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I have spent the better part of the last 4 days arguing with anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian (air heads). As much as I try to stay away, I find myself drawn various news sites whether it be CNN, Fox, etc, and fighting with commentators and strangers. Even though I know my opinions will never change someone else’s, I feel as though I cannot leave without trying to set some people straight. Please can someone here explain to me HOW so many Americans can sit and say ” israel initiated the rocket fire and are killing Palestinian children daily all for what, because Arab kids are throwing rocks at soldiers?”. That is verbatim for what I heard today. Others argue that Gaza has every right to fight off those that occupy their land, and that israel forces them to live in that guetto. My opinion: if they are so unhappy with their situation why not just shut off power and water etc and see how long they will continue to shoot rockets at us ( israel). Someone help me understand America right now. I am already disappointed in this country after the election, but this is TOO much for me.
Most Americans support Israel against the Palestinians. The Senate issued a unanimous resolution in the last week fully supporting Israel. Even the President has refrained from any real criticism. Americans are more pro-Israel than any country in the world outside Israel (except maybe India). So things are really not that bad here.
But it’s true, there are still a lot of haters. On the far left (left of the Democrats), many people actually support Hamas and PLO suicide attacks. I know some of these people personally, but I can’t talk or email with them about it because I get too worked up. It’s really disgusting and sickening. Some of it, for sure, is due to anti-Semitism.
However, most of it, I think, is caused by these people naively believing the version of the facts (really a bunch of lies and a few half-truths) vigorously asserted by Palestinian nationalists. They really believe that objectively the Palestinians are so cruelly and unjustly oppressed that the rocket fire and suicide attacks are justified. The far left has a psychological tendency to support the “underdog” no matter what, so they only listen to the supposed underdog’s side of the story.
Because they have such a twisted version of reality, there is no point at all arguing with them! Seriously. For the vast majority, there is zero chance your comments will make any difference. I think the only thing that may possibly change some people’s minds is to be exposed to very good pro-Israel websites and blogs (like Elder of Ziyon). So it may be worth it to try to get people to read those.
But I still think it’s a waste of time, and really not worth it if it makes you upset. It’s not worth reading online comments anyway, because people tend to express more extreme opinions than they really believe anyway. (Don’t even try reading the comments on Huffington Post!) All we can do (besides general things like tehillim and mitzvos) is pray for the haters, that they see the truth, and give some tzedakah to good pro-Israel organizations who are changing people’s minds.
A great number of Americans have become lazy because of their freedoms. Our schools, and smoe parents, no longer teach how to evaluate data. Of course it does not help that our media, Lame Stream Media, refuses to publish the whole truth. It is a sad state of affairs that our country has come to this an it will take many years to correct it. Don’t give up, keep pushing the truth, some of us already know it, maybe soon more will come to recognize it.
Poll after poll, over the last 50 years and as recently as in the past few weeks, have confirmed Americans are strongly supportive of Israel and opposed to the Palestinians actions.
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