Posted on 10/22/2015 7:54:05 PM PDT by Yomin Postelnik
I have a friend named Mr. Lavoie who needs some advice. Mr. Lavoie owns a house.
This isn't any old house. It was given by G-d to his ancestors for all eternity, and the donation was recorded in the presence of 600,000 entire families. It was later taken from them, about 2,000 years ago and returned to his family slowly over the past 100 years or so. Even then, some of the backyard had yet to be returned until his neighbors started shooting at him for no reason and he had to chase them off.
It should be added that during the time the Lavoies didn't have the house, it became little more than a worn down shack. Some Lavoie family members still lived in a tent on the land and when they became bigger and started beautifying and rebuilding it, some workers came from far off Arabic lands to share in the bounty.
Anyway, last night a bunch of thugs started throwing rocks at his windows and threatened to stab him. All they want is half his living room and then they'll leave him alone. They told this to him in perfect Parisian French. (Their native tongue is Swahili, and in Swahili they teach their children that this is just a pretext to get in and that it's a great and wonderful thing to chase the Lavoies out of their house and kill them in the street.... but in French they, well, speak another language....).
The problem is, Mr. Lavoie isn't being fair either. Mr. Lavoie has a gun. They only have rocks, molotov cocktails and knives.
In fact, Mr. Lavoie has 2 guns.
Don't you think that Mr. Lavoie should be fair and even and give his Swahili neighbors one of the guns?
And Mr. Lavoie's unfairness doesn't end there.
You see, Mr. Lavoie has a roof. This prevents the poor Swahili band members from being able to shoot in rocks. They lose their rocks each time they throw them at the house, just because Mr. Lavoie unfairly built a roof.
It wasn't always like this. The Swahili neighbors were once the people with all the weapons and Mr. Lavoie's roof hadn't been built. They all got together and attacked him 4 times, once in 1948, again in 1956, then in 1967 (when Mr. Lavoie finally got his backyard back while fending them off and again in 1973. No one quite knows how Mr. Lavoie fended them off. Some people say that G-d kept His promise to the Lavoie family to defend them, but the media says that that's just crazy talk.
Don't you agree that Mr. Lavoie's actions are terribly unfair?
Well, you can do something about it.
The Swahili band members have announced that they don't just want Mr. Lavoie's house. They really need the whole block.
And the UN has started a fund to help them. If you're interested in donating, please contact Richard Falk and as soon as Mr. Lavoie buys the Swahilis some stamps, which is honestly the least he can do, we'll mail you a solicitation envelop.
And if you think that I'm totally crazy for standing up to this unfair and unreasonable Mr. Lavoie, who refuses to give the Swahilis anymore guns since they shot at him the last time he did so (but that was 30 years ago, and again 20 years ago and he won't even give them a third chance!!), call me crazy. But know that in doing so, you are deriding the defacto UN policy of the last 40 years.
Think wisely. The future of the Western World may be at stake.
Jordanians Out of Israel Now
Any kin to marie?
Living proof that socialism is theft- by the force of “government”. What a tale over generations.
Sounds like a perfect argument, but, sadly, it really isn't. Suppose you and I are neighbors. And suppose our families have been on our respective properties for hundreds of years. Then one day I come over to your house, and tell you I'm sure G-d has promised your property to my family. What would your response be?
Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying you're wrong. What I am saying is that this is a very complicated matter.
It’s complicated but aside from the argument that the Bible testifies (in both Exodus and Deuteronomy) that part of it was given by G-d in front of 600,000 families, under any rules of conventional warfare, the land is Israel’s. The original land was divided from among the British conquest (Balfour Declaration) and the “additions” (also only a fraction of the historically Jewish homeland) were only won when Israel was attacked from all sides.
The Israeli victories in 1948, 56, 67 and 73, against all odds, do show us that the whole world belongs to G-D. He took it from the Jews for a while and gave it back, miraculously (at the beginning it was a small rag tag group fighting all surrounding armies), to who He saw fit to have it. But even from a secular standpoint, the ownership is clear.
A more fitting analogy would be any land conquered in war (American-Indian, Russia-Japan). We don’t accept the vanquished going and killing children and civilians to get the land back. And in this case it did belong to Israel first and the “Palestinians” are mostly people who arrived in the 1930s and 40s when the place started booming for jobs and were then forced to stay for political reasons when their previous homelands refused them as part of a strategy to take over Israel. Also, under British rule, both Jews and Arabs were called Palestinians and before that it was majority Turk, most of which left.
That's a good point.
Thanks!
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