http://deborahkla.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] deborahkla.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] skull_bearer 2011-01-31 05:00 am (UTC)

Would you like it? Do you like Jews? Whether you do or not, do you acknowledge the right of Israel to exist, or do you feel differently?

I'm curious about all these questions. As a Jew who knows that in no period of history has there ever been a time when there wasn't someone, somewhere, who wished me and my family dead because we are Jews I would hope it would survive. I have lived with this knowledge since I was eight years old and saw Bergen-Belsen.

I mean, my response to people who complain about Israel is come on. Either kill us all or let us have our own country, but stop bitching about out it because we do. I don't in any way condone some of the aggressive acts that Israel has made, but I certainly understand them. What other country is surrounded completely by countries that want its people wiped from the face of the earth? And why is it okay for the USA and other countries to carry out preemptive attacks without any threat but it's not all right for Israel to do so when there is that threat? Are they all just being uppity Jews?

The fact of the matter is that people hate the Jews. They want them - and Israel - dead. Gone. Kaput. My choice is to give them their wish and die, or to go on living and hope that other Jews can do the same, and that there can at least be one place in the world where I might actually be welcome, and not have to worry what people will think of me when they hear my Jewish last name.



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