Setting The Record Straight

I just received the following comment from Meirin:

It is hard to read the contrived crap that you have blurred together. You are not very tolerant are you? ..What is it that you think Palestinians are misrepresenting, the horrible conditions that they live under? Other than that I like the layout of the blog. Interesting I will have to come back and check it later.

I actually replied in the comments area, but have decided to answer this here, partly because I am restricted to 400 characters per comments post!

I do not have any problem with people disagreeing with my views, or disliking my writing style. This is not a vanity blog, but rather my way of informing people of happenings in Israel and my opinions on a variety of issues. I couldn’t care less if my readership is 1 or 100,000, except for the fact that I want people to be exposed to the FACTS about Israel and the Middle East Conflict. Where possible, I back up my views with sources. Where something I write is opinion-based, it is just that – my opinion. You can agree with it or disagree with it. But one thing this site is NOT is contrived. I do not write things just to stir up controversy or get more “hits”. My blog may be “crap”, but it isn’t crap of the contrived kind!

The second accusation – that I am not very tolerant – is more troubling to me, since I consider myself a very tolerant person. I try to judge everyone by their personal actions, and not by their religious or national affiliation. Does my intolerance towards the terrorism, incitement and propaganda emanating by Muslim groups make me anti-Islam. I don’t think so. I will continue to speak out against these things, as well as the lack of moderate muslims condemning terror, for as long as this is the reality.

As for the palestinians “misrepresenting the horrible conditions that they live under”, I clearly believe that their suffering is a direct cause of their so-called brothers, in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, who encouraged them to flee their homes in 1948, and have sustained them in refugee camps since this time. The only assistance that they have provided the palestinians has been weapons and handouts to the families of suicide bombers. If they had opened their countries to these palestinians, and provided them with work opportunities and a decent way of life, then the palestinians would not be living in “horrible conditions”. But instead, these countries have used the palestinians as a tool to try and destroy Israel (In fact, these counties have treated the palestinians who do live there as second class citizens!) This is no conspiracy theory – read my previous posts where I include sources for this contention.

The palestinians have also been short-changed by their leadership. Explain to me how so many palestinians live in squalor, yet Arafat has millions (if not billions) of dollars in bank accounts and supports his wife’s decadent lifestyle in Paris. The corruption in the PA has been well documented, as has the further funnelling of funds, earmarked for charitable causes, towards the terrorist infrastructure.

In conclusion, while it may be tempting to dismiss opposing views on the middle east conflict as “contrived crap” or to question them as the product of an intolerant mind, perhaps, just perhaps, they are the result of much thought and deliberation by someone who actually lives in the region, and doesn’t take everything the media portrays as “truth”.

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