Thursday, February 21, 2019

Day 352



Lunch was okay in a crowded noisy place. I like the Thai food at Sea West more than this new restaurant. Eileen’s long years of making jewelry have worn out parts of her body and have made it difficult to work more than a couple hours a day. She has reconfigured her Gasquet home to make an AirB&B for income. It is a profitable use of what she already has. We talked for three hours with plans to see each other more often.


What is strength, in my opinion.
First thought: Ben Gurion and Gold Meir.
These were two of the midwives to the infant country of Israel. They saw the idea turn into reality as the League of Nations granted the land to Jewish people. They were surrounded by countries that hated them and wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth and they not only survived but thrived. They declared themselves an independent nation and drew immigrants from all over Europe. The ragged masses of Jewish people who had been reviled, crowded into ghettos, families murdered, came to the homeland swelling the population with energy and commitment to grow into the nation that exists today.
The people are always on the alert and prepared to defend themselves and their country. No other people have the history of oppression that the Jewish people have endured.
I remember the joke after the Six Day War that Arab tanks had back up lights. Israeli tanks did not.
The 1976 Raid on Entibbe was one of the most audacious and successful military rescues of all time. It is worth researching.
This ethnic group has done more good for the world than any other people in the history of the world.




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