Right Wing Vs. Left Wing

Recently, I've become very concerned with the ways that my views are perceived. I guess that happens when you begin to publish them. As I'm writing more, my views are not only changing they are becoming more mature. I used to think that I was a "Right Winger." I'm realizing that I'm not a Right Winger. I'm certainly also not a Left Winger. I'm simply a free thinking individual who has many views that are closer to the right than to the left. A few days ago I published a thougth on the war between Israel and Hezbollah, claiming what one commenter referred to as "moral equivalence," even though I'm definitely a supporter of Israel. As soon as Hezbollah attacked Israel, Israel earned the moral right to destroy Hezbollah. But I'm concerned that some will see me as being too far to the left.

But this morning I was very pleased when I received a letter from somebody who had read a post of mine on The Huffington Press.

She wrote:

Dear Andrew,

I read your post on Huffpo just now, and want to thank you for your view on the Israel's detetermination to root out Hizbollah.

I am an American Jewish grandmother/greatgrandmother with a large family in Israel, and every day my husband and I watch TV with great trepidation. Already our eldest granddaughter, husband and 4 children have moved from an area south of Haifa to Jerusalem, where most of our other children live.

It disgusts me to read Huffpo, for it is dominated by very prejudiced, anit-semitic, and anti-Israel posts.

They seem to be very uneducated, and probably part of the unwashed and hippy generation of the past. Once in awhile a post like yours comes in with the real truth, but these vermin wouldn't recognize it, they are so ingrained with hate for the Jews. "You have to be carefully taught...."

No one remembers that Hizbollah caused the Beruit bombing of the Marine barracks, and other atrocities, so the U.S. owes them one big time. Of course, no one remembers that Hizbollah was bombarding Israeli towns with rockets long before the two soldiers were kidnapped from Israeli soil.

My husband and I have been Democrats all our lives, and it pains us to see how Huffpo has become so leftist, and a supporter of Hizbollah against Israel. I will probably "delete" the site, but maybe not, because of opinions like yours.

Thank you, keep it up!

Mildred

I enjoy reading Huffington Press. But, as I write more I have a feeling that its letters like this that will keep me writing.