Thank you, Netz.
These bigots are far away from me, and while media reports indicate they're part of a particularly dangerous wing of the white supremacist movement, I don't think I'm in any particular danger. If they're stupid enough to come down here and try something in the real world rather than cyberspace, I live in an Army town, my neighborhood is full of minorities (often retired senior enlisted personnel) as well as guns, and we don't take kindly to bigots around here.
I think, given your location in Israel, the best way you and your family can help me right now is by continuing what you're doing right now, namely, proving to the entire world that Jewish people can kick the **** out of those who hate G-d and His Word. Over the last six decades, the Israel Defense Forces has done a fantastic job of changing a thousand years of stereotypes of the Jewish people, and that's a wonderful thing.
Plus, you're fighting people over there so we don't have to fight them over here. After 9/11, every American saw firsthand on our own soil what you over in Israel have to face on a regular basis, and we owe a great debt of gratitude to Israel for not only fighting against but also succeeding spectacularly against evils that most Americans can barely imagine.
Failure to fight evil today means we will be forced to fight that evil tomorrow after it has time to get stronger. We forget that lesson at our peril.
The truth is, is that the Jew in ancient times was a fighter and did not take insults to his G-d or person lightly. A good example of course in King David, King Solomon or Joshua Ben Nun and even the Maccabees. The Jews revolted against Rome, Greece and even the British.
Even today, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu served in the famous Sayeret Matkal commandos and was wounded. His brother, Jonathan Netanyahu was killed freeing hostages in Entebbe, Uganda in 1976.
If you live in a military town, that will be enough protection. I hate those neo-Nazi types because they do not understand what WWII was.
We do indeed share common interests and what the Arabs do not understand, VALUES.
We never ask for American boots on the ground here - we’ll do our own defending and if they force us, fight but we do need US technology and know-how even though we have our own home-based developments and technology as well.
We are sick of war but the Arabs have not yet had thier Okinawa or Iwo Jima and hence they love killing. Look at what they are doing to each other for Pete’s sake!!
We do face terror each day and that is too bad but we have developed counter or pre-emptive measures that the US learns from.
We’re in this thing together...