Posted on 06/20/2024 4:52:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
An Israeli peace activist who was kidnapped and held hostage for 53 days in Gaza said the horrifying experience shattered her longstanding belief that there could be peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
“I don’t believe in peace, I don’t, sorry. I changed my mind,” Ada Sagi, who was captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, at the start of the Israel-Hamas war, told the BBC.
For decades, Sagi, 75, lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border and taught Israelis Arabic so that they could speak to their neighbors.
Now, she’s urging the Israeli government to agree to a ceasefire and release the other 116 hostages who remain captive by Hamas.
“For many years, I believed in peace. It’s the reason why I started to teach Arabic at school. Maybe it will bring peace between the Arab people in Israel and the Jewish people,” she recalled thinking. “But from year to year, I understand Hamas don’t want it.”
Sagi, who turned 75 while in captivity, was among 105 hostages released in November in exchange for a week-long ceasefire and the release of some 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
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Experience is a dear school. But a fool will learn no other way.
That is a hard way to wake up.
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WWII - 6 million dead Jews
Big slogan — “Never Again”
Here is a 75 year old Jew who spent a life pushing for peace with the Palestinian terrorists.
Now she’s basically saying — “Never Again”.
It seems like people learn the lesson, but they really don’t.
“was among 105 hostages released in November in exchange for a week-long ceasefire and the release of some 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.”
For every dead Israeli hostage they should send 50 dead enemy prisoners wrapped in pig skins.
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Bernie Sanders might experience the same awakening if he had to live in socialist Venezuela.
thereligionofpeace.com
No, they don’t. Every liberal excuses the horrors of socialism by stating that it just wasn’t done right.
FAFO
“She learned something the hard way, but for some people that is the only way”
This country is full of liberals that are just like that......they should be made to live for a year somewhere in africa......that would hopefully wake ‘em up to how greatful they should be.
Ask Brittany Griner.......ain’t heard a peep outta that one since coming back.
Yes that is the kind of message that they will learn not to mess with the Jews
Arab PALEOstinian: Jew I kill you!
Jewish Left-winger: Nah, you don’t really mean it.
Arab PALEOstinian: No, really, you scum Jew, I kill you and chop off your head!
Jewish Left-winger: No, stop your incendiary rhetoric.
Arab PALEOstinian: I come into your home, rape you and your family members, slaughter all of you!
Jewish Left-winger: Come on Achmed, I know you are just angry and your anger IS justified but really, together we can achieve co-habitation in this land.
Arab PALEOstinian: No, I am serious, look, here is my knife and AK-47.
Jewish Left-winger: Now put those things away, I know you really want to scare me but we have been friends for more than 10 years.
Arab PALEOstinian: (Stabs Jewish person in gut). See, I hate you and you will die.
Jewish Left-winger: Look, you’ve made your point, I get it, I feel guilty for living in a kibbutz while you live in a shack...ouch, that hurts a lot.
What will it take for these ignorant Jews to understand JIHAD?
I find it rather stunning that the world doesn’t understand the nature of islam. For crying out loud, it’s even in writing for us....just read the Quran. They explain their hatred of Jews and Christians, and call for control of the world, and death to anyone who does not convert.
Thinking these people want to live peacefully with the Judeo-Christian west is monumental cognitive dissonance.
She should have been left there.
Thank you for that link - very handy to have.
Never heard that one.
I actually prefer, "Experience is a harsh taskmaster. First the test, then the lesson".
This also reminds me of a saying, "A Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged" - only this is worse...
> Sagi, who turned 75
That’s a long time to be naive. At some point it’s called stupidity.
Ben Franklin
Experience is a stern taskmaster
But a fool will learn from no other
“”””For decades, Sagi, 75, lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border and taught Israelis Arabic so that they could speak to their neighbors.””””
How thick does she have to be to require literally being captured and held hostage to figure out the reality, she has lived and been engaged in it all for decades and she couldn’t think through things in her mind and with all the reading and observing of her own daily life and the wars and attacks, etc,? She isn’t very good at thinking through things on her own, her thinking must be mush.
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