About a year ago, give or take, I was “unfriended” on facebook by the former major league baseball player, then sportscaster, and more recently movie-maker of sorts, Billy Sample.

The reason?  I called him out on his unrelenting, often bizarre Israel-hating posts. 

After unfriending me, Sample put up a post that he was unfriending everyone else who supported Israel…which certainly made it easy for him thereafter.  No problem spouting hatred when everyone who can respond to it is nodding agreement.

Since then, I have periodically checked Sample\’s facebook page (being unfriended does not prevent you from seeing it, only from commenting on it).  And, not at all surprisingly, his hatred has not abated one bit.

Which brings me to the following item that was posted on his page Monday, the day before Benjamin Netanyahu\’s speech to congress.  I have decided to show it to you, and then comment on it.

Here is the item:

And here is my point-by-point response – which Sample probably will never see, but is welcome to comment on if he does:

-Which country did Israel invade?  The only invasion of any countries in Israel\’s history have occurred as a reaction to Israel being attacked.  And if the reference is to Gaza, or Judea and Samaria (aka the west bank), you can add in the fact that neither of them is a country.

-The “apartheid walls” were built after a series of suicide bombers killed hundreds of innocent Israelis in shopping areas, restaurants and on busses – a little something which goes unmentioned here.  

Also unmentioned is that those same walls which keep terrorists out of Israel, keep the Palestinian Arabs – which comprise about 20% of Israel\’s entire population – in.  

That\’s quite an “apartheid” – keeping over 1.5 million of the people you\’re supposedly separating yourself from in the place where you are supposedly separating them from. Or, put another way, it is an obvious load of BS.

-Steal natural resources?  Which ones would those be?  Israel is notable for creating natural resources; for turning dessert land into thriving greenery.  Which Palestinian Arabs could do just by following Israel\’s lead.

As I have said many times in here, if Palestinian Arabs would stop trying to kill Israelis and start trying to learn from them, both sides would be 1000% better off.

-It is hard not to kill women and children, when Palestinian Arabs launch rocket and missile attacks aimed at Israeli population centers…from heavily populated civilian areas… 

…and when their brave “leaders” get in front of the cameras and instruct civilians – their own people – to stay put, even after Israel drops leaflets warning that an attack is about to take place…which some of them are happy to do voluntarily. 

When that happens, it shows that Israel, literally, cares more about the lives of Palestinian Arabs than their own “leaders” do.   Much better to have a body count of dead civilians Israel haters can use for propaganda purposes.

This leaves Israel with the choice of either protecting innocent Palestnian Arab lives by not firing back…thus allowing them to take free shots at Israeli civilians…or taking out the launch sites, inherently killing civilians to do so, and then having Israel-haters blame them for it instead of the real culprits.

-Israel\’s history is that it only attacks after either being attacked or if an attack is imminent (e.g. when four Arab armies massed their troops on Israel\’s borders in 1967).  By contrast, the hamas charter – which is now used by Fatah as well, since their “unity agreement” –  specifically calls for the annihilation of Israel and deaths of all Jews.  The one and only thing that stops them is Israel\’s (current) military superiority.

If Israel had wanted to annihilate Palestinian Arabs, it could do so at any time.  But it doesn\’t, does it?  This shows, with crystal clarity, the difference between these two cultures.

-The final words – a sarcastic reaction to the idea that Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbors  – is my favorite part of this exercise in BS.  And it\’s not just because of the “thier” typo. 

Point of order:  Israel agreed to peace with Egypt in 1979.  It has not engaged in any military activity against Egypt since then.   Israel agreed to peace with Jordan in 1994.  It has not engaged in any military activity against Jordan since then. 

That is proof positive  – 36 years of it with Egypt, 21 with Jordan – that Israel can, and does, live in peace with Arab neighbors.  

And it is also proof that Arabs  – even Arabs who hate Israel, which Egypt and Jordan, I assure you, very much do, can live in peace with Israel. 

Now:  when have Palestinian Arabs ever shown they can live in peace with anyone?

This is the first blog I have written anything about Billy Sample\’s hatred of Israel in quite some time.  And unless there is a response to it which warrants something further, it will probably be the last one for quite some time as well. 

Enough.