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NO CEASE-FIRE!
Since 1948, those “poor Palestinians” have turned down EVERY attempt Israel and other parties have made to reach a two-state solution. Instead, they consistently throw their lot in with Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Iran, Iranian proxies in Syria and Iraq, all of whom want to see Israel destroyed. Clearly, you have conveniently forgotten how Yasser Arafat turned down a most generous Israeli peace offer made by Ehud Barack and instead launched his Second Intifada.
And there’s more….
Three-quarters of Palestinians support Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, and nearly as many back a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea,” according to newly released poll results.
The survey was conducted by the independent Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD), a public opinion research firm based in the Palestinian territories and affiliated with Birzeit University in the West Bank.
The Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel…no ifs, ands or buts…and yet you have nothing to say about that.
And then there is the current, most-favored mantra of the Palestinians: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That means no more Israel and no more Jews. Well, good luck with that because it’s NOT going to happen.
Palestinian hospitals were just about run out of fuel while Hamas sat on 200,000 gallons of fuel to use for rockets to fire into Israel. Hamas tore up piping infrastructure that would have delivered water to your “poor Palestinians” and used the pipes to make rockets with which they continue to bombard Israel.
And then there’s the matter of 1,400 innocent Israelis butchered by Hamas when they invaded Israel. During that horror, a baby was broiled in an oven, with its dying mother kept alive only long enough to hear its screams.
As former President Barack Obama famously said, “Elections have consequences.” Well, the “poor Palestinians” got what they voted for.
When the Israelis left Gaza in the early 2000s, the first thing the Palestinians did was smash the greenhouses and other infrastructure the Israelis left behind. Then they voted Hamas into power. Then Hamas started lobbing rockets into Israel. Then Hamas invaded Israel and killed 1,400 Israelis, including old men and old women, raping women and dragging children into Gaza, took more than 200 hostages and continue—to this day—to fire rockets into Israel.
If the Palestinians put down their guns tomorrow, there would be peace. If Israel put down its guns tomorrow, it would cease to exist.
Hamas started this war. The Israelis will end it. Denounce Hamas. Demand the release of the hostages. But first and foremost, GET EDUCATED!
"When one of our brothers is hurting, we all hurt as well. There is no peace until there is peace for all. "
Please speak up and SHUT IT DOWN. END THIS MADNESS, DESTRUCTION, AND HORRIFIC GENECIDE.
Currently we are seeing over a million people being asked to leave their homes overnight, only for them to be bombed on their way to what they believe would be safety. We are watching all of the electricity, water, and aid being stopped going into Gaza by the Israeli military. And we are watching all of these atrocities unfold from our screens, radios, and every day conversations. And we are all asking each other, what can I do to stop this? As we say “never again.”
In this time, I continue to return to the guiding tenets of Judaism, which are to love the stranger, to treat our neighbor as ourselves. What has troubled me so deeply about this war, is the truth that everything about the treatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli government violates the central tenets of Judaism. All of this death and destruction in Gaza is the opposite of loving one's neighbor as oneself. I am here today because I cannot stand by as my community continues to act in ways that take away the safety of millions of others. I believe in a future where hostages are returned to their families, and children are free to go to school and play outside, and hospitals are not bombed. I know that this future does not come from the continued war. I am here to encourage you, the City Council of Cleveland, to acknowledge that there are Jews around the world and here in Cleveland who stand against Hamas, but also do not stand with Israel and their bombs against Gaza. I am here to ask you to acknowledge the massive loss of life we are seeing every day in Gaza. I am here to ask you to honor the Jewish value of life, to recognize that if saving one life means saving the world, what does it mean to save a million lives?
I am asking you to join with other leaders in calling for an end to this war. The futures of Jews and Palestinians are bound together, it is not either or. When we erase each other, we erase ourselves. We will only survive together. The best way to support both our peoples is by preventing Israel from continuing on this genocidal path it is on. It is my sincere hope that the City Council will use its influence to not only call for an end to violence but also to encourage diplomatic efforts that lead to a just and lasting resolution. In doing so, we can demonstrate that even from afar, our city stands as a beacon of compassion and solidarity. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Thank you.
Each Ashram, selects a social agenda within their means to address, social activism and charity to those in need is a requirement of the Hindu Faith and the people who become engaged in a particular agenda of a specific ashram. Our agenda is homelessness, we have come up with a project plan which we would like to share with yu for your consideration.
Homeless persons often camp on public or even private property, where they are promptly run out back into the streets, many times these persons are families with children, a heartbreaking situation to be sure. The goal of our ashram is to establish a legal and safe "Sanctuary Village, RV, Car, and tent "city" where any homeless person may camp and stay indefinitely, we will supply al utilities and sanitation facilities at our cost. Of course we must have a few rules, no criminal activity can be tolerated, no intolerance or bullying or stalking can be tolerated, certain basic humanistic rules must be in place. But beyond that, there are few other rules at all, other than common sense. The Priests will interface with every available community resource that is willing to contribute to the welfare of the residents of the sanctuary village, food banks, volunteer medical assistance, job training and placement, substance abuse assistance, anything we can possibly locate to assist in this effort and become a part of the project personally, our goal being for the community at large to be encouraged to take a personal interest in the project and become personally involved with the people suffering from the devastating plague of homelessness. Our second goal is to humanize the problem, putting the smudged faces of the children of homeless families, giving the problem a human perspective to motivate the communities all across America to take a direct responsibility to pitch in and make this problem, their problem, and not the problem of an overtaxed government, not the problem of the overburdened welfare system, but the problem of every decent caring person in the community to take under their consciousness and help in any way they can.
this is our goal as a small unheard of band of rather idealistic h=Hindu Priests and initiates.
We would like you to table this project in your chambers, and hopefully to adopt a similar project of your own design, secular or religious based, it doesn't matter, funded by public dollars or private grants, it doesn't matter, design it and run it any way that best suites your abilities and resources.
We hope, this idea will spread, from city to city, state to state, all across America, and each community comes together to create "Sanctuary Cities" of their own, their way.
Please consider this project carefullly
Sincerely
Father Frater, Priest Superior, The Gandhian Brahminical Oder of Krishna Consciousness