They called me an ANTI-SEMITE

I got a real shocker yesterday!

In response to a MEME posted

I was the first person to respond with this:

“Even if Israel is wrong? Say, they decide to cut the heads off of all Muslim children under five years of age to make a point to their parents to move? You will still blindly stand with Israel! Wow, you are a staunch supporter!” (Rick Hill)

And this was the response that I received:

“His bigotry is glaring and unrepentent. He’s a total Trumpista. But if one is looking for people who HAVE cut off heads, slaughtered children, and terrorized their citizens….well, they can be found. But they’re not Israeli. I’d ask him to name a Moslem country which has Jews in every branch of government, which hasn’t evicted them or let them live as full citizens, which safeguards their rights, lives, culture….but he wouldn’t be able to. And he’d never acknowledge that Moslem, Christian, and other religionists who are Israeli citizens ARE represented in the Knesset, Supreme Court, etc., attend schools paid for by the government, and have their religious sites protected by the government. No. That would go against his avowed anti-Semitism.” (D.S.)

This person continued to assault me as an anti-semite through countless posts and in personal messages:

“I am astonished that YOU should be whining about being offended when YOUR comment was so fully hateful, bigoted, and irrational…It was unprovoked, it clearly came from a place of intolerance and rage, and if you’re standing behind it, you’re simply evil. I don’t tolerate any sort of bigotry. No double standards, no spreading of lies and stereotypes.” (D.S.)

Here is my point:

Have we come to such a low point in our reasoning that we are no longer allowed to question the Jewish state of Israel in ANY FORM without the threat of being labeled an anti-semite?  

My original example was a gross hyperbole and was meant to show the absurdity of standing by a government should that government stoop to the level of their enemies (ISIS).

The Christian fundamentalist have taken the mantel of defending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party and refuse to accept any contradiction.  It has almost become a fundamental article of faith that:

RIGHT OR WRONG: WE MUST STAND WITH ISRAEL!

They appear to hold these beliefs so strongly where no matter how many facts, data, studies or other information that plainly contradicts their beliefs that they are shown, they refuse to change, alter, or even consider a different reality.  Instead, they go to great efforts to rationalize their belief and they are convinced that they are being totally rational and are confident that GOD IS ON THEIR SIDE.

And when someone is foolish enough to advance a theory in contrary to their affirmation, they can only attack with the most apoplectic and indignant response possible.  In my case, it was a person of the Jewish faith calling me a Nazis and anti-semitic.

And if I were even remotely comfortable with either of these epithets, I would not be writing this public response.

I attempted to reason with this individual.  I found common ground and I even found that her sister is a close friend of mine.  Upon revealing that we had a relationship albeit a distant relationship, I was then likened to Adolph  Hitler with the comment that “maybe Hitler had his reasons…”

It baffles me that anyone could close their mind so tightly as to even allow oxygen to be able to enter.  And a mind unable to get fresh ideas or to feel or see the world in an alternative view is one that will surely wither and die.  I feel very sorry for D.S., her unreasonable hatred of someone she has never met and will never meet and for her inability  to process anything except total acceptance for a religion, a people or a cause.

It is this kind of person who built Jonestown in Guyana, who followed Marshall Applewhite and his Heaven’s Gate followers who left their corporal bodies to meet the alien spaceship hiding in the tail of Comet Hale-Bopp, and who walk the halls of Congress in the nation’s capital confident that global warming is a hoax and that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

And that is my View from the Hill of this designated ‘anti-semite.’