OK, I'm just going to say it. It's about time someone did..
Israel= American's (BigOil) toe-in-the-door controlling foreign oil reserves for profit...ultimately...
Why yes of course... Israel, the one area of the middle east containing no oil, only exists because we wanted oil. Never mind the fact that it was the UN under our leadership that give away the oil rich areas to groups hostile to the US.... at least by your theory.
Religious matters are a convenient distraction and excuse for atrocities in the name of money.
Yeah the fact that Israel is the traditional homeland of the jewish people for over 2500 years, wasn't a consideration.
I like jews, have jewish ancestors myself and in fact have toyed around with becoming jewish as I like many of their customs; particularly family orientation..
Yet the zionist movement, which existed many years prior to the US involvement, was all actually a long term plan to get oil they don't have.
But...this fixation with Israel has become something of a mental epidemic. And, as I said, a convenient smokescreen.
I have ties to Germany...deep and important, meaningful ties where relics of my forefathers lie and lands that have significance to molding meaning in my life. But you don't see me invading Germany and setting up a religious state based on my fixation of "holy relics and places" I feel entitled by birth to have a right to control and worship at?
I don't know where you currently live, but let us pretend you live in Texas along the Mexico boarder. Now let us pretend that simply because they hate you, and want you to die, the people in Mexico started firing mortars into your town. How many random people must die, and how many times must your building or business be shelled, before you think it might be a good idea to go invade Mexico to stop the shelling?
Now replace Mexicans with Gaza Arabs, and you with Jewish Israelis.
Literally, they're (overtly) fighting over piles of sand and rubble where some ancient important people happened to have lived and did some important things once and calling it "religious manifest destiny"..when in fact it is patently absurd.
What makes it absurd? And why are you being so judgmental of a group of people you know little about? I thought you were supposed to be tolerant?
The zealots fight over piles of sand and rubble "relics" that have no more importance to a sublime and unfathomable God than matters of substance: like the Ten Commandments of The Old Testament (the hebrew Bible: most of the Commandments the jews are currently breaking by invading Palestine)...but Oh! Protect the idealism of those piles of rubble! The Wailing Wall!... while their allies, the US BigOil corporations fight over what lies underneath that rubble: The largest oil reserves. (You know, we need a port-country on the Mediterranian to shunt those reserves Texas-tycoon bound) They both use each other as an excuse to carry on atrocities that would otherwise be condemned if the wool was pulled away and the dysfunction revealed.
Oh yes, do show how many BigOil companies have invested in Israel. You discredit yourself with such foolish claims.
First of all, for you to believe in the Ten Commandments, you must believe in the one who wrote the Ten Commandments. If you believe in the one who wrote the Ten Commandments, then you must also believe that he required the Jews to be on the land of Israel.
Now if you do not believe in that, then you can't argue they are violating a command that could not be given by the non-existent writer of the Ten Commandments.
Fixation and greed. Both of which are unforgivable sins in the eyes of Yaweh. Does Hell ring a bell?
No sin, is unforgivable. That's the whole message of the Bible.
It is not OK at all to kill people in the name of greed. Whoever does this, without a single exception, will be visited upon their ultimate demise a most unfavorable and eternal sentence of unimagiable agonizing suffering. Or so the rumor goes..
What about killing people in the name of protecting your own people?
Random mortar attack wipes out some dudes car, and a number of surrounding buildings.
This is a clinic hit by mortars fired by Hamas.
People being treated after a Hamas rocket hit their house.
So tell me... in those reasons to return fire at Hamas militants... WHERE IS THE OIL?!?!? HUH???