It is more
than a little bizarre to see the governor of a (nominally) Southern State
saying and doing things like these:
But it was hard to beat the one liner by
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has claimed the titled of “Israel’s
governor” while also having his state issue license
plates bearing
the slogan “Florida Stands By Israel.” How about “Florida Stands By Americans”
Ron? De Santis said “Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel has the right
to defend itself against terrorist attacks.” Indeed, the pithy line that
“Israel has a right to defend itself” has been picked up far and wide in the
U.S. Whether an unarmed Palestine has the same right apparently is not a matter
of concern for many Americans.
Considering
that the South endured five years of brutal, inhumane warfare at the hands of
the Yankees, then another 12 years of occupation by them under similar
conditions, and now the ongoing campaign by those same Yankees/globalists to
vilify and stamp out what remains of Dixie’s venerable, centuries-old culture,
one would think that Florida and her governor would be a little more cautious
about giving their full, unconditional support to Israel in her dealings with
the Palestinians. For in this instance,
the Palestinians resemble the South in their under-dog fight against a superior
military power:
– At the time of writing, the current
Israeli assault on Gaza has killed at least 200 people, including 59 children
and 35 women, while rockets fired from Gaza have killed 10 people in Israel,
including 2 children.
– In the 2008-9
assault on
Gaza, Israel killed 1,417
Palestinians,
while their meagre efforts to defend themselves killed 9 Israelis.
– In 2014, 2,251
Palestinians and
72 Israelis (mostly soldiers invading Gaza) were killed, as U.S.-built F-16s
dropped at least 5,000
bombs and
missiles on Gaza and Israeli tanks and artillery fired 49,500
shells, mostly
massive 6-inch shells from U.S.-built M-109 howitzers.
– In response to largely peaceful “March
of Return”
protests at the Israel-Gaza border in 2018, Israeli snipers killed 183
Palestinians and wounded over 6,100, including 122 that required amputations,
21 paralyzed by spinal cord injuries and 9 permanently blinded.
. .
.
On the military front, since the creation
of the Israeli state, the United States has provided $146 billion in foreign aid,
nearly all of it military-related. It currently provides $3.8
billion per
year in military aid to Israel.
In addition, the United States is the
largest seller of weapons to Israel, whose military arsenal now includes 362
U.S.-built F-16
warplanes and
100 other U.S. military aircraft, including a growing fleet of the new F-35s;
at least 45 Apache attack helicopters; 600 M-109 howitzers and 64 M270
rocket-launchers.
At this very moment, Israel is using many of these U.S.-supplied weapons in its
devastating bombardment of Gaza.
One of the
most depressing things about the state of the modern South is the degree to
which the false teaching of the Yankee Cyrus Scofield (born in Michigan),
Dispensationalism, has been lapped up by Southerners like a hot, thirsty yard
dawg on a blazing August afternoon and causes them to turn a blind eye to what
has just been mentioned. It causes
otherwise bright and astute Southrons to write things like this:
Israel is simply unlike any of the U.S.’s
other allies in the world and there are many reasons Americans passionately
love and support it. Those reasons include its ancient religious history
and sacred role as the birthplace of Christianity and origin of the
Judeo-Christian tradition. Its eternal significance is founded on its
connection and proximity to Christ’s birth, death, resurrection, and ascension
into Heaven. They also include God’s promise to Abraham that the Jews
were His chosen people and that He would grant to Abraham and his descendants
the land that is Israel today. Lastly, Israel has always been America’s
strongest ally in the region and one of its strongest allies in the world.
But it is
noteworthy that even many Evangelical Protestants, let alone Roman Catholics,
Anglicans, and the Orthodox, are very forthright in
their criticism of Dispensationalism: .
. .
The rest is
at https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/south-and-palestine .
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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