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You wrote:"My goodness, you sure are trying hard to put a lot of words into my mouth, aren't you? Unfortunately for your "cause", they don't fit. You have improperly ascribed a torrent of thoughts to me based upon zero evidence whatsoever. You certainly can't find any support for those assertions in any of the words that I have actually written. So I will decline the opportunity to act as the straw man for your "arguments"

I suspect that the following are, to you, putting words into your mouth and ascribing thoughts to you since I wrote, as part of a long post (#94):

"I wonder whether we can count on you to be outraged when Americans who are Muslims or Christians are killed by Israel? Or is the approved outrage only for Americans who are of some other stripe? Does your outrage extend to Messianic Jewish believers who are killed or do you, like the government of Israel consider them less than the approved others, not to be accorded all of the same rights?

I grieve for Jews (not American) whom my written checks helped to bring out of bondage into Israel whose lives were taken by the senselessness of this conflict. I grieve for those who were brought to "freedom" who haven't the freedom in Israel to worship the God of Abraham according to THEIR consciences without being seen as second-class."

These questions were rhetorical because in saying "you" I was referring to the corporate group who would identify with you in your positional thinking and looking back one couldn't expect an answer. Perhaps I could have used the phrase "y'all" but that might have been mistaken in some other direction. Of course you cannot answer for a group.
I went on to describe my own grief and responsibility for enabling others to be in harm's way. Others who wanted a real homeland, a place of rest.

Fascinating that you viewed what I wrote as "assertions" or words in your mouth and pulled a "straw man" out of it. I cannot fathom where you found a "straw man" or assertions in questions but it is your privilege to see whatever you choose.

By contrast I cannot comprehend how the thinking on ANY side is sane much less righteous by any standard. But then "righteous" is nowhere in vogue these days.

I certainly have neither the desire nor the commission to justify or condemn anyone for his beliefs, dearly held. In my view we each answer individually to One greater for whatever we choose to believe as well as for what we utter.

Shalom