab Israeli conflict?"
Because they didn't participate in the ethnic cleansing?
What ethnic cleansing are you referring to?
There certainly are Pals living in this area. As a matter of fact, their birthrate is higher than Israeli Jews (yes, there are Israeli Arabs).
Btw, there is the real issue of Jews from Arab countries who were displaced from Egypt, Iran and other locales following Israel's War of Independence.
They were stripped of their property and money and threatened with their lives. They left their homes by the hundreds of thousands.
And guess what, they were absorbed by the Jewish state.
But that doesn't matter. They're just Jews, right?
"Btw, there is the real issue of Jews from Arab countries..."
it's a pretty minor issue - it's just one of compensation. these jews are not stateless, and they generally don't wish to return to the arab countries - many of them have had the opportunity to do so, but nobody took advantage. these refugees are usually only brought up by zionist propagandists when they want to try to justify or divert attention from israel's treatment of the palestinian refugees.
I Love what you are saying.. just note that the word Jewish is fake. "Jew-ISH" the suffix ISH means like something, for instance an item can be a redd-ish color. The word Jew was a term derived from Judah, or the Yahudanites. The white or light colored "Jews" you see today are originally Edomites, from Jacob's brother Esau. Those people you love, those black people in America today are the original so called Jews, but we are called and surnamed Yisrael.. coming from our forefather Jacob. We are the Israelites, a great people! A people who shall return to its great state. The world will soon see the glory of YAHWEH, the Most High God who removed Israel from its beautiful land, but we will return. My comment is a Historical and Spiritual perspective. Peace.
TushiYAH YisraEL
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