Your Friendship Is Cancelled Unless You Agree With Me

Just wondering this morning about recent comments from people on "facebook" about the Israeli slaughter in Gaza. I fully agree we should all be outraged by the overt aggression against an entire group of people for the actions of fanatics claiming religious cause for their actions. The fanatics firing rockets into civilian areas of Israel are no more religous than the fanatic Zionists claiming to protect Judaism in Israel. These are not religious people! Zionism is not Judaism and the self proclaimed Islamic warriors who kill babies and innocents with bombs aren't true followers of the Muslim faith.

I recently had the temerity to give the opinion being outraged without an activist group of great diversity is like going to a wilderness and screaming our displeasure. With a Zionist Congress and Presidency, a media that is primarily slanted toward Zionism and the power given AIPAC just being outraged activists won't bring any changes. The outrage from reasonable people won't be heard or taken seriously until there is a larger and more powerful coalition of many groups of people expressing outrage.

I also refused to go along with the thinking that Hamas is without some responsibility of the violence going on in Gaza and Palestine. Thinking fanatics on one side killing children are "freedom fighters" and fanatics on the other side killing children are aggressors misses the point of why we should be outraged.

The fanatics of both sides, or all sides, that continue to perpetuate violence have trapped the majority of the people in Palestine and Israel in constant violence and fear. They hold the Palestinian and Israeli people hostage with their hatred and violence. And they hold the world hostage because the American government continues to rubber stamp and supply the Zionists in their aggression.

There is no doubt Zionism had a master plan to displace the indigenous people of Palestine to create a "Jewish homeland". That movement began at the beginning of the 20th Century. David Ben-Gurion and others continued to formulate plans to achieve the reclaiming of the "homeland" until WWII presented them the perfect opportunity. The fanatics of Zionism saw the Halocaust as an opportunity to justify stealing Palestinian land for their own.

The hatred and religious fanaticism has gone on for centuries at the expense of innocent people desiring peace and the chance to dream of the future. And the hatred is a double-edged sword where Zionism posing as Judaism and terrorists posing as Muslim freedom fighters take anybody in the way with them into the bloody abyss of violence.

Apparently some took exception to such thinking when posted on a thread decrying the current atrocities in Gaza. My friendship on "facebook" was "canceled" by the person who made the original post. Unfortunately, we've known each other for a few years and I continue to be a great supporter of the person who "cancelled" me as a friend.

It seems immature to believe we can overlook the violence of one side killing children and innocent people and condemn the other doing the same. Since the cycle of violence is centuries old and there's arguments by both sides who started things, both sides deserve our condemnation for perpetuating violence trapping a majority of people wanting peace.

I strongly believe the American people should pressure their government to end the free pass to the Zionists running the Israeli government. I'm outraged American taxpayers fund a large part of the Israeli military from jets to rifles. I'm sick of AIPAC using financial influence to further the cause of Zionist aggression.

I'm just as sick of fake religious leaders using the Muslim religion to further their part of the violence. I'm sick of the fanatics who would blow up babies and innocent school children who claim to be freedom fighters. They are no better than Zionists claiming to be fighting for Judaism. And it is naive and foolish for American liberals and activists to perceive the perpetrators of violence against Zionism by way of killing innocents as freedom fighters as much as it is foolish and racist for supporters of Israel to think mass violence against an entire people for the actions of a few fanatics is acceptable.

Cancelling my "friendship" because I happen to see the need for both groups of murderers to be held responsible for their vile deeds is childish. Closing ourselves off from honest debate about this issue when we disagree with someone doesn't help us grow as a person it makes us ideologues and apologists for one group's violence and misdeeds.

I think if we were to ask the Palestinian people, the Israeli people or the people of Iraq and Afghanistan what they want most it wouldn't be the death of one another. I think they would want lasting peace and opportunity to see their families grow and thrive. I believe that to be the common desire of most humans. I think the eye for an eye mentality of killers claiming religious or nationalistic reason is no longer accepted by most people.