Grumpa Joe's Place

Have you ever been bothered by a pesky fly? He sneaks into your house while you are not looking and then begins to harass the living hell out of you and your loved ones. Being a tolerant person, you allow the peskyness to continue, but not without a few swipes with your hand to try to catch him. Each time you walk to the door with a clenched fist, open the door, stick your hand out and then open it. Ninety-nine percent of the time you have not captured him. You go back to what you were doing and in a short time there he is again. He lands on your arm, you slap yourself silly, but he is gone again. You sit down to dinner and there he is checking out the goodies on the table. Now, the wife gets into it. “Get that damn fly out of here he is contaminating our meal.”

You finally search for the fly swatter and luckily you find it, but the creäture is gone. Being a cautious person you carry the swatter with you everywhere you go. You prepare to kill the little bastard at first chance. Finally, you relax and sit down for a little TV. Then it happens and he lands on the couch next to you, teasing, taunting, and daring you to make a move. You reach for the swatter, but he is gone. Next he buzzes your face and lands on your head above your eyes. You smack yourself in the face trying to kill him, but he gets away again.  You sit waiting with the swatter in hand, and he lands again. This time on the arm rest next to you, Daring, taunting, teasing you to try. You are ready. You move ever so slowly, raising your arm with the swatter. You reach the right position and he is still there, then SWAT. He is gone.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is much like the fly and you. You want to be civilized, you try your damnedest to save him and keep him, but eventually, things happen that provoke a strong reaction, and what happens? SWAT.

When I look at a map of the mid-east and find Israel it is but a small dot in the middle of an immense sand box. Israel is surrounded by Arabs who want to kill them and wipe them from the face of the earth. Why hasn’t it happened yet? Maybe it is because God is on the right side of this one. Or, perhaps it is because Jews having survived an attempt at their annihilation by Hitler are determined to never ever let it happen again.

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