tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post9050494608916589989..comments2024-03-17T17:22:49.862+02:00Comments on A Soldier's Mother: What you can't solve up close...A Soldier's Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11370218893899121159noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-20732217581631246352009-01-18T04:46:00.000+02:002009-01-18T04:46:00.000+02:00Today's New York Times had an article about the co...Today's New York Times had an article about the collapse of Zimbabwe, and how little attention is paid to the thousands of deaths by the media or governments. I thought to myself as I scanned the comments, "Someone will find a way to blame this on the Jews," and they surely did. <BR/><BR/>It infuriates me every time I hear someone whining about how miserable the lives of the Gazan Arabs are. Every picture I see of them shows well-dressed, well-nourished people, with so many cars that they have traffic jams; they have cell phones, internet access, apartment building and separare houses, Israeli-built hospitals, access to Israeli medical care when necessary, and they are physically able to have huge families and raise their children to adulthood. Yeah, they have it so bad. How many Zimbabweans, do you think, would trade places with the Arabs? (The vast majority, I would bet money, and I am not a betting woman.)<BR/><BR/>I spend all day every day looking for news from Israel. I worry endlessly about all of you, especially the men at war, from afar. I hope and pray for as few deaths and injuries to Israelis as is possible. I would be a better Jew if I could care, even a little, about the Arabs, but I am not a hypocrite, and I admit I don't. I think of Miriam singing, and at least I don't sing, or even find any pleasure in their deaths, but I cannot seem to care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-79259488219534497392009-01-17T05:21:00.000+02:002009-01-17T05:21:00.000+02:00I pray our new President will learn quickly .I bel...I pray our new President will learn quickly .I believe he wants to think that talking will do the job, but evil does not listen to reasonable speech. Idealism does not bear fruit unless it walks hand in hand with realism. You are correct that both sides have to want a resolution.<BR/>Please stay safe.<BR/>Mother of a U.S. soldierkathleen's kit uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808474723851469170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-53937510201868413812009-01-17T04:45:00.000+02:002009-01-17T04:45:00.000+02:00I'm an Aussie Gentile mother of 4 kids (my eldest ...I'm an Aussie Gentile mother of 4 kids (my eldest son is 18). I understand exactly what you're saying...the hard part is trying to persuade my politicians, here in Australia, to understand it too, and to act accordingly. When I write to them I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall...<BR/><BR/>Rest assured I'm praying for you. I've been asking the Holy One to 'Do Something!' about those murderous assassins in Gaza, for quite some time (I have read their horrible 'Covenant', I know exactly what they are about, they deserve to be flattened just as Hitler's Berlin was flattened).<BR/><BR/> And I've been praying for Gilad Shalit, and I said a prayer for the little lad, Orel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-91145077612621408312009-01-16T18:18:00.000+02:002009-01-16T18:18:00.000+02:00This guy scares me to death. I still have not figu...This guy scares me to death. I still have not figured out why every American President needs as their legacy "Mid East Peace". Peace would be great, but none of these guys really want peace, all they want is a photo op and they do not do what really needs to be done (with the exception, perhaps, of Bush who tried for a while). Why not peace in Darfur? Genocide is killing people there every day. Obama said this summer that he would not stand by if his kids were being attacked. Let's see if he truly means it and does not pressure Israel to finish the job prematurely or if he was using it a gimmick to get elected, I fear the latter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-12995162822474198432009-01-16T17:27:00.000+02:002009-01-16T17:27:00.000+02:00It takes two to negotiate. It takes one to play so...It takes two to negotiate. It takes one to play solitaire. Why is Israel playing solitaire? Don’t they see the other side has been out to lunch and never came back?<BR/><BR/>Uncle ShayeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-76514600736748457222009-01-16T13:02:00.000+02:002009-01-16T13:02:00.000+02:00Again, a wonderful postings (as all of yours are)....Again, a wonderful postings (as all of yours are). It's just so frustrating I could scream! How come so many just don't get it! I've given up on any of the world press....but what I don't understand is why so many of my friends and family don't get it. Many do....but many who are normally nice and caring people and believe they love Israel....still talk about proportionality and we just need to "sit and talk" ...and "why can't we just stop the occupation so everything will be alright?" I send them article after article, blog after blog...and they remain blind. How sad...for them and for us. Perhaps they need to join David Landau and Standing Together and go to Sderot and the Gaza border bases and see are incredibly brave soldiers.<BR/>Thank you again, Paula and Shabbat Shalom to you and your family.<BR/>A Nahal Soldier's MomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-7350753472568077632009-01-16T11:24:00.000+02:002009-01-16T11:24:00.000+02:00Oh, Paula. I'm drawn to this site like a magnet th...Oh, Paula. I'm drawn to this site like a magnet these days (and you know me and the Internet!!). The stupid media is swallowing the lies hook, line, and sinker, and trumpeting them willy-nilly to the unwitting public. Our NZ TV One news reporter near Sderot said today that some reaction he saw from the Israelis (celebrating a missile hit, I think) was, from his eyes, "obscene".<BR/><BR/>I see Israel wants to make Gilad Shalit part of the ceasefire deal. What a great idea!<BR/><BR/>Question about that site you mentioned where you can give donations to the soldiers--are they ok? Seems you can only be from Israel or the US to give anything, tho! :-)<BR/><BR/>Keeping you and Elie and all Israel in my prayers. Bless you all richly. Never forget that your God is in control!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-64428341244750424702009-01-16T11:00:00.000+02:002009-01-16T11:00:00.000+02:00Obama will sell Israel out as soon as he can. Osl...Obama will sell Israel out as soon as he can. Oslo is dead, it died 6 months after its conception. Bush made a half-hearted attempt to please his Saudi masters, that is dead.<BR/><BR/>Israelis have known from their conception as a nation that until their enemies truly want peace, there will never be peace.<BR/><BR/>And until the Arabs face up to their responsibilities for their brothers from Israel (what you know as the Palestinians), there can never be a real solution to this mess.Findalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881549378886491540noreply@blogger.com