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| 2015-04-21 |
| [ArutzSheva] I'm pretty sure it was Mark Twain who compared Jews to horses -- if they knew their own strength we should be afraid to ride them. That was in the days of Herzl before everything, or rather at the start of everything. I am no Mark Twain but in my stays and service in Israel I noticed something of an inferiority complex among my brothers and sisters, or call it a grasshopper mentality that remains a legacy from our days in the Wilderness when the Spies misinformed us about "giants" who lived on the other side. Compared to them, compared to the rest of the world, what are we? Yes, grasshoppers. That attitude is to be expected, I suppose, because after 2,000 years of being granted no favors, Jews became conditioned to expect nothing and to be grateful for anything. At the time of the Partition Plan, the Jews said thank you, and thank you again even after British White Papers made Israel smaller and smaller. Gratitude in excess can be hazardous. It's led modern Israel into making lethal concessions from lopsided prisoner swaps to land giveaways that produced nothing except more disrespect, more hatred, more terror, more war, with Gaza the ultimate proof of what goes wrong when the Jewish State extends a generous hand to Palestinian Arabs. After all that, still at the moment there is talk of a "two-state-solution." The signal is obvious. We, Israel, will do anything to make the world happy. Israel trained itself to accept abasement and unlike the nations, only Israel is to desist from pride and glory. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 Israel trained itself to accept abasement and unlike the nations, only Israel is to desist from pride and glory. Why? The nations of the world don't care. After all, "doing right ain't got no end." |
| Posted by: Betty Protector of the Antelope8245 2015-04-21 14:45 |