Discussion on Israeli Defense and Conflict

When are the Israelis supposed to defend themselves? How can they do that?

Well, well, wait, wait a second, Mimi.

Uh, let, let me just turn it around and ask you something.

You have lived in St. Paul, Minnesota for probably,

let's say, 100 years, and all of a sudden I show up on your

doorstep,

literally on your doorstep, and I say to you, "Mimi, get out of

this house. This is my house. Let me tell you why it's my house.

It's my house because my religion says it's my house.

Now get out." Now, I happen to be standing on your doorstep

with a

gun pointed at your head, and I order you and your family out of

your

house, and I tell you that it's my house,

not your house, and the reason it's my house and my block

and, and, and, and, and my neighborhood is because

my religious belief says it's mine.

And you sit there and you say, "Well, no, no, no, no, no.

What are you talking about? We've been here 100 years." "I'm sorry.

Get out, Mimi." So you leave, and the reason you leave is because

you know if you don't, I'm going to blow up your house

and probably

blow up your family. So you leave, and you move down the

street, and for the next 60 years you sit there

and you

get very, very angry because I came into your

house and told you to get out. So what

you do, Mimi, you decide, "Well, I know what I'll do.

I'm gonna start throwing rocks at what used to be my

house, and it'll break the windows.

That'll make that damn Malloy move." So you start

throwing rocks, and then I come outside and I say, "Mimi,

were you throwing rocks?" And you look at me rather sheepishly, and

that's when I level an RPG at you and your family and

your house, and I pull the trigger, and all of a sudden, fwoosh,

you're all gone.

Now, which of us is the

? You tell me. Power leaves paper trails. Follow the trail.