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- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW! BY AN
ISRAELI WOMAN
- From: Simantov Allalouf <uziel16@netvision.net.il>
- What it means to be a Jew ! by an Israeli woman I love being
an Israeli, I love being a Jew and I love being an Israeli Jew!
- I am not the least afraid to go any place, By bus or to a
mall. I didn't change or stop doing anything I used to do before
this mess began!
- People tend to forget that twice the casualties From terror
get killed on the roads! More people still die from heart attack,
cancer, And other things, They just don't show them on TV.
- Don't misunderstand me, There IS a war going on, It's not
pleasant, But, lets face it:
- WE HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER OFF!!!! It's only TV and the media
that make people think That the end of the world is coming. Only
60 years ago, they were leading Jews to their death Like sheep
to the slaughter!
- No Country, No Army. 55 years ago!! Seven Arab countries
declared war On the little Jewish State, Only a few hours old!!
- We were then 650,000 Jews! Against the rest of the Arab world!
No IDF [Israel Defense Force]. No mighty Air Force, Just tough
people With nowhere to go.
- Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia,
attacked all at once.
- The country the UN "gave us" Was 65% desert.
- The country started from scratch! 35 years ago!! We fought
The three strongest armies in the Middle East, And wiped them
out in six days.
- We fought against Different coalitions of Arab countries,
With modern armies, And masses of Soviet Russian weapons, And
we still won!!!
- We have today A country, An army, A strong Air Force, A Hi-Tech
Economy, exporting millions.
- Intel - Microsoft - IBM develop their stuff here.
- Our doctors win world prizes For medical developments. We
made the desert flourish, Selling oranges and vegetables to the
world. Israel has sent its own satellite into Space!! Three satellites
all together!!.
- We sit proudly, With the US, with 250 million people , With
Russia, with 200 million people, With China, with 1.1 billion
people, With the Europeans -- France, England, Germany, with
350 million people,
- The only countries in the world To shoot something into space!!
Israel is today In the world nuclear power family With the US,
Russia, China, India, France, and England. [We don't admit it,
but every one knows...]
- To think that only 60 years ago, We were led, Shameful, With
no hope, To our death!!
- We crawled out of the burning ashes of Europe, We won our
wars here with less than nothing in our hands, We built an "empire"
out of nothing.
- Who the hell was Mr. Arafat To make me Scared? To make me
be Terrified?
- You make me laugh!
- Passover was celebrated; Let's not forget what the story
is all about. We overcame Pharaoh, We overcame the Greeks, We
overcame the Romans, We overcame the Inquisition in Spain, We
overcame the Pogroms in Russia, We overcame Hitler, We overcame
the Germans, We overcame the Holocaust, We overcame the armies
of the seven Arab countries, We overcame Saddam. Take it easy,
folks, We will overcome The present enemies too.
- No matter Which part of human history you try!
- Think of it, For us, The Jewish people, Our situation has
never been better!!!
- So, Let's Lift our Heads High, Let's Remember:
- Any nation or culture That tried to mess around with us Was
destroyed - while we kept going!!!
- Egypt? Anyone know where their empire disappeared to? The
Greeks? Alexander of Macedonia? The Romans? Does anyone today
speak Latin? The Third Reich? Anyone heard any news about it
lately?
- And look at us, The Nation from the Bible, From Slavery in
Egypt, We are still here, Speaking the same language!!
- Right here, right now. The Arabs don't know it yet, But,
they will learn that there is one God
- As long as we keep our identity, We are eternal.
- So, sorry for not worrying,
- Not bitching, Not crying, Not being scared.
- Things are O.K. here. They surely can be better,
- But still:
- Don't fall for the media junk, They won't tell you That there
are Festivals going on, That people keep on living, That people
are going out, That people are seeing friends. Yes, our morale
is low, So what?
- It's only because we weep for our dead While they enjoy the
blood.
- This is the same reason why, We will win, after all.
- You can forward this e-mail If you choose. To the whole Jewish
community, And to people throughout the world.
- They are part of our strength. It might help some of them
To keep their heads up high.
- Tell them That there is nothing to worry about.
- Tell them to think BIG, and To see the whole picture.
- THANK GOD FOR HIS PROMISE IS FOREVER
- "See You Next Year in Jerusalem
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