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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Offsite Post: ‘The South and Palestine’

 

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.


--Philip Giraldi

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.


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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.


--Benjamin and Davies

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.


--Royal Alexander

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 .

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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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