"Don't the people in Palestine have the right to live? Are they not human beings? They live in their own homeland. In their own homeland, they are under attack"
Who do you think has made the above statement? Was it Noam Chomsky, extremely left-wing challenger of everything Israeli or Zionist? Was it perhaps Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and avowed hater of Israel? Maybe it was the friend of all Jews worldwide, Hillary Clinton? Nope, the statement was made by none other than Israel's number one supporter, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an interview with CNN on Sept. 21, 2006. His views or statements on the matter have not changed much.
Now, I don't begrudge anybody to have their own opinion, even if it's as harmful and as foul as Ahmadinejad's. But something interesting jumped into the picture. Suddenly Ahmadinejad starting a nuclear weapons program, and started threatening that Israel should be "wiped from the pages of history." Many people have added 1+1 and reached the answer that Ahmadinejad plans on using nuclear weapons on Israel. But what about the approximately 1,550,000 people living in the Gaza Strip and the almost 2,500,000 living in the West Bank? To quote his own words, don't they have the right to live? In their own homeland they will be under attack.
To what extent will we allow religious rhetoric to run amok with complete disregard to the physical realities of a situation? Apparently Ahmadinejad subscribes to the "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" outlook on life. There are approximately 7,4000,000 Israelis. This includes Israeli Arabs, Druze, Bedouin and of course the Jews. Add to that the approximate 4,000,000 Palestinians and you reach almost 12,000,000 people. That's right, 12 million. To me that sounds like a decent amount of people, especially taking into account that over one third of the people Ahmadinejad plans on vaporizing are one of the main reasons he plans on making the whole region glow in the dark in the first place. Unless Ahmadinejad and his scientists have come up with a Jew detecting atomic weapon (a physical impossibility, I'm fairly sure), Ahmadinejad should work a little more on his math.
We may or may not be the good guys in the whole Middle East situation, and we may or may not end up winning this grand game that we play with our lives every day, day in and day out. Historians and scholars will come to the conclusion to that one in a couple of hundred years. But that doesn't mean that the solution is to take out all the players, call "Do over!" and break the playing board.
Mr Ahmadinejad, I don't know if you're on Facebook or Twitter, but if someone has his email, can you forward this to him please? Thanks.
Who do you think has made the above statement? Was it Noam Chomsky, extremely left-wing challenger of everything Israeli or Zionist? Was it perhaps Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and avowed hater of Israel? Maybe it was the friend of all Jews worldwide, Hillary Clinton? Nope, the statement was made by none other than Israel's number one supporter, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an interview with CNN on Sept. 21, 2006. His views or statements on the matter have not changed much.
Now, I don't begrudge anybody to have their own opinion, even if it's as harmful and as foul as Ahmadinejad's. But something interesting jumped into the picture. Suddenly Ahmadinejad starting a nuclear weapons program, and started threatening that Israel should be "wiped from the pages of history." Many people have added 1+1 and reached the answer that Ahmadinejad plans on using nuclear weapons on Israel. But what about the approximately 1,550,000 people living in the Gaza Strip and the almost 2,500,000 living in the West Bank? To quote his own words, don't they have the right to live? In their own homeland they will be under attack.
To what extent will we allow religious rhetoric to run amok with complete disregard to the physical realities of a situation? Apparently Ahmadinejad subscribes to the "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" outlook on life. There are approximately 7,4000,000 Israelis. This includes Israeli Arabs, Druze, Bedouin and of course the Jews. Add to that the approximate 4,000,000 Palestinians and you reach almost 12,000,000 people. That's right, 12 million. To me that sounds like a decent amount of people, especially taking into account that over one third of the people Ahmadinejad plans on vaporizing are one of the main reasons he plans on making the whole region glow in the dark in the first place. Unless Ahmadinejad and his scientists have come up with a Jew detecting atomic weapon (a physical impossibility, I'm fairly sure), Ahmadinejad should work a little more on his math.
We may or may not be the good guys in the whole Middle East situation, and we may or may not end up winning this grand game that we play with our lives every day, day in and day out. Historians and scholars will come to the conclusion to that one in a couple of hundred years. But that doesn't mean that the solution is to take out all the players, call "Do over!" and break the playing board.
Mr Ahmadinejad, I don't know if you're on Facebook or Twitter, but if someone has his email, can you forward this to him please? Thanks.
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