I just walked through a protest in downtown Toronto. A frenzied group of Palestinians and Palestinian supporters, yelling all sorts of nonsense over megaphones on Front Street across from a convention center where there happens to be a UJA event going on (UJA stands forUnited Jewish Appeal). I had to bite my tongue as I walked right through the middle of this crowd of hostile, misinformed, mostly young people. I feel sorry for most of them. They know not what they do (didn't somebody important say something like that once?).
Anyway, I wanted so badly just to take one of them aside and reason with the person. Yes, "reason" -- the forgotten human ability -- in fact, the only human ability that allows one to acquire any sort of knowledge or information at all. Reason is based on 'logic,' which comes from the Greek logikē, which literally means "the study of arguments."
Well, let us study this argument for a moment. The following facts are indisputable, easily verified by your own independent research==>>>
Hamas terrorists, whose stated intentions include the destruction of Israel and death to all of the Jews in the world, armed with newly acquired long-range Iranian missiles, fire indiscriminately into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Air raid sirens go off in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, causing hundreds of thousands of people to immediately fear for their lives and go scrambling for cover to the nearest bomb shelters.
Some of the missiles kill and/or hurt people and some don't, since the Hamas terrorists have no clue what they're firing at several miles away. Even if just a few people are killed, it's still a few PEOPLE -- innocent people, being targeted by Islamic terrorists. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands who have to drop everything and run for cover in sheer terror. Who could be expected to live like this?
Israel, in response, naturally tries to take out any known Hamas missile installations in Gaza. This would be the logical thing to do after all. Logic. Based on reason. It's pretty simple. This isn't calculus.
Hamas happens to store their missiles in and around schools and mosques. They do this intentionally, hoping that when Israel tries to destroy the missiles maybe a few kids or praying people will be killed or maimed in the process, so they can then "show the world" that Israel is killing and maiming civilians in Gaza.
Meanwhile, pictures go viral on the Internet of Israeli soldiers shielding Arab children in Israelfrom the missiles being fired by other Arabs. These pictures tend not to make it onto CNN and BBC and Al-Jazeera. Does this make any sense to anybody at all???
I really wanted to take one of these virulent protesters aside and lay out the facts as I did above and ask him point-blank, "How can you logically defend Hamas terrorists in Gaza shooting missiles into the population centers of Israel??" I mean, really, they're shooting into Jerusalem for Christ's sake, where there happens to be quite a large Arab population, now being protected by the bodies of Israeli soldiers. Please help me to understand the "logic" behind this kind of support and protest.
How much more explaining does Israel need to do to convince the world that they are the good guys and Hamas are the bad guys? How much more evidence does the world need? In a court of law, we would already be way passed the level of "reasonable doubt." What more does the world want from Israel? What? This is clear-cut 'good' versus 'evil' -- nobody can deny it. Yet, I just walked through a crowd of young, energetic, youthful human beings, right here in Toronto, who are screaming all kinds of incomprehensible bullshit at a UJA Federation dinner across the street. What the hell is going on with humanity?? Where is the logic? The reason?
There is no logic. No reason. These people are either insane or in total denial of the truth. There is no other option. Either CRAZY, or stubbornly refusing to believe that much of what they have been told for most of their lives was a lie. At some point, even the most simple-minded dimwitted moron will be forced to acknowledge that shooting missiles into cities is bad. Very bad.
Now, being that I am, after all, Jewish, the witching hour is upon me and I must bid you all farewell for the evening. As a Jew, it is my duty to drink the blood of a young child at least once a week, and Sunday is that day for yours truly. I'm rather thirsty, so I might actually drink the blood of two children tonight. Yes, I think I will..........And then I will get back to the business of conspiring to do all sorts of other horrible Jewish things, like learn and read and build and succeed and create and innovate and advocate truth and justice and FREEDOM for all men, women and children in the world.........I know, we're such a terrible people. Horrible.
-peace/warm regards:
jeremy
