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re: Daughter leaves for Israel as missionary
Posted on 7/4/15 at 3:59 pm to EdwardTeach
Posted on 7/4/15 at 3:59 pm to EdwardTeach
Going to help bulldoze Palestinian houses for the Jews?
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Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:04 pm to EdwardTeach
What's preventing you guys from visiting her 6-8 months in?
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:06 pm to Breauxsif
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Prayers sent. Spent a total of 48 months in the Middle East during OIF and OEF and the place is a wasteland of terrorism. Everyone in the surrounding countries wants Israel destroyed. I would never in a million years allow my daughter to voluntarily go to Israel or any Middle Eastern Countries due to my experiences. frick the Middle East.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:09 pm to Swoopin
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What's preventing you guys from visiting her 6-8 months in?
Simply put, they know the Gaza Strip or West Bank will erupt in violence at any given moment. Israel, is too unstable at this point to visit, let alone do missionary work.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:11 pm to Swoopin
It's gotta be rough travelling that far at 87
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:15 pm to EdwardTeach
Congrats ! I know how proud you much be as her parents. I would be afraid too being the area she is going to. Best wishes to your daughter
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:16 pm to Swoopin
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What's preventing you guys from visiting her 6-8 months in?
A couple of 80-somethings traveling to Israel is probably a bad idea these days.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:17 pm to EdwardTeach
I wouldn't want my child to be in the ME, but if they are going to go, Israel is the place.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:21 pm to EdwardTeach
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What would be your feelings and thoughts if your daughter was leaving Sunday to spend a year as a missionary in Israel?
I would be fine with it.
I haven't lived in Israel for any extended period of time but I've visited there - have been through Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and some outlying areas. I never felt unsafe there.
Every two or three years there are sporadic outbreaks of violence between the IDF and Hamas/Hizbollah, and that causes missiles to be launched into Israel as we saw when Israel was fighting Hamas in Gaza last year. But during that time, only 6 Israeli civilians died and 87 were injured. That's in a country of 8.2 million. To put that in perspective, there were 32,479 people in the United States who died in car crashes in 2011 out of a population estimated at the time to be 311.7 million.
Odds of getting killed in Israel during Operation Protective Edge: 99.999926%.
Odds of your daughter getting killed in a car crash: 99.998958%. Better odds.
Your kid will be fine.
This post was edited on 7/4/15 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:23 pm to foshizzle
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Your last post back in February stated that you were personally there during the invasion of Okinawa, which makes your birth year around 1925 more or less. Therefore you are 90 years old with a 25 year old daughter.
War puts a man through many changes.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:25 pm to maine82
I would be concerned however if my daughter was spending most of her time in Gaza and the West Bank. So I'd want to know where she would be living and what she would be doing. But if she was going to be in Israel proper, fine.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:28 pm to EdwardTeach
From the parent's perspective, I would have mixed feelings just as you do...however, hats off to her for figuring out her calling and following it...
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:28 pm to AUCE05
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I never understood why people feel the need to go on international missions when there are starving inner city black kids in our country. Probably could have used that money she raised here and effected more souls.
I agree with this.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:29 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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I never understood why people feel the need to go on international missions when there are starving inner city black kids in our country. Probably could have used that money she raised here and effected more souls.
Why just black kids?
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:32 pm to EdwardTeach
All the best to your daughter.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:33 pm to EdwardTeach
Is she going to convert Jews to Methodism? Good luck with that.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:33 pm to foshizzle
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Therefore you are 90 years old with a 25 year old daughter.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:37 pm to Layabout
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Is she going to convert Jews to Methodism? Good luck with that.
I'm betting this is a "social justice" mission. I don't think Israel allows overt evangelizing.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 4:45 pm to maine82
The OP is full of shite.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 5:10 pm to EdwardTeach
I would be very afraid for her and I would try to sway her thinking to another country. Ask her maybe if God has second choice. 
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