By: Judah Joseph

Judah Joseph — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:58:49 +0000

In reference to the article,
The “prolific amounts of propaganda” printed by organizations like CAMERA aren’t really propoganda. Propoganda, by definition, untruthfully leans to one (or more) sides of an argument. This “propoganda” that CAMERA and other organizations produce is defensive material made for the media and the average American to give all the CORRECT information as to allow for the making of personal decisions. CAMERA stands for “Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America”, for those who were unaware.
To quote Jimmy Carter is pointless being that prior to, during, and after his entire presidency he was blatantly anti-Israel in his writings, speeches (etc.).
For the record, Zionism is a political movement promoting the idea that Jews deserved (and currently deserve as well) a homeland. This article seems to take the side of the UN, implying that Zionism is a form of racism (in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379). This is a blatant untruth. Remember that Zionism is a but a mere political movement that did so much for the Jews who survived the Holocaust, Soviet Russia, and WWII. To imply that Zionism is an elitist concept that considers Israel to be an absolute good and who makes careless decisions solely because “it’s Israel” is, frankly, an unfortunately incorrect accusation. The Zionistic party in Israel’s Assembly (Knesset) is called “Ahi”, meaning “brother”. It occupies an extremely minimal percentage of seats, and thus, has extremely minimal power.
You make reference to the fact that Israel apparently doens’t make a difference between a “refugee and a willing immigrant to Israel, because in its mind both are refugees from all the horrors of the gentile world”. Like you previously said in your paragraph, the world is different now. People are no longer coming to Israel to escape from the “horrors of the gentile world” because those “horrors” are minute if not non-existent. The Hebrew term for moving to Israel is “Aliyah”, derived from the root word “Aleh” – to go up [in holiness]. It is considered to be an amazing gesture to God to pick up from where you live and move to Israel – where it is “holier”. So basically, people aren’t moving to Israel to escape anymore, they are moving for their personal enjoyment.
No one ever told the IDF soldiers to go ahead into Gaza and rampage through homes and cities carelessly just for the fun of it. You have to realize that the major goal of the IDF during the ground invasion was to disable Hammas and destroy its ability to throw Qassams wildly and aimlessly into Israel. Hammas was a fast-paced organization which hid behind innocent citizens to make Israel the “bad guy”. Granted, the military actions in Gaza from Israel were harsh, they were not nearly as brutal as portrayed by the media. Israel doesn’t merely blow up mosques, schools, and communities for the sheer pleasure of it. It is done out of necessity.
You don’t hesitate to list some of the most brutal accidents in Israel’s history (Rachel Corrie, for instance), but you don’t even begin to mention the violent rampages from Palestinian extremists (i.e. the youtube video in which Israel supporters are verbally and then physically abused: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Xl68kP4wo&feature=channel_page ).

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By: Judah Joseph