Jews have been called ‘the canary in the coal mine’ because when bad things happen to them, it seems to follow that bad things happen to other people as well. The Holocaust came for the disabled and mentally challenged first, then the Jews, then the Christian opposition, and somewhere in there the homosexual population. But the largest number of people killed were Jewish. Why do tyrants begin with the Jews? Because the Jewish Bible represents freedom and morality–concepts tyrants are not fond of. The story of Moses and his father-in-law, Jethro illustrates the concept of representative government. Our founding fathers were well versed in the Bible and saw that pattern as one that would work in forming our republic.
On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article about a United Nations vote that took place on Wednesday.
The article reports:
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Wednesday to hold an event commemorating Israel’s establishment as a “catastrophe.”
In a majority, 90 member countries voted in favor of the move with 30 dissenting, and 47 abstaining from the vote, according to the Jerusalem Post. The United States and most of the European Union came out against the proposal.
The word “Nakba” is an Arabic word meaning catastrophe, according to the Jerusalem Post. The Palestinians use to the term to refer to Israel’s establishment in 1948, which is observed annually on May 15.
…The U.N. also passed several additional resolutions that called for Israel to cease imposing “its laws and jurisdiction” in the Syrian Golan and to stop performing arrests and holding prisoners from the disputed territory of the Western Bank in Gaza.
The Permanent Observer for the state of Palestine said during the debate over the proposal that “Israeli exceptionalism has only emboldened Israel’s worst instincts.”
The Assembly’s vote comes after an increase in violence along the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Arabs control most of the land in the Middle East. Israel has one small strip along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Why is it so important to the Arabs that Israel not exist?
The following cartoon appeared in my email on Friday:
I don’t believe that United Nations vote would have taken place under the Trump administration.