It seems this has been the year of war. The fighting in Ukraine has been raging for well over a year. Whether we planned on it, it has been America who has footed the biggest part of the bill when it comes to aid and weapons. Supporting this effort was only made the worse when on October 7th of this year, Palestinian terrorists invaded areas that are designated as lands of Israel. Hamas managed to torture their victims in ways that one could not imagine in the deepest and coldest parts of one’s soul.
Whenever you stand behind someone, no matter what, you leave yourself open to all the criticism that comes along with it. Backing Israel makes us that much more hated to the rest of the world. From a standpoint of compatible relationship, it is more of a one-way thing. We supply Israel with an enormous amount of weaponry while what we gain from Israel could most likely be supplied by someone else. So we find that a country whose population is less than 10 million people are surrounded by Muslim nations who would sooner see the land fall into the sea than have it be inhabited by the Jews.
What can cause this much hatred among human beings? If you see any of the Pro-Palestinian marches that have been all over America, there are plenty of “facts” that show that the land we know as Israel should never have been returned to the Israelis. I have to wonder where the minds of those who believe Palestine is in the right can justify what was done on Oct. 7th? It wasn’t just murder, kidnapping, or rape. It was the means and ways people were tortured, filmed, defiled and treated like a piece of trash rather than a human being.
If you follow history, you will see the Jewish people have suffered for millennia. Whether at the hands of the Egyptians, Romans, or Nazis they have constantly been seen as the easily enslaved and oppressed. Questioning why Israelis choose to fight back now. Yet, they are now seen as the aggressor rather than the oppressed. Everyone points to the way in which they have conducted themselves after being given their homeland back in 1947. From a personal standpoint, how could anyone think that after all of the persecution inflicted upon them, why would a single person be surprised at the reaction to such heinous events?