On Bernie Sanders' Mid-East "Peace" Plan

He would like to stop sending military aid to Israel (the USA's greatest ally in the Middle East) and give it to Hamas ruled Gaza instead.

1. The governance of the Gaza Strip is carried out by the Hamas administration. By sending money to Gaza the money falls into the hands of Hamas like how it has in the past. Hamas is a terrorist organization that has withheld foreign aid from the Palestinians so sending aid to them would actually be extremely irresponsible. Last I heard the USA classifies Hamas as a terrorist organization so how would sending money to them be acceptable? Also, this would be taxpayer money and I’m personally not in favor of helping people who celebrated 9/11. 😡 Not quite sure why he is. These are people who stated after all that they refuse to live alongside Jews and sing about murdering all of us (like actually kindergarten graduations revolve around this concept- Anti-Semitism and Anti-Western values is a part of their culture like how super-sizing everything is part of American culture. Nonchalant.)

2. Israel is America’s greatest ally in the Middle East. Even if it wasn’t, how does Sanders feel it is morally honest to give terrorists the opportunity to attack more innocent Israeli civilians? The USA has benefited greatly from Israel receiving this aid, as Israel shares the same values and goals as the USA and acts on both countries’ interests in the region and beyond. 

3. Gaza was given to the Palestinians for peace in 2005. Thousands of Israelis and millions worth of crops/greenhouses were destroyed. Why should Israel suffer because the Palestinians elected Hamas, which uses the Palestinians as human shields and refuses to give the Palestinians simple humanitarian necessities?

List of Opportunities Palestinians Had For Peace… And Rejected

The Palestinians No One Talks About

• The 3,903 Palestinians killed in Syria in the past seven years are of no interest to the Western correspondents and their editors.
  
  
• The Western media's obsession with Israel has created the impression that the only Palestinians living on this planet are those who are residing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This impression does injustice to the Palestinians who are facing horrendous conditions, torture, and death in the Arab countries, especially Syria.
  
  
• Who cares about the suffering of these Palestinians? No one. Every week, scores of foreign journalists travel to the Israel-Gaza border to report on clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian rioters. Have any of these journalists thought of travelling to Syria or Lebanon to report about the atrocities that are being committed against the Palestinians there? Of course not. Why should they do so when the story lacks an anti-Israel angle?
  
  
• The number of Palestinians killed in Syria will soon reach 4,000. Perhaps then, with that gruesome milestone reached, will Western correspondents in the Middle East wake up to the enormity of the crimes that are really being perpetrated against Palestinians?
  
  Info taken from here. Gatestone Institute. By Bassam Tawil

What Is Happening On the Gaza Border Nov 2018

📣I like to share questions I recieve from others and my responses, because these can be good learning opportunities for others. ⤵️

QUESTION: Didn't this recent barrage start after a failed covert op? Resulting in 7 dead Palestinians? Or was there an act that directly caused the covert op?

ANSWER: The covert operation left 7 Hamas TERRORISTS dead. Not random civilians. These are the same terrorists who have been targeting Israel for months now. This mission did not go as planned (nobody was supposed to be killed), but it was for a reason- in response to terrorism.
Israeli military sources indicated that the raid was not an attempted assassination against Hamas figures but a more routine intelligence gathering operation that had been completed when the troops were spotted and confronted, prompting exchanges of gunfire.

There have been incendiary kites and balloons flying into southern Israel for months. There have been many issues that many people don’t hear about. It's been hell for those Israelis civilians and so Israel was responding to that. There was even a terrorist who recently infiltrated from Gaza and set a greenhouse on fire. Israel has also been dealing with agricultural terrorism from these kites and balloons. There are fires along the border that people are living with every day. Besides the point is that any other country would never have allowed incendiary balloons and kites the way Israel did. Honestly surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Israel is doing what it needs to do (and perhaps not even enough) to protect its civilians.

To learn more about what is occurring on the Gaza border, visit this page >>> Life on the border with Gaza - things people may not know (but should) >>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/LifeontheBorder/?fref=nf

UN to condemn Israel 9 times, rest of the world 0

✴️ Everyone needs to know this: Israel captured The Golan, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day War. It has annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan and, in 2005, withdrew from the Gaza Strip, which is now ruled by the Palestinian terror group Hamas. The Palestinian Authority rules parts of the West Bank, but overall control remains under the Israeli militarily.

Friday’s resolutions saw Israel condemned for alleged human rights abuses, its “occupation” of eastern Jerusalem, and its “occupation” of the Golan Heights captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. The ongoing civil war in Syria itself, and the continuing abuse of human rights in the devastated Arab country, made no appearance in Friday’s deliberations.

Article here!

“Days after the Hamas terrorist group assaulted Israeli civilians with a barage of 460 rockets — while the UN’s General Assembly and Human Rights Council stayed silent — the world body now adds insult to injury by adopting nine lopsided condemnations, whose only purpose is to demonize the Jewish state.”

Agreeing to This Cease-Fire Is Unfair (Nov 2018)

Some perspective. 

The cease fire between Hamas in Gaza and Israel has many extremely frustrated (including myself if I can add)😡. Hamas is proud of the discord in the Israeli government right now and view the cease fire as a weakness. Why should we agree to this cease fire when Hamas is still holding the bodies of Israel’s captured soldiers and when the Palestinian people parade the streets on news of the murder of Israeli civilians? Why should we continue giving these hateful people aid? They would never do the same for us, as they have made very clear. Yes, Israel is moral and should not stoop down to their level. However what kind of message does this send to our soldiers, those who have died for Israel, to Israelis in the south and in general, and to the world?

Video Below: Hamas is calling the resignation of Israel's defense minister an admission of defeat and a sign of failure to face the Palestinian resistance. But that's not how it's being seen by the parents of fallen IDF officer Hadar Goldin, who is being held by Hamas since his capture in 2014. International humanitarian lawyer of the Goldin family Michal Cotler-Wunch and our Daniel Tsemach give their perspectives.

The Borders

Get a closer look at what the Israeli soldiers have to deal with on a daily basis in the Gaza and West bank borders. An Arab journalist who was once the person who threw stones at the Israelis, now sees the opposite viewpoint

http://www.aish.com/jw/me/Israeli-Soldiers-in-the-Conflict-Zone.html

10 Things to Know About Israel

KNOW THESE POINTS ABOUT ISRAEL.

    Use them in your conversations about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

POINT: Israel’s size is 1/6 of 1% of the Arab World.

POINT: Israel has 1,300,000 Israeli -Arab citizens, who are 20% of its population.

Israel also officially recognizes and gives privileges to 15 different religions.

POINT: Palestinian Arabs living in the territories are not citizens of Israel.

POINT: There was no Security Fence along the West Bank prior to the relentless violence in 2002, and since it was built, terrorism has dropped by 85%

POINT: Israel wants peace and is willing to make painful compromises by giving away land as it did for peace with Egypt and Jordan.

Today it is unilaterally withdrawing from Gaza.

POINT: Where is the money? Arafat was given billions of dollars to improve living conditions for the Palestinians. He did not build schools, roads or hospitals. He did not improve housing or sewage systems. Those billions are missing. The 20 million dollars a year promised to Arafat’s widow in Paris comes from the coffers of the PA. Why?

POINT: Peace Must Be Taught The PA must immediately change the message being taught by its clerics who call for the murder of Jews and by its teachers who deny Israel’s right to exist. PA schoolbooks must promote peace, not hatred.

POINT: The PA Charter Must be Changed. It still calls for the destruction of Israel, just as the Hamas Charter does.

POINT: Israel is a re-establishment of the Jewish State Jews have lived in and identified with this land for thousands of years. The Old Testament, New Testament and Koran all refer to this area as the land of the Jews. Even if one is not religious, these old documents are another way to show that Jews are indigenous to Israel and the surrounding area.

POINT: The Definition of Zionism: If you believe that Jews have a right to self- determination and to their own country in the area that is ancient Israel where they have maintained a presence for thousands of years, then you are a Zionist.
Most Jews are Zionists, as are many non-Jews.

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