Exchange with a Jewish Buddhist
To: jcohen2@bezeqint.net; Thursday, August 21, 2014
Hello Jack Cohen,
My sister-in-law sent me your message in response to two articles that I
sent to her. I feel compelled to send these articles to you for your
consideration. As a Jew, I deeply fear the consequences of the Israeli
government's waging war. War/Hatred can only beget War/Hatred!! I wish the
Israeli people would be free to consider the points of view in these articles
and rise up and protest the war that Israel is waging with its weapons of
destruction provided by the USA.
XXXXXXX
From: Jack Cohen; Thursday, August 21, 2014
Dear XXXXXXXX:
I am sorry that you are so
misguided.
Are you not aware that Israel in 2005 under the
right-wing PM Ariel Sharon unilaterally disengaged from Gaza, withdrew all
Israeli settlers (who had perfect right to live there) and all IDF forces from
Gaza in the hope that there would be peace?
Are you not aware that for 9 years Israel has been
bombarded almost every day by 14,000 missiles, rockets and mortars, making life
in southern Israel almost unlivable for 3 million Jews?
Are you not aware that the terrorist organization Hamas,
staged a coup in Gaza in 2007 and murdered hundreds of Fatah/PLO (Palestinian)
leaders (many by throwing them off roofs)?
Are you not aware that the Hamas covenant calls not only
for the destruction of Israel, but for the murder of all Jews everywhere
(including you), and for the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate with Sharia
Law?
Are you not aware that Israel under PM Netanyahu
hesitated for 3 days in July when Hamas increased the barrage of missiles to
over 100 per day, that would have caused thousands of Israeli civilian deaths if
we had not developed the Iron Dome anti-missile system, with US
help?
Are you not aware that Israel accepted the first
Egyptian ceasefire proposed within 5 days of the fighting, that Hamas rejected?
Israel has accepted every ceasefire proposal and Hamas has rejected or broken
all 13 of them.
Clearly you have no concept or understanding of the
aggressive murderous behavior of Islamist terrorist organizations, not Islam in
general. For example, Hamas is a Sunni terrorist organizations with the same
methods and aims as the Islamic State terrorists who beheaded the US journalist
Foley and have been massacring thousands of Christians and other minorities in
Iraq and Syria.
No people wish for peace more that the Israeli people,
but it is impossible when the enemies of Israel have no intention of making
peace with us, but rather are dedicated to murdering every one of us.
During WWII I assume you are aware that ca. 6 million
Jews died because the Nazis and their collaborators all over Europe participated
in the murder of defenceless Jews. We will not allow that
to happen again.
We are ready to make peace with any on the other side
who want to make peace with us, as we did with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in
1994. They only have to come forward and negotiate with us, but Hamas is
entirely against any negotiation with Israel.
The destruction in Gaza is entirely in the hands of
Hamas, they initiated hostilities, they refused most ceasefires, and yesterday
they lobbed 120 missiles into Israeli cities. We have to defend
ourselves.
By the way, most weapons in Israel's arsenal do not come
from the USA, but are manufactured here by ourselves. The USA did provide the
funding for the Iron Dome system, a purely defensive system, but would you
prefer that they not do this so that we should take higher
casualties.
I realize, having lived in the UK and USA, that being a
Jew in a hostile environment, where Israel is singled out for most criticism,
that other countries with far worse human rights records, such as Syria, Libya,
Russia, China, et. etc. are not criticised for, puts a strain on your identity.
You would rather be friends with good leftists and liberals, but in order to do
so you must criticise you own people, without really knowing the facts of the
situation.
Desmond Tutu has been an open and severe critic of
Israel for 20 years, he is a hypocrite and cannot be trusted. There are many
people who claim to be pacifists. It is alright to be a live pacifist if your
enemy is principled, but if they are merely brutal killers, pacifism doesn't
work, then you are a dead pacifist. Mahatma Ganhdi advised Jews not to fight
back against the Nazis but to be pacifists, look where that got
them.
Jack Cohen
PS. Are you a traitor to your own
country?
To: Jack Cohen; Friday, August 22, 2014
So, Jack Cohen, what is the solution to this slaughter of innocent
people on both sides? Where is the human dignity and justice in this will to
destruction on both sides?
XXXXXX
From: Jack Cohen; Friday, August 22, 2014
SO, XXXXXXXX, what is the answer to the suffering of the
world? Can you tell me the solution to the problem of Black Americans who are
rioting in Missouri. Can you tell me why an Islamist Muslim from Britain
beheaded alive an American journalist in Syria? Unfortunately there is evil and
suffering in the world. I once believed that I was a Buddhist, when I was
young and naieve, and I remember this allegory, "a woman came to the Buddha and
asked, why am I suffering? He said "go out into the world and if you can find
me one family that does not know suffering, then I will tell you." And she came
back after some time and told him, "Indeed you are right, everywhere I went I
found people are suffering."
There is evil in the world, or rather there are evil
men who carry out evil actions. If I could solve the Arab Muslim- Israeli
Jewish conflict I would. But, I think you and most people in the world
recognize that the basic issue is that the Arabs will not recognize or allow
Jews to have sovereignty in our own Land. One reason is that any area that has
been Muslim is supposed to remain Muslim, and they fight for this. Another
reason is pure hatred of Jews, inculcated since birth, and another reason is
that political Islam or Islamism, a relatively recent phenomenon (look it up),
has the belief that it must conquer the whole world (the Nazis once had a
similar belief). As I see it the only way is to fight this evil until we win.
That's what we did during WWII, at great cost, but we did defeat Nazism. In the
end we will defeat Islamism.
From: Jack Cohen; Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:23
PM
XXXXXXX:
I am very concerned. Can you explain to me why a
Buddhist nation, namely Thailand, has a military Government that is oppressing
its people and taking away their rights? Can you explain to me why a Buddhist
country, namely Burma (Myanmar) was under a military dictatorship for 50 years,
murdered hundreds of thousands of its Buddhist-believing people and imprisoned
its leader Aung San Suukyi for 20 years? Can you explain to me how an American
Zen Buddhist leader, Joshu Sazaki, was found to have committed sexual offences
against novice Buddhists?
Can you also explain to me why it is that Israel, that
is a vibrant democracy, with the rule of law, elected governments, human rights
(for women and gays) and a free press, is singled out for extreme antagonism,
when 1. Hamas has started the hostilities against it again and again; 2. there
are many countries in the world with much worst human rights records, such as
China, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, etc; 3. In similar conflicts
the civilian casualties caused by attacks (such as in Iraq) by the United
States, UK and others have been much worse....? Could the reason be
anti-Semitism?
When you can answer these questions satisfactorily, then
you may have earned the right to question me again.
Sincerely
Jack
posted by Jack Cohen at 3:33 PM
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