Israel at 60

mo from chicago

Happy Birthday and many more!!! This afternoon a student organized celebration in honor of THE BIG 60 will be held on the University of Illinois campus in Chicago. United we stand.

all'a mode

Is'nt there a pre-1914 feel to everything these days? We know it's going to happen so let's get on with it. Can't Israel mark it's 60th birthday with some fireworks ; how about some low yield kilo-tonnage on Riyadh, Mecca, Teheran, Damascus, Cairo, Islamabad, Karachi, Khartoum, Mogadishu, Tripoli, Algiers, Gaza. I suppose not ; we in the west will no doubt play by the rules until the weird-beards kick off. Just for once it would be good for civilisation to get the heavy blow in first.

Terry

As a Christian may I record my undying support for Israel and my apologies (if it's right for me to offer them) that the churches should have failed to support Israel as they should have done.

phil

Happy birthday Eretz Yisroel -you will still prove to be "A LIGHT UNTO NATIONS"

Ann

Israel is sticking up a finger to its rabid, racist and rancid enemies - and I am cheering.

D Gray

God Bless sweet Israel and God bless and watch over our Jewish brothers and sisters.I am a Christian who wears a crucifix with the Star of Blessed David beside it.People sometimes ask me why I wear both.Its to remind people that Jesus was a Jew and that in wearing that emblem I honour his true heritage.

There are dangerous days ahead thanks to the bed wetting cowardice of the people voted in to protect freedom,but Israel will never fall....Israel exists because GOD WILLS IT.

PS.God bless Melanie,a woman with the heart of a lion.

D-Notice

Just out of curiosity... Did you celebrate the 60th birthdays of India or Pakistan?

Andy

happy 60th Israel. Yahweh bless you and all who support you.

Adam B.

Happy Birthday Israel,and many happy returns!

Carolyn

Melanie, this is the single finest overview assessment I have read about contemporary Israel in far too long.In the US publications,it is impossible to see the forest for the buzzing concerns and agendas.What a lovely mind.
I don't recall reading anywhere else what I have long held, that Israel covers, or safeguards, Saudi Arabia's Western flank.If Hamas/Hezbollah succeed- either one, or both, which may spark more internecine wars, the Saudis and the sea passages, or outlets, for transport of oil will be hindered -at the very least.America cannot
come in and safeguard passage.
If Egypt should fall to the Muslim Brotherhood Islamists, all of the immediate routes would be imperiled.The consequences are obvious.The Palestinians are playing their role in any event, because the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict maintains the monarchs' and upperclasses' in the Arab countries with a diversion and unifying element of the' masses.'This is no less than a 70 year old ploy.Possibly, you could speak to Israel's advantages for the Saudis, Egyptians, etc.

D. Menscher

D-Notice.

I think India goes back a little further than that mate.

As for the other bunch. There's enough of them to celebrate for themselves. They could hand out the sweets just like they did on 9/11.

That's you back under your stone.

YA

"Independent"'s headline: "Happy anniversary? Israel at 60".
To all terrorists, fanatics, appeasers and useful idiots, "dependent" and "independent", - hang these question marks on your ears. Your relevance and existence are under question today, not Israel's. To the people of Israel - happy spring, happy holidays, peace, prosperity, and good luck, and special thanks and good wishes to the IDF.