"We Don't Want Your Money; We Want Your Children."
This raises a critical point. My upstate New York synagogue welcomed a new convert every week if he/she promised to raise their kids in a good Jewish home. 72% of American Jews have non-Jewish spouses. They are a dying community.
We have seen a burst of ads for young
Jews to visit Israel
and stay. Our basic appeal is sex, which I am told will produce babies to
populate the land. Take it from me, great sex with a proper mate beats warfare
every time.
Israeli AIPAC members know we lack the social graces, but try to hide this. We make American AIPAC skin crawl.
Welcome to the Discussion
In
my experience, the overwhelming majority of common people everywhere
prefer peace to war. It is unfair to describe any civilian population as
particularly warlike. Circumstances and leaders put the people into harm's way.
The Iranians know this better than anybody. Their leaders' rhetoric prompted
Hillary Clinton to utter the word "annihilation" in their direction.
Their leaders persuaded their proxies to explode 8000 missiles on Israel and to
attack her twice in three years. At the behest of Iran, Hamas has also put its
people into harm's way big time.
The violent suppression in Iran
has prompted Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to start nuclear
programs for self-preservation. They know better than to trust their lives to
US assurances.
The Israeli peace proposal is on the table. It calls for the disarmament of Palestine. If the people
want to live in peace and prosperity, they will force Hamas to sign it. Another
attack will open the door for Israel
to take out Iran's
nuclear facilities with conventional
weapons. I emphasize this because Israelis are not Americans.
With the Pentagon, Israel claims that 44 Jericho missiles can fly from Georgia and Saudi Arabia to do the job. Any response from Iran would be a big mistake.
This Highlights the Need for Analysis
If Israel does nothing, Iran has 11,000 conventional missiles she can ship to her launching pads in Gaza and Lebanon. A preemptive attack could kill thousands of Israelis.
If Israel destroys Iran's nuclear facility with conventional weapons, a prudent Iranian regime would sit on its hands. A heavy response would provoke a nuclear strike from Israel.
There is little doubt the Iran regime has sufficient Chinese missiles to sink the US Navy vessels in the region. It also has 2600 tanks to decimate the US garrison in Iraq. However, it could not escape annihilation by the US Stealth bombers.
The Sunni Arab nations are responding in their self-interest. Like Israel, they do not want Iran to dominate the region.
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