If you support the Zionist claims to ancient Sumeria, Judea etc, which the Hebrews conquered 2,500 years ago, smiting the Jebusite owners of Jerusalem and the surrounding land in the process, it has to be logical that the Welsh, displaced a mere 1500 years ago, are the rightful owners of the London area. Their ancestors were smited (smitten?) by Romans, Angles and Saxons and sent into the miserable, rain-sodden Welsh Marches, where they have sung at eisteddfods and grumbled ever since.
If the Welsh then followed the example of the Zionists, they would turf out all the London oligarchs and absentee Chinese landlords and send away the few remaining English people living in London to camps in the marshes of the Somerset levels. Likewise, the denizens of Manhattan would be forced to hand back their property to the local native American tribes (who are – where?) and slum it among pizza parlors and gas stations of New Jersey. So many examples of land grabbing; so little justice!
Oh, well. If the direst predictions of the scientists are right, London and Manhattan, along with two thirds of the rest of the world’s other major cities, will be under water (owing to climate change) by 2060. That includes Tel Aviv, by the way. Looks like god may have changed his mind about the human race.
Just say “No!” to smiters.
Erect flashing neon signs: “No-smiting Zone.”
Quarantine anyone showing symptoms of smiting.
To those who used to smote a lot in their youth, I say: beware the blowback.
Smiters are a curse on us all.
Great Epicurean comment! Why do people want to go to war and kill other people?
This blog is definitely a “no smiting” zone.
Forgot to say that my wife is descended from a native American princess (well, she would be, wouldn’t she?). She considers the Tuscarora tribe the rightful owners of the Washington D.C area, but prefers coffee.
The Zionist claim to Judea and Sumeria does not necessarily involve the expulsion of the Palestinians- only a small minority of radicals would support that. However, the Palestinian claim to statehood involves the expulsion of all Jews from Judea, Sumeria and East Jerusalem- a policy supported by the vast majority of Palestinians. That is the difference between the two sides.
The following is part of an address by Nico Peled, son of a famous Zionist general. He is an Israeli, so has a clear perspective on the policies of his government. I cannot comment on it because I am not, like him, as well versed in the history:
Today people lay the blame for the violence in Gaza last summer on Hamas, but Israel did not start its assaults on the Gaza Strip when Hamas was established in the late 1980’s. Israel began attacking Gaza when the Gaza Strip was established and populated with refugees in the early 1950’s. Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, are not faced with an option to resist and be killed or to live in peace. They are presented with the options of being killed standing up and fighting or being killed sleeping in their beds.
Gaza was punished because Gaza is a constant reminder to Israel and the world of the original sin of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the creation of a so-called Jewish state. Even though Palestinian resistance has never presented a military threat to Israel, it has always been portrayed as an existential threat. Moshe Dayan, the famed Israeli general with the eyepatch described this in a speech in April 1956. He spoke in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, an Israeli settlement on the border of the Gaza strip where Israeli tanks park each time there is a ground invasion of Gaza.
“Beyond this border exists an ocean of hatred and a deep desire for vengeance,” Dayan said then. Ironically, when six months later Israel had occupied Gaza and my father was appointed its military governor he said he saw “no hatred or desire for vengeance but a people eager to live and work together for a better future.”
Still, today, Israeli commanders and politicians say pretty much the same: Israel is destined to live by the sword and must strike Gaza whenever possible. Never mind the fact that Palestinians have never posed a military challenge, much less a threat to Israel. After all, Palestinians have never possessed as much as a tank, a war ship or a fighter jet, not to say a regular army.