Monday, January 12, 2009

Royally pissed

I'm royally pissed. I really don't understand why America isn't royally pissed along with me. Well, maybe that's not true. I understand why, I just wish it wasn't so.

In the past two weeks the Israeli offensive into Gaza has killed 900 people (898 last time I checked, but by the time anyone reads this the number will be above 900). Interestingly, that's almost exactly the same number of deaths as the total number of Israelis killed by Palestinians since 2002 , both military and civilian deaths: 906.

I would really like to ask, why is Israel even there? Israel wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for US support and military aid.
"Oh," they say. "We have to give Palestine back to them, because it's their ancestral homeland."
Yes, it is. We should give Palestine to them. However, considering the fact that they haven't lived there for over a thousand years, it seems only fair that we should give New York city back to the Manhattan indian tribe (of the Wappinger confederacy), since it's only been about 350 years since they lived there. I'm sure their descendants can come up with the $25 worth of junk they were originally paid for it. The actual sum was 60 dutch guilders, but I've been told that would be $25 today. Something tells me the terms of the sale weren't made clear.
While we're at it, we should give the indians F-16's, missiles and tanks with which they can control "acts of terrorism" aimed against them as they take over the city. Of course they won't need all of it, New Yorkers can keep the Bronx. However, it may be necessary to build a giant wall all around the Bronx, to keep the people from, say, trying to retake the island.

See? Americans don't really care about who has historical claim to land. If it's their land they switch gears and say that the idea of handing property over to people who's ancestors lived on it is absurd, because they themselves never lived there and they themselves didn't build the houses or infrastructure.

The real reason why America supports Israel is that some Christians think the nation of Israel needs to exist in order to fulfill prophecy. Specifically, it needs to be there so that Jerusalem can be trampled under the feet of gentiles (Revelation 11:2), so that the battle of Armageddon can occur (not really sure where they get that idea), and so that the antichrist can put a stop to sacrifices in the temple, which is a terrible interpretation of Daniel 9:27.

First of all, anyone who thinks that references to Israel and Jerusalem in Revelation are literal should give up and join the dark side now before all the cocaine is gone, since Revelation says that those saved at the second coming are from the tribes of Israel (and that there's only 144,000 of them). Second, if God says something is going to happen then governments don't need to lend him a helping hand. Thinking we can change the future by supporting the state if Israel is absurd, arrogant, and foolish.

Wow, I should really stop talking about politics.

2 comments:

JM551 said...

hey! So I took an entire class on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict a few semesters back. At the end of the semester, the teacher asked of us, our final opinions concerning what we thought should be done to bring about peace. Not one of us could give a definitive answer. Sad, I know. My original reasoning for leaving you a comment was to say you should read "The Lemon Tree" by Sandy Tolan. It is quite interesting and (I thought) thought provoking.

juli said...

Exactly! One of the 3 other Americans who shares my opinion!

You should have quite a list of books to read by the time you're done here. "And yet we are brothers" would reinforce your view so maybe you don't have to read it after all.