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It's been a while since I go politics. I know here and there news but haven't been following closely mainly because I switched my political mind to the Thais and also Malaysia's (circular) politic scenes are soon to topple Rhianna's many (circular) hits that will leave so Disturb(ia) that you scream PLEASE (don't) STOP THE MUSIC before I put you under my UMBRELLA(ella ella a a a a )
Ok jokes aside I haven't much had time to read through the news beside knowing the headlines like for example the KT by-election (don't know the dates) and some other side news. One of the very highlighted news at the moment is of course Isreal-Gaza war.
And what caught me was when PM said We cannot tolerate what is happening at Gaza. And want to voice out in UN(right) and we're sending aid. 1st of all, Malaysian (at least the government) just like to be busy bodies and make our self known to the whole world that we exist of course la can make money mar... But heck this is one thing that I don't want to go against the Israelite.
Before anyone jump the gun and point finger at the Israelite for being mean and violent for killing so many people, look at the history before anyone one jump the gun. They fought gaza not like how US invaded Iraq. Gaza actually were disturbing the Isrealite at the border. They launched missiles, mortar bombs and killing innocent. Now you don't hear people protest against the Palestines for that yet when Isreal fought back everyone around the world call for protest.
Please waste your time on something better like fighting terorrist. Come on guys protest the terorrist instead. Protest against whichever country government to hand over Osama. Protest against Palestinians for bombing Isreal. Protest against the ruleless terorrist that killed so many in mumbai. Protest against the Somalia's government against their Pirates. Protest against the yellow shirt PAD that took the airport. Protest against those that killed the Christians in India. You want humantarian? there! humantarian. How can you protest for some and not for all? Fair and justice for all right? You mean you can tolerate all these?
But no, we protest simply because the Isrealite are JEWS and JEWS are just not cool. But heck, I won't want to go against the Isreal if I were you. Afterall they are God's chosen people and although they have not believe in Christ yet they are still God's chosen people and they are suppose to complete revelations. What are the odds that you survive attacks year after year? To paint a picture, it is like as if Singapore is attacked by Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Borneo and still survive no matter how many wars it been through.
Nothing will change. Isreal will always win. It has been in the bible times, it is still valid at present time. So go do something better like change the nation... Wait that is also not possible. Like Isreal, some facts of this land will never change because after many months we still "have the numbers"
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How I wish Malaysia will open the visit to Israel. By keeping the people from visiting Israel, Malaysians don't see the real stories. You know Malaysian media are lop-sided in reporting on Middle-east.
People who have been to Israel will tell. They saw in South Israel victims of Palestinians' bomb and rocket attacks. They lost their limbs.
For an illustration, it is like some foreigners settling at the outskirt of New York. These people once in a while will fire some rockets into Broklyn. Would the New Yokers able to telerate it?
Anyway, the Palestanians were being used by people. The war is actually Iran proxy. The arms were supplied by them. Iran wanted to provoke international anger to wipe out the Jews from the earth. Can't deny as it was the Iranian president who made such statement umteen times.
Hope that Malaysia will not be antagonistic towards the people of Jehovah. Malaysia, in fact, could be very prosperous. God said those who bless Israel shall be blessed, and those who cursed Israel shall be cursed.
Israelis and Palestinians: Who's David, Who's Goliath?
by Larry Elder │ Thursday, January 08, 2009
Much of the world buys the line -- peddled by the Palestinians and the Arab Muslim world and, indeed, many Western countries -- that paints Israel as the bad "Goliath" that "stole" the land from the "Palestinians."
Israel gave Gaza self-rule in 1994, unilaterally withdrawing the last of its citizens and soldiers from Gaza in 2005. Hamas, voted into power via free elections in 2006, fought and defeated their political and military rival, Fatah, to seize de facto control of Gaza in 2007. In the past eight years, Hamas has fired more than 10,000 rockets and mortars into Israel -- 7,000 of them after Israel's 2005 withdrawal. With improved technology -- reportedly assisted by Iran -- Hamas' rockets can now fly 24 miles before impact and explosion, thereby threatening, injuring and killing more and more Israelis living in southern Israel.
But why the "disproportionate" response by Israel? Reportedly, more than 600 Palestinians have been killed, some civilians. Set aside for the moment that Hamas' charter specifically calls for the "obliteration" of the state of Israel. And set aside the fact that the Palestinian "militants" fight in heavily populated areas, assuring, indeed encouraging (for PR purposes) civilian casualties.
We turn our attention to the "stolen" allegation.
Israel lies in the ancient Fertile Crescent's southwest corner, with some of the oldest archeological evidence of primitive towns and agriculture. Historians and archeologists believe the Hebrews probably arrived in the area in the second millennium B.C. The nation itself was formed as the Israelites left Egypt during the Exodus, believed to be in the late 13th century B.C.
The 12 tribes of Israel united in about 1050 B.C., forming the Kingdom of Israel. David, the second king of Israel, established Jerusalem as Israel's national capital 3,000 years ago. Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for a millennium.
After conquests by Babylonians, Persians and Greeks, an independent Jewish kingdom was briefly revived in 168 B.C., but Rome took control in the next century, renaming the land of Judea "Palestine" after the Philistines, historical enemies of the Israelites'.
Invading Arabs conquered the land from the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines) in A.D. 638 and attracted Arab settlers. Within a few centuries, the Arab language and Islam prevailed, but a Jewish minority remained. After a brief period of prosperity, waves of invasions and changes of control followed, including rule by the non-Arab empires of the Seljuks, Mamelukes and European crusaders, before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 until 1918.
The crusaders massacred thousands of Jews, along with Muslims, in the 11th century. But soon thereafter, European Jews established centers of Jewish learning and commerce. By the time the Ottoman Turks occupied Palestine in the 16th century, according to British reports, as many as 15,000 Jews lived in Safed, which was a center of rabbinical learning. Many more Jews lived in Jerusalem, Hebron, Acre and other locations. By the middle of the 19th century, Jews constituted a significant presence -- often a majority -- in many towns.
Still, in the 19th century, the Holy Land looked mostly like a vast wasteland. When Jews began to return to their "promised land" early in the 20th century, the desert literally began to bloom under their industry. Arabs followed, coming in large numbers for the jobs and prosperity.
After four centuries of Ottoman rule, Britain took the land in 1917 and pledged in the Balfour Declaration to support a Jewish national homeland there. In 1920, the British Palestine Mandate was recognized. A declaration passed by the League of Nations in 1922 effectively divided the mandated territory into two parts. The eastern portion, called Transjordan, would later become the Arab Kingdom of Jordan in 1946. The other portion, comprising the territory west of the Jordan River, was administered as Palestine under provisions that called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
The United Nations, in 1947, partitioned the area into separate Jewish and Arab states along meandering and indefensible boundaries. The Arab world, insisting that any Jewish claim to Palestine was invalid, staunchly refused to compromise or even discuss the subject.
When Israel's independence was declared in 1948, Arab forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq combined to crush the 1-day-old country. They lost. Still, Egypt occupied most of the Gaza Strip, and Transjordan (calling itself "Jordan") held most of the West Bank and half of Jerusalem. Neither Arab country gave the "Palestinians" a state.
The word "Palestinian," as employed today, is a relatively recent term. Until the end of the British mandate over Palestine, in 1948, all inhabitants of the area west of the Jordan River were known as "Palestinians." A Jewish person living in what is now Israel was a "Palestinian Jew." An Arab living in the area was a "Palestinian Arab." Likewise, a Christian was known as a "Palestinian Christian."
Israel won more land after a series of wars, land since returned or offered for return in exchange for peace. The Jews "stole" nothing.
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