Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Even the Northland Has Its Share of Fools

Living Out Loud: Gaza pride! by Dennis Kempton, Reader Weekly, Issue 333, August 25, 2005
So, my point, gentle reader, is that “Palestine” isn’t anything really but a name given to Israel as punishment by Romans and perpetuated by British colonization in the 20th century.  Palestinian “liberation” came, actually, in 1946 with the establishment of Israel.  The so-called “Palestinians” are just Israeli Arabs who challenge the very existence of Israel and have since the UN re-established Israel in the world after the horrors of Nazi Germany.

And “Israel” is just a name given to a chunk of land supposedly promised back in ancient times to a bunch of Middle-Easterners by their God.

If you’re going to use the “it’s just a name” argument like this fool has, you should at least have the intellectual honesty to apply the same reasoning to your own position. But, no. Dennis Kempton, the author of this nonsense, isn’t coming from a position based in reason. He’s arguing from faith.

He has faith that God is on the Jews’ side.
He has faith that God really meant for Jews to control the land known as “Israel.”

He also, apparently, has faith that if he mentions Nazi Germany often enough, his readers will forget all about the simple fact that the Palestinians were not nazis. Most of those who’ve been displaced in the past 60 years by American and European Jews settling in the Middle East were simple farmers and businesspeople whose families had been living in that part of the world for generations.

If you can’t tell by now, I’ll let you in on a little secret. I am a Jew opposed to giving even one pebble of Israel over to those Arabs who say they have a claim to Palestine (which is nonexistent anyway.) Yep. I make no apology for it, either. If those Israeli Arabs dislike the thought of living in Israel—a sovereign and recognized nation—they can leave.

What a complete moron. What’s REALLY disturbing is that there are lots of people who have the same twisted ideas. These people scare the hell out of me.

Yeah, you Palestinians (or whatever name you want to call yourselves — it’s all okay with me), just leave. Leave your own families and your own history and your OWN sacred cities. Just leave. That’s fair… right??

Of course it’s not fair. And it’s not right. And Dennis Kempton is an idiot and so is anyone else who has his kind of jingoist myopia.