Health: “so how come they still have a State of Israel -they should have given the land to Turkey a long time ago?”
Remember, that’s your opinion, which is not shared by that many people, at least not the people who matter in Middle East policy.
It’s not a shtuch, per se, it’s just a fact. Email John Kerry or Tzipi Livni and let me know when they get back to you.
The state of Israel, right now, is better than the alternatives. These include handing the state over to various Islamic, anti-Semitic countries, either with its six million Jews or without, in which case they would become refugees. These include, oh, Idunno, handing it over to the US? The UN? Wherever- in which case it is completely at their mercy what happens to the 75% Jews who live there.
Right now, the US has a clear stake in keeping the only country with even something close to a functional democracy going. Israel is the home of six million Jews who have no place else to go. Turkey is Islamist, sorry. As we’ve established in other threads, the state has meant some amazing benefits to Jews who live there (which, as we’ve seen, are taken for granted until they are at risk).
Sam2: Ohhhh… makes sense.
Which raises an interesting point… maybe she does say Hallel? Whatever.