I am Israel.I was born millennia before I was renamed Palestine by the conquering Romans
and before the U.N. decided to turn my eastern lands into Jordan.
My people, the Jews, maintained communities here for three thousand years
--that is until the Arabs decided to massacre those Jews in 1920 and 1929.
Hundreds of civilians were murdered, most of them women and children.
Meanwhile, their brother Arab states exiled one million Arabic Jews
ERASING THEIR HISTORY.
I am Israel.
I am Israel -- I've been attacked four times by five Arab armies in sixty years.
I am a survivor: I won every war they waged against me.
I told the Arabs who lived on my land that they were welcome to stay
but their brothers said, "leave temporarily while the Jews are taken care of."
I have been offering a message of peace since the day I was born
but my enemies answered only in bombs, bullets, and blood -- our own, and theirs.
Realizing they could not defeat me with arms, my enemies turned to lies.
I am Israel.
I am Israel -- time and time again my name is smeared.
Though like the Mohammad Al-Dura hoax, each lie is eventually disproved.
My enemies continue to claim that I am committing "genocide".
Tell me, is giving educational opportunities to Palestinian Arabs "genocide"?
Twenty percent of the students in Haifa University are Arabs.
If I exiled all the Arabs in 1948, why are twenty percent of my citizens Arabs who vote?
Why did I give up the entire Sinai and the Gaza strip
uprooting my own people from their homes, only for the HOPE of peace?
In combat ops, I risk the lives of my teenagers to minimize civilian casualties.
I make every attempt to target only fighters, often putting my soldiers in harm.
In war, I drop leaflets on areas to be attacked warning civilians to evacuate.
Has any other army in the history of mankind done this for its enemy?
I waited eight years to stop Hamas from its daily rocket attacks.
Some fell on my kindergartens. I am patient, but my patience is not infinite.
I am Israel
I am Israel -- I discover new medications to treat devastating diseases,
I've created technology such as Intel, anti-virus, and cell phones,
and I lead the world in scientific publications per capita.
I send humanitarian missions to developing countries, including Muslim countries.
I have absorbed hundreds of Muslim refugees who faced genocide in Darfur --
refugees no Muslim state would take.
I am Israel
I am Israel -- one of the smallest counties in the world,
and probably the most stubborn -- I refuse to give up hope for peace.
My friends support me not because of any lobby, but because they see the truth:
I am the heart of the Middle East, and the hope for its future.
My prophet said, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation" and I will try ...and try,
and TRY until those words are true.
Because I am Israel.
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These words above are part of a video as shown on the Jewish television station, "Shalom TV".
I would say it's a little different that the official Al-Fatah and the official Hamas television videos promoting Palestinian children to become "martyrs for Allah" wouldn't you say?
- Joe Whitehead
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“In Caesarea you will see this: a menorah carved into stone, from an ancient synagogue, dated around 355 CE.
That’s over 2000 years before Muhammad was born and nearly 3000 years before Arab armies ever invaded this land.
It’s not just archeology—it’s a receipt written in stone.
Jews are indigenous to Israel. Deal with it.”
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"GO HOME AGAIN
Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again,” the phrase means it is impossible to return to a place or situation from the past and expect it to be the same as it was before.
Wolfe was wrong.
When Jews make ‘Aliya’ which means to return home to live in the land to which they are indigenous, Israel, they disprove his statement. The late Charles Krauthammer best explains why.
“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.”
A person typed online today
"When Daniella Pick told N12 that Quentin Tarantino refused to leave Israel during the war, it didn’t sound like a publicity line. It sounded like the kind of loyalty you can’t fake.
As rockets were falling on Tel Aviv, Hollywood’s most celebrated director simply said one thing:
“If something happens, I’ll die as a Zionist.”
And he meant it.
This is the same Tarantino who didn’t just “visit” Israel - he moved his life there.
He strolled the streets of Tel Aviv without an entourage, discovered the small bakeries and odd corners of the city like a native, and raised two Israeli-born children with Daniella.
He wasn’t borrowing Israeli culture for a stylistic flourish, he was living it.
And when the world tilted into chaos two years ago, when embassies evacuated and influencers posted “thoughts and prayers” from European spas, Tarantino did the least Hollywood thing imaginable: he stayed.
Not because it looked good, but because his family, his home and his heart were there. They never once considered relocating - not for comfort, not for safety, not for optics.
People often describe Tarantino as a genius filmmaker, a madman poet with a camera, a virtuoso of dialogue. But there’s a quieter side that doesn’t make it into magazine profiles: his humanity. His spine. His instinct to stand with the people he loves - shoulder to shoulder.
In a Hollywood universe where moral stances dissolve the moment a publicist clears their throat, Tarantino’s loyalty feels almost radical. He didn’t virtue signal. He didn’t issue a performative statement.
He didn’t run. He stayed.
And in a time when Israel was being battered not only by rockets but by a global wave of hatred, distortion and cowardly neutrality, that simple act of presence - of choosing to live the same reality as everyone else - was worth more than a thousand celebrity speeches.
Quentin Tarantino may not look like a Zionist hero - but make no mistake, he is one.
Kol hakavod - in a world full of manufactured courage, he showed the real thing."
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