Two Deaths

I just wanted to put this down before I happened to see if anyone else said something more eloquent than I (which should not be too hard).

At this moment President Ford's state funeral has just finished. He is being honored by those he used to rule. Even those who disagreed with his decisions.

This morning, Saddam Hussein, another former head of state was executed by those who he used to rule.

While Ford was never elected to the job, he did his duty to the Constitution has he saw it. He lost to Carter in the next election and continued to try and help people until his natural death.

Hussein assassinated a former Iraqi president and eventually became a dictator which he personally murdered or forced to died on the battlefield millions in wars with Iran and the USA.

And the world, the media and the liberals have the gall say the USA is the worst country in the world.

Palestinian perceptions.

Although there might be objective sources of information about Israel and Palestine, I don't have the months and years to sift through the millions of pages of propaganda from all sides to find the truth.

Therefore, I will base by judgment upon my perceptions. As I have been told by so many, perception is reality.

My first perception is that Israel is the victim.
1. The Jews for centuries have been persecuted throughout Europe.
2. The murder of millions of Jews and theft of their property by the Germans with support of many others.
3. The day after creation of the state of Israel AND Palestine by the UN, all of its Arab neighbors attacked.
4. And for decades after have suffered continuous conventional and unconventional attacks.

And other observations:

5. Israel has an elected parliament while Palestinians have only recently held elections for a leader.
6. Neighboring nation-states have call for the either Israel's political and/or physical destruction, while Israel is supporting the creation of the state of Palestine.

There are many who have supported the US attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan because they supported an organization that attacked the USA. Many of those do not support the US attack of Iraq since Iraq did not attack the USA. Yet I know at least some of these same individuals must support the Arab's attack upon Israel in 1948. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq all attacked Israel without provocation. I am at a loss to explain their 'logic'.