The war in Israel and diaspora Jews.

It is understood that Israel needs to defend itself from the barrage of rocket attacks Hamas launches against it. No matter how I feel about Israel, I defend Israel's right to defend itself. Back in my Zionistic wild years, I was the biggest supporter of the settlements in the Gaza Strip. I had already began to be disgusted by Israeli society but my support for the settlements there never ceased. The Gazan settlements were beneficial not just to to the Israeli economy but to the millions of Arabs living in Gaza. The Gazan settlements designed a magnificant way of growing flowers and produce and demand for their products were high especially in Europe. This brought honest jobs to Gaza and gave the Palestinians something to do during the day instead of firing rockets. Yes Arabs were hired to work there. The Jews of Gaza lived simple lives, they were not militant psychos like the ones in Hebron or other places in the West Bank. Another thing was many of them were not even Ashkanazi, they were Mizrahi (Sephardic) Jews. Pulling out of Gaza was an obviously stupid idea, but the world was demanding Israel do it and Sharon was just too eager to please. Arabs who once had honest jobs now blame Israel for taking their job and can only find work firing rockets.
Now after years of rocket attacks Israel is finally prepared to invade Gaza and try to destory Hamas's infrastructure. that means of the Jews of the world need to watch their backs on the way to Shul because since we are Jews, we must be Zionists and the Arabs of the world take it out on us. Many Jews are Zionist unfortunatly but why should Diaspora Jews get attacked by Arabs because of what Israel did?
There is a Famous French cartoon of a Jew yelling "I am Israeli!" and an Arab yelling "I am Palestinian!" in the middle there stands a fusturated Marianne (the female symbol of France) who says: why cant we all be French?"
Many Diaspora Jews feel the need to support Israel because we see it as important. We send money to the IDF and to radical nutcase settlers in Hebron to help them further their pointless wars. Yet we complain that Arabs who send money to Hamas are supporting terror.
Some Arabs send money to Hamas and other anti-Israel organizations because they feel it is important, or in places like France they jump Jews to show their fusturation. Why dont we all just be American? or French? or English? Why do Jews and Arabs need to waste all their time battling each other on the streets of Europe because of nonsense thousands of miles away that they are not involved in? Jews should stop supporting Israel and focus on their own communities. Give money to anti-missionary organizations or causes that help bring lost Jews back to the tribe. I am not going to justify French Arabs jumping French Jews, but if French Jews would deem themselves as French and not Israeli or pro-Israel, Arabs would have no justification to hate them. See, Arabs view Israel as the product of imperialism. When the Ottoman empire feel, England carved out a piece of land for the European Jews. Jews began pouring at the nod of the English who occupied the land. Since then the focus has been on the middle east Arabs detest the fact that at one time they lived in their own empire and suddenly their land was carved up and named. Tribes and sects who lived semi-peacefully on their own plots of sand were own living leaders who were not popular. Israel is a product of all that and for that Israel is hated. It has nothing to do with us being Jewish. Just as Russian Czars used to sick their angry populations on Jews and blame them for the problems. Europe washed its hands of the middle east and today Jew are hated by Arabs because we aquired land that did not belong to us from people who did not own it. The first Ayatollah of Iran was the first to ackownledge that Judaism and Zionism were seperate and issued a Fatwa (Islamic Decree) declaring Jews people of the book and protected. Today Iranian Jews live peacefully in Iran and are not nationalisic towards Israel. They are Iranian Jews not Israeli. Israel's war becomes my war because now Jewish centers all over the world need to go into code red and beef up their security. I have an idea how about Jewish centers put up flags of their home country and make a banners that say:
WE ARE NOT ISRAELI DO NOT BLAME US FOR ISRAEL DOES!

Danny!