Re: Alexander the Great
This is from an Israeli woman. Read on and smile!
> >
> > I am not the least afraid to go any place, by bus or to a mall. I didn't
> > change or stop doing ANYthing I used to do before this mess began!
People
> > tend to forget that twice the casualties from terror get killed on the
> > roads! More people still die from heart attack, cancer, and other
things;
> > they just don't show them on TV.
> >
> > Don't misunderstand me, there is a war going on, it's not pleasant, but
> > lets face it. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER!!!! It's only TV and media that
> make
> > people think it's the end of the world coming.
> >
> > Only 60 years ago!! They were leading Jews to their death like sheep to
> > the slaughter!
> >
> > No country, no army. 55 years ago!!
> > Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish state, only a few
> > hours old!! We were then 650,000 Jews! Against the rest of the Arab
world!
> > No IDF, no mighty air force, just tough people with nowhere to go
> > (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, attacked all
at
> > once).
> >
> > The country the U.N. "gave us" was 65 % desert. The country started from
> > scratch! 35 years ago!! We fought the three strongest armies in the
Middle
> > East, and wiped them out in six days. We fought against different
> > coalitions of Arab countries, with modern armies, and masses of Russian
> > Soviet weapons, and still won!!!
> >
> > We have today a country, and an army, and a strong air force, and
hi-tech
> > economy, exporting millions, Intel-Microsoft-IBM develop their stuff
here,
> > our doctors win world prizes for medical developments, we made the
desert
> > flourish, selling oranges and vegetables to the world.
> >
> > Israel has sent its own satellite!! In space (three satellites all
> > together!!), we sit proudly with the U.S. (250 million people), Russia
> > (200 million people!), China (1.1 billion), the Europeans --
> > France-England-Germany (350 million), as the only
> > countries in the world to shoot something into space!!
> >
> > Israel is today in the world nuclear power family with U.S, Russia,
China,
> >
> > India, France, and England. (We don't admit it, but every one knows...)
To
> > think that only 60 years ago, we were led, shameful, with no hope, to
our
> > death!!
> >
> > We crawled out of the burning ashes of Europe, we won our wars here with
> > less than nothing in our hands, we built an "empire" out of nothing. Who
> > the hell is Mr. Arafat to make me scared? Terrified? You make me laugh!
> >
> > Passover was last month; let's not forget what the story is all about.
> > We overcame Pharoah, we overcame the Greeks, the Romans, the inquisition
> in
> > Spain, we overcame the pogroms in Russia, we overcame Hitler, the
> > Germans, the Holocaust, we overcame seven other Arab countries at once,
we
> > Overcame Saddam. Take it easy, folks, we will overcome these ones, too.
> >
> > No matter at what part of human history you try! to think of, for us,
the
> > Jewish people, our situation has never been better!!! So let's lift our
> > heads high, and remember: any nation or culture that tried to mess
around
> > with us was destroyed to the ground - while we kept going!!! Egypt?
Anyone
> > know where their empire disappeared to? The Greeks? Alexander of
> > Macedonia? The Romans? Anyone today speak Latin? The Third Reich? Anyone
> > heard any
> > news about it lately?
> >
> > And look at us, the nation from the Bible, from slavery in Egypt we are
> > still here, speaking the same language!! Right here, right now. The
Arabs
> > don't know it yet, but they will learn there is one God. As long as we
> > keep our identity, we are eternal.
> >
> > So, sorry for not worrying, bitching, crying, or being scared, things
are
> > going o.k. here. They surely can go better, but still, don't fall for
the
> > media junk, they won't tell you that there are festivals going on,
people
> > keep on living, going out, seeing friends. Yes, our morale is low, so
> > what?
> > It's only because we weep for our dead while they enjoy the blood (and
> > this is the same reason why, we will win, after all).
> >
> > You can forward this e-mail (if you choose) to the whole of the Jewish
> > community,and the people of the world. They are part of our
> > strength and it might help some of them to keep their head up high. ;
tell
> > Them there is nothing to worry about.
> >
> >
> > Tell them to think BIG and to see the whole picture.
> >
> >
> >
> > "See you next year in Jerusalem."
> >
> > |
