Gay Conservative

“It’s no accident that many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head.  Well, what if I do?  Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh, either.”

Golda Meir once said, “we have always said that in our war with the Arabs, we have a secret weapon–no alternative.” Today, that has begun to play out yet again as Israel has been forced to act in her own defense against the militant Muslims who wish to see Israel destroyed.  Meir was the fourth-ever Prime Minister of Israel and is one of my biggest heroes.  Her wit and wisdom best describe the Israeli stance even today.

Since Israel was finally granted land and declared independence on May 14, 1948, she has been at war with her neighbors.  The land that expands from the Gaza Strip all the way to the Eastern border of Jordan had originally been promised to the Jews as Israel.  That was changed when Winston Churchill, who was every bit as anti-Semitic as Adolf Hitler (just not willing to be as publicly brutal for fear of being seen in the same light), took that land and gave 80% of it to the Palestinians in the area and the remaining 20% to the Jews after WWII.

“There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.”

Despite Jordanian king Abdullah’s admonition that she not be in such a hurry to declare Israel a state, Meir played an extremely important role in moving the Jews toward establishing their foothold and declaring their statehood.  After hundreds of years of being scattered across the globe with no home, the Jews finally had a place to call their own.  The Arab nations wouldn’t have any of it, though, and on the day Israel declared independence they banded together and attacked with all their might.  They were soundly trounced in the Arab-Israeli War, even though the world was certain the odds were so badly stacked in their favor that Israel was doomed.

“We’ve been waiting for 2,000 years.  Is that hurrying?”

As soon as Israel won and established herself, every Arab nation violently expelled every known Jew within their borders.  Most had barely enough time to grab essentials before being forced to trek to Israel on foot.  Israel, however, refused to take such an action; the millions of Arabs that refused to leave were offered citizenship and a home.  Despite such offers of peace and acceptance, the Arab world only seethed with hatred and worked toward destroying everything that the Jews were working so hard to build for the good of all.

“I never did anything alone.  Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”

Nothing has changed.  For decades, Arab Muslims who refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist have funded militant terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsaa Martyr’s Brigades.  They’ve given money, rations, weapons and a place to hide in an effort to break Israel.  “Palestine” has never really existed; the area was formerly the Ottoman Empire, yet if only to slight Israel, Arabs have claimed Jews are “occupying” the region and “stole” the land from the Palestinians.  They play on the emotions of the capitulating world with faux outrage over the slightest action that can be perceived as wrong in the slightest (and can be bent that way).

“It is true we have won all our wars, but we paid for them.  We don’t want victories anymore.”

Israel has worked hard for peace, but Hamas has worked harder for war.  Every time Israel agrees to a cease-fire, Hamas merely begins restocking their rockets, guns, bombs and ammunition so they can go back to killing when the cease-fire ends.  It’s almost like clockwork.  Never before has Israel reached the end of a cease-fire by instigating hostilities again.  Plenty have been broken by Hamas, thus starting the fighting over again, but never the other way around.  By way of rockets, missiles and mortars fired into Israel and militants carrying out suicide bombings, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been murdered by terrorists over the years.

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

Yet Hamas and their “innocent Palestinians” have somehow managed to largely make Israel look like the aggressor.  Words are twisted, pictures are either manufactured or doctored, and outright lies are spread to gain sympathy for a movement that has long since lost any right to be given credibility.  Despite the duplicity and the atrocities committed by these monsters, many Americans have given their sympathies to Hamas and the so-called “plight” of the Palestinians, decrying the “occupation” of the Palestine that has never existed.

“There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill.  It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.”

With the latest cease-fire ended just days ago, Hamas (practically at midnight the day of) immediately began firing rockets and missiles at Israel again, showering towns such as Sderot and Ashkelon with death yet again.  A single person killed and a handful wounded is a miracle; most incidents like this kill anywhere from 10-30 and injure more than a hundred.  Suicide bombings used to happen with alarming frequency, usually killing at least 15-20 at a time.  Israel sealed off Palestinian neighborhoods and forcibly removed Israeli settlers, yet the killing continued. Rarely did Israel react with massive acts of force or killing.  In 2005, Israel gave Gaza over to the Palestinians completely in an act of goodwill, but the killing actually intensified.

“When peace comes we will perhaps, in time, be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”

Today began with surprise airstrikes on precision Hamas targets in Gaza, including a large training camp and several buildings used to stock munitions for strikes against Israel.  As I write, there are reports of tanks and troops gathering for a possible invasion of Gaza.  This has been a long time coming; with tens of thousands of innocent Israelis murdered, and no end in sight to the violence being perpetrated by Hamas (and supported by the “innocent Palestinians”), it was only a matter of time before they decided that enough was enough and it was gonna be time to hit them so hard that they weren’t going to want to hit back.

“The Arabs will stop fighting us when they love their children more than they hate the Jews.”

How true.  Every quote in this passage is from Golda Meir, the Iron Lady of Israeli politics.  Her words personify how Israel feels.  They wish for peace.  “Shalom” is the Hebrew word for peace; it is commonly used as a greeting.  When the rest of the world–the nations that aren’t Muslim-led–fully realize just how much right Israel has to defend herself now, they will have the support they need to do just that.  For the next week or so I’ll be focusing on specific incidents that prove how hysterical it is to fall blindly in line with the Hamas story.