#ryanbellerose

[secular-jew]

RM Bellerose, a trailblazer and indigenous rights activist, unleashes a thought provoking tsunami of rational analysis layered on a bedrock of common sense and truths.  

""I used to believe that there should be 2 states, that if Israel compromised a bit the Arabs would accept a 2 state solution and that it would be the most fair and equitable solution.

I believed that there was some equivalency between the arabs and the Jews, after all they had created a nation state and the arabs were already living there. I believed that the Arabs just wanted the same things we all want, peace, equality, prosperity and the ability to live a good life. And that they would do what they needed to make that happen.

Then I went to Israel.

Now I understand that there are already 2 states, Israel and Jordan. That the land the Arabs claim as "their ancestral lands" are in fact no such thing and that in many cases they literally ethnically cleansed them of Jews. that most if not all of these Arab areas, have Jewish sacred places and ancestral places in them. as an indigenous rights activist, the fact that the Arabs have stated they will not allow Jews access if the Arabs are in control, means I cannot abide them ever being in control.

I have seen that there is no equivalency, the Arabs have refused time and again, to even negotiate without concessions being made before they even come to the table. The violence appears one sided because the Arabs are so inept and incompetent that they try and try yet fail to actually kill Jews in any numbers, yet the Israelis continue to use pinpoint tactics while fighting random attackers. The Arabs hide behind women and children while targeting women and children and till the Israelis refuse to take the bait. there is no moral equivalency. The Israelis build bomb shelters for kids, the Arabs put kids in buildings to shelter their bombs.

The history shows clearly that by the time of the ottomans, the vast majority of Arabs who actually were living in what is now Israel, didn't own the land, they were tenant farmers much like European peasants. it was a landowner class that lived mainly in Beirut and Damascus who owned everything. The Arabs were not native to the land they were in fact descended from colonists themselves. some carried Jewish blood from the waves of forced conversions. But they were not indigenous in any tangible way.

Then I spoke with Arabs, and unlike the leftists, I actually listened. and unlike the leftists, I understood the difference between individuals and groups, as a group the Arabs have made it clear that anything less than everything is unacceptable, they do not care if they get Judea and Samaria they want Jerusalem and Caesaria and everything in between. from the river to the sea is their mantra. as a group they are genocidal, hateful and completely unredeemable. They have refused every offer for peace, they fill their children with hate and they have become inveterate liars.

Now as for individuals? I spoke with a few who wanted an end to the conflict and didn’t care if it meant becoming Israeli citizens as long as they had peace. I spoke to one little wee guy in Jerusalem (Ari Fuld is a witness) who said he had Jewish friends and wanted to be able to live without problems. I had dinner with a family where the father was in tears speaking of his childhood where he went to school with Jewish kids, had Jewish friends and worked for a Jewish company but after Oslo couldn’t do anything of those things. his sons called him a "traitor" and said he was soft. I have empathy and sympathy for individuals, I do not have anything but enmity for the group.

The left has decided that its progressive values are more important than anything else, and they have decided that inclusiveness and empathy are more important than security. This is why in Israel, where people tend to be very pragmatic about security, the left is eroding and the right is ascendant. And as it becomes more obvious, the left becomes ever more strident and shrill. The recent nation-state law is a case in point. Israel is the Jewish nation state, built on Jewish ancestral lands, by Jews. The language is Hebrew and the character of the state is Jewish, as evidenced not only by the freedom of minorities there but by the argumentative nature of the state itself. Yet the reaction to Jews asserting themselves has ever been inclined towards hysterics, even from Jews themselves. Empowered by the left who think they see an opportunity to be divisive and not be blamed for it, some minorities are trying to claim it infringes upon their rights, yet the truth is that without the Jewish nature of the country, they would have none