Posted on 04/14/2024 8:52:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Israel’s war with Hamas passes the six-month mark, here are some updates:
Despite all the hardships Israelis are facing these days, Gallup’s recent World Happiness Report lists their country as the fifth-happiest nation on Earth, behind Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden. The US ranks twenty-third.
Why, in the midst of a battle for its very existence, surrounded by enemies on all sides and confronting the escalation of anti-Semitism around the world, are Israelis so happy?
And how is the answer relevant to Christians in our secularized culture?
Gil Troy is an American presidential historian and senior fellow in Zionist thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, he explains the difference between Israel and the US: “Amid unspeakable suffering, Israelis have found comfort in one another and a higher calling. Too many Americans feel lonely and lost.”
According to Troy, “Israelis pursue happiness through family and community, by feeling rooted and having a sense of purpose.” He adds: “Despite disagreeing passionately, Israelis live in an intimate society that runs on trust and generates hope. Israelis feel that they’re never alone, and that their relatives and friends will never abandon them.”
After leading more than thirty study tours to Israel over the years, I can attest personally to the truth of his description. The Israelis I know are indeed some of the most optimistic, gracious, and family-centered people I have ever known.
By contrast, Troy says of anti-Israel progressive students in the US:
These illiberal liberals trash traditional families, religion, and America’s noble story of a flawed nation becoming “a more perfect union.” These campus commissars are among the unhappy Americans the surgeon general sees in the depths of loneliness and despair.
Israelis didn’t seek this war—but when attacked, they unleashed a patriotism, idealism, self-sacrifice, and grit that today’s regressive progressives scorn. Israelis’ resilience, duty, and love of life explain how this often polarized and besieged society remains such a happy place. Rather than demonize these heroes, protesters could learn from Israelis about the art of living—not only for their sake but for America’s too.
Secularized Americans can indeed learn from Israelis about “resilience, duty, and love of life.” But both are missing a factor that should cause Christians to be an even greater model for “the art of living.”
Jackass
Antisemites are all over this thread
Trolls.
They are happy for the same reason Women married to a strong Man are happier. People like to be proud and protected. How pround are Americans today, with homosexuals marrying and adopting, crossdressers who have surgery to complete the costume, and a Nation at constant war AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES ENEMIES, while paying our own enemies to invade us?
That attack was a false flag. Biden was at the Beach working on his tan, they were tipped that the attack was coming, and it was designed to be picked off.
It was like the coach hitting fly balls to the players, a planned drill.
One thing it did, was have America expend millions to shoot down drones that likely cost $1K to produce. Like Boots on the ground in Iraq, billions of dollars. IED’s ????$$$100 bucks? They bankrupt us, we pretend we win.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germany-jewish-funds-help-keep-mediterranean-migrant-rescue-missions-afloat/
Because they’re Secretly Behind Communism and everybody knows it?[/sarcasm]
The Israelis did all that?
Oh, and so you say the Israelis secretly run the UN and order them to condemn Israel constantly to throw people off?
Unfortunately, it's not an ethno-state. Israel is not only full of those Ay-rabs; they're also full of Third World workers and Russian anti-Semites who somehow get themselves accepted as Jews and then spray pain swastikas.
They need their ancient Theocracy back.
click on the links on post 26.
Not only behind Communism but simultaneously behind Capitalism as well. The only thing not controlled or corrupted by “them”, as I am told by some of our paleo friends, was the German National Socialism. [/sarcasm]
This place is reverting to what it has been 25 years ago. The only thing that’s is missing are freeper handles like Oskar Dirlewanger, etc.
There is a massive demoralization on the American Right. The Russian influence trolls are exploiting this to the max.
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