Monday Jul 06, 2009

I am the reason there is no world peace

Posted by Sherri Mandell
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I am the problem. I am the one. The head of the free world referred to me, personally, my family, as the reason for the unrest in the world . With a broom in my hand, trying gamely to clean up the popcorn from my son's movie party, I am the reason that there is no world peace. Obama handed me the world's destiny. He told me -  'if you stop building, stop growing, all will be right in the Middle East. Don't even think of Iran or Darfur or the honor killing of the women in your region. Your home renovation is the cause of war.'

I am a settler. If I move 8 kilometers to Jerusalem, then I cease being a settler, I suppose. But then I am an Israeli. And that too is a problem.

The peacemakers assure us that if we leave our homes, then there will be peace. And not just peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Peace in all of the Arab world. Peace in the entire world. 'That bully Ahmadinejad, don't worry about him. Sherri the settler, just leave your house with the blue windows, and the winds of peace will sweep across this world.'

Never mind that before there were settlements, there was a PLO. Never mind that the Palestinians have refused the most generous offers from the Israeli state, including 97 percent of Judea and Samaria as reported in the Washington Post on May 29th.  Never mind that there is room for Arabs and Jews in the West Bank and that a Palestinian government that cannot allow Jews to dwell in its borders is a fascist state. Never mind that Israel itself has more than a million Arabs living among us. Never mind.

There is practically nobody more reviled in the world today than a settler. We are seen as gun-toting racists, extremists, parallel to the extremists on the other side. Never mind that it is exceedingly rare for a Jew to be a terrorist. Never mind that those other extremists murder Jewish children like my son Koby with their bare hands just because they are Jews. Never mind that those other extremists send their own children to commit suicide as martyrs. Never mind that those extremists kill their own people by firing squad if they are suspected of being collaborators. Never mind that those extremists oppress their women. Never mind that those extremists are intolerant of homosexuality in their communities.

But it is the settlers who are the problem.

I was on a TV show where a Tel Aviv metropolitan woman referred to me as the 'cancer of the Jewish people.' There is nobody so bad and evil as a settler. We are the scapegoat of the world. It could be said that we are the Jews of the Jews. We are so convenient an object of hatred.

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1  |   Marsha in NJ, USA, Monday Jul 06, 2009 Sherry, you are fulfilling the destiny of the Jewish people and are living and making Jewish history. Be strong, we are with you!
2  |   Fed up american jew, Monday Jul 06, 2009 Its true. And just like Cancer cells you will stay there and multiply, caring nothing for the state of Israel, your host, or of what your actions do to the Palestinians. All you care about is your cheap, stolen land, and about lording the "savages" while taking everything away from them. Cancer is a mild term, and yet so proper. Know that if Israel ceases to exist, it will be because of you, and people like yourself who cared more for their own convenience than for their society and doomed it, and themselves. We are sick of paying the bill for you and looking the other way.
3  |   SoCal Mother, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Sherri I wish I could give you a hug right now. I have no words for your pain. We can only pray that someday the world will come to its senses. (We met at M. and B. P's home in LJ.)
4  |   Roddy Frankel, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Sherri, you have my support. Hang in there, and don't stop talking and writing. Reach out to a variety of media outlets. Recruit your neighbors to do the same. It may take time, but you are on the side of justice. You might also want to scan and publish the deed to your house, to prove to all the leftists that you didn't "steal" Arab land.
5  |   Joan Zia Kahn- Metar, Israel, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 How right you are, Sherri! Unfortunately, we Jews can win many Noble Prizes in wishful thinking and having delusions! THe Palestine LIBERATION Organization, as you say, was founded in 1964, way before the "settlements" but the wishful thinkers/dangerous gamblers don't let that bother them. The hypocrisy of certain Jews and others should shake us to the core each time, but even WE become numb from their ravings. And all this AFTER ruining the lives of the Jews from Gush Katif. Unbelievable!
6  |   Daniel Pinner, Kfar Tapuach, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Please, Sherri - I thought that I & my wife were the world's sole problem. You see, not only did we get married in Hebron, mere hours after Obama's speech in Cairo; we also live in Kfar Tapuach and plan, be'ezrat Hashem, to have many children. Let's keep things in perspective: even if you do move 8 kilometers to Jerusalem, then Al Qaeda will still try to bomb New York; North Korea will still threaten the world with its nuclear weapons; Iran will still be trying to go nuclear; and India & Pakistan will still be at each other's throats. Why? - Because my wife & I will still be in Kfar Tapuach.
7  |   Shel Zahav in Jerusalem, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Yes, some peacemakers. They all have their ideas and we are left holding the bag when they fail. Kind of like Robert McNamara who died today. He knew a lot about how to run a war and he manages to drag America into a losing effort in Vietnam getting tens of thousands of Americans killed and more than a million Vietnamese. Sure, let's trust the politicians. They know what they are doing!
8  |   Rachel, Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 It is rediculous to claim that you are responsible for there being no world peace just as it is rediculous to claim that you have nothing to do with the lack of peace between Israel and the Arabs. The truth, of course, is somewhere in the middle.
9  |   Avrohom - Israel, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Fed up american jew, the answer is simple: stop eating. Your ignorance and foolishness escapes you. Best if you really stopped eating, perhaps.
10  |   Just an Israeli, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 To my "Fed Up American Jew" friend: We are here for you. Your words are clearly uttered in complete ignorance of the conditions or history of Israel and based on your local media, which I follow. I am NOT a settler, nor am I even right-wing. I live in Kfar Saba and take extreme exception at ignorant, arrogant, and misled foreigners, Jews or other, who regurgitate the poison they have been fed by the foreign media (as I said, it is my job to be aware of what is said in the media). Come here, live here, share our national fate, and THEN say whatever you like. This IS a democracy.
11  |   Yechielshlipshon, Nashville, Tenn., USA, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 First half: sherri, HaShem's blessings on you and all the persons who carry out HaShem's comandment to go in and to inhabit His Land. The cancer in the Jewish people are best represented by #2 above, who reminds me of the two politicians who are accountable for the start of the Roman War. Their senceless hatred for each other spread(like a cancer?) and ignited the war, which led to the Temple burning, the Spark which ignited our fire of Torah throughout the world for 2 thousand years...
12  |   Kate, Gainesville, FL, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 You are not only a convenient object of hatred but a safe one. Since you aren't the ones who cut off people's heads or kill your daughters or tell your sons their highest and best use is to strap on explosives and murder civilians, blaming you is as simple as it is ultimately fruitless. And unfortunately there is a consensus of westerners who want to live freely and never worry about how to go about preserving that freedom. Israel is a portent of things to come elsewhere--the last advanced nation which unapologetically values freedom and despises tyranny
13  |   Progressive Zionist, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Yes - you ARE the problem sherri. YOU are one of the main reasons there is no peace between Israel and the Palestinians. no one forced you. YOU made the choice to live in a settlement on occupied land. The Torah commands, 'Thou shalt not steal' - and YOU disobeyed. YOU are destroying the state of israel from within. one day, zionism's sake, YOU will be evacuated. if not, then all israeli jews will end up being ruled by an arab government - in a BI-NATIONAL STATE. and all because of YOUR selfish, racist fantasy. kol hakavod.
14  |   Ray, Boston, MA, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 As I see it here in the USA; If the Palis dropped their weapons, there would be peace. If the Jews dropped their weapons, there would be genocide. Seems quite simple to me.
15  |   Left Wing Hegelian, Ramot Guilaad Babachan, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Sherri, Invite Carter to visit your place. This high rank politician has recently visited a "settler", if I am not wrong it was Kfar Etzion, and this veteran politician that was once the number in the US was stoned of what he saw. He even could not believe it. He told told that this visit changed his way of looking at the settlers. Invite all those, speak with them. They are just talking and having no idea of the ground reality. Bring them to you, make PR. Speaking stam baavir. Remember that you are the real pioneers of Israel. Carry on. Left wing Hegelian.
16  |   Sandy Toronto, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Dear Sherri. You are a true Eishet Chayil. I live in Canada and am fully supportive of your views. The world just doesn't get it, and probably never will. We are alone and really have always been alone. We need a strong government who can stand up to the world. We need more people like you and your wonderful family who are true believers in Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael. May Hashem bless you and your family with continued strength, good health and smachot . May he watch over your precious Koby in shamayim and bring the moshach so you can be reunited with your beautiful boy. Chazak V'nitchazak!
17  |   Yechielshlipshon, Nashville, Tenn., USA, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Mr. Fed-up American: The following a commit to another who side-line umpires. Let me answer you questions/commits one at a time;Settlements an impediment? To whom? Shall we also remove the Arab settlements in Israel? Gobble up? How much land is used for these settlements? And isn't there an UN rule about racial or religious discrimination? Squattlng? On Jewish land which is not owned by anyone-officially? Land distained for Pal State? Where is this in law?
18  |   Yechielshlipshon, Nashville, Tenn., USA, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Mr. Fed-up American Part two Following responce to another side-liAnd isn't it agreed to negotiate the bounbries? Prevents Peace? How can any intelligent person say this, after the Pals rejecting every peace offer from 1948 til today? Israel look bad in the eyes of the world? Oh, whose world, the lovers of decency, or the antisemites and their co-horts? The settlements must be rolled back and ect.? Why, and for what purpose does anyone say that the Jewish capital be divided? Can you answer these questions, Mr. Fed-up American-come to the Land and see/hear the truth
19  |   Jim -United States, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Sherry, I am not a jew but an American who is a friend of Jews, Actually to me this has nothing to do with jews.and yet it does. its our stupid president who was elected by liberals and socialists who want to destroy our country.However from what i gather here in the USA most jews supported Obama - which please explain to me why, if my info is correct.. Obviously i feel very strongly about this. I pray Your country stays strong and Prays to G_D to to protect you please pray for our country as well. Peace. Truthmyster.com aka Jim
20  |   TS, US, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 To Fed-Up American Jew, And just like Cancer cells you will stay in America and multiply, caring nothing for Am Yisroel, or of what your actions do to other Jews. All you care about is your cheap, stolen heritage, and about lording the "savages" (Those Jews who don't agree with your enlightened "humanism.") Cancer is a mild term, and yet so proper. Know that if Am Yisroel ceases to exist, it will be because of you, and people like yourself who cared more for their own "embarassment" than for their people and doomed it, and themselves. We are sick of praying for you and looking the other way.
21  |   Morton Friedman Lanham, MD, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Face reality, you are a Jew. In much of the world you will be tolerated, at least by the official governments. In much of the world, you will not even be allowed as a tourist. No, I am not repeating Rev. Wrights mantra, and I live a good life in the USA. But I have my eyes open. We have had many restrictions in employment, housing, education, etc., and let us not forget that we have been cast as the scapegoat by others who decry our relatively open society. The 'World' needs us, else they would find a different bone of contention.
22  |   elzeide, Buenos Aires, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Sherri, we are with you., Please Be Strong. Jazak veematz ! Really very clever words "could be said that we are the Jews of the Jews.". I agree to make some renouncement (I don't mean your homes) to achieve peace. But that process starts in other points: Stop hatred. Stop incitement (blood libels, school books, the protocols of the elder of Sion, etc). Stop suicide bombings. Accept Medinat Israel. Show Israel as a country in the maps, ... and so on Shalom,
23  |   isaac, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 to # 2 the so called american "jew" Please stop being a fed up jew. Simply follow my advice and dont read anymore articles on the JP which cause you so mutch aggravation, rather start watching El Jazzira where people like you usually find more comfort.As for your so called contributions to pay the settlers bills I am sure they could do just fine without them, besides there are so many palestinian foudations you could divert your donations to
24  |   tauseef,india, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 hi sherri,,i am tauseef, a muslim(non arab) from india..of late i have been reading much of jewish history, their struggle,their enterprise...quite a nice article u have written..the world as i see it today is full of conjectures and assurances and persuasions..what u r trying to persuade is even if u vacated the settlements nothing wud change in arab world(which btw i do agree with)..what obama is trying to persuade is if u listen to him on settlements issue it will strengthen his hands in dealings with arabs and also take stand against iran..
25  |   Happy and Proud, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 Sherri, Thank you for taking the time to write your wonderful posts. I guess I am a 'warmonger' as I support you. Who knew?
26  |   Jen USA, Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 #8 Rachel, you are so right. What I find so sad and tragic about Sherri's writing is just that she cannot seem to find any way to work towards peace and resolution. Everything in the world is viewed as Sherri's way or wrong. She cannot find the truth in the middle. Even after all that she has been through, she cannot see beyond her blue tinted windows.
27  |   Bob Fruehling, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Sherri, for what it is worth, disregard the detractors and just 'settle down'.
28  |   Boston, MA, USA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Sherry, I fully agree with Marsha (#1) from NJ and fully on your side; and I wish you every success in your life. Israelis should resist Obama's administration's pressure to harm Israel in due to appease Arabs. NetanyahuÂ’s position on this question is critical, and it seems as he is bending under the USA pressure. I am a Jew from Boston, USA, and can ensure you that most Jews in the USA support Israel and are very unhappy with Obama's position. Obama might still continue his anti-Israel policy but I believe, not for more than a couple of years, because otherwise he might not be re-elected.
29  |   Jeff Levitt in Des Moines,IA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Sherry, I agree with you whole-heartedly..If not for a terminally ill parent, I and family would be already living in Efrat...and to the Fed up Jew in America, how dare you spit upon these people...steal cheap land? Lord over 'savages'? Sounds like a large part of the history of America...Convenience???That' the American way, too.
30  |   Jeff - Boston, MA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Be strong - you have more support than you know! Keep fighting for us and thank you!
31  |   mzk, Haifa, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 To think that there are some sick people (inckuding a commenter here) who will attack a mother whose son was murdered in cold blood. By the way, if you moved those eight kilometers, they will still consider you a settler. Even if you lived in Har Nof, in the most westernmost part of Jerusalem. And that's our friends! Of course, our enemies also consider Haifa an illegal settlement.
32  |   Neal, Minneapolis USA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 To No. 2, the "fed up American Jew: Your condemnatory phrase,"people like yourself who cared more for their own convenience" certainly could apply to you; you who dares, from the safety and comfort of the United States, to tell an Israeli where she can and cannot live. What have you done to build the Jewish homeland or help Jews like the Mandells who live in it? "Paying the bill?" Israel is a strategic bargain for the United States, and most of the military aid we give Israel is spent in the United States, employing U.S. workers. Jews as cancer cells? Goebbels & Co. called us vermin.
33  |   Mark in NYC, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Get over yourselves! You can't be blamed for looking out for your own economic self interest and living on a settlement, given how cheap it is compared to living in the Israel that the international community recognizes. However, it is high time for Israel to take responsibility for settlement activity, to be honest about what it really amounts to, and to publicly repudiate the Geneva Conventions (which prohibit nations from moving civilian populations into territory conquered in war). Such an act of honesty might help alleviate your sarcastic expression of pain.
34  |   bannister , USA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 You are the problem or you are the solution. The Trajectory of History is pointing in a direction where your enemies will have WMD and use them on you. Then we will not have the pleasure of talking to you , rather about you and why you chose to live in the bulls eye. Please dispute rationally why your enemies will never get and use WMD on you? Particularly the stateless ones funded by Oil Money? Please tell me why you choose to live on Palestinian land and not in Florida where you would be welcomed and free.
35  |   Randy AZ, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 I am nobody you ever heard of and never will. I am just an ordinary American who wishes he could do more to help. Please know that the so called leader of the free world does not speak for me, or 50 plus million just like me. You learned long ago that you must fight for what is right against those who have no honor. We too are learning this lesson and will soon have to fight here in the states to protect our homes from tyrants who have no honor, that same so called world leader you mentioned. I wish you well and hope you stay safe and never give up.
36  |   J, TX, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 If you don't care about the geo-political effects of settlements, then think about the ecological. The settlement arrangement is a lot like an American suburb. So if you're not careful, Israel will become more polluted and oil-dependent, something it cannot afford. So if having a place to live is your concern, try building up. And if you don't think your community has much to do with the problem, then I guess you wouldn't mind an Arab neighbor (if the Arab is also willing, of course)?
37  |   islams not for me, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 To #2 You are a coward... Take some time to see what your muslim masters think of Jerusalem... Palestine: Is It the Jews' Promised Land? [ Link to page ] The Jews and the Promised Land [ Link to page ] And you still call the author of this blog "a cancer"? You are a dhimmi moron!
38  |   Gabi - Jerusalem, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Sarcasm and exageration aside: Never mind world peace, there wouldn't even be peace in the West Bank if its Jewish residents all moved to Jerusalem or Tel Aviv because the the Palestinians claim that the Jews have no right to be there either.
39  |   Eitan Levy, Noqdim, ISRAEL, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Sherri, my thoughts and prayers are with you and all Am Yisrael. Don't worry. Only an ideologue could think that settlements are 'the' problem. Just be strong in who you are. We are the eternal people. Everyone else's existence is negotiable.
40  |   Fed Up, Barcelona, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Mark in NYC: You don't understand the Geneva Conventions, which refers to forced population transfer. It also doesn't truly refer to a situation such as in the West Bank where there never was any sort of recognized sovereign government or defined borders. Fed up american jew- apart from making me want to change my online name- you offer a good example of the irrational hate-fest that is all too often taken for acceptable discourse. "Worse than cancer?" That sounds like something taken straight out of Der Ewige Jude. It's easy to "rationalize" blind hate with exaggeration, isn't it?
41  |   JMK, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Settlements are the White Elephant, just a distraction to hammer Israel over the head with, the very evacuation of Israel is what the Arabs want. If it wasn't the settlements it would be roadblocks to stop terrorists, or it would be the fence to stop terrorists. Probably with the fence things could not be more clear, the Arabs want a state, the fence is not only built to prevent or a barrier to terrorist attacks but also a sought of potential border of the possible two states or two peoples. Here the Arabs have the outline of a state but that is what bothers them, they want it all.
42  |   Palestiniansareamyth, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 How can Jews be settlers in their homeland? That's like calling American Indians living on reservations in America settlers. It's ridicoulous. The real settlers are the Arabs who have been stealing Jewish land for decades. Neither "Palestine" as a country or Palestinians have ever existed! Israel is the homeland of the Jews!
43  |   Steve, Tel Aviv, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Thank you, Sherri! !! More please.
44  |   Avrohom - Israel, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 bannister, this is our land. Florida is not our land. You have eyes but do not see and ears but do not hear. This is a fact. Israel is always he homeland of the Jewish people. It is not Arab land. Your racism and hatred deny you the intelligence granted to mankind. Too bad for you. Thousands of years the world was cautioned about liars like you. You are but an insignificant speck in history with nothing new to add, but lots of hatred, racism, and worthlessness. Best to change while you have the chance.
45  |   Jak, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 to #2 a "Fed Up americsan Jew" Indeed you are fed up - and it shows. You are "full of it!"
46  |   Jan P, Virginia, USA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 fedup: The Arabs attempted to steal the land of israel in 1967. they lost the war they Instigated. Read UN Resolution 242 which only requires return of land of a permanent peace. When 242 was negotiated, "The" was specifically left out. Border adjustments were allowed for, hence not calling for "return of THE land". You might also research the 3 nows of Khartoum: "No negotiation, No recognition, No peace". have you called for china to return Tibet to the Tibetians?
47  |   Jan P, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Fedup: have you called for the return of the Americas, including the America where you live, to the native Americans from whom it was stolen? How about the return of Australia and New Zealnd to their native populations from whom they were stolen? Have you called for the Royal Family of Jordan to return to the Arabian Peninsul from which they came?
48  |   Bruce in PA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Fed Up American Jew: The West Bank is a disputed territory. The United States is not. It is 100% occupied. Stolen. As a Jew you have more right to live on the West Bank than you do to live where you do.
49  |   EdB, Tennessee, USA, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 #28 - "I am a Jew from Boston, USA, and can ensure you that most Jews in the USA support Israel and are very unhappy with Obama's position." - And I say that you are incorrect. Obama is LOVED by the American Jews that helped to elect him. The US media (Jewish controlled), should be called Obamedia. Obama, to them, can do no wrong. He is the Messiah. If you have a LINK to information that shows American Jews being fed up with Obama, I would like to see it. Otherwise, I will assume that you just misspoke or are very confused.
50  |   Bert Cohen, New York, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 The true 'Jewish settlers' are those Jews living in America on stolen Indian land and who lack even the elementary decency to admit that undeniable fact. The American Indians are among the poorest and worst off of all the ethnic groups. I cannot find any leftist Jew in America who cares at all about the 300 plus treaties between the U.S. giovernment and the Indian nations in the 1800's and which the U.S. government refuses to honor to this day. Also, the so-called 'West Bank' was part of the Palestine Mandate, a legal international agreement still valid today which includes the West Bank..
51  |   Nathan, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Five will get you ten that the face behind 'fed up american jew' belongs to someone who prays to mecca five times a day.
52  |   Peter - Texas, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Hello Sherri. The Land of Israel belongs to the Jews.I can speak for many whose voices are not heard.We, who care and have a discerning and open mind, recognize that Israel is not the aggressor.The people who live by the Tanach have the most and only authoritative "Manual" showing how to live in a free society.May the Leadership of Israel have the continued strength to fight its oppressors, and not be bullied by other countries who practice double standards for living and sovereignty.
53  |   Bert Cohen, New York, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 The "fed up american jew" failed to capitalize American and Jew which suggests a non-Jew wrote this. This so-called Amercian Jew should be supporting the ongoing effort by Latinos to relcaim the southwest corner of America for Mexico. California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are all areas that America stole from Mexico in the 1800's. The far left Jews who live in those states are the real "illegal settlers" who should be evicted from their homes in the interest of peace and justice.
54  |   MK boston, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 dear Sherri, I loved you story.Let me ask you this: I imagine Israel builded a fence around the borders of your place, and you are right now, on the Israeli side. Each time your place "grows', meaning new construction happens, do you pull the FENCE a little bit FURTHER? Please let me know, thanks, moises at boston
55  |   Simon in Canada, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Why do you deform the reality? Obama never said that the settlement IS the problem, He said IT MAKE PART OF THE PROBLEM. The words are important here! Of curse Obama didn't meant that your popcorn is a global threat. But like you said, you are a settlers. And that's means that a part of your life endorses a mission with political issues. When those issues start to have consequences on your life, you can't be shocked because you don't have the freedom that any suburbs residents of the world have: you don't live in suburbs, but in a settlement! Plenty of place wait you in Isreal if you want!
56  |   Simon in Canada, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Why do you deform the reality? Obama never said that the settlement IS the problem, He said IT MAKE PART OF THE PROBLEM. The words are important here! Of curse Obama didn't meant that your popcorn is a global threat. But like you said, you are a settlers. And that's means that a part of your life endorses a mission with political issues. When those issues start to have consequences on your life, you can't be shocked because you don't have the freedom that any suburbs residents of the world have: you don't live in suburbs, but in a settlement! Plenty of place wait you in Isreal if you want!
57  |   J. Danzig, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 I read your stand, and I understand it, and even sympathize, but it's a no-win situation. With the radicalism in bout Jewish and Arab camps, we are doomed, and yes, you are radicals too. Is this dried up land really worth the death of everyone's children?
58  |   Chanya, Judea, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 For the posters who have continued to insist that Sherri is "the problem", that settlements are "the obstacle" etc.-I wonder if they would consider actually researching the history of the area before making all these ignorant statements about stolen land (gee, does that include the land that was bought, in some cases several times?). And maybe that might even consider (gulp!) coming to a settlement, meeting people, seeing what they have to say, actually learning something beyond the vile ignorant hatred they have posted. Heck, Jimmy Carter came here and learned something.So maybe you can too.
59  |   Barry North Carolina, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 Sure ...if you move eight kilometers the world would come to peace and maybe pigs will fly !! Stay strong and keep hope.
60  |   The other Bob, Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 If 'Fed up Amer. Jew' is a Jew, I'm a $ multi-million, 2.2m tall, Black guard in the NBA. If Prog Zionist is a Zionist, ditto. Rachel & Jen; the truth isn't in the middle. Its much closer to Sherri's side. U allude to her being dogmatic & inflexible, but, don't U think UR right & everyone else is wrong? Mark NYC; Y repudiate GC? Israel has strong arguements its not in violation of anything. Bannister; Israel knows they'll use WMDs.That's Y it works to stop them.The settlements aren't on Pal. land. Fl isn't the Jewish homeland. Israel is. U understand nothing else. How could U understand this?
61  |   anna australia, Thursday Jul 09, 2009 Sheri, God help people like fed up american jew and bannister. For such ignorance to be aimed at a woman whos child was slaughtered by barbarians (regardless of religion, who kills a child is an animal). The fact that these ignorant savages, and i mean the posters can in any way justify the position of child-killers is appalling and ignorant. My heart goes out to you and the settlers, if we here in australia were told by the US that we are not to build on our land, and believe me, our land was illegally occupied, we would tell them to go to hell. The aboriginal population included.
62  |   Jan, Australia, Thursday Jul 09, 2009 Blue windows. white washed walls? Clean and neat? Those who leave homes willingly to settle somewhere else (around the world) tend to be optimistic, economically proactive, entrepreneurs, take better care of their houses, and understand the truth of life: we are just passing through- so make each day count. The success of Abraham and the fathers of Israel before their G-d was that they were willing to move, and be flexible. They didn't own the land, their G-d did! As Jephthah said, we'll wait and see who's G-d has the say so as to who gets to settle where. For the moment He's with Israel
63  |   Lars with Venus and Janice - Netanya, Thursday Jul 09, 2009 Good Morning Israel, " Exellent Article "... Easy to understand ! - I'm having a coffee in Haifa later on today :)
64  |   Rachel, Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday Jul 09, 2009 The other Bob (#60): You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion, but very many Israelis support the two-state solution. This means withdrawing from the West Bank, which, when the time comes (as it will surely will) will be painful for us all. And the more we build the settlements, the more painful it will be. Some settlers fantasize that by building more they can actually prevent the inevitable. I can understand their wishful thinking, but from a Zionist perspective it is not at all helpful (and I am using an understatement here). Withdrawal is the ONLY way to peace with our neighbors.
65  |   bannister ,USA, Thursday Jul 09, 2009 Lots of name calling but no rational discussion about the probability of stateless terror getting and USING WMD Israel is the home of the Jews who have taken someone else s home. You keep it by force and occupation you will lose it by force as well. I would much rather be enjoying a glass of wine with a Jewish friend in America than Mourning the loss of those who will stubbornly shake their fists at the incoming Nuke. Hardly hateful or racist.