Today once again, I woke up alive. After the sacrament of coffee, I dragged my aging body down to our condo gym and plopped my butt on my favorite exercise bike. There was a reason I took me, my iPad mini and my achy joints to the gym. The other day, I received my shiny new Pennsylvania Nurses License in the mail. This was just my renewal; every two years we Pennsylvania nurses must obtain CEU credits and renew our licenses.
Due to my age, this is the last time I will bother. But not before I put it to excellent purpose. I am hitching a ride with whatever NGO is going to Israel and once there I will strap on a stethoscope in dive right in.
The above photo is of a small human. A Shockingly cute one. Every human was a baby at one point; even you. It works like this: Sperm meets egg in the female’s fallopian tube. Nine months later, a baby appears. Here are some more babies to meet.
Here is a black baby. Same deal, one of the faster swimming sperm reached a welcoming egg. Meanwhile, both the sperm and the egg thought they were just groovin’ at a jazz bar. That may have been before the chance meeting of sperm and egg.
And here we have our Asian baby. Most likely he will beat my grandchild’s SAT scores. Oh well.
Ahh, could this be an Arab baby? No matter! Actually, he could be a toddler or a 5-year-old. He started life as a newborn Arab baby. I started mine as a newborn white baby. I did not get to choose my race or gender; sperm met egg in my Mom’s fallopian tube and that was that. She had been hanging out with a white GI from WWII. I had no say in her choice of mate. So I just grew some more cells and waited to get out.
Babies are innocent: Black, brown, yellow, American Indian. Indian Indian. Chinese. Sumatran. Australian. Russian. German. Irish. English. Sudanese.
Now, imagine this: A bad person swoops down and kidnaps your baby-the one you were in labor with; yes, 36 hours of sheer fun for a lucky few.
If you happened to be born a Jewish baby, and you happened to be near the Gaza strip in Israel, the Palestinians took your baby and did only G-d knows what with it.
Come on Americans! Where the Devil went your imagination? I do not know of one mother in my entire panoply of mothers who would be happy to have her baby taken by Hamas.
So, when I see these ridiculous Pro-Palestinian protests on TV, my heart if filled with unbridled rage. You see, I converted to Judaism from my childhood religion of Lutheran. Way before I set foot in Sunday School, I knew right from wrong. Mom and Dad taught me the difference before I went to Kindergarten. If I did not understand the lesson right off the bat, Dad would give me a more enhanced form of instruction. It never failed. Not even once.
My father, who left this world a week after his 41st birthday, often told me he would consider Judaism if he went back to organized religion. So here I am.
Nowadays, some of my friends call me their Jewish mama. I take it as a compliment. Like many of my Christian friends, I have been to Israel. It was a Joy, albeit a tad surrealistic for me. Everywhere I looked there were Israeli flags. Right in front of me was the Dome of the Rock. I went to the wailing wall and prayed. The food was amazing and the shopping was even better.
Oh, you are permitted to pray in Israel. You may do this right out in broad daylight, without anyone complaining. Israel is many time zones away from Randi Weingarten and her lefty teacher’s union, so feel free to pray while in Israel. I was educated in a Pittsburgh Public School where we said the Lord’s Prayer every day and pledged allegiance to the United States of America. You remember that place, right? That is where Pennsylvania is located. So is The People’s Republic of California.
Funny thing was that none of us got struck by lightning by saying a prayer and saluting our flag. Not one of us succumbed to leprosy, pneumonia or AIDs from saluting our nation or saying a prayer. We did not even get chickenpox from it. Or Chlamydia. Or the flesh-eating streptococcal bacteria.
As an American residing in Puerto Rico, the news reports coming out of Israel pissed me off like nothing has before. I do have a friend, whom I met in PR but is now an officer in the IDF (Israeli Defense Force.) She works in Intelligence and is, as a matter of fact, extremely intelligent.
I add this just so my readers understand that I have, if not very specific information on the Israeli-Gaza war due to my source; I do have the bold outlines.
Killing babies by chopping their heads off diminishes every single human being in the world. If it is not taboo, then it damn well better become so. Parents had to watch as their children were tortured and burned alive. Women were raped repeatedly. In fact, in order to bury some of the victims, the legs of the rape victims had to be forcibly separated from the splayed position of rape. Only then could they be wrapped in a shroud and buried.
If that picture is not enough to make you want to shoot something or someone, then you have no heart. If you sit by and allow innocent babies to be decapitated, then you are a hateful coward and must be destroyed.
If your kid is out protesting for the sub-human monsters that call themselves Palestinian, then you best take one very hard look in the mirror. They are worshipping evil and will not be excused. You have failed as both a parent and a human being.
Know this: Israel wants revenge. So do I.
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