Condemns City Council Resolution
Dear Editor,
I am Jewish and lived in Greensboro the first 22 years of my life.
I want to assure you and your readers that the Greensboro Jewish Federation speaks for no one other than themselves and most especially not “the Jews.” The fact that the Greensboro Jewish Federation would publicly support a resolution before the Greensboro City Council supporting “peace” and bemoaning the “harm” caused to all “civilians” in Israel/Gaza/Greensboro is an action that most Jews who care about Israel and the survival of the Jewish People would neither support nor condone but only condemn in the strongest terms.
Shame on the purported Jewish leadership in Greensboro and shame on the City Council for considering any resolution other than one supporting the right of Israel to defend itself.
Gary Smith
Here Here Sir!!!
Hear, hear !
Nothing in the resolution addresses hamas’ continued bombardment of Israel with their rockets. Where were the resolutions these past years against the continuing infiltration of terrorists and the murder of Israeli citizens? The council’s obvious “virtue signaling” is pitiful, and much too late.
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The militant Islamist pro-Hamas Palestinians shamelessly chant “From the River to the Sea”. A cursory glace at a map will explain that they intend to exterminate Israel. And then THEY claim to be the targets of genocide…
The barbaric animalistic savagery they displayed on October 7th turns the stomach of all decent people, as does their claim to be the victims of all this. Maybe they shouldn’t have started a war.
Hamas did not attack the IDF. They’re too cowardly for that. They attacked young music lovers at a festival. They attacked civilians, included shooting dead 3 people just waiting for a bus. And they hide behind the skirts of their women, their sick, and their children as they shield themselves in hospitals, schools, and like rats, in underground tunnels.
The German Nazis were much more formidable, but the only answer in the 1940’s was the complete subjugation of Germany, the elimination of all leading Nazis, and a program to completely de-Nazify Germany.
And today the only answer is to completely subjugate Gaza, eliminate all Hamas members, and institute a program to exorcise the militant Islamists who bear such pure hatred toward Jews.
I’m with the Israelis (and I’m not Jewish).
Your article on the City Council Resolution regarding moral equivalency in the Middle East fails any reasonable journalistic test on any number of grounds. Leaving aside the headline, the identification of one sponsor as “Jewish” and another sponsor as “married to a Palestinian”—which I assume means the spouse is not a follower of the Prophet Muhammed, is totally irrelevant. Neither party speaks for anyone but themselves and to imply otherwise does a grave disservice to individuals who think on their own and do not indulge in groupthink.
Gary Smith
Sorry, but it is indeed relevant to know the ethnicity of people who are commenting on an ethnic conflict.
As you point out in your letter, it doesn’t imply a 100% correlation, but it’s definitely germane.
Any competent journalist will include this information for his readers.
Greensboro has no leadership. Should have voted in the black guy.
Yeah, wishing for peace is just awful. /s
Good to know you condemn Lincoln waging war on a group of states who sought only to peacefully leave the Union (as per the founding documents).
What an evil warmonger.
I certainly would have wished for peace then too. Peace doesn’t mean laying down and giving up. It means finding resolution by less violent means.
Peace takes both sides to change.
But you be you.
That is all the South wanted : to peacefully be allowed to go their own way.
Don’t forget the part about how the South wanted to profit from the suffering of human beings.
That’s why there’s never peace. It’s highly unlikely that both sides will ever change, will ever agree, will ever shift culturally in such a significant way to put their grievances aside so that some large group doesn’t arise to have animosity, and eventually that erupts into violence and war.
Human nature leads people to be jealous and hold grudges. Generally, people want “justice”, “retribution”, “fairness”, in whatever form they feel is fair, which is based on their culture, religious beliefs, national history, and social norms. Trying to get millions of people on opposing sides of a conflict to agree to a resolution in a peaceful manner is impossible (the leaders of governments won’t be able to come to an agreement if their citizens don’t agree because the peace won’t hold for long).
I suspect from your other posts you’re not one to appreciate quotes from the Bible, however, one is pertinent here:
John 14:27-29 (Jesus says to the disciples at the Last Supper)
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.
Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.
John 20:19-20 (After His Resurrection)
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side.
Peace is in the knowledge of salvation through Christ and a spiritual relationship with Him. It’s knowing the Plan of God for your life and eventual everlasting life in Heaven. There won’t be peace on earth until Christ comes again to the earth to rule for a thousand years, and even after that time of perfection people will choose Satan’s chaotic evil ways leading to war.
Human nature won’t choose less violent long-lasting changes to have peace. Humans have been on earth for thousands of years and they can’t even live in their own homes, neighborhoods, or small communities without fighting violently, it’s a fantastical dream to think nations could.
You are right about human nature. “Only the dead know the end of war”. (I think I got the Plato quote close enough).
I have read that one in seven people are “evil”, or some such description. These people need to be avoided, they will have their way if at all possible.
Sure I read the Bible most days actually.
Isaiah 2:4 “He will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.”
While this prophecy hasn’t come to pass, God’s justice has a history of bringing great suffering to us as we are all sinners….so wars do the same. But hope and prayer for peace is the ideal that we should pursue as we pursue Christ’s example for us to follow.