It’s time for my first Fisking™ in a long time…and the lucky victims: Cleveland Members of “Americans For Peace Now”
The following letter is from the Feb. 1, 2003 version of the Cleveland Jewish News
The last 26 months have been brutally violent and financially wrenching for Israel
Right…go on…
Ariel Sharon subsequently has requested $12 billion in new military and economic assistance from the U.S. to help Israel grapple with its national trauma.
That’s true…I think it should come out of the PLO’s coffers but continue…..
Yet he is unwilling to stop the flow of money being lavished on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza
WAIT! STOP THE PRESSES!!!!! He should not have to stop money going to the Jews living in Yesha. They’re citizens just like the rest of the state.
We support the annual U.S. aid package to Israel as necessary for bolstering Israeli defenses and helping to nurture its economic development. We also recognize that Israel’s economy has taken a severe beating over the past few years. Further, Israel has been forced to spend more on security in order to respond to horrific terrorist attacks
Could these Peace Now people actually be starting a new trend….telling the facts??? But wait, what helped facilitate these attacks? The OSLO ACCORDS which you appeasers support and love.
For these reasons, Israel’s request for additional military aid should be granted. Its request for new economic aid in the form of loan guarantees should be granted, too.
Correct again…..I still say it should come from the PLO and Terrorfat’s swiss fund.
But the U.S. should condition these guarantees on Israel finally stopping settlement expansion, which could help create a political way out of the violence and boost Israel’s economy.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Why should Israel have to stop natural population growth? Why can’t Jews live on their biblical homeland? Why can’t they build and cultivate untouched, unused land??? How will your “stopping settlement expansion” help things at all? It won’t make any political inroads…it’s conceeding to terrorism–which is a big NO!! Also, by curbing natural expansion and growth, you’re reducing PROFITS and CAPITAL–and further hurting the econonomy! Let me guess…next you liberals want to raise taxes?
Specifically, before any of the loan guarantees are provided, Israel must be made to certify that: none of this money will be spent in the West Bank and Gaza;
NO!
absolute freeze will be placed immediately on all new settlement development, including “natural growth
NO! (What’s with the quotes around the words ‘natural growth’….don’t you understand the ways of nature?
all settlement sites in the West Bank recently established will be dismantled within 90 days of the first disbursement of new economic aid.
NO AGAIN! What’s so hard about this people! What if we demolish all illegal “palestinian” houses build in the last 90+ days? That’s a better idea. These houses, you want to destroy are legal—and I think what you want to do is what you call “ethnic cleansing”
Any current Israeli settlement expenditures, aside from those that are security related, should be deducted from the total amount of the loan guarantees
WRONG AGAIN! NOTHING SHOULD BE DEDUCTED! These “Settlements” are also a base of security. How long have you been in the Ostrich brigade you people?
Finally, 20% of the loan guarantees should be set aside and made available solely to fund construction inside the Green Line to help house settlers wishing to relocate to Israel.
News flash Peace Now people—people don’t want to live on the other side of the Green Line. Plus there is more open space in Yesha.
A recent Peace Now survey
I’m gonna pre-empt this next comment by simply pointing out the obvious BIAS in this “survey”. IMRA has successfully Fisked these “surveys” on multiple occasions.
the vast majority of settlers went to the territories for a better quality of life. Government spending on subsidies, tax benefits, and a network of bypass roads make it much cheaper for Israelis to live in the territories than to live in Israel proper.
A better quality of life! What’s wrong with that? Shouldn’t Israelis be entitled to that? And less taxes–even better! It’s an ideal oppertunity. And where is this “Israel Proper’ you speak of? I only know of one Israel–with borders from the Jordan to the Mediterranian, to Mt. Hermon in the north, and Eilat in the south. YESHA IS ISRAEL! And who are these “settlers”? These people are Israeli Jews.
Unless Israel finds a way to leave the West Bank and Gaza, Israel will find it impossible to maintain itself as both a Jewish and a democratic state
Sorry to rain on your parade; but us Jews aren’t leaving. We’ve been there since Joshua led the people into Israel and defeated the nations who were there. This is our homeland. Heaven forbid, if we left Yesha, we would be hurting ourselves as a Jewish state. We’d be surrendering Ma’arat HaMachpela, Kever Yosef, Kever Rachel, and according to Peace Now’s terms–we’d be giving up part of Yerushalaim and the Kotel. THAT’S UNACCEPTABLE. THAT WOULD HARM THE JEWISH NATURE OF THE STATE. Israel is also the only democratic state in the region–try again. Peace now idiotarians–once again, you lose.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to Shul–where I’ll be praying for ISRAEL.