Sorry people!
I know it's sensitive but I can't hold back anymore!
The terror attack this evening in Paris was horrible! Families have been destroyed and the devastation is horrific! I know how they feel, anyone who lives in Israel knows what it feels like to live through terror attacks.
HOWEVER!
The French government has been condemning Israel at every chance they had! While we are sending our condolences and support to France, they didn't even bother to cover the attack on Friday when a Jewish father and son were gunned down by Muslim terrorists! France took Hamas off the terrorist list and instead started marking goods produced by Jews in Judea and Samaria!
With all due respect, I will not post a French flag on my profile and quite frankly I don't understand why anyone would! It is the French government who has been condemning Israel for fighting the same radical Islamic organizations that attacked Paris!
Some may call me insensitive, I agree! it is exactly this insensitivity that is the reason I am NOT posting a French flag on my feed!
what do you call the reactions (or the lack of) from the French government when Israel has been under attack day in and day out?! Should I call for restraint? Should I give credit to the claims ISIS is using to justify this terror attack?
So instead of putting a French flag up, I will raise the Israeli one. Why? Because Israel warned France and the rest of the world of the effect of radical Islam! We tried to explain who and what we are fighting but they would not listen!
We told them this was not about land or occupation but they didn't listen! They pressured us to make deals with those who shoot us, blow us up and stab us and when we refuse to do so, they condemn us!
We warned them that this is about a radical culture that has no respect for life, but they ignored us and shook their finger at us for fighting the same radical Islamic ideology that attacked Paris. Only we fight it every day!
So here is the Israeli flag!
The one that is fighting radical Islamic terror every day!
The flag that is condemned and yelled at from every international podium for fighting the same evil that murdered over 130 of French innocent civilians.
What BS. They didn't take Hamas off any list. The EU court ruled to remove it for a
technical violation; all sanctions remained imposed.
Hollande has been a friend of Israel on many issues.
Do you know for certain that no French media covered any of the attacks in Israel? Does it really matter if they did? We're under sensitive to the goings-on in Israel that we expect the rest of the world to as well; guess what, that's not the case.
But it doesn't matter.I'm ashamed you even compare the two situations. It's like walking into a cancer ward and telling the person with stage 2 that they shouldn't complain because someone else has stage 4. Why can't we empathize with a country that was just wracked with a horrific incident without comparing it to Israel or France's reactions to the same? You really want to lower yourself to a "but they did it first" juvenile attitude? We're supposed to be better than that.
We're like professional victims. Anything happens anywhere in the world and we're like "but we have it worse!"