Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Safety of Israel

To me, Israel has always been a wondrous place. I visited this beautiful country in the summer of '06 and I fell in love. Although many people of the world think that Israel is a scourge of the Earth, and its inhabitants should die, I do not believe that. For almost 2,000 years until 1948 and the creation of Israel. The Jewish people were scattered around the world. They were treated as second class citizens and generally abused. Throughout all of this, the Jewish people took the abuse because they couldn't do anything about it. Today, we Jews have a state, we were nearly wiped out on several occasions. Now with Iran threatening its very existence, the world must take stronger actions then condemning Iran. I and many other Jews like me (as well as many non-Jews), believe that a nuclear Iran is definitely bad for the world, especially Israel. You must remember that Israel is not really that big. It has about the same amount of land as New Jersey.Which means that if Iran is allowed to drop an atomic weapon anywhere in Israel, a large percentage of the countries population would die, and more would become deformed and sick. After an attack, Israel would never be the same again. It could then be invaded conventionally by its Arab neighbors, who are would take advantage of the situation to wipe out the rest of the country. This can never be allowed to happen. Israel may be seen as a nation that hates others and wants to kill the Palestinians, in truth, all Israel and her people want is to be left alone. As the only Jewish state in the world, it is the only state in the world that Jews can truly be free in. Therefore, everyone must protect it, to let Israel be destroyed by the pure hatred for it would be a disaster of unimaginable proportions.