First Published at Huffington Post https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anti-semitism-is-augmented-by-netanyahu-and-trump-jerusalem_us_5a2a6ea9e4b0d7c3f26221b6
The problems in families, communities, and countries
persist because good people do not speak out against what is wrong.
The people on the extreme right know only one thing;
destroy the other rather than have a dialogue and resolve the conflict. When God created the life, he produced two
varieties; animals and humans. He gave horns, fangs, and paws to the animals to
fight out the other with a vengeance and get what they want, whereas humans
were endowed with the ability to dialogue and resolve their conflicts.
Facts don’t matter to them and common sense is not
in their genes, but they attract the afraid and disillusioned ones by
confidently offering them false hopes. The poor souls latch on to them.
Years ago, a Catholic Nun on Tim Russet’s show “Meet
the Press” had made a powerful statement. She said bullies give confidence to
the frightened people with passion and give outlandish assurances, whereas the
sane people hesitate in making outlandish statements. So, she argued that
moderate people should continue to speak the truth with reason, passion, and
conviction to give confidence to the people and do the right thing.
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Homophobia,
Xenophobia and other phobias are crutches of the short-sighted ones among us. I
have a good record of standing against Anti-Semitism and will continue to do my
share of educating the public about the ills of these phobias. Please do read
“Holocaust and the Muslim Guy” in Huffington post and “Standing up with Jews”
at Standing up for others.com or just Google ‘Judaism Mike Ghouse.’
Now, the rise of this monstrous evil of
Anti-Semitism can be squarely attributed to Prime Minister Netanyahu. He should be held accountable for the
long-term insecurities heaped on the people of Israel. Let me share the
information in simple terms while my extensive research article is in the
making.
Anti-Semitism
is a wrong label in most cases; it is resentment born out of a violation of
international treaties by the Israeli government. Please separate Judaism,
Jews, Israel and the Israeli Government, the world has no problem whatsoever
with the first three but resent the 4th one.
Check the history of voting at the United Nations;
usually, it is 94% of the world against 6% supporting Israelis Government’s
ruthless policies, and the blind supporters are United States, UK, Spain Italy
and a few others. Rarely has been a time
where more than ten nations have voted in favor of Israeli Government’s
policies. By the way for the blind among
us, the ones opposing the policies are people of all continents, faiths, and
races.
On November 30, 2017, the UN General Assembly voted
overwhelmingly to disavow Israeli ties to Jerusalem as part of six anti-Israel
resolutions it approved on Thursday in New York. The vote was 151 in favor and
six against, with nine abstentions.
Now tell me, why 151 Nations of the world should not
resent Israeli government’s policies for going against the wishes of the
community of the nations. This is not Anti-Semitism but pure resentment for
disregarding the resolutions of the world body.
Why would
they not resent America for supporting such wrongdoing? The Palestinian men and
women are being dragged out of their homes and forcefully thrown out of their
lands. No sane human being in the world will love that brutality and
oppression. Humans are designed to seek justice, and injustice will always be
hated.
The AIPAC was needed when Israel was weak, and her
Arab neighbors were out to destroy her, but they went too far and lost any
sense of justice and started doing to Palestinians what was wrongfully done to
them over centuries. One wrong does not
make the other wrong right.
I firmly
stand in my support for Israel’s right to exist, but do not support its right
to bully the Palestinians, grab their lands and deny them a homeland. The
sadistic men may enjoy bullying and be beating up the powerless, but in the
long haul they are guaranteeing insecurity to Israel and nurture Anti-Semitism
around the world making Jews more insecure even here in America.
Look at the Iran Nuclear Deal, a good deal for
Israel as it prevents Iran from making nuclear weapons. Seven Nations signed
the treaty and wanted to stand by Israel, but what does Netanyahu do?
Belligerently goes against it to appease his funders and some of the
right-leaning American Congressmen even honor him over our President? Traitors!
United Nations Security Council 2334, which passed
Dec. 23, 2016, by a vote of 14-0 with the U.S. abstaining, describes Israel’s
settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as illegal and an obstacle to
peace with the Palestinians. This situation has happened for the first
time. Trump was going against a
President’s decision, why was he not called a backstabber?
If there is an increase in Anti-Semitism, all of us
should condemn it with ferocity but should know that injustice to one is an
injustice to all as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr has uttered. However, we need to hold Netanyahu
accountable for the resentment he has generated in the psyche of 151 nations
and all the justice-seeking people in the world. It is not Anti-Semitism; it is
pure resentment for Netanyahu’s policies.
Trump has added fuel to the fire, what was the need
to create the Jerusalem controversy? It is ridiculous timing. He has reignited
chaos in the Middle East causing Israelis to live in apprehension. Does he
realize that Jews live intentions when they travel overseas? Trump has double
down on that now. Now the people of 151 Nations have reason to resent Israel
even more and hate America too. We are a nation of good people run by the evil
government and need to speak up and make the government of the people
again.
The following video is about recognizing Israel and
Palestine; it was made in 2015 and just released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFEvKrgdbNM
What would have been an ideal situation is to tie
the relocation of US Embassy to Jerusalem with the immediate stopping of the
illegal settlements? Just because they
have the military might, they should not act like bullies. Israel’s security
hinges on Justice to the Palestinians, one would not happen without the other
happening. Our policy should be based on Security to Israelis with Justice to
the Palestinians, and if we take that stand there will be peace in Middle East
and American leadership would be respected for justness and eventually it is
good for Israel, good for Palestinians and good for America.
Pope Frances has urged the community of nations to
honor the UN position on Jerusalem, and of course, the right-leaning men in
Israel and America do not respect such a great man. Power to them is being
bullies and not civility.
hope the good
people of Israel and Jews around the world will drown the negative voices with
their sane voices for the sake of long-term security of Israel and justice for
the Palestinians.
Mike Ghouse is committed to working towards building
cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on the Political,
religious, cultural and societal and human rights issues of the day. He is the
President of Center for Pluralism and can be reached at
www.CenterforPluralism.com.
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